Sentence examples for Burr from inspiring English sources

(Although the internal story may have been very different: a former employee told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg that the Planned Parenthood funding had been "a burr in the saddle" for years).

A stout cluster, covering the history of the Republic from Aaron Burr to Lincoln to the Golden Age, made his name, but never established him as a literary insider.

Fellow Republicans have called him a "burr under the saddle of the party"; Dennis Hastert, the House Speaker, publicly predicted that Mr Coburn would lose his Senate race.But Mr Coburn is no longer quite so isolated.

He is confident rather than arrogant, blunt, and an excitable talker, tumbling over words in his North Yorkshire burr.

A burr?

But "Somerset people are not warlike," he said once, his soft voice still carrying the burr of the place.

In a particular blow to Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, and Richard Burr, the intelligence committee chairman, the Senate rejected a series of amendments that were designed to weaken the surveillance and transparency reforms contained in the USA Freedom Act.

McConnell and Burr had led the effort in recent weeks to reauthorize the Patriot Act in its current form, ignoring the will of their colleagues in the House and a majority of the American public.

Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the intelligence committee, predicted both the two-month extension and the USA Freedom Act would fail to get the 60 votes required to pass the Senate.

Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has introduced legislation with Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, that would extend the existing language of the Patriot Act through 2020.

On the Senate floor on Monday, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Richard Burr of North Carolina, said he hoped a final vote on the USA Freedom Act could proceed by lunchtime on Tuesday.