Sentence examples for a bone thrown from inspiring English sources
Was it a bone thrown to Republicans otherwise eager to paint the president as weak?
"Signing Kyoto is a bone thrown to Europe to make them shut up," he said.
"Badawi is a bone thrown by our government to appease the conservatives," says a Jeddah businessman who insists on anonymity to spell out this sensitive point publicly.
During the rest of the solo, he tries desperately to eat a bone — thrown to him by a man in white protective clothing — clacking his teeth as he tries to insert it into various body parts.
Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the main leftist opposition party, Syriza, dismissed the reduction as a bone thrown to Greece by Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble of Germany, which has prodded Greece to enforce austerity measures.
He is smart enough to know that the reader needs a dark chuckle of a bone thrown at him now and then to keep plowing through the bad news.
If the Justice Department's action is a political bone thrown to religious conservatives, it shamefully miscasts health professionals as disciples of the devil rather than angels of mercy.
One of his co-authors, Matthew Bodah, the chairman of the economics department at the University of Rhode Island, said: "Nonunion groups claim that these are just a political bone thrown to unions, but there has to be more to it than that.
On January 1 2014 the so-called '15-minute law' came into force in France, required urban transportation services such as Uber to wait 15 minutes before picking up a customer — another bone thrown to the regulated taxi industry.
In December 2000 Weill named Fishman and Chuck Prince co-chief operating officers at Citi a bone thrown to the board, which was concerned that Weill wasn't adequately preparing for his succession.
Don a colorful sheath of African fabric (loaned at the entrance), and enter this rollicking room full of food stations, guys grilling meats, a bone-throwing "fortune teller," mind-blowing dancers, and lively instructional drummers.
