Sentence examples for a dramatic wave from inspiring English sources

"It was a little like Cromwell dismissing the Parliament," Secretary Powell said with a dramatic wave.

The deal follows four months of dithering after TRW refused a first offer and before Northrop raised its price.There was a dramatic wave of defence-industry mergers in America in the 1990s, after the Pentagon gave warning that defence procurement would fall steeply (in the event, by more than half) thanks to cuts after the end of the cold war.

Thanks largely to the way Congressional districts were drawn in the latest round of redistricting, even a dramatic wave election like the one in 2008 that swept President Obama into power and added to Democratic majorities in Congress would do little to alter the composition of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, a new, nonpartisan study found.

Blatter, forced in May to promise to stand down following a dramatic wave of dawn arrests in Zurich, had been due to host a press conference when representatives of the Swiss attorney general's office arrived at the end of an executive committee meeting described by one present as "routine".

When Arafat was asked whether Operation Grapes of Wrath, the recent Israeli offensive against the Hezbollah, in which some one hundred and sixty Lebanese civilians were killed, has helped or hurt Peres with Israeli public opinion, he replied instantly, with a small but dramatic wave of his hand, "Helped.

A similar but more dramatic wave in Indonesia, for instance, bleeds into the picture.

But America consumes so much that all the oil in Alaska would not dent its reliance on the imported stuff.The dramatic wave of non-OPEC discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s in the North Sea, Alaska and other places has helped to counterbalance OPEC's pricing power.

Perhaps this current dramatic wave of unrest will convince at least some leaders they no longer have a choice.

This area has been dubbed a "surfer's paradise" thanks to dramatic waves.

Point Reyes National Seashore, a triangle of land north of San Francisco, offers visitors pristine beaches, dramatic waves, rocky headlands, tide pools, marshes, open pastures and forested ridges.

No bold sweep of eyeliner; no dramatic waves of colour across the lids.