Sentence examples for a large umbrella from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, a poll taken about a year ago by the Islamic Society of North America, a large umbrella group of American mosques, found that the members' No. 1 priority is improving mosque leadership, especially on gender issues, said Ingrid Mattson, the society's first female vice president.

My acupuncturist could now easily see through the binoculars that the man was carrying a large umbrella.

Marías, who is sixty-five years old with wispy gray hair, wore a dark overcoat and carried a large umbrella.

But take a large umbrella if it's hot: there is no shade, and the heat can be wilting.

It helped give this festival some shape, especially given that, with this number of bands, it couldn't help but operate a large umbrella.

Tea Party Patriots, a large umbrella for groups across the country, began encouraging its members this year to "adopt a school" for the Constitution Week, next week.

Both organizations belong to a larger umbrella organization that recently endorsed Gov. George W. Bush of Texas for president.

Earlier this week Mr. Sabra criticized an attempt to subsume the Syrian National Council into a larger umbrella group, an idea that has been advanced by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Many council members have suggested that the formation of a larger umbrella organization would diminish their role without any guarantees of further international funding and other support for the uprising, which currently gets nonlethal aid from the United States.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said last week that the Syrian National Council had outlived its usefulness and should be replaced by a larger umbrella organization with more representation from inside Syria, as well as from minority groups.

Earlier this year, Zume created a larger umbrella company to house Zume Pizza, now a subsidiary of Zume.