Sentence examples for a plank in a from inspiring English sources

The brief was a plank in a wider Administration campaign to deter leakers in national-security cases by punishing them harshly and by acting aggressively to identify journalists' sources.

Wracked by these ominous sounds, Dickinson feels herself to be a solitary member of an alien race when a "plank in reason" breaks.

After Mr. Franks teed off on a question on term limits, a plank in his own platform, Mr. Schundler pointed to Mr. Franks as the type of "career politician" who would be removed by such limits, and said Mr. Franks had just "got himself a job as a lobbyist to lobby his old friends in government".

The bullying has taken many forms – calls for an audit of the Fed, threats of "ugly treatment", a plank in the Republican party platform for a study on a return to the gold standard, and Romney's vow to replace Bernanke if elected.

A plank in President Johnson's anti-poverty efforts, it funded housing, employment, infrastructure and planning.

It could be a plank in the Democratic platform at the Party's Presidential Convention next year, to be held in NYC.

The company's mobile updates are a plank in that direction.

The trend of mimicking a plank in public apparently began in England several years ago.

Hatred of the news media is practically a plank in the Republic platform.

Following that logic, the right-to-work law in Wisconsin is simply a plank in his campaign platform.

Nor does it seem to count for anything that the "runaway" increase in public spending and borrowing has been a central plank in avoiding a slump.