Sentence examples for ax of from inspiring English sources

"We are looking as a management team at a whole wide range of steps we could take without resorting to the blunt ax of layoffs," Mr. Dodds said.

DoCoMo started selling the Xperia Z in Japan on Feb. 9 as part of the carrier's spring 2013 collection, replacing the Xperia AX of the winter 2012 collection.

The austerity measures have threatened public libraries and forests — both beloved of middle-class and literate supporters who have resisted the ax of austerity.

Though the defense budget will suffer less than other areas - with an 8percentt reduction in the $60 billion defense budget over the next four years - Cameron called an ax of some sort unavoidable.

But an indoor set usually does little more than provide the barest representation of the trees that fall under the ax of the bourgeois speculator who buys the estate out from under the deluded, land-poor heroine, Madame Ranevskaya.

Surveying the cultural situation of the United States, on the brink of what already looked to be the American century, Frank saw "an untracked wilderness but dimly blazed by the heroic ax of Whitman".

A police dog in Nottinghamshire, UK, is being hailed as a hero for the way he valiantly snatched an ax out of the hands of a violent drunk.

A common weapon was the shaft-hole copper battle-ax, of a type also found in central and northern Europe.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 17 — That battle-ax of quarterbacks, Vinny Testaverde, arrived last Wednesday and wasted no time settling in.

Peggy Mount, for many years the fearsome battle-ax of British stage and screen with a voice to make henpecked husbands tremble, died on Tuesday at a London nursing home for actors.

Axes of individual plots are the rankings of the genes (x-axis: hCS data, y-axis: BrainSpan data).