Sentence examples for back on the establishment from inspiring English sources

NY Arts magazine in 2008 called his life "a sort of white magic produced by an alchemist who turned his back on the establishment in order to find God, art and poetry".

Trained originally in traditional Scottish dance, he became a prodigy at the Royal Ballet School, then famously turned his back on the establishment by joining contemporary troupe Ballet Rambert in 1979.

Despite the improving economy, when it came time to vote in elections for the national parliament in December 2015, many Spaniards continued to turn their backs on the establishment parties.

The lightning rod at the center is former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose populist programs pleased the poor, but when he took on the establishment, the establishment fought back.

And so we are back to the establishment again.

"You can't really blame Trump for turning his back on the GOP establishment, because they've been running away from his campaign in droves.

Here, Galileo raised the stakes and risked taking on the establishment in the realm of its own authority – and it struck back fiercely.

He was taking on the establishment.

Obama, too, seemed somewhat skeptical of American power abroad, but couldn't figure out a way to end the war in Afghanistan; in a new book, his national security aide Ben Rhodes recounts the difficulties the two men had in pushing back on the foreign policy establishment Rhodes dubbed "the Blob".

She promptly began to lose her shit, screaming about the police, the constitution of my morals, letting me know that I was never allowed back in the establishment and so on.

Having turned his back on the Nashville-based country music establishment that tried to reign him in as a performer in the 1960s, Nelson hit his stride in the 1970s with a series of singles and albums made pretty much exactly the way he wanted them made.