Sentence examples for battering ram against from inspiring English sources

Businesses and financiers can move easily, but for workers the euro is a battering ram against their standards of living.

They were using the poor "callously" as a battering ram against the government.

Both the Labour and Tory candidates occasionally used Clegg as a battering ram against the real opponent.

But free schools and academies should be wary about being used as the government's battering ram against the unions.

Nadal's main strategy, which works against nearly every player on tour (especially against Roger Federer) is to use his forehand as a battering ram against his opponent's backhand.

Olin Downes, the chief critic of the Times in the thirties and forties, used him as a battering ram against the "de-raced" cosmopolitanism of Stravinsky and Schoenberg.

His role in Sweden's opening game against Italy was that of battering ram, chief cheerleader and goalscorer – his equaliser starting a surprise comeback completed by Isaac Kiese Thelin's penalty.

See also battering ram.

This certainly looks like some form of battering ram.

He speaks softly, and makes his case with a battering ram of statistics and facts.

Lee Chapman and Rod Wallace, battering ram and bumblebee, were a textbook little-and-large front pair.