Sentence examples for be a millstone for from inspiring English sources

Swedbank is the dominant bank in Lithuania, and its aggressive lending to first-time home buyers — including Ms. Jasinskiene's son — continues to be a millstone for many here.

Germany's fondness for deficits, he said, will be a millstone for future generations at a time when the labor force is shrinking.

Those who are gone would not wish themselves to be a millstone of gloom around our necks.

At the height of the financial crisis, the mortgage business was a millstone for the banking industry.

Mr. Doherty could still win, of course, but the national Republican brand is a millstone for Rhode Island Republicans, making it harder for them to gain office.

Clinton, a member of Armed Services, used her allotted minutes for a tirade against the General for his unwarranted optimism about the war; her Senate vote to give President Bush an Iraq green light was a millstone for her campaign, as it was again in 2016.

"I believe this will be a millstone around this government's neck for many, many years to come, constant source of delay, of anger and betrayal among those people who will be directly affected".

Krauthammer thinks that attempting to expand health care to millions of Americans who would die like dogs in the street otherwise will be a "millstone that will hang around the Democrats' necks for years".

"It will be a millstone around our neck.

But the union is hardly awash with money itself, still owing £19 million for the Millennium Stadium, whose interest costs have been a millstone since it was completed for the 1999 World Cup.

Spain's recession-hit economy has been a millstone around Vodafone's neck for some time now.