Sentence examples for becoming a shadow from inspiring English sources

He chose his words carefully because he knows the dangers of crossing the peer; they had a run-in a decade ago when, years before becoming a shadow cabinet minister, Gove was a senior executive on the Times.

Albanese entered parliament in 1996, becoming a shadow parliamentary secretary in 1998 and a shadow minister in 2001.

As a result, al-Shabab is becoming a shadow government, positioning itself as Somalia's champion of disenfranchised and marginalized clans.

A strong framework for delivery and accountability would be created with IND becoming a shadow agency from April 2007.

For example, Charleroi, once enormously wealthy, floundered when its industry slumped in the 1970s and 80s, becoming a shadow of its former self.

Variety and Hollywood Reporter now daily feature stories about our television service powering down, BBC4 becoming a shadow of what it was, BBC3 destined for online, proud boasts about redundancies, acceptance of cuts, Channel 4 toyed with over privatisation.

Under Altman, Y Combinator was becoming a kind of shadow United Nations, and increasingly he was making Secretary-General-level decisions.

If the gang sticks together, it could become a powerful force -- so powerful that some of its members, including Mr. Warner, have insisted that the group steer clear of issues beyond the judiciary, for fear of becoming a kind of shadow leadership.

"Because if I weren't in on this I'd be, like, Why do these fuckers get to decide what happens to me?" Under Altman, Y Combinator was becoming a kind of shadow United Nations, and increasingly he was making Secretary-General-level decisions.

A study by scholars at USC and UC Santa Barbara concludes that since the 1992 riots, neighborhood churches and synagogues are, in effect, filling the leadership vacuum, in many ways becoming a kind of shadow government to the one increasingly distrusted by the public.

By becoming a party for the shadow bankers, the Tories are going against what their own members want.