Sentence examples similar to brake- from inspiring English sources

It's a 9% impost on the price of power, it's a 9 billion dollar a year hand brake on our economy, it's a $550 a year hit on households.

If growth resumes at 2.5% or more in a private sector-led recovery, as Alexander hopes, he will be tempted to ease off the brake pedal.

Stopping is another problem – first a parachute is released to slow it down, before a rear-wheel brake can bite.

The only democratising brake on this runaway train is for individuals to be able, in their own small way, to do the same as do other entities," he concluded.

In narrowly political terms, it also fits well with Clegg's late but welcome brake on the move to increase the number of children a childminder can look after.

It's time we put the brake on tax breaks and subsidies for the fossil energy [that is] fuelling climate change and air pollution.

I apply the brake and turn to my wife.

Did that put a brake on over spending before the crash?

Only reduced levels of demand within the sex trade will slowly squeeze the supply pipeline and act as a brake on traffickers, as the evidence from Sweden, where punters are criminalised, suggests.

The Lib Dems want to be seen as a human brake on Tory excess.

Storey said investigators showed the car had been travelling at more than 61mph on the 30mph single carriageway road when he began to brake, got into a skid and lost control.