Sentence examples for brass up from inspiring English sources

And the two countries that can lessen the alliance's burden there – Russia and Iran – are also what keep the alliance's top brass up at night.

The orchestra was on superb form, especially in the closing Revelge, in which Jurowski seemed able to turn the volume of the martial wind and brass up and down as precisely as with a remote control.

The prospect probably keeps Apple's brass up at night, but we see virtualization as a mighty juggernaut that won't be stoppable with hardware changes, so look for some bitter tasting lawsuits or buyouts later this year.

(His impressive retirement ceremony, with Navy brass piled up all over the place, was held in the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall). There's Army ROTC alum Brig.

He will also scatter 25 oversized petals throughout the garden and place 15 ants and seven bees made of brass high up in Fairchild's trees.

In December he and the rest of the ANC's top brass come up for re-election at the party's "elective" conference, held once every five years.

The top brass showed up in force at his funeral and in an angry statement all but blamed the media for his death.

I was pleased too to see the equipment and instruments of Charles Wheatstone and others – some of the copper and brass buffs up well enough to grace any gallery.

It is now offering 5/4* on the first borrowing hike coming between July and December, down from 3/1 yesterday (before the City's top brass glammed up for the Mansion House).

(Dec. 19-20 at 7 30, Dec. 21 at 2, and Dec. 22 at 8). | The Phil's impressive brass section teaming up with the gentlemen of the Canadian Brass begins the holiday season with an afternoon of festive music.

I first caught wind of the controversies – and the unease of many in the upper echelons of the military – before Christmas, when a very senior former member of the top brass stood up at a gathering of foreign policy "wonks" to deplore what he saw as the British public's current aversion to military combat.