Sentence examples for breathed down from inspiring English sources

People feel – jargon word – empowered, they feel in charge of their destinies in ways that makes them productive and expressive and inspired, if they're not being leant on and breathed down on all the time by people in authority who often do not have legitimate title to that authority, people who are just brought in and appointed without any proper screening structures".

No one has breathed down my neck, asking the sort of questions that might have made us doubt ourselves (we ask enough of those ourselves).

She put away the stout challenge of Life at Ten, a battled-tested mare that came here on a six-race winning streak and breathed down Rachel Alexandra's neck for a mile.

And the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme – six months old today – would pump money around the economy far more successfully if the government breathed down the necks of those banks it owns to do their part.

In 2009, after The Guardian first reported that the scale of the hacking had been far greater than initially revealed by the police, Mr. Hayman asserted in a Times column that the initial inquiry was not a "half-hearted investigation — we put our best detectives on the case and left no stone unturned as officials breathed down our neck".

The pay was not great; the city did not spend enough to provide him with the first-rate singers and instrumentalists his intricate music required; he was expected to do a lot of teaching; the council breathed down his neck when he tried to introduce anything too adventurous; and there was a lot of musical politics.But in one sense he was in the right place.

The Red Sox have the ghost of seasons past breathing down their necks, the Yankees have Steinbrenner breathing down theirs.

Like it or not, the holiday season is breathing down our necks.

Plus some pervy blather about breathing down a girl's neck.

There is, however, always breathing down his neck an Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke).

But at least they don't have to deal with politicians breathing down their necks and scrutinising their bosses' pay.