Sentence examples for ceiling himself from inspiring English sources

He painted the ceiling himself, lying on his back on precipitous scaffolding, like a Strathclyde Michelangelo.

QUESTION FROM SAM: Why do you think Obama was so keen on not using the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling himself?

To do it, however, Mr. McConnell had to dream up another sleight of hand, a two-step process that allowed President Obama to raise the debt ceiling himself, then gave Congress a vote to voice its disapproval.

He waves a fist at the ceiling, mocking himself, diffusing.

Mr. Lew, speaking on the CNN program "State of the Union," emphatically reiterated the administration's legal opinion that Mr. Obama cannot constitutionally raise the debt ceiling by himself if Congress fails to act.

Mr. Romney, who has been criticized by fellow Republican candidates for remaining largely on the sidelines during the recent debate over the nation's debt ceiling, defended himself by saying that he had maintained a consistent, if quiet, position throughout the partisan bickering in Washington, favoring the "cut, cap and balance" plan passed by the House and defeated by the Senate.

Mr. McConnell, until now in the background of the fight over the debt ceiling, put himself in the center of the debate Thursday, laying out, though without specifics, some indication of what it would take to get him and presumably other Republicans to agree to increase the limit.

A dummy Houdini descends from the ceiling and extricates himself from a straitjacket.

The magistrate, Justice Parry, had Sheppard imprisoned overnight on the top floor of St Giles's Roundhouse pending further questioning, but Sheppard escaped within three hours by breaking through the timber ceiling and lowering himself to the ground with a rope fashioned from bedclothes.

His office in the old Georgian building was lined with books from floor to ceiling and Mr Black himself was dressed in a frock coat and a shirt with a white wing collar as in old photographs of Mr Gladstone.

(Decades later, another notorious killer would come through town. In 1977, Ted Bundy escaped from Glenwood's jail by removing a metal ceiling plate and starving himself enough to squeeze through the opening).