Sentence examples for cornered to from inspiring English sources

The remaining Taliban and Al Qaeda warriors seem determined to elude capture and, if cornered, to fight hard.

His portrayal of Manny veers between wild-eyed, teeth-baring grimace when cornered to unexpected gentleness in the few quieter scenes of the film.

So Runyon's key insight into American slang is double: first, that street speech tends to be more, not less, complicated grammatically than "standard" speech; but, second, that slang speakers, when they're cornered to write, write not just fancy but stiff.

Mr. Fonte's "Cornered," to music by Philip Glass, Ross Edwards and Gavin Bryars, and danced by the Royal Ballet of Flanders, opened the somewhat weaker program on Tuesday night.

Therefore, we are cornered to believe that the origin of life started as a unicellular eukaryote-like organism with RNA splicing as one of the major cellular operational machineries where the genetic code was also born in a step-wise way.

With most states holding Democratic contests on Super Tuesday having large Black populations that lean heavily towards Clinton, Sanders has been cornered to competing in just a small handful of states where he stands a chance to regain some of the momentum he had after defeating Clinton by a massive 22 point margin in New Hampshire just a few week ago.

Our first office in New York City was 310 Madison, at the corner of 42nd Street, catty-cornered to Grand Central Terminal (inside New York City tip: It's Grand Central Terminal, not Grand Central Station).

Once you have Mew cornered, talk to it to begin the battle.

After a guest lecture 30 clients cornered Mathile to get him to sign copies of his book Dream No Little Dreams, to talk strategy and to offer thanks.

Konner wrote that the director of a TV show "cornered" Dunham to ask her to have dinner with him and another actress.

"This meant the dogs did not need to approach these large cornered animals to finish them off – often the most dangerous part of a hunt – while humans didn't have to expend energy in tracking and wearing down prey.