Sentence examples for crossing a minefield from inspiring English sources

He paused and hemmed, like a man crossing a minefield.

But getting from here to there requires crossing a minefield of tribal, sectarian and governance issues.

Making a sequel to a classic movie is like crossing a minefield.

The British Museum's current Hajj exhibition charts the history of Mecca as a destination for pilgrims with the wariness of a conscript crossing a minefield.

But the next battle is to get that same black audience, the people who would cross a minefield to see the works of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Debbie Tucker Green, to come back and see Ibsen or Brecht.

In 1975, at a time when the Church of England's General Synod was said to have been approaching the issue of female priests with "the enthusiasm of men and women asked to cross a minefield", she wrote that Chinese church members considered her gender irrelevant.

He had saved his pinned-down unit, dodged withering machine-gun fire, crossed a minefield alone and killed nearly 30 men in a two-day stretch.

Elected state officials can't really campaign, and they must cross a parliamentary minefield, knowing that what happens between now and Memorial Day — the end of the session — could bite them in 2014, when the next elections take place.

They crossed a field and then found themselves in a minefield.

Burke took on the job of finding a new leader and in 1993 fingered Louis Gerstner and talked him into crossing that minefield.

Try to cross a street and you'll feel like you're rushing across a noisy minefield with a blindfold.