Sentence examples for crushed- from inspiring English sources

In 2008, Brown had very publicly crushed a proposal to agree to an early referendum put forth by the Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander, one of Brown's long-term allies.

Bahrain stands out as the first example of an Arab country where popular protests were crushed – with the assistance of neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the acquiescence of the US and Britain, whose military, strategic and business interests wed them to a status quo in which the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty rules over a disenfranchised Shia majority.

"The boat next to me, one fellow got his leg crushed between the boat and the ship," Chaisson said.

His family said his spine was "80% severed" at the neck and his voice box almost crushed.

Consider: just over a year has passed since the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, which saw more than 1,100 staff crushed to death and another 2,500 injured, many permanently disabled.

The local community was caught up in the harriers' fate; children at the primary school who had named Sky were distraught; Blainaid Denman, who had led a hen harrier project for the RSPB in the area, said she felt "crushed".

Once harvested, these hearts are taken to the nearby Patrón distillery, where they will be cooked, crushed and fermented to become premium tequila.

Serves 4 8 chicken thighs, skin on 2 ripe but firm peaches 250g cooked freekeh 1 medium radicchio, broken into leaves 1 spring onion, finely chopped 4tbsp extra-virgin olive oil 1tsp honey leaves of 6 tarragon sprigs 20g pistachios, lightly crushed 150ml water Sea salt Black pepper Bone the thighs if necessary and lay them flat, skin-side up.

First, the cook must rustle up the stuffing – a byzantine combination of, among other things, breadcrumbs, veal, pork, butter, caraway seeds, poppy seeds, apples, orange, crushed tinned pineapple and preserved ginger – and sew it carefully into the bird, which is then browned in a very hot oven.

Instead we've been shown how a series of events from a failed affair and a terminated pregnancy to the horrendous neighbour, the set-up, the arrest and the loss of both her mother and her cat has slowly crushed Denton.

And, crushed also by his family's fate, he took his own life on 11 May 1943.