Sentence examples for crushing even from inspiring English sources

Ada is known for growing pecans and then cracking and crushing even the toughest nuts into small pieces.

Mr. Krohn said he has liked some of his classes, especially one on the Spanish Civil War, but found the cost crushing, even with a scholarship paying half of his $60,000-a-year 60,000-a-year 60,000-a-year expenses

In his last paragraph, he posed well the central question of what will face the world when the war is finally over: **{:.break one} ** No one argues much now about whether these [American] forces are capable of crushing even very serious opposition, and almost no one argues that Iraq offers serious opposition.

But Chinese officials, eager to crush even the most reasonable questioning of their authority, acted unreasonably.

Crushed even before the advent of Salazar, these groups were revived as social and educational organizations, and it was only during the 1950s that they became overtly political.

The government appears determined to crush even isolated protests lest they merge into a larger uprising that might threaten the Communist Party's hold on power.

Lionel Messi and Argentina were crushed even more savagely than trudging England, who at least managed a goal in their 4-1 beating in Bloemfontein.

Prime minister Pol Pot detecting enemies of the revolution everywhere, happily ordered his top general Mok to crush even the smallest sign of dissent and deviation in province after province, bloody purge after bloody purge.

It takes around 140 days to set up a business here, giving Spanish civil servants, many of whom seem to carry a special "No" chromosome, ample time in which to crush even the most entrepreneurial spirit.

Maybe if I knew that our children would be coming of age in an economy that would crush even the best and brightest among them, I would have cared a little less about their score on an advanced placement history test, and a little more about helping them find happiness in moments at the margin.

In Oxford, a place that often crushes even the finest architects with the weight of its built history, the duo have produced a startling building that manages to hold its own among the monuments, while not forgetting the importance of good manners.