Sentence examples for drawn down over from inspiring English sources

My grandfather stood guiltily beside Mother Vera with his sleeves drawn down over his hands, and when his turn came he touched the barrel with the tip of one sleeve-covered finger, and only for a moment.

On Dec. 26, 38 Dakota Sioux were led to the scaffold; they sang their death songs as they walked, and when they had mounted the scaffold and the hoods were drawn down over their faces, they continued to sing and sway, and clasp one another's manacled hands.

However, it said it was justifiable to declare a remaining £90m of IT software as being written down, rather than written off, because its value would be drawn down over a five-year period, by which time universal credit would have been introduced.

"Since US assets in Afghanistan have drawn down over the past several years, intelligence capabilities have been significantly attenuated," said Colin Clarke, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corporation.

Even worse,the report found that "a retiree who receives conflicted advice when rolling over a 401(k) balance to an IRA at retirement will lose an estimated 12percentt of the value of his or her savings if drawn down over 30 years".

"As we draw down over the next five years we're gonna be adding another 100,000 per year, and to effectively deal with health care, benefits and other challenges -- that's not gonna be easy.

Of the £60m advanced in February, just over half was drawn down immediately and the balance in March and April, a sign of the constant pressure on NMEC's cashflow.

Fidelity's Income Replacement funds use target dates to determine the period over which the portfolio will be drawn down.

He is drawn down to hell.

from being drawn down the channel.

With Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in Kabul to take stock as the Obama administration weighs how quickly to draw down troops over the next two years, a senior US military commander on Wednesday hailed the progress Afghan security forces have made.