Sentence examples for end a quarter from inspiring English sources

The war's architects in Washington and London believed that a rapid military success — which they foresaw as taking a relatively modest toll on Iraqi, American and British lives — would end a quarter of a century of murderous tyranny by Saddam.

A "grand bargain" (tentatively mooted by John Kerry) with the Americans, who would end a quarter of a century of hostility, lift their economic sanctions now in force, and forge a complete rapprochement.

Wulfemeyer was the master, frequently hitting halfcourt shots at the buzzer to end a quarter.

Cases of Zika infection are expected to keep rising through October, and by year's end, a quarter of the island's population of 3.5 million will have been exposed, a "very dire" situation, said Dr. Lyle R. Petersen, the C.D.C.'s chief of vector-borne diseases and director of its fight against Zika.

Blur look likely to end a quarter-century career this summer with their final concert and single release.

The way the pencil lines always end a quarter-inch short of the canvas edge somehow produces the illusion of a haloed circumference.

The Democrats hope to capitalize on Gov. George Ryan's plunging popularity in the wake of a bribery scandal to end a quarter-century of Republican rule in the statehouse.

But polls suggest that one of a couple of moderate centrists could end a quarter-century duopoly of Liberals and Sandinistas provided they can get on the ballot.Although Bolivia and Nicaragua will grab headlines, the contests that matter most are in Brazil and Mexico.

There are now a number of influential voices on both sides who believe that the problems in the relationship are so numerous, so profound and so unmanageable that they are starting to overwhelm the post-1972 strategiconsensusus and are threatening to end a quarter-century of Sino-American goodwill.

The competition ends a quarter in which the students learn about mechanics, electronics and computer programming.

Something daft about the threat having changed since the Cold War ended a quarter century ago, perhaps.