Sentence examples for extinguished ones from inspiring English sources

But millions of other Americans continue to receive harassing phone calls from those trying to collect phony loans or those seeking to unlawfully collect extinguished ones.

Every time its security establishment congratulates itself on having extinguished one intifada, another one comes.

As psalms are sung and prayers are recited, the candles are extinguished one by one until, by the end, a single flickering light remains.

Those services are known as the Tenebrae, or "shadows"; in the old Catholic rite, candles were extinguished, one by one, until the church was enveloped in darkness.

The congregation included Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg who extinguished one of the four large candles lighting the choir, Labour leader Ed Miliband, the Catholic Cardinel Vincent Nichols who led a prayer, defence secretary Michael Fallon, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and a German woman bishop, Petra Bosse-Hube, who read a prayer for peace in German.

London's nightclubs are dropping like flies, their lights extinguished one-by-one by the joint forces of local councils and the Met police.

Subjects placed the index finger of their preferred hand on the starting button and then were required to extinguish one of six equidistant red lights, illuminated at random, by touching the corresponding response button in front of the light as quickly as possible.

Now the government has closed the paper, using undemocratic laws to extinguish one of the last embers of free speech in Zimbabwe.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is poised to extinguish one of the last true perquisites of House service: the right to smoke just off the floor in an area known as the Speaker's Lobby.

BEIJING - Most days, being the U.S. president means trying to extinguish one crisis after another.

In January and February 2002, I traveled along with Mullah Fazl, General Dostum, his ramshackle army, and a US Special Forces detachment to extinguish one hot spot after another; the metallic-gold painted, Taliban-stickered Land Cruisers driven by the surrendered mullahs were a common sight.