Sentence examples for flourish against from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it's because people who flourish against the odds are deemed to be role models for teenagers from similar backgrounds.

It was predictable that ancient Gaelic hero-cults would flourish against a backdrop of social poverty and colonial torpor.

I want them to understand that many families with absent fathers flourish against the odds, and not feel such a sense of guilt or loss.

Isn't every list in reality a ceremonial flourish against amnesia and chaos?

There was a three-set stroll against Jan Hajek, a slightly tougher workout against Jarkko Nieminen, some wonderful tennis to put away the gifted Gilles Simon, dismissal of the drained but dangerous Sam Querrey and Wednesday's near-regal flourish against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who took a set off him, Murray's only blip, before surrendering to the Scot's dazzling subtleties.

Now the Italians are keen to finish with a flourish against an opposition they beat at home in 2008 and 2010.

Bamboo flourished against a dark wall, and the tables were carved from hunks of Norwegian oak.

Grass blades on a pond in morning dew become sparklers flourished against midnight darkness.

With the Santos teenager Neymar, and the 20-year olds Alexandre Pato and Paulo Henrique Ganso all flourishing against the United States on Tuesday, Brazil went some way toward showing it has riches beyond compare.

Playmaker Michael Farfan, who struggled this season after being moved to left midfield, flourished against Chivas and scored the game-winning goal with a pinpoint shot into the roof of the net off a close range indirect kick.

Here, she writes, for all the deprivation and injustice, "hope is not a fiction" and her scavengers can succeed in flourishing against all the odds, like the fish who somehow continue to swim in the junk-rimmed, excrement-filled swamp-lake that frames the slum.