Sentence examples for foreign yoke from inspiring English sources

Only in the twilight of myths can one speak of the liberation of a land struggling under a foreign yoke.

But beyond the financial pain, the bitterest pill for the Irish may be the dawning realization that the country's finances could fall under a foreign yoke for the next 20 or 30 years.

Lee fully expected his army to be greeted as liberators in Maryland, a slave state, issuing a proclamation identifying Marylanders as "citizens of a commonwealth allied to the States of the South by the strongest social, political, and commercial ties" and promising "to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke".

Once upon a time, a frail old man dreamt of an independent nation and today India is liberated from foreign yoke.

Consistently throughout his comments about foreign policy, Mr. Obama yoked Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain as one entity, mentioning their names in the same sentence 10 times in barely 10 minutes.

The answer: The Chinese government allowed Honda to own 65% of the export joint venture, while other foreign automakers were yoked to 50% limits that left them beholden to inexperienced, often crooked Chinese partners.

"What is better, the yoke of foreign capitalism, or the sale of vodka?" he said.

But it is still wedded to the notion that it must yoke its foreign policy to other countries in the EU and in NATO.

Thus liberated from the yoke of foreign oil, Americans by the millions would someday be zipping around in contraptions powered by an inexhaustible gas.

And a sense of shame about putting up with the yoke of foreign rule or of home-grown despots runs deep in Greece.

Where European populations were content to live under the dominion of anointed rulers, Americans threw off the yoke of a foreign sovereign and tamed a vast wilderness.