Sentence examples for girded by a from inspiring English sources

The United States remains a nation of laws girded by a constitution, despite police shootings and protest riots.

THE Syrian regime likes to keep up the appearance of a constitutional state rather than one run by a family cabal girded by a ruthless security apparatus.

Today, the metropolitan area of Brussels, girded by a beltway (the so-called grande ceinture), extends beyond the footprint of the 19 communes to encompass a fringe of the province of Flemish Brabant.

When a drizzle threatened to ruin people's entrance into a tent that was girded by a host of paparazzi, he ran out into the rain over and over with an umbrella to welcome the returning regulars.

The evidence of Senator Clinton's moral turpitude (beginning, but not ending, with her contact with known lesbians) is girded by a historian's sense of enterprise — interviews with disgruntled West Wing footmen, gratuitous political "analysts," and the "clinical sexologist" Dr. Claudia Six.

It is the most straightforward pop song on the album, girded by a loping drumbeat, but the lyrics form a scathing critique of political indifference, and Hval's vocal could be heard as a spoof on the vacuous good feeling that so many pop songs aim to create.

Haines's work is girded by an emphasis throughout on sharing the knowledge he is uncovering.

The eponymous couple in "Oscar and Lucinda" go to absurd risks hauling a 12-ton church made of glass, girded by an iron framework, into the Australian outback.

When he moves out beyond the palace walls, now girded by an endless helix of razor wire, he has around-the-clock protection from a force of former Navy Seals and Army guards.

Vijay Iyer Sextet, "Far From Over" (ECM) Shortly after showcasing the many brilliant sides to his music and influences in his musical direction of a stirring Ojai Music Festival this spring, Iyer released maybe his most immediate statement yet with this taut yet freewheeling celebration of rhythm and groove girded by an elastic horn section of Steve Lehman, Mark Shim and Graham Haynes.

The 87 white, red-roofed houses are all slightly different, and at the center of the development is a small chapel with a spire girded by two bronze wings though it looks a bit like a half-submerged trout, it's supposed to evoke a phoenix-like triumph.