Sentence examples for given an inch of from inspiring English sources

The cyclocross season and the achievements of Britain's Helen Wyman is not given an inch of space.

If there is one thing that the release of NSA surveillance files by Edward Snowden has taught us is is that given an inch of authority and permission, the spy agencies will run with it, far beyond a mile.

Our leaders would rather shoot themselves in the foot than give an inch of ground to their opponents.

IT TAKES a cult to know a cult, and the Chinese Communist Party is determined not to give an inch of Tiananmen Square to the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that combines meditative exercises with a loony, millenarian outlook.

Some of them were so committed to those values that they were willing to take our country to the brink of bankruptcy last year due to their unwillingness to give an inch of compromise.

On the wrong side of the road in a £200,000 behemoth with the suspension of a meringue, I shyly approached a roundabout and my phlegmatic companion erupted, barking at me to "Make a decision!" I gave an inch of petrol and we nipped around a hatchback onto the skinny motorway, a neat and clean maneuver for which I was congratulated.

Pull the cloth together forming a cone like shape giving an inch of overlap.

Neither campaign seems willing to give an inch on the question of which candidate would better address the sense of unfairness among the middle class.

"Damascus wants its borders back, and it wants the resources in these areas," said Lund. "I don't expect they will feel the need to give an inch on the formalities of restored government control — it will all be presented as a rollback of full sovereignty and Syrian law".

To take just one example, here are some segments of an exchange between three of the most powerful men in China on the morning of May 13, discussing the situation just before the students began their hunger strike: Deng Xiaoping: We must not give an inch on the basic principle of upholding Communist Party rule and rejecting a Western multiparty system.

He should have maybe given an inch instead of taking the inch that the [Johnson] needed".