Sentence examples for given one inch from inspiring English sources

Speaking in Townsville, the prime minister stressed the need for compassion, but reaffirmed his determination to maintain a hardline policy towards asylum-seeker arrivals because the "ruthless" people smugglers should not be given "one inch of encouragement".

"And I will not give one inch in our efforts to do that".

"If we give one inch to these terrorists in the form of negotiations, then we've got no one to blame but ourselves when we turn into another Detroit or Washington, D.C.," Mr. Fangman said.

"Because if she gives one inch," snarls Perpetua, "I'm going to fire her bony little bottom anyway for being totally spineless!" We meet in a south London rehearsal room where Montagu is preparing to appear on stage in a new adaptation of the book that inspired Bridget Jones: Pride and Prejudice.

We are not to give one inch of our lives or our land to the predatory tactics of the father of all lies and the enemy of truth and life.

As their refusal to give one more inch of wiggle room to the Republican chairman of Judiciary shows, their strategy is: Intimidate the president into sending up centrists or difficult-to-attack minorities or women.

"We give them one inch of encouragement and there will be more people on boats and we'll be back to what we had with the Labor party, I regret to say, which will be thousands of unauthorised arrivals and hundreds of people drowned at sea," he said.

Mr. Said cannot envision the Palestinians giving up one inch of "their" soil or renouncing their "right" of return to Israel.

"But I've told my men they will not give up one inch of territory.

"We will not give up one inch of the areas that we occupy until Article 140 is implemented," Mr. Mustafa said.

Make one-inch marks instead of half-inch on the new square on your new paper.