Sentence examples for hand back from from inspiring English sources

Evra's teammate Rio Ferdinand, seeing this, pulled his hand back from Suárez.

He moved his hand back from the can and surveyed the scene.

Citigroup, too, pulled its hand back from the Asian fire.

The results add to previous research that has shown that our pupils dilate when we look at something that fascinates or intrigues us, suggesting that the so-called pupillary light reflex isn't merely an automatic response (like jerking your hand back from a hot stove).

"Isn't that the same shirt that you wore yesterday?" I drew my hand back from the cereal box when my mother uttered those words.

I turn and face a small old Indian man sitting on the bench behind me and pulling his hand back from touching me.

"The project aims to be a response, in helping the Syrians, empowering them to take their destiny back into their hands, back from the rule of arms and terror, into the rule of law and democracy," said Afra Jalabi, a political scientist based in Montreal who is a member of the project's executive committee.

The protesting students say Beijing's decision does not amount to the greater democracy Hong Kong was promised when it was handed back from Britain to China in 1997.

"Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy, and its rights and freedoms, are central to its way of life and should be fully respected". The city was handed back from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

For example, he backed their calls for legal arbitration of disputes in the Aegean, and called the status quo in Cyprus whose leaders will gather in New York on December 3rd for "proximity talks"—unacceptable; he even urged Britain to hand back sculptures from the Parthenon.

Fortunately, our pioneering equalities minister, Harriet Harman, has announced that the Treasury is going to clamp down on this particularly socially destructive hand-back from the state.