Sentence examples for has barely escaped from inspiring English sources

For President Clinton to show up in Islamabad just months after a military coup, in a country that for years has barely escaped designation as a state supporter of terrorism and that has thumbed its nose at American nuclear nonproliferation policies for more than a decade, would put a lie to all the principles that have marked the Clinton administration's foreign policies.

But it has barely escaped these kinds of niche communities.

Doctors said he had barely escaped paralysis or even death.

John Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle.

The municipal government had barely escaped bankruptcy a few years earlier.

His patron was sinking in the polls, and Rove himself had barely escaped criminal indictment.

She had seen terrible things, had been starved and beaten, and had barely escaped the gas chamber.

Her husband, Brad, who works in the auto-parts industry, had barely escaped three rounds of layoffs.

An umbrella seller said it was the third time he had barely escaped a terror attack over the past year.

He ran into a friend from high school, a trainee firefighter who had barely escaped from one of the falling buildings.

"I feel like a black sheep," Dr. Schultz confessed after being grilled on vouchers and teacher tenure, sounding as if he had barely escaped being eaten alive.