Sentence examples for hastening from inspiring English sources

And nuclear power plants have one great advantage over the fossil-fuel kind: they do not emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is hastening the world toward climatic disruption and disaster.

Meanwhile, China was getting nearly eighty per cent of its electricity from coal, which was rendering the air in much of the country unbreathable and hastening climate changes that could undermine China's future stability.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,.

"They are there in the hundreds, large and small, of every sort, shape and size, hastening to carve themselves a slice of the common cake".

Mrs. Kan, the proprietor, hastening to the scene, exchanged ceremonious greetings with Paul and Julia Child and was introduced to Rosemary Manell and Elizabeth Bishop, who would be assisting Julia throughout the next week in a series of cooking demonstrations for the benefit of the Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco.

"According to my iPhone, it's two minutes fast," Garodnick said — the better, perhaps, for hastening travellers to the platforms before the doors close.

Attempts to hasten this process were liable to interfere with the natural forces of adjustment and make things worse.

China's recent scandals seem to have hastened a moment of truth: the new Politburo will take office next month knowing that the people are not as content as before with what they have gained from the country's rise.

He writes that poor nations catch up with rich ones "to the extent that they achieve the same level of technological know-how, skill, and education," which is "often hastened by international openness and trade".

"Muslims, embark and hasten toward jihad," he said, in an audio message shared across social-media accounts.

The failure of the immigration bill hastened the process.