Sentence examples for in its thrust from inspiring English sources

This was both a barefaced artistic gesture and a political statement, wilfully provocative in its thrust and feminist in its undertow.

There is the danger that a pan-northern strategy glosses over so-called 'pockets of deprivation' and overlooks areas of risk and poverty in its thrust for growth in the core cities.

What the world heard from Putin last week was not new in its thrust, but never has he spoken at such length and with such open contempt for the current international order.

But the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace, more specific in its thrust than any similar initiative, called for a firm response from countries with global strategic concerns; and that response was far from encouraging.

It's a sublimely suave anecdote, expert in its thrusts and swerves, on the edge of hysteria, subversive, yet - as so often - tempered with something much gentler and more whimsical: a characteristic Brownjohn mix.

Lucent Technologies Inc. said yesterday that it had bought Quadritek Systems Inc., a closely held maker of network-management software, for about $50 million in cash, as it continues its thrust into data networking.

What emerges is an economic program that is cautious almost to a fault, yet determinedly progressive in its general thrust.

"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" was - is - an extraordinary pop record, ultra- modernist in its technological thrust and dizzying in its sense of surrender and abandonment.

Blunt and forceful in its narrative thrust, the painting makes no concessions to art fashion; if anything, its apocalyptic approach and Expressionist distortion evoke the work of Max Beckmann.

This week's China summit would be a good time to pivot to a policy that is true to Trump's instincts but more refined in its strategic thrust.

We have this in the context of an inquiry which was in practice being conducted in its overwhelming thrust as a vehicle of exposure, and where the practice had been followed of publishing names on the basis of a 'not proven' verdict.