Sentence examples for instant end from inspiring English sources

Secular types want an instant end to the state "protection" enjoyed by the Church of Scotland.

It put an instant end to the isolationism that had kept American foreign policy in a chokehold for two decades.

At least we should be grateful that scenes of simulated murder are to be permitted or galleries would have to be cleared of all those saintly martyrdoms and Quentin Tarantino's career would come to an instant end.

It seems to speak of the particular collective madness of the time, as well as of the meaninglessness and carelessness of those random, almost casual acts of violence that, in an instant, end one life and transform, or blight, another.

I knew the call was an instant end to a rare day off.

But a deft volte-face turned the mood in an instant, ending with Lowe jabbing an accusatory finger at Alan Milliner, backed up by a string of invective.

Something he could hardly seem to contain as she went on before him with her work, neither of them quite able to speak into the wavering silence that held the air between them quivering with expectation, each instant ending in light of its own impending expectation of being shattered by a will.

He sacrificed to the gods, and invited his friends; and, having entertained them and shaken hands with them, drank bull's blood, as is the usual story; as others state, a poison producing instant death; and ended his days in the city of Magnesia, having lived sixty-five years, most of which he had spent in politics and in wars, in government and command.

For a police officer, the stairwells of New York City's public housing complexes can be menacing places of drug deals, domestic disputes, thievery and gang violence, where nerves can cause missteps that, in an instant, can end in tragedy.

His play Rope (1929) (which Alfred Hitchcock subsequently turned into an only partially successful piece of experimental cinema - dismissed by Hamilton as "sordid and practically meaningless balls") became an instant West End hit, and toured the world for years.

Against his will he develops an attachment to a new widow (Samantha Morton) that the movie wisely refrains from turning into an instant happy ending.