Sentence examples for it brushed aside from inspiring English sources

At about 5 00 PM on the night of the storm, the surge crested the banks of the Gowanus Canal and advanced toward the studio's front door, where it brushed aside 200 sandbags and began its crush.

It brushed aside a petition by local people to rewild the land instead.

In doing so, it brushed aside objections of the Nixon Administration and Federal banking authorities.

It brushed aside as irrelevant Gorbachev's announcement that he was stopping production of enriched uranium, a key ingredient of nuclear weapons.

In Honduras, he scored a goal for his national team as it brushed aside the Netherlands Antilles in a World Cup qualifier.

But it brushed aside an RA whom it had no reason to believe was performing poorly, and an FSILG adviser who had made mistakes in the past but was trusted by the FSILG community.

But the zeal of the administration to break the ABM treaty is so great that it brushes aside the possible dangerous consequences.

It brushes aside the invisible hand and accrues to the state a power of income regulation that makes second-generation Thatcherites feel distinctly queasy.

Hemingway's style sometimes gives the impression of striking a pose, whereas Spark's appears to be merely getting on with it, brushing aside everything she might say but doesn't care to.

Companies used to operating in such unusual circumstances flourished when life became more predictable.There is some truth to this argument, even though it brushes aside the fact that until the 1990s Brazilian companies did not have to worry about foreign competitors.

"It brushes aside any indication of an increase in migration from these countries whose workers are amongst the most mobile in the EU.