Sentence examples for lash against from inspiring English sources

It tracks the unraveling of this groundbreaking experiment as white lash against reforms wrought by civil rights legislation grew.

Midway through "Exeo," the strings muster for sustained lines that writhe and lash against an undertow of lugubrious brasses.

Yet there were some glorious goals as well, not least Dillon Serna's lash against DC United in a losing effort for Colorado.

I was looking at it there just the other day: the roaring sea seems to lash against the very surface of this astonishingly mobile painting and seep out into the gallery itself.

A local publication described the governor, Rick Snyder, as a slave-master using a legal "lash" against Michigan's black-majority cities. John Conyers, a black congressman from Michigan, has written to the federal attorney-general asking for a review of PA4, expressing concern that it is being applied in a discriminatory fashion.

Yet, here is a film to knot the fist and seize the heart with anger, a film that stings like a slap in the face of complacence, a scourge and lash against the delusion that there may still be an easy way out.

The violence of the Protestant back-lash against Unionist government attempts to end discrimination was particularly vicious in the Ardoyne area, where tiny enclaves of Catholic and Protestant housing lie close to each other.

The charity awards grants for community projects in the area near Facebook's headquarters, but also supports international initiatives (29 countries, for example, received grants in 2012).Mr Zuckerberg's generosity may also show his shrewder side, however, as he attempts pre-emptively to thwart a backlash (or "tech-lash") against the Silicon Valley elite and their billions.

He opined that although the unprecedented election results were partly "a rebellion against the elites" and "a complete reinvention of politics and polls," that "it was also something else" — what he called a "white-lash" against an increasingly diverse country led by its black president for the past eight years.

Outside tempestuous rain is lashing against the windows.

He reached up and felt the whisper-touch of his own lashes against his fingertips.