Sentence examples for lay a gift from inspiring English sources

President Obama would lay a gift at the feet of European liberal internationalists: the opportunity to liberate the social-democratic "doctrine of the international community" from its long entombment within "the Bush doctrine".

A sanyasin, a kind of lay nun, with a gift for rabble-rousing, she was in 2003 elected the BJP's chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, a large central state.

As a result, I can honestly say that my lay off was a gift.

Bewkes' denial of this might not have been so much a lie as a gift.

Clearly, Rohmer's talent lay in his gift for empathy.

Before the financier John Jacob Astor died in 1848, he worked with the book collector and librarian Joseph Green Cogswell to lay the groundwork, with a gift of $400,000, for a great public library.

It might be imagined that little could be concluded about objects defined with so few properties, but precisely therein lay Noether's gift: to discover the maximum that could be concluded from a given set of properties, or conversely, to identify the minimum set, the essential properties responsible for a particular observation.

Or, as William H. Macy, as a movie producer in David Mamet's "State and Main," observes, "It's not lie - it's a gift for fiction".

"I don't do anything to make them lay, so each egg is a gift," she says.

A gift shop lies between the main parking lot and Federal Hill.

One day after Gov. John G. Rowland apologized to the citizens of Connecticut for lying about gifts he received, Democratic lawmakers at a caucus decided that they needed to take action, most likely in the form of beginning an impeachment process.