Sentence examples for lay head from inspiring English sources

As lay head of the church, he promoted the rapid expansion of primary education in parish schools because he saw it, with its emphasis upon religion, as a strong bulwark of the autocracy.

WHEN Robert Zoellick took over the World Bank in 2007 after months of bitter wrangling over professional favours done by its former president, Paul Wolfowitz, for his girlfriend many people hoped that happier times lay head for the institution.

Still high from the anaesthetic, he lay, head bandaged, in his hospital bed, riffing with consummate fluency, this gentle, self-effacing man, unaccustomed to the centre stage and rather surprised to find himself enjoying it after all.

In one of these images, Pfluger and his father lay head first on separate, parallel hotel beds.

They'd stopped massaging Spine's neck and shoulders and lay head to foot on the floor, staring up at Bob Marley.

What makes this worse was that two year old Veronica was taken 1800 miles away to Oklahoma without any plan of a healthy transitional period for the separation that lay head of her.

He looked disturbed and insisted we lie head to toe.

He was shown a photograph of four Iraqis blindfolded and handcuffed lying head down.

Let's start up top with your ugly, lying head, Stephen.

They did calculations: If 6 million adults and children were to lie head to toe, the line would stretch from Washington to San Francisco and back.

Let's address that lie head on.