Sentence examples for lay thanks from inspiring English sources

Following the revolutions of 1989, principled leaders like Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia and Adam Michnik of Poland reminded Europe where the moral center of gravity lay; thanks in large part to them, what could have been a difficult post-Communist era was smoothed out.

The current big lie, thanks to "Sex and the City," is that single women in New York date an endless stream of troublesome and inappropriate men.

The linked story is worth reading, but essentially the police beat up an innocent man, lied about it, and weren't caught in their lie thanks to some conveniently missing evidence.

Dexter is part of a flowering in American television – far more so than in the movies – of the long-neglected art of the credit sequence, a craft that has lain dormant thanks to the demands of advertisers and ratings number-crunchers.

Just remember that the black light never lies and thanks to Room Raiders, everyone can identify a glob of glowing splooge when they see it.

Less than 10 minutes after her first "hello" to the American people, she told the Bridge to Nowhere "thanks but no thanks" lie she has been repeating ever since.

Across the road at the second village, Tekoa Ytu, the natural pool where the children used to swim lay empty and silent, thanks to contamination from a stream running through a favela on the hillside above, polluting the waterfall, pool and river where the community once washed, fished and drew water with a steady stream of raw sewage.

But those plans now lie in ruins thanks to Storm Desmond.

Wales's World Cup aspirations lie in tatters thanks to this inept display at the Karadjordje Stadium in Novi Sad, which saw them roundly thumped by Serbia.

The church is open 24 hours a day, and local residents come to pray, give thanks and even lay out their dead.

Visitors to the local chapel in Youssofia, Morocco are now treated to a transcendant experience the moment they lay eyes upon its walls, thanks to a brand new mural from globe-trotting street artist Okuda San Miguel.