Sentence examples for lifting sentences from inspiring English sources

Meaning may be wholly distorted by lifting sentences out of context, instead of construing them as part of an organic whole.

And the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel turned up a mid-'70s review of Crazy Horse and Custer that complained about Ambrose lifting sentences from an entirely different source than the one identified for that book last week by Forbes.com.

Perhaps it is unfair to lift sentences out like this.

When Richard Condon lifted sentences wholesale from Robert Graves' I, Claudius and quietly stuck them into The Manchurian Candidate, he did it the good old-fashioned way.

She lifted sentences like "It is the function of the cortex — and, in particular, those parts of the cortex beneath the forehead, known as the frontal lobes — to modify the impulses that surge up from within the brain, to provide judgment, to organize behavior and decision-making, to learn and adhere to rules of everyday life".

But they still have some 7,000 fighters; around 600 Colombians were killed in the conflict last year and tens of thousands were displaced from their homes.The government's idea is that in return for an amnesty for the rank and file, and the lifting of sentences already imposed by the courts, guerrillas accused of war crimes should face trial by a specially constituted tribunal.

Lucy was excommunicated by Becket in 1166 and again in 1169, and Becket's murder by the king's henchmen in 1170 resulted in part from his refusal to lift such sentences of excommunication.

For instance, the meaning of and as a connective between verb phrases is obtained by lifting the sentence connective ∧ to λPλQλx[P x) ∧ Q x)].

At least Ambrose takes a bipartisan approach to his borrowing: Wild Blue lifts several sentences or passages from a McGovern biography by Robert Sam Anson Robert Sam Anson, who is also the author of a Nixon book from which Ambrose borrows copiously in his Nixon: Ruin and Recovery.

In 1980 the same court lifted the sentence completely, a decision later reversed by the federal court.

Captain McVay was stripped of some seniority, although Navy Secretary James Forrestal lifted the sentence because of Captain McVay's bravery in combat before the sinking.