Sentence examples for like a swift from inspiring English sources

The Obama administration would like a swift foreign policy success in an election year.

When RNA interference first electrified biologists several years ago, pharmaceutical companies rushed to harness what looked like a swift and surefire way to develop new drugs.

Whenever his pride galled too much, he walked out.As Chief Chingachgook in "Mohicans", standing on a mountain top, he commended his dead son to the ancestors, crying that he would fly towards them like a swift arrow into the sun.

Perhaps unfairly, he accused Ms Fernández and her predecessor and husband, Néstor Kirchner, of doing too little to tackle the widespread poverty that followed Argentina's economic and financial collapse of 2001-02.The president's trip to Rome looked like a swift exercise in damage limitation.

Slender, sheathed in black leather, with short ebony hair standing up in a tuft, her fingers poking out of black woollen gloves as they skitter across a laptop keyboard, Mara (who played Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend at the beginning of "The Social Network") cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade.

It has been five years since the United States invaded Iraq and the world watched in horror as what seemed like a swift victory by modern soldiers and 21st-century weapons became a nightmare of spiraling violence, sectarian warfare, insurgency, roadside bombings and ghastly executions.

"I always like to make a swift exit from a party: say 'thanks' to the host, and then get the hell out.

The EU's executive "will not comment on any issues that pertain to the internal legal and constitutional order of our member states", he said, adding that all remaining EU members would like to see a swift notification of article 50 and any agreement would require the consent of the European parliament.

In retrospect, transferring your finances to the iPad's handy bookkeeping app doesn't seem like such a swift idea.

Unlike complicated accounting transactions, bribes are easy for juries to understand, and theres nothing a federal prosecutor likes more than a swift conviction.

Clinton said that McCain, like Bush, opposes "a swift and responsible withdrawal from Iraq" and wants to "keep us tied to another country's civil war".