Sentence examples for major shadow from inspiring English sources

But a major shadow over the conference has been the absence of the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, whose participation at the United Nations was blocked by China's objections.

Smith said that while Brexit has cast a major shadow over the advertising figures, it would be "disingenuous" to apportion all of the downgrade to the fear and uncertainty over the vote.

Tibet is one of the major shadows over the Olympics and over China's rise as a great power, sullying its international image and triggering unrest that is likely to worsen in coming years.

Shadow and Super Blue are two of soca's major stars; Shadow was named International Soca Monarch and Road March Champion at this year's carnival, and Super Blue has racked up similar titles through the years.

I better understood the overlap between this work and his other major project, "Shadow Lives USA," which follows the migrant trail from Latin America northward — sometimes to the South Side of Chicago.

Uplift within the past 10 million years has created a major rain shadow across Oregon and Washington.

Given the steep elevational gradient on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, the mountain range casts a major rain shadow affecting the climate and ecology of the adjacent central Great Basin of the intermountain west.

Yet two of the major cataclysms shadowing our times, the Sept. 11 attacks and the 2008 credit collapse, have roots that reach back to the Clinton administration.

But a major question shadowing any deal is what position New York City will take on the real estate taxes paid by the complex.

The review being launched in his first major speech as shadow chancellor, at Labour's Brighton conference, will draw on all strands of opinion among the party's MPs and members, he said.

In her first major speech as shadow culture secretary, Maria Eagle said government ministers were trying to "skew the political landscape for their own party political advantage" by threatening the BBC over funding and Channel 4 with privatisation.