Sentence examples for milch cows from inspiring English sources

Most African states wasted their first four decades building up state structures as milch cows for their elites.

All women found pregnant were slain with their husbands, as were thousands of milch cows, so that even the calves might know what it was to lose a mother.

In juxtaposing this tragic image with three scenes of afflicted females in the Ark Narrative the wife of Phinehas, the lowing milch cows, and Michal—I seek to draw out an interpretation of the biblical narrative that is attentive to the emotional complexity of divine and human personalities.

Mr Maliki has dished out his portfolios virtually by quota, and ministries will probably be regarded by whichever parties control them as milch cows of patronage (though the oil ministry has been wisely placed in the hands of an impressive Shia technocrat).

In a 1948 review in the Atlantic Monthly of a book by the historian Charles Beard, who had left Columbia thirty years earlier to live on a dairy farm, Morison suggested (pretty cruelly, since Beard was on his deathbed at the time) that Beard's work had suffered from his isolation: "You get more back talk even from freshmen than from milch cows".

In particular, there is a shared understanding that livestock, except for milch cows, need to move away from densely cultivated areas during the growing season.

But by ending it I am somehow allowing us to remain together, my little Milch Cow".

Britain, in or out of the EU, can use it as a milch cow.

"It's what happens when you treat the mountain as a milch cow, and you get a collision of egos.

With the Treasury closed for extra financial bids it risks being treated as a convenient milch cow for government policies.

As a Conservative minister with a role in this area despairingly put it to me, the working age benefit bill had become "the milch cow for austerity".