Sentence examples for nail from inspiring English sources

(It may have banged another nail into the coffin of elected local authorities with its suggestion that electoral officials need closer central supervision and more uniform standards).

Environment minister Greg Hunt has been out and about this morning on the ABC and on the doors at Parliament, "hoping and expecting but not presuming" the new senate will pass the carbon tax repeal bills, driving the final nail into the heart of Labor's emissions trading scheme.

Maybe the nail varnish she had requested from her beautician had failed to come in – who knows?

The first goal conceded at Tannadice during the Uefa Cup run was pretty much the final nail in the coffin.

We have not got everything right, we have had to work tooth and nail to say in this competition, because there are some wonderful clubs".

Brown tried to nail Cameron on inheritance tax cuts, Cameron tried to nail Brown on how he hitched the whole country to the fortunes of the financial sector; both undeniable.

Recent polls have positioned what was previously considered a Lib Dem safe seat at the middle of a tooth-and-nail battle with Labour.

Last Saturday's game against the Crew was a nail-biter to the end, and I give the Crew a lot of credit for not going down easy, but the Revs came to play.

Although the league chairmen agreed to the proposal, and each club knew the situation at the start of the campaign, it didn't stop the complaints as the first end of season nail-biters commenced in May 1987.

This week Greece and the eurozone face a week of fresh nail-biting uncertainty as the single currency area's finance ministers prepare to report on progress towards an agreement with Tsipras's government.

In 1990 he was already serving a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend when he killed fellow inmate John Handspike in a Georgia prison, beating him to death with a nail-studded board.