Sentence examples for oar from inspiring English sources

– David Cameron, who had to move his jubilee party indoors as rain soaked Downing Street "It was thought I would not look elegant in the Lycra" – London mayor Boris Johnson explaining why he turned down the offer of an oar on Gloriana for a place on the Havengore, the launch which carried the coffin of Winston Churchill to his funeral.

The director explained that the character I was auditioning for would be hit over the head with an oar, after which he would be rolled off a jetty into the water.

A few days ago, the cross-party Local Government Association LGAA) stuck in its oar, calling for a broader mix of locally-based taxes, including some form of local income tax, a relocalisation of business rates and a long shopping list of other revenue-raising proposals from local sales taxes to a share of vehicle excise duty.It is not difficult to identify what has gone wrong with council tax.

A sudden view of a ravine with a grey heron winging across it; the moon rising "like a huge rusty coin"; Parmesan cheese, eaten after days of hunger, with "hard, salty nodules" of curd in it; the shock of blue and green phosphorescence dripping from his oar.

Very few parents, Ms Evans notes, have absolutely nothing to add to the lives of their children.In this section The pleasures and sorrows of work Democracy in difficult places On the waste land Shock and oar Dragons' den Top guns Reprints Related items Divorce: Money in miseryFeb 5th 2009The other big lesson is that broken homes can be patched up from the outside.

But when it comes to fund managers, the European Union, via its Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive, is planning to stick its oar in.

On land they used men and animals to haul and carry; on water they used oar-driven and sail-propelled vessels.

(Oar-driven warships, such as the Greek trireme, sacrificed this feature in order to maximize fighting power).

Trireme, oar-powered warship that reached its highest point of development in the eastern Mediterranean during the 5th century bce.

Rowing in six- and eight-oar boats began as a club and school activity for amateurs about this time in England and somewhat later in the United States.

The shift to steam was, in a sense, a return to the principle of self-contained propulsion earlier embodied in the oar-driven ship.