Sentence examples for on a course toward from inspiring English sources

Senate Democrats and President Obama quickly made it clear they had no intention of going along, putting the government on a course toward a shutdown unless one side relents.

That set her on a course toward this book, for which she began doing prodigious research.

Similarly, he suggested that Mr. Kerry would put the nation on a course toward trade protectionism.

Only when all the region's countries are irreversibly on a course toward the E.U. will we be able to celebrate.

The Chinese Navy has put its only aircraft carrier out to sea, on a course toward the South China Sea.

The marred reputation of the networks after the quiz show scandals of the 1950s had set them on a course toward regaining credibility.

The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Major Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day.

Whatever is going on, "Mine Is Yours" misses the mark and plots a course toward the decidedly mundane.

BEIJING — Prime Minister Wen Jiabao crafted a portrait of a China on a steady course toward greatness on Friday, telling his nation's unelected legislature that the government could expand social spending, increase lending, pour money into strategic industries and still meet its traditional 8 percent economic growth target in 2010.

It is a sad day and also a dire warning that we are on a treacherous course toward a total breakdown in our two-party democratic system of government.

In Ms. Bhutto's new book, "Reconciliation," a volume she finished days before she was killed, she lays out her vision of Islam as "an open, pluralistic and tolerant religion" that she says has been hijacked by extremists, and her belief that Islam and the West need not be headed on a collision course toward a "clash of civilizations".