Sentence examples for on its shoulder from inspiring English sources

But Boston is unique in that it has several chips on its shoulder.

Ubiquitous in folk and pop, it arrives in the classical concert milieu with a chip on its shoulder; a need to prove that it can measure up to its orchestral cousins in volume as well as quality; and a slender repertory that has to be supplemented not only with original compositions but also by forays into the repertories of other instruments.

Now, it is second-seeded St. John's turn to give the team that says it has got a chip on its shoulder the proper respect.

The sixteen-minute-long "Walk Like a Giant" has an eerie whistled hook and a chip on its shoulder that closely resembles the one in "Driftin' Back": "Me and some of my friends / We were gonna save the world," Young sings.

No one but an organization with an enormous chip on its shoulder engages in schoolyard "see-I-told-you-so" antics, especially an organization which continually bullies people into believing it isn't a bully.

Chile is more sober and conservative than its bigger, more flamboyant neighbour, though it does have a bit of a chip on its shoulder about that.

No -- Israel cannot take on its shoulders the lives of three and a half million Palestinians.

"I would strongly welcome China taking on its shoulders, commitments that have the same ambition, if not in numbers then at least in targets," he told a Brussels press conference.

If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover".

The armor had Tudor roses as decorative studs on its shoulders; it also matched the description of a piece of three-quarter armor.

AS the United States settles the mantle of empire, however uneasily, on its shoulders, it must constantly deal with the legacy of the West's last major empire, Britain.