Sentence examples for orderly against from inspiring English sources

He looked at that hair, which lay smooth and orderly against a cream forehead.

Margaret Thatcher was one of the first to require professionals to write jokes for her, because her bossy, orderly mind revolted against the verbal anarchy of humour – but the people she hired were good, and once she had the point of a joke explained to her, the result could be all the funnier coming from someone so remorselessly serious.

They were a backlash against the orderly Victorian garden, he said.

David Cameron and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, speaking at the same conference, echoed the call for an orderly transition and cautioned against early elections.

In Peru, Alejandro Toledo, who had run for president twice in the past 13 months alone, won a close but surprisingly orderly election last Sunday against former president Alan García.

Hundreds of thousands of workers in government buildings and prominent office towers streamed home early today, deserting downtowns large and small across the country in an orderly but fearful precaution against further terrorist attacks.

Nichols felt that Marshall's desire for orderly procedures ultimately told against him.

U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow called the dollar's decline against the euro "orderly" Friday, sending the American currency to an all-time low against its European counterpart.

That would disrupt one of Asia's wealthiest and most orderly economies, and set China against the West.

It's an image of two men leaning against a bright, orderly kitchen counter with endless night stretching behind them and one of them pausing to say to the other, "I was wonderin' what it was like to be you".

Fired together, the prejudices of Preston Sturges constitute a broadside against the blandishments of an orderly life.