Sentence examples for our hand of from inspiring English sources

In the library the synagogue staff had spread carpets on the floor for the Muslims to pray.In the corridor outside this temporary mosque, two Muslim schoolboys read the Israeli declaration of independence: "We extend our hand of peace and unity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples".

We can't wash our hands of subjectivity.

We cannot wash our hands of this issue.

We hire people to run the government, and then wash our hands of most responsibility.

Like Pontius Pilate, we wash our hands of dirty deeds; Italy's anti-Mafia drive was called "clean hands".

Washing our hands of potential terrorists is dangerously short-sighted and statelessness is a tool of despots not democrats.

"But it doesn't mean they give up … it's important we don't wipe our hands of them".

Many in the press and Parliament would have preferred us to wash our hands of the East African Asians.

"We can't adopt a holier-than-thou attitude and, when it's in our backyard, wash our hands of it," Holmes said.

Seeking to wash our hands of the problem won't serve anyone's interests: not those of Syria, the broader Middle East, Europe, or the United States.

In March, a member of the C.U.P. noted, "It has been decided to wash our hands of responsibility for this stain that has been smeared across Ottoman history".