Sentence examples for past leaves from inspiring English sources

"But even worse, his own past leaves him unable to lead on this issue.

Still, the Obama campaign is intent on sticking to its narrative: that Mr. Romney's past leaves him vulnerable as a steward of a challenged economy.

James G. Kolesar, a Williams spokesman, noted that Ms. Glück had taken past leaves to teach elsewhere, The Associated Press reported.

The flashbacks to that period, with Robin Valvekens as the young Jacky — a beautiful boy, which only makes things worse — could not be more traumatic, and the constant, inescapable shove of the past leaves "Bullhead" feeling less like muscular melodrama and more like a sad saga of distress and loss.

A writer may go in for "canny lying" - canny, because some rearrangement and framing are often needed to make truth eloquent and memorable, and because sometimes, the past leaves us the texture of events, their colour and smell, without a corpus of sustaining fact.

Yet how can one have confidence that the past leaves behind such traces or testimony?

The U.N. speech, though, has not receded into the deflected past, leaving behind its offhand ambiguity.

History has been cruel to Afghanistan, but the past left more than pottery shards.

A coach thundered past, leaving a wave of spray in its wake.

On three occasions, much larger pike flashed past leaving him no chance to grab his spear.

Adams's denial of his own I.R.A. past left Hughes and others "to carry the responsibility of all those deaths".