Sentence examples for personal brush with from inspiring English sources

Mr. Yu also had a personal brush with a downside of abundant liberty.

The family says their concern goes beyond their personal brush with the law.

If the Prisoner of the San chapter is about his own personal brush with death, the Barcelona and Madrid one is about our communal brush with it.

Ms. Alsop had a personal brush with resistance to change when her appointment was announced by the Baltimore Symphony two years ago.

Ideally they would have the insight, compassion and sensitivity to perceive problems that afflict the common man without requiring a personal brush with tragedy to galvanize their legislative zeal.

Mr. Pataki said he had a personal brush with erroneous convictions in the 1980's, when Nathaniel Carter, with whom the governor played basketball as a teenager in Peekskill, N.Y., was convicted of murdering his former wife's foster mother.

And there were personal brushes with  danger.

Some men said they were inspired to join the effort by personal brushes with illness.

Both Birgeneau and Schekman said they had personal brushes with the illnesses targeted by stem-cell researchers.

His personal brushes with it are recounted at some length to indicate his "motivation" in writing this history.

But it is the smaller, more personal brushes with official graft that have motivated many people to turn out for Mr. Hazare's movement.