Sentence examples for pervading from inspiring English sources

He retains that pervading belief that games are positive and empowering.

What Shapps says reflects a depressing mood pervading the country: the realisation that for millions of young people, caught between sky-high house prices and tough mortgage restrictions, an enduring aspiration to own a home is increasingly unachievable.

Today, they reside in the microwave band of the radio spectrum, pervading otherwise empty space and helping to keep it at around 2.7 degrees above absolute zero.

As he pointed out, "the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time".Mr Clinton's leisure productivity would surprise Veblen only in its highly public nature.

This was a natural response to the cold-war situation, given the manipulation of language and the pervading atmosphere of counter-intelligence.

And the pervading feel-good factor of humour suggests that stand-up comedy may well survive in a global climate that provides so little else to laugh at.

Consequently, what pervades is a slightly unnerving stillness.

Yet the influence of Griffin and Mahony's work pervades Australia's most significant public building, the Parliament House created by Romaldo Giurgola almost 70 years later.

The official summary report made public as a letter in April used much milder language to express concerns about HSBC's processes, stating "in certain instances the monitor believes that HSBC Group's progress has been too slow", adding that in some areas the bank's "historical cultural deficiencies continue to pervade its operations today".

He says this with genuine concern, if perhaps a hint of the gallows humour that pervades all hospitals.

"The reason we won the award is that character building pervades everything we do," headteacher Gary Lewis tells me.