Sentence examples for plank from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the sex industry respond by denying the scale of human trafficking because it undermines a key plank in their argument that women freely choose to go into prostitution, and the state therefore needs to butt out of their private lives.

There are four of them: the pistol-toting medic with the silver hair, the Goth techy idly cradling an energy pistol, the tiny woman in big boots slapping a plank of wood in her fist, and the sharp-talking shotgunner.

The GOP platform includes no exceptions for rape in its anti-abortion plank; Republican Governor Jan Brewer has already signed that policy into law.

Neither can a story about his Tory opponent Craig Mackinlay owning a website that encourages Hungarians to come and work in Britain,; Ukip has made curtailing unskilled immigration from eastern Europe the key plank of its campaign.

Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition's foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.

They matter because the first plank of any justification of his coalition deal (and any claim of its success) has to be based on making the right call on austerity and the justification-by-results of the broad outline (if not all the detail: watch Help to Buy) of Osbornomics since 2010.

The parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) is the other essential plank of oversight cited by the government, but it has also been bedevilled by criticism since it was established in 1994.

Coalition development secretaries have pushed for increased private sector investment as a core plank of British aid policy.

A key plank of the accord to which the five main parties signed up was the introduction of the Conservative/Lib Dem welfare reforms.

Hillary Clinton said campaign finance reform would be a central plank of her presidential bid on Tuesday, revealing a determination to reinvent her political profile as a more humble, populist figure for the 2016 election.

We bought a set of basic trucks (wheels) – basic even by 1976 skateboard standards – screwed them to a plank of wood we had vaguely carved into a V at the front and headed off to the park.