Sentence examples for pottage from inspiring English sources

China and South Korea have both expressed concern.In this section Slipping Gusher A mess of pottage Bordering on comradely No end in sight Trade, partnership and politics ReprintsThe plant's melted reactor cores are tainting both the hundreds of tonnes of water pumped into them each day and the groundwater, producing vast quantities of radioactive liquid.

Voters have thrice said no to this mess of pottage.

Within days the government established a new regulator, now called SKK Migas.In this section Slipping Gusher A mess of pottage Bordering on comradely No end in sight Trade, partnership and politics ReprintsWhereas its predecessor was an independent watchdog, SKK Migas sits under the energy ministry.

She sought to tie the bill to the memory of her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated two decades ago and whose ballyhooed birthday was chosen as the day of the launch.In this section Slipping Gusher A mess of pottage Bordering on comradely No end in sight Trade, partnership and politics ReprintsOpponents tried everything to stop the bill being discussed, but debate was set for August 22nd.

Foreigners have sold $1.4 billion of government bonds since June.In this section Slipping Gusher A mess of pottage Bordering on comradely No end in sight Trade, partnership and politics ReprintsAfter a good run, many Indonesians have been caught out by the sudden turn.

Despite the cheap labour, few owners made money there.In this section Slipping Gusher A mess of pottage Bordering on comradely No end in sight Trade, partnership and politics ReprintsYet on August 14th, after seven rounds of talks, both sides agreed to reopen the complex.

At one time, when Esau returned from an unsuccessful hunt and was hungry, Jacob bought Esau's birthright (i.e., the rights due him as the eldest son) for some red pottage (soup).

The list also includes Gerald Levin, who engineered Time Warner's merger with AOL at the top of the Internet bubble; even at the time it seemed obvious that he was trading half his original shareholders' birthright for a mess of cyber-pottage.

Flooding severely restricted road and rail services for commuters in the south-east today, preventing trains from travelling between London's Victoria station and Brighton, as well as closing the A23 in Sussex between Bolney and Pease Pottage.

ASSOCIATED PRESS   Revelation of Another Trading Scandal at UBS  |  John Pottage, the former head of wealth management for UBS in Britain, told a tribunal about rogue trading at the division's Africa desk in 2007, The Financial Times reports.

"Bridge Problems for a New Millennium" is by an English writer, Julian Pottage.