Sentence examples for practically ordering from inspiring English sources

By the end of the week, Howie Carr, the Herald's self-styled voice of the common man, was practically ordering the Democrats home.

I would have been practically ordering them [the jury] to give a verdict of manslaughter!"' Lord Hoffman, again in the case of Smith, understanding that this still prevailed, said: "Male possessiveness and jealousy should not today be an acceptable reason for the loss of self-control leading to homicide".

And it is the IMF that has practically ordered it to slow down, under an agreement reached this week.

Television advertisements practically order consumers to don funny glasses and contain taglines like "3-D has been transformed".

In heated moments, she'd practically order me to praise her as though I were a child being told to clean my room.

A salesgirl practically ordered me to buy last year's winner, "The Bamboo Stalk," which tells the story of a young man born to a Kuwaiti father and his family's Philippina maid, dealing, along the way, with the second-class-citizen status of immigrants in the Persian Gulf.

But my wife Patsy persuaded me - practically ordered me - to get on the plane and in the end, we were quite a clutch of Brits out there, what with [director] Hugh Hudson, [screenwriter] Colin Welland and a few friends among seven nominations.

New York Daily News columnist Filip Bondy noted how the "pharaohs" of the IOC "practically ordered us peasants to build them a giant stadium," or it's no deal.

With all the health benefits of pickle juice plus the tomato juice base of the brunch favorite, you've practically ordered a salad.

ON THE PLATES Practically everything: ordering took 10 minutes of agonized decision-making.

There is no evil witch here, but a woman who has practically put a restraining order on an abusive prince by bewitching him into a frog when he did not stop his verbal abuse of her.