Sentence examples for propel ourselves from inspiring English sources

The degree should provide a base of information from which we must propel ourselves.

By Malcolm Gladwell March 5, 2018 Most of us, at some point in our lives, can for a few fleeting moments propel ourselves forward at Roger Bannister's pace.

But most of us, at some point in our lives, can for a few fleeting moments propel ourselves forward at Roger Bannister's pace.

Most of us, at some point in our lives, can for a few fleeting moments propel ourselves forward at Roger Bannister's pace.

The truth is we propel ourselves into space using much the same physics as the Chinese played with when they discovered what we came to call gunpowder more than 1,400 years ago.

Really, we were vowing to ourselves and to each other that we'd make a day trip in search of the King of Sentences, that we'd flush him out, propel ourselves into his company and confidence, buoy him with our love and bind ourselves (and our secret manuscripts, oh yeah!) to his greatness.

We've propelled ourselves out of the Holocene, where we experienced friendly conditions for 12,000 years, and have dumped ourselves in a new geological era, the Anthropocene, where conditions are likely to be bad news.

Wanting to be part of this brave, new, meritocratic, youthful, and oh-so-hip world, we all started dropping our Ts and our Hs, stretching out our vowels into a new language called Estuary, and generally implying that we too had propelled ourselves from the cradles of our sink estates to rock stardom, or married-to-Madonna-dom, or acolyte-of-Saatchi-dom, or, less starrily, web designerdom.

After 51/2 miles of propelling ourselves in 55-pound polyethylene kayaks at a rhythmic clip, we reach Pillar Rock, a 30-foot basalt column jutting from the water.

Coal is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists warn that without effective, global action to curb this pollution, we are propelling ourselves toward catastrophic climate change.

The limitations of the human body means we require machines much larger than ourselves to propel us skyward; and with them an interface between our earthbound lives and the complex network of trails above our heads.