Sentence examples for reed from inspiring English sources

The area is surrounded by creeks, marshes and reed beds where you can have fun bird-watching or fishing for crabs before enjoying a warming pint by the fire in the Lord Nelson.

The sea on shingle is quite noisy but when you dropped down off the path there was a wall and, once you got on to the marshes, the sound of the sea went and it was quiet except for the slight moan of the wind and reed beds that make a dry rattling sound.

A wider and equally important hope is that politicians and policymakers will keep their eyes on the long-term, wealth-creating benefits of liberalism and avoid the temptations of subsidy and trade protection, which so often end up by eroding economic freedom gradually but powerfully.Hope seems a frail reed on which to rely.

From this thin reed of fact came a thicket of online rumours that Mr Wang had fled to the consulate to seek asylum.

He's a seasoned collaborator, working with, among others, Reed, Björk, Yoko Ono, Boy George and Rufus Wainwright, a multitude of fringe artists (some of whom featured when he took over the Guardian's music site last year) and various orchestras around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra.

For his loyalty, Reed was rewarded with the safe seat of Croydon North, and left his post as Lambeth council leader.

Some 270 businesses, including law firm Pinsent Masons, Reed Recruitment, Ocado and Oracle, and four major power companies, have so far pledged their support, as well as nine councils, 42 schools and 125 other organisations, such as the thinktank Demos.

Enron's return on capital was only 6.6% in 2000, less than rivals such as Williams and Dynegy.More pointedly, notes Cary Wasden of Reed Wasden, an investment firm that has long been sceptical of Enron, the firm's trading margins collapsed, from 5.3% in early 1998 to less than 1.7% in the third quarter of this year.

The report added that profits in the industry were exceptional, singling out Reed Elsevier, a British publisher whose Dutch subsidiary, Elsevier, is the market leader in STM publishing, for having profits "as much as 34% at the operating level .Indeed, Elsevier has attracted criticism from a number of quarters.

It is rather as if, while the GTEs, Guinnesses and Reed Elseviers of this world are scoring spectacular goals at one end of the pitch, news has sneaked out that the referee and the linesman are planning to marry.

The paper's authors, Adam Isen, Maya Rossin-Slater and Reed Walker, compared the adult labour-market outcomes of those born in counties in America where air pollution decreased as the result of the 1970 Clean Air Act to those born in areas where pollution did not fall in this period.