Sentence examples for scrap from inspiring English sources

But any irony involved in a coalition government that came to power pledging to scrap identity cards introducing a system of foreign residence permits will be lost as the political parties indulge in "a race to the bottom" over immigration.

The government will scrap the funding guarantees under Labor's 2011 national health reform deal.

The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".

Which brings thoughts back to the question of why this most courteous of individuals should scrap so much.

Neil Harris's side were boosted further with the news that Birmingham had extended Rotherham's losing streak to four, winning 2-1, though it was not without a scrap at St Andrew's.

It's pleasant to fantasise that if Mirvish hadn't died in 2007, the building would never have been sold for scrap – but Ed's defining characteristic wasn't so much honesty as a hard nose.

Ukip goes a step further and wants to scrap it entirely.