Sentence examples for series of straw from inspiring English sources
Academic work points to doubts about the economic consequences (which crystalised around the proposed "currency union"), but Alex Salmond prefers to blame a series of straw men: the "biased" media; "scaremongering" by opponents; even, at one stage, nervous elderly voters.
However, critics contend that it is doing so by attacking a series of straw men while ignoring criminality and tax evasion among the business, professional and political elites that have run the country for decades.
Mr. Romney, for his part, said the president had set up a "series of straw men" by claiming that under the Ryan budget, there would be proportional spending cuts in government programs.
In a rare show of unity, all 15 ambassadors from the security council emerged from the sixth in a series of straw polls to announce that they had agreed on Guterres, who was UN high commissioner for refugees for a decade, and that they would confirm the choice in a formal vote on Thursday.
In this study a series of mixtures of straw were made up for DSC measurements, with 0.05, 0.1 or 0.2 M concentrations of sulphuric acid added to give a liquor content of 1 ml/g.
These consisted of a series of wooden planks with a layer of straw on top, on which was placed a chaff-filled mattress.
For Google, the attacks appeared to have been the final straw in a series of confrontations with Chinese authorities.
White House officials were infuriated by the episode, administration officials said, which one described as "the last straw" in a series of incautious remarks by Mr. Crowley.
For a group of the 120 students who took the exam, it was the last straw after a series of disappointments during the four-year course.
It began when I was made redundant, which was the last straw in a series of problems that led to my homelessness.
The outpouring appears to signal a shift in public opinion, the last straw in a series of arrests of journalists (according to Bianet, there are seventy-one journalists in prison, sixteen in connection to the Ergenekon case).
