Sentence examples for shouldered- from inspiring English sources
As the boomer generation matured, married, found jobs and shouldered mortgages, so the crime rate fell.This encouraging trend was quickly overshadowed, starting in the mid-1980s, by a new swarm of teenagers caught up in a new sort of depravity: the craze for crack cocaine.
Weak institutions such as police authorities are shouldered aside as the two big players duke it out.When the struggle between Mr Blunkett and Mr Westwood ends almost certainly with the resignation of the latter another, long-running one will resume.
Developing countries believe the rich countries have not shouldered a fair share of the burden and should lead by example, in terms of cutting emissions and also providing financial support to poorer nations.
McCoist has already shouldered a fair share of criticism for Rangers' squandering of a league advantage to Celtic.
It also aims to improve the EU's dismal return rate (39%) for failed asylum-seekers.Most controversially it calls for the relocation of most asylum-seekers who reach the EU, so that the burden of processing them may be more equally shouldered.
In the past, employers made a retirement promise to their workers and shouldered the risk that investment returns might not meet it.
When Wang says mildly he wanted to do knitwear, note that what this meant on the catwalk was a patent leather coat embossed to give a trompe l'oeil cable-knit effect, a modern take on chainmail, and Gisele Bündchen closing the show in a round-shouldered sweater with a necklace of crystals knitted into its structure.
Here, you can ride the escalators, take snaps and engage the wardrobe-shouldered gentlemen in conversations about architecture.
Mr Yonekura backtracked, but has been cold-shouldered by the government.
The cartoonists had a field day when he scolded a bare-shouldered woman in a restaurant for being "too provocative", and was challenged to a duel by her husband.
And he has hitherto been cold-shouldered by the leaders of predominantly Sunni Arab countries in the region, such as Saudi Arabia, many of whom view him as a vengeful and sectarian Shia.Yet he may have a knack of turning failure into success.
