Sentence examples for shroud from inspiring English sources

As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.

There was one moment during the impeccable choreography of Margaret Thatcher's funeral cortege arriving at St Paul's that felt eerily unseemly: the coffin, with its union flag shroud, draped in white flowers, on a gun carriage behind a posse of elegant horses.

"It's being done in Australia's name, the detention of children, the custody of families out on the high seas, all under a shroud of secrecy … It's time for this government accept that what they are doing is morally wrong".

Soon I'll only be needing pyjamas or a shroud.

They certainly haven't out-argued the various interest groups who do rather well out of the feds' holdings, from ranchers who enjoy subsidised grazing privileges (including Mr Bundy, ironically) to environmentalists who seek the shroud of federal protection over unspoiled land.

But it is insisting on limited hours and no invited guests ie, no dissidents.Officials say that, notwithstanding Beijing's semi-permanent shroud of haze, air quality is improving and should get even better.

When the cathedral published revised designs in June a slab of Swaledale fossil stone, inscribed with a deep cross one MP likened it to a bicycle parking slot.This is one of several rows that shroud the royal corpse.

Two years ago, Dr Majewski and another set of colleagues looked at a portion of the Milky Way's "halo the outer shroud of the galaxy, which makes up about a tenth of its mass.

A shroud protecting the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), an American satellite intended to monitor levels of the gas, failed to detach as it was being carried into space.

A decade's fitful negotiating had begun to shroud the idea of regional peace with an aura of inevitability.

One is making cars, and the other is hosting one of the world's most famous sacred objects: a four-metre long linen cloth which many people revere as the burial shroud in which the crucified body of Jesus was wrapped.Employment in the car industry is long past its peak, but fascination with the Holy Shroud seems to grow and grow.