Sentence examples for sinister rise from inspiring English sources
The philosopher of personal liberation was transformed into a proto-storm trooper who believed might makes right and welcomed the sinister rise of the Teutonic "blond beast".
The Mob's sinister rise to prominence in the US was pretty much funded through its supply of a prohibited drug – alcohol.
Mr Barton told the Observer: "Have we not learned the lessons of prohibition in history?" "The Mob's sinister rise to prominence in the US was pretty much funded through its supply of a prohibited drug, alcohol.
Roman writers also appended the descriptors parvus, minor or minusculus ("small" or "lesser", for its faintness), septentrionalis ("northerly", for its position in relation to Canis Major), primus (rising "first") or sinister (rising to the "left") to its name Canis.
Most sinister was the rise in assassinations by insurgents, according to the report.
He points out that "a typical man changes more diapers than ever before, and gets less credit than ever before…The potential of Daddy-and-me relationships remains untapped".Then there is a more sinister development, the rise of the southpaw.
You can, if you like, see something sinister in this, the rise of the Jewish Lobby, of which there is much talk, the more so as some of the then Kennedy supporters have turned into today's "neo-cons".
Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise in sinister abductions by anonymous squads in white vans.
Across the canal near the halfway house rises a sinister gas works.
Against the sombre background of the war there rises the sinister figure of Wallenstein, who in his secret heart is meditating high treason: by joining forces with the enemy, he hopes to make himself the arbiter of the empire.
Not only did Goldfinger end up as the sinister Royal in High-Rise, but as an arch Bond villain – his Willow Road neighbour Ian Fleming objected to his modernist house, which was supposedly out of keeping with the street's Georgian housing.
