Sentence examples for skates from inspiring English sources

Five performances only, each one sandwiched between a sixth-form college performing Grease at 4pm and a stand-up comic at 11 who, rumour had it, did his act on roller skates with a live labrador strapped to his back.

It is inevitably hard to encapsulate the modern world in barely 350 pages, but this account skates over too much.

With demand set to slacken in America and to accelerate in the euro area, the euro is due a rebound at least, if the past is any guide.In this section More than expected Getting their skates on Built on sand The health effect To the brink, and back again Hard landing Tender bender The euro also rises Firm foundations ReprintsEuro-bulls might also thank better co-ordination among policymakers.

Although she mostly skates the surface of the stories, there is a certain amount of probing.

As an elderly man with a respected practice, he still preferred the company of the socially marginalised: "I have known the unsuccessful, [and think them] far better persons than their more lucky brothers".However, in emphasising this side of Williams Mr Leibowitz skates over the less palatable aspects of his subject's character.

This idea skates over the fact that there would continue to be a huge mismatch in military might between the United States and Europe.

Equally, he merely skates over the enormous impact that Darwin's theories in "The Origin of Species" had on conventional worthies and in particular on mountaineers who, as they scrambled up the rock-faces, grasped the evidence for those theories in their hands.

However, she skates over the unhappiest episode in her subject's life: a bunch of poems written in 1950 which implicitly praised Stalin.

Aimed at assuaging people outraged at the release of paramilitaries, the move was contested in court a common event in a system that long lacked its own political institutions.In his book Mr Hain skates over the details of the case, which he terms an "irritating sideshow".

At the risk of navel gazing, let us navel gaze for a minute and skate over the many national issues they are addressing.

The waterfront has been redeveloped and the park totally remodelled – it is now packed with families strolling in the summer sunshine or skating on its frozen paths, depending on the time of year.