Sentence examples for sort of string from inspiring English sources

Then Dakota Johnson, star of Fifty Shades Of Grey, descends naked from the ceiling, in a sort of string bag made of rope.

Relatedly, learners can also exploit positive evidence as to which strings occur in the pld as a source of negative evidence — again in a tentative and revisable way.[15] Suppose that the child's grammar generated two strings as appropriate in a given kind of context, but that only one sort of string was ever produced by those around her.

Get some sort of string to use with the quiver (one really long string or two different, shorter strings).

You can do this by notching the wood, inserting the arrowhead into the notch, and then lashing the arrowhead to the wood with some sort of string or cord.

They can attach all sorts of strings to the troops' mission.

"I had to pull all sorts of strings to keep it going," he said.

"Someone who doesn't get hauled over the coals at parliamentary committees, doesn't get called to account on TV news, but is pulling all sorts of strings".

Ultimately, however, the plan fizzled: providing subsistence levels of welfare, with all sorts of strings attached, was one thing, but giving the poor unconditional grants to elevate them above the poverty line was seen as going too far.

All in all, Chinese aid to Africa is going to come with all sorts of strings attached, despite the "no-conditionality" rhetoric, and it is a huge power play, despite the proclamations of "south-south co-operation".

But the Senate has limited the experiment to only seven states with all sorts of strings attached and the House has junked it entirely.Not content with turning a Republican bill into a Democratic one, Mr Kennedy is now accusing the White House of trying to "nickel-and-dime children's education".

No problems getting Australian acts in, he said, but all sorts of strings had to be pulled to secure the paperwork for Mali-based Amadou and Mariam (who we incidentally heard at the pre-conference event that MID curated at the Whitworth last night).