Sentence examples for stick in order to from inspiring English sources

These are people who have taken hold of the wrong end of the stick in order to beat the country with it.

A data controller employee downloaded the data on to a personal memory stick in order to do some work at home.

Apparently, with Vauxhalls, you have to pull up a little lever on the gear stick in order to get into reverse.

Every so often I can hear him hurl himself to his feet with the aid of a stick, in order to get some coffee or go to the bathroom.

Soon enough you learn to enter every new area and stab the analogue stick in order to instantly highlight items of interest – ammo crates, relics, rope-slides, climbable branches, frolicking animals who can be hunted and turned into resources.

First, the government had to offer a carrot as well as waving the big stick in order to prevent a re-run of the fuel-tax protests that brought Britain to a halt in September.

Waiters in red jackets and bow ties carry message sticks in order to alert diners to phone calls.

That's almost a million diners willing to wait many years for the privilege of travelling to the sticks in order to drop four hundred dollars a head.

As one of the country's most dynamic and explosive talents, Buttler could have stuck it out as a batsman but instead decided to up sticks in order to remain behind the stumps.

We may want to consider ways to toughen up our talking points and enhance the use -- or perception of likely use -- of other real "sticks" in order to achieve market opening, job-creating objectives.

This he contrasts with our modern rootless condition, in which we simply pick up sticks in order to chase the almighty pound, inducing a relationship with place that has all the attributes of "a loveless marriage".