Sentence examples for sword of a from inspiring English sources

Of course a start-up doesn't fall on the sword of a single @ symbol.

"And now there is the Damocles sword of a possible war with Iraq.

"A single Bedouin who stood out in sharp relief from his companions;... in his belt was fastened the short curved sword of a prince of Mecca,... marking him every inch a king..

At midnight, Big Ben — of which we've already seen plenty — explodes, and Orson Welles is skewered on the sword of a life-size knight on a giant cuckoo clock in "The Stranger".

It has taken the moral sword of a despised ogre, dismissed as a capitalistic football prospector, to clean up a mess that lays bare the dark soul and lad culture that still infects the game.

Anyway, she's just seen her Nazi husband stabbed through the heart with the sharp metal sword of a statue of a medieval person while he's on the rotating clock-tower wheel he's been working on.

Earlier this week the group released a video showing the execution by sword of an elderly Sufi cleric said to be revered by many local communities.

On the wall was a Sword of Ali, an important symbol for Alawites, with verses engraved on the blade.

By a strong muscular vibration these birds can make the shafts of their long feathers clatter like the swords of a sword-dancer, they then trample very quickly with their feet, and run backwards towards the females.

The Scaf's spokesmen, burdened as they are with the insignia of the cross-swords of a general on every shoulder, sound oddly ill-at-ease, shy, even unhappy at their press conferences.

If all these plans were to be implemented, warns Lindsay Sword of Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy, there would be another glut.