Sentence examples for takes lay from inspiring English sources

Mr. Washburn takes lay people on an illustrated and highly accessible tour of urban planning, from the High Line to the subway system, which, he explains, emits little more in greenhouse gases than the city's streetlights.

Conservatives know the importance of banding together to do whatever it takes: lie, cheat, steal, obstruct.

We must start giving celebrities the chance to take lie detector tests to clear their names.

Mr. Zimmerman said he had volunteered to take lie detector tests and voice tests, which he said he had passed.

He said, "We are a sovereign nation, and for several hundred years we didn't take lying down too easily".

Effronteries the rest of us might take lying down, Kumar is here to protest in the liveliest possible terms.

Short of all players agreeing to take lie detector tests, I don't know how corruption can be eliminated completely.

"This is a particularly difficult one for us to just take lying down because it's about a federal agent," said John Negroponte, the American ambassador here from 1989 to 1993.

The employees under scrutiny have been asked to take lie detector tests; only one has agreed to do so, the official said.

DOE Undersecretary Kyle McSlarrow yesterday told a Senate panel that the agency will require fewer employees to take lie detector tests.

"Philip and I don't take lying or misrepresenting lightly.