Sentence examples for thing rests from inspiring English sources

"This whole thing rests on who threw the first punch.

"This thing rests on Pataki's shoulders," Mr. Berman added.

Mostly, though, the whole thing rests on a, er, bedrock of clichés from Hollywood's favorite genre: movies about itself.

Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing rests on the dynamics of your living room.

It's good for her because, she says, unlike Craig, on whose shoulders the whole thing rests, she gets to take it lightly, be a bit irresponsible.

I don't blame the chancellor for this especially, but it does highlight the essentially ecocidal nature of the current free-market system: unless we're all frantically rushing around buying more lipstick and fridges, the economy judders to a halt and starts to implode in on itself as the pyramid of debt on which the whole thing rests begins to collapse.

Meanwhile, the South Africans are doing the sensible thing, resting a Test match squad's worth of top players and sending second-string Springbok sides out to meet the All Blacks and Wallabies.

"So, basically, that thing resting on the couch beside him is either a folded-up wheelchair or walker, I couldn't tell," the user AlterdCarbon wrote.

We need to know our place and recognize that the ultimate say-so in all things rests with someone whose pay-grade is way above ours.

Jones wasn't prepared to let things rest.

But Theresa Rogers did not let things rest there.