Sentence examples for threw into action from inspiring English sources

England's manager, Roy Hodgson, has paid tribute to the younger players he threw into action against Italy, singling out the goalscorer Daniel Sturridge for his "exceptional performance" and insisting they could still qualify.

The sensors could be thrown into action from a dock, shore, boats or even helicopters.

A third came off the street asking for a tryout and was thrown into action that evening.

Smith will get his first regular-season start Sunday against Indianapolis, continuing a growing trend of young quarterbacks being thrown into action.

I revered Rooney from the moment I first saw him swagger onto the field in 2002, thrown into action as a late substitute for Everton against defending champion Arsenal.

But Varnish is the new girl on the block, progressing steadily since being thrown into action at the World Cup in Manchester a couple of months after the GB team's triumphant return from Beijing, laden with gold medals.

Marsha Papanek, a prosecutor who was training Ms. Sotomayor, recalled her as "really impressive" but nervous as she was thrown into action, responsible for a whole calendar of cases, 50 or 60 of them.

The 19-year-old was thrown into action after Tomas Hiadlovsky incurred a hefty five-game ban at Hull on Saturday for kicking with his skate.

No surprises here: Every time Cousins has been thrown into action, good things happen.

It isn't really used yet, just ready to be thrown into action at a moment's notice.

Moreover, the fact is that President Jefferson Davis and the Confederate government set up a military draft a year before the North, and more Southern draftees were thrown into action than Northern draftees (a greater percentage of Northern forces were volunteers).