Sentence examples for through a spate from inspiring English sources

A bastion of orthodoxy as recently as a decade ago, Ireland suffered through a spate of clerical sex scandals that has destroyed the church's authority and credibility.

I'd say I went through a spate where I made the wrong hires.

Now he is working through a spate of high-profile commissions.

The bank, like Brazil itself, has had a growth spurt in the past few years, forging into new business lines and countries through a spate of acquisitions.

But before that happened, Schrader lived through a spate of successes that was matched only by his drive towards self-destruction.

Saturday's shooting broke a year of relatively calmer times for the city's livery drivers, who had suffered through a spate of killings in early 2000.

Executive editor Marty Baron announced in January that his primary goals were "growth and digital transformation" and management has followed through with a spate of new hires.

White grubs were visually searched for through digging with a spate or hook about 30 cm deep through the soil.

It was the idea that these measures might be coming to an end which suddenly sent the shivers through investors and prompted a spate of profit-taking.

Most famously, he went through a freak spate of sign-holding in protest to photographers attempting to snap him on the set of Sherlock in 2013.

Nostalgia driven, they are drawing inspiration from a trend that is only now hitting its stride, gaining currency through a recent spate of television period dramas like "Pan Am" and "Magic City," movies ("My Week With Marilyn"), Web sites, photography shows, advertising campaigns and fashion features revisiting the era of tail-fin sedans and voluptuous babes in skimpy lingerie.