Sentence examples for throw sand from inspiring English sources

Far from greasing the wheels of commerce, bribery tends to throw sand in them.

The union is using this to throw sand in the ears of the league".

They say it's just a gambit by borrowers' lawyers to throw sand in the foreclosure machine.

Market power can throw sand in the economy's cogs in several ways.

Throw sand in the gears of the Assad regime's barrel-bombing campaign?

(They weren't successful, but they did throw sand in the gears).

As he boomed out his speech, his companions would mutter rebuttals or throw sand at him.

Until the zoo took steps to protect her, visitors would throw sand at her to prompt her to move.

Now the minister is doing his best to throw sand in the wheels of a GE deal, which less than a day ago looked all but done.

In the 1970s, James Tobin, a future Nobel laureate, proposed a transfer tax to throw "sand in the gears" of currency markets.

His best-known idea is the Tobin tax, a modest levy on financial transactions meant only to throw sand in the wheels of finance.