Sentence examples for to tilting from inspiring English sources

"With corporate governance battles, you get used to tilting at windmills," she said.

But Nigeria's former anti-corruption chief is used to tilting at windmills.

While trade agreements played a role in creating this inequality, much else contributed to tilting the political balance toward capital.

These days, however, they are dwarfed by legions of modern wind turbines that grind out not flour but power, helping to make Spain one of the leading producers of wind-based electricity in Europe.Does this amount to tilting at windmills?

The range and complexity of what is procured is vast, ranging from first aid kits to foreign aid programmes to office chairs to tilting trains, making for a varied and interesting career.

He cops to being the kind of writer "given to tilting the most quotidian events into a Viking epic," and, indeed, he puffs up what probably would have been a perfectly formed little book into a flabby, overly digressive 300-plus-pager.

We're trying to tilt that equation".

It's time to tilt it back.

The plane seemed to tilt considerably to one side".

No windmills to tilt at among the derricks.

A few minutes later, the screen started to tilt.