Sentence examples similar to took a tar from inspiring English sources

Another worker, Philip Golding, 44, took a tar-black rake and smoothed the asphalt with the care of a prize-winning gardener.

Americans have been cursing their incumbents — and periodically rising up to eject them from office — since angry Bostonians took a bucket of tar and some feathers to their customs commissioner in 1774.

Confronting the militant pests at Wikipedia resembles taking hold of a tar baby, as Weiler relates in his most recent post, pointedly entitled "Wikipedia: The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play". The unsavory fact is that skeptics have figured out how to game Wikipedia's attempts to provide fairness, and we are all the loser for it.

In British Columbia, over 100 First Nations have taken a strong stand against tar sands pipelines crossing their land and waters.

Use two rags and the wax and grease remover to do take any tar or road paint off, one cloth to scrub and one to buff it after.

"But it seems like we're going to be taking a step back with this tar sands".

Chris Wahmhoff from Michigan rallied the crowd in support of the three MICATS (Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands) activists who have been charged with up to three years in prison for taking direct action against a tar sands pipeline.

Forecasts of oil production from the tar sands have also taken a hit.

Chastain's film slate doesn't get any clearer in 2012; she'll star in "Wettest County," "Tar," "Mama" and will take a small part in Terrence Malick's upcoming, untitled film.

Though the 16 months of work it took to renovate the apartment "really took the tar out of me," Ms. Jeffers said, she felt grateful for the exercise -- "just to ask yourself, am I this kind of hinge, or that kind?" Renovation, she said, is reclamation.

Matsui had taken a break to dry off his bat and apply more pine tar.