Sentence examples for tricky bend from inspiring English sources

Now, with executive clemency the only thing that can spare the aged Mr. McNair what might easily be a life sentence, Mr. Obama, the tentative one, and Mr. McNair, the fallen, meet at a tricky bend in the universe's moral arc.

The Giant-Shimano rider negotiated a tricky bend 350m from the finish and rode away from Nacer Bouhanni and Giacomo Nizzolo on the final straight.

Fashion is always ahead of the curve, and the alpha male is often way around the other side of that tricky bend.

There was a three-man pile-up around a tricky bend at the end of the race, but the worst was when Russian Anton Gafarov wiped out halfway through and broke one of his skis.

By contrast, the tricky turn 11, another tight left-hander leading onto the back straight, requires drivers to brake heavily while their cars are already turning into the corner similar to the signature bend at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.

Ola Vigen Hattestad won his first Olympic title in a chaotic cross-country men's sprint, with Swedes Teodor Peterson and Emil Joensson taking silver and bronze, after a tricky right-hand bend on a descent sent three skiers tumbling.

The colt, whose sire Montjeu took the prize 13 years ago, has been handed a favourable low draw (in contrast, his rival at the top of the market, the Japanese champion Orfevre, will start on the wide outside) and his rider is without peer round the tricky course, with its deceptive bends into the home straight.

It is tricky language from a government that seems hell bent on making cuts to the scheme.

Singapore provides a tricky track on a Marina Bay surrounded by wind-bending tall buildings laying some traps for the unwary.

But don't expect a predictable cat-and-mouse game from the director Atom Egoyan, who "brilliantly bends this Gothic-flavored fable to express his own tricky cinematic vision" (Stephen Holden).

This might have been tricky enough, but frequent landslides on the Black Sea coast road could mean anything deposited in the road around the next bend, from trees and boulders to, on one memorable occasion, an entire mosque, upright and intact.