Sentence examples for umbrella reference from inspiring English sources

Not sure the umbrella reference is in the very best taste... Today's Financial Times Updated at 1.16pm BST 9.47am BST Italian industrial orders down 7.9% Italy's industrial sector has suffered another slump in demand.

The company, Four Wheels Under an Umbrella (a reference to the car's canvas roof), offers three types of tours.

The morning after the firing, Danielle Mattoon, the culture editor, sent out word that she planned to "raise the yellow umbrella" — a reference to an old beer canopy obtained years ago from a wurst operation by some music writers and editors.

After the 1973 war Henry Kissinger was booed by Jewish settlers carrying black umbrellas - the reference was to Neville Chamberlain and Munich- to signal contempt for "appeasing" Israel's Arab enemies by pressure for withdrawals from conquered territory.

Demonstrators chanted "We are not folding up our umbrellas" in a reference to the wave of protests earlier this month when tens of thousands of Poles gathered in grisly weather to challenge a proposed blanket ban on abortion, forcing Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) to throw out the proposals.

Well known in Britain, Collins will be introduced in the United States in the fall with 125 titles, bringing under one umbrella several nonfiction and reference imprints of HarperCollins, the book publishing division of the News Corporation that resulted from the 1990 merger of the American publisher Harper & Row and William Collins of Britain.

In Australia, we're all very busy and short-attention-somethinged people, and so we like to summarise years with an umbrella theme for easy reference.

The most significant, made up of an array of Islamic extremists and groups loyal to the former Iraqi government, uses an umbrella name, the Return Party, a reference to its goal of seeking the restoration of Mr. Hussein to power.

This sung drama, with roles for classical soprano (Heidi Grant Murphy) through to a rock singer (Mark DiCarlo), is teamed up with "Three Greek Dances" by Nikos Skalkottas and Bernstein's Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, which comes under the Greek umbrella by virtue of its references to Plato's "Symposium".

The umbrella stand, of course, was a reference to the $15,000 umbrella stand that the former Tyco chief executive Dennis Kozlowski bought with company funds — and that is part of the reason he is now behind bars.

The next night he had a gift box delivered containing two ice-cube trays, an umbrella, a jar opener and other references to their date.