Sentence examples for under a yoke from inspiring English sources

If every East European nation takes hard-bitten pride in having spent the odd century under a yoke, then Hungary has been bowed beneath these metaphorical implements of tyrannical enslavement so consistently it almost likes it that way.

Foraker felt relieved at the break, writing to a friend, "From Toledo to Chicago, my neck was under a yoke, but now I am free".

But we can't submit ourselves to being put under such a yoke". At any rate, Kiesling has come to stay.

She was wearing a yoke under her dress, to carry water, and she hobbled with her son after the trailer he had just left.

While Rinaldi struggles under a heavy yoke, Jean Ferris succeeds at telling a simpler tale.

Only in the twilight of myths can one speak of the liberation of a land struggling under a foreign yoke.

But beyond the financial pain, the bitterest pill for the Irish may be the dawning realization that the country's finances could fall under a foreign yoke for the next 20 or 30 years.

But the outside world lost sympathy when Mr. Milosevic tapped into this sense of suffering to justify his bloody attempt to put Yugoslavia under a Serbian yoke when its republics declared independence as the cold war ended.

For most of the past decade, we've suffered under a the yoke of slow progress.

Still worse, according to rumors reported by Tacitus, the Romans were made to pass under the yoke, a gesture of ultimate humiliation in Roman eyes.

Algeria's private businessmen chafe under a heavy bureaucratic yoke.Some younger people who fled abroad in the 1990s have come home, bringing back valuable professional experience.