Sentence examples for under whose wing from inspiring English sources
Tells about the role of the Cruising Club of America under whose wing the races were run.
But she stopped short of saying the further truth: that you might blame at least some of it on her husband, the man under whose wing, protection, and cover the entire country currently quails.
Blackstone's principles held that "the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing".
Mr. Falconer has added a grand piano, his own puckish paintings (he was a longtime protégé of David Hockney, under whose wing he became a set designer) and some of his covers for The New Yorker.
"The very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything," Blackstone wrote, in his "Commentaries on the Laws of England".
English jurist William Blackstone described this relationship in 1765 as, "the husband and wife are one person in law: her existence is consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs every thing".
However, the business and professional middle class came to resent the constraints of a state bureaucracy under whose wings it had grown, and supported market-friendly policies, while preserving at least some elements of a conservative lifestyle.
Abandons Paul Whiteman and places himself under wing Walter Damrosch, the one whose wing covered Deems Taylor's "Jurgen".
The male has fully developed wings and is lighter in colour than the female, whose wings are short and nonfunctional.
Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see.
Furthermore, individuals whose wings have a high aspect ratio also show a decrease in wing beat frequency (Berwaerts et al., 2006; Husak, Ribak, Wilkinson, & Swallow, 2011).
