Sentence examples similar to up to baton from inspiring English sources

So a man wants a small-loan license, he goes to a politician from his home parish and gives him ten thousand dollars to take up to Baton Rouge.

On September 8 , 1935 the Chief Justice said, he had had to see Huey personally about some friends who needed political help, so he drove up to Baton Rouge from New Orleans, where the Supreme Court sits, and arrived at the Capitol just before nine at night, when the legislature was to recess.

I've turned up to rehearsals with a baton in hand and a score under my arm, only to be asked if I work for the publisher, or, with no instrument in sight, which one I play.

"I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one that's willing to pick up the baton to freedom.

When Toxcanini returned to this country to take up the baton, relegate to second place beside Hollander.

Borussia Dortmund's struggles are well documented, and it is Die Wölfe who have picked up the baton to struggle valiantly to prevent Bayern Munich's inevitable Bundesliga triumph.

You're right, owning or running a company or a team is inspiring to a younger generation and if our daughters have the courage and grit to pick up that baton, don't belittle their efforts by saying it's pretty good, for a girl.

Barenboim, already well-known in the Arab world for his West-Eastern Divan orchestra which unites young musicians from across the Middle East, managed to wow the audience even before he picked up his baton to conduct Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20.

WASHINGTON — The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to "take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line".

As bandleader, she cued funk or classical-piano interludes; at one point she picked up a baton to conduct.

March 18 2015 In a program curated by the beloved mezzo-soprano, the orchestra's music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin Nézet-Séguine baton to the Metropolitan Opera maestro Maurizio Benini, who leads a givesstyle program of arias and overtupes by such bel-canthemasters as Rossini, Donizetti, batonni, and Carafa.