Sentence examples for was a brake from inspiring English sources

If anything, the deputy prime minister was a "brake on New Labour".

The study confirms other research showing that a lack of engineering expertise was a brake on developing economies.

The 46 donors, in the Sunday Telegraph, said tax relief was not their main motive for donating, and that the cap was "a brake on philanthropy".

The charity's chief executive, Mike O'Connor, said problem debt was a "brake on people's capacity to work, or to return to work, a brake on aspiration and a brake on potential".

Up and especially down the mountain roads of north central Colorado, this was a brake-saving delight.

"He says he is a brake on the Tories.

He is a brake on progress; he has to die.

"We believe that political structures are a brake to the expression of democracy".

Those long and tortuous negotiations over what should be built where are a brake on progress.

These companies are legitimate targets because they are a brake on changes that the world needs.

Mattis could well turn out to be a brake on Trump's impulsive tendencies.