Sentence examples for was given the sack from inspiring English sources

He was given the sack, without ado or farewell, and New York publishers are now madly bidding against one another for the rights to his future work.

Peter Henley (@BBCPeterH) The Minister for Employment has been given the sack.

Add to these the quarterly "waves" when headquarters decides to reduce headcount and a certain percentage of staff worldwide are given the sack, all on one day.

He examines it from several angles, from the perspective of the characters played by Affleck, Cooper and Jones, each of whom reacts to being given the sack in a different way.

The first episode [before their marriage], Anna goes to take Mr. Bates a tray of food because he's going to be given the sack because of his leg injury.

When his boss, President Rafael Caldera, reached a loan agreement with the IMF over a year ago, Mr Petkoff was given the task of sacking many of the country's 1.3m public-sector workers.

Lowe's first post-Cup final appointment was forced upon him, Gordon Strachan leaving in February 2004 for personal reasons to be replaced by Paul Sturrock, who lasted only five months before Steve Wigley was given the job and was sacked after one win in 14 matches.

Kean was given the manager's job the day that Allardyce was sacked by Venkys.

And Curtis Davies could leave Aston Villa in January in a tiff over not quite having played enough games to be given the huge sack full of gemstones, parmesan cheese and £2 coins stipulated in his contract, but wanting it anyway despite having spent most of the last year in a Bath chair smoking a pipe.

One idea for subsidized meals was giving the younger kids a sack lunch to eat on the bus ride home.

It is embarrassing for Mr Goldsmith, who has campaigned on the importance for MPs to maintain high standards in public life and called for constituents to be given the power to sack their MPs if they are implicated in sleaze.