Sentence examples for was lobbed back from inspiring English sources

One "exhausted" BBC insider said: "At the end of a good conversation, something unacceptable we thought had been dealt with was lobbed back in".

Then, boom: 2016 and the spinning red and white ball is lobbed back into public consciousness.

Last week's Republican debate demonstrated that Social Security remains a political grenade to be lobbed back and forth rather than a subject of serious, constructive discussion.

Large hexagonal paving stones were being lobbed back and forth, and the junction where Champillion and Qars al Nil streets meet Tahrir Square became the site of running pitched battles and skirmishes.

Look, we even made a graphic for the stream of allegations being lobbed back and forth between the wearable makers.

It was simply crazy, in their view, to suggest that the ball can be lobbed back into the EU court.

This is known as "reverse delegation" and can be a little like a tennis match, with the ball being lobbed back and forth until it is clear that someone is not accepting the responsibility entrusted to them.

But then another question, which turned out to be the last, was lobbed Thomas's way: Is there any chance Marbury does not come back?

Yet so utterly at home is Peter Greenaway in his pretensions that the ball is effectively lobbed back into our court, forcing us to either pierce his films' surface fripperies or walk away in bafflement and disgust.

Accusations of political interference and protectionism are also lobbed back and forth between Beijing and Washington.

Back then, the Obama administration was lobbing similar, though hardly as incendiary, criticisms about the coverage it was receiving, from Fox News specifically.