Sentence examples for were thrust to from inspiring English sources

Chicken exports were thrust to the forefront of American-Chinese trade tensions on Sunday when China took steps to retaliate for President Obama's decision to levy tariffs on Chinese tires.

Once again the two giant center backs were at the heart of things in the second leg, but as a result two other center backs were thrust to the forefront.

In the 1990s, when the Hindu nationalists were thrust to national power, they won three elections in Meerut in a row.But there was little of the Hinduist party's saffron paraphernalia on display in the city of 1.3m.

Hamlet and Macbeth are thrust to the very edge of sanity; Lear and, momentarily, Othello are thrust beyond it.

Then she was thrust to the forefront of a political saga marked by twists and rivalries.

what is familiar in one year may be thrust to the brink of oblivion in the next...

While Ernst knew of the practice for years, the issue of Repo 105 was thrust to the fore in spring 2008.

In this adaptation, written by Lee and Kevin Willmott, the antics and the artifices of "Lysistrata" are thrust to the foreground.

The issue was thrust to the fore by a broadcast report Thursday night on WNBC TV's News 4 New York.

"Then, with feminism, she was thrust to the fore, and he was just another dead white male".

His first novel since he himself was thrust to global renown, it energetically attempts to capture for posterity newly transient aspects of identity in our technology-­saturated world.