Sentence examples for which punched from inspiring English sources

Thanks in no small measure to the British government, which punched well above its weight, tax and transparency are firmly on the G8 radar.

Consider "The Full Monty," which punched up the comic relief and the striptease sizzle of its source material, or "Billy Elliot," the feel-good story of a boy taking flight from economic hardship and labor strife — quite literally, in the musical — through a love of ballet.

Except this time everything is backward: It is the I.A.E.A., which punched holes in the Bush administration's claims about Iraq's nuclear progress, that today is escalating the case that Iran has resumed work on bomb-related technology, after years of frustration over questions that have gone unanswered by that government.

The force of the torpedo explosions also dislodged an I-beam in one of the boiler rooms which punched a hole into another boiler room.

However, as the British attack faltered, the main effort switched to the 9th Division, which punched a massive dent into the German and Italian position over the next five days at great cost, "crumbling" the Afrika Korps in the process, and ultimately forcing Rommel to retreat.

Then you take a country like Kenya, which punches above its weight.

That attitude has never really changed at a club which punches well above its weight financially and still has no training facility of its own.

Thanks to the special effects, supplied by Digital Domain, the engine leaps out of a car parked in a driveway, followed by the engines of two other cars, which punch holes in a garage door in their rush to flee.

There's an open kitchen and a constant clatter, but at the heart of it are a bunch of dishes which punch above their weight at a good price.

The plant, which punches holes in metal products, has 117 employees, all off because of Labor Day, City Councilman Joe Bica said: "It is a godsend that this was a holiday.

They are two small theatres – one in east London, the other west – which punch mightily above their weight and are both about to embark on new chapters in their histories.