Sentence examples for whose thrust from inspiring English sources

Under the circumstances, it was ironic that, a century later, Hambantota was succumbing to an enterprise whose thrust and motivations had distinctly imperial overtones.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's whose thrust from the right flank caused Galatasaray problems, served up Welbeck's hat-trick with a clever pass, the striker dinking gleefully in.

But she was a virtuoso of the sidestroke, with a powerful scissor kick whose thrust carried her faster than many swimmers with inefficient crawls (much to their annoyance, as she'd verified in her college pool).

Unlike previous vehicles, which have used engines whose thrust can be controlled smoothly, it is equipped with a bank of 12 small thrusters, each of which is either on or off.

Rushdie responded with a letter (second on the page) in which he accuses her of factual errors, along with a "primitive feminist attack whose thrust is that I take 'revenge' on women in my books, which collectively amount to an 'assault' on the female sex".

The site includes Web links and contact information for each theater, and by a combination of e-mail messages and faxes (in our ludicrously rudimentary Italian, whose solecisms seem to have been forgiven and whose thrust -- "Sell me tickets, please" -- was apparently understood), we were able to buy seats for all three operas.

Rebello's mini-tour finds him teamed up with bassist Arnie Somogyi and drummer Stephen Keogh, heavyweight musicians whose thrusting, tumbling sound recalls the partnership of Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones in John Coltrane's quartet.

There was, instead, a corpulent poet, whose admirers thrust lilac boughs at him.

The war that ensued (1294 1303) went in favour of Philip the Fair, whose armies thrust deep into Gascony.

Almost one-third of the province is covered by the Barisan Mountains in the west, whose spurs thrust eastward, forming deep ravines and valleys.

But Goodman, an Orthodox Jew whose religion thrust him into the spotlight when he was a high school star, did not bring charges.