Sentence examples for withering pages from inspiring English sources

In 18 withering pages Mr Obasanjo accuses Mr Jonathan of failing to tackle Nigeria's main problems, instead letting insecurity spread across the country.

To his English readers, he cultivated the image of the solitary artist who never appeared on television and rarely spoke to the press, cherishing his seclusion in Antibes, occasionally punctuated by withering broadsides to the letters pages of the Times.

After the 2003 blackout, a joint American-Canadian taskforce delivered a withering 228-page report highlighting the failings of the utilities which, among other things, had not been regularly monitoring the condition of transmission lines.Each of the taskforce's 46 recommendations has been implemented, or soon will be.

In Dubuque, Iowa, on the other hand, the local paper, The Telegraph Herald, welcomed Mr. Obama to the region with a withering front-page editorial, telling him he should have stayed home and instead steered the money for the bus tour into flood relief for Dubuque County and northwest Illinois.

(The Lorena Bobbitt jokes, at least, might have been left to wither on the page).

If you prefer foliage that won't wilt or wither, flip through the pages of a magazine and cut out anything green.

In a front-page editorial, it endorsed his opponent, Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., with a withering indictment of Mr. Bloomberg's eight years in office.

The hostilities are withering.

Mandelson was withering in response.

Her zingers could be withering.

The verbs are withering away.