Sentence examples for would be crossed from inspiring English sources

And if we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed.

Months ago President Obama warned that a red line would be crossed if chemical weapons were used.

My friend's name would be crossed off the list by the time we arrived, and we would have to explain our awkward selves.

"We don't need this here," said Susan Foster Blank, a lawyer whose cattle ranch in Washington County, Pa., would be crossed by the power line.

"The Rubicon would be crossed — we would have a sovereign default event and that can be quite a shock, not just for the peripheral countries but for Spain and beyond".

He said that a softball-sized amount of fissile material would be sufficient to make Iraq a nuclear power in less than a year, and "if we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed".

It would be crossing the Rubicon.

The hard part would be crossing into Haiti.

The challenging part of my journey would be crossing the Hackensack River.

But he never does it, because that would be crossing a line.

This meant that if the hearing were to go ahead, he would be cross-examining the 17-year-old girl.