Sentence examples for yoke from inspiring English sources

Through the 19th century and for much of the 20th, it was commonplace to believe that subject peoples could never throw off the yoke of empire unless they abandoned the language of the imperial oppressor.

In 1986, the EC allowed the region to cast off the monopolist yoke of the largely British-run port trade and allow local wineries to produce own-label port wines, as well as fine reds and whites.

Related: Andy Murray battles past David Ferrer to claim French Open semi-final spot Murray, who beat David Ferrer for the first time on clay to reach his third semi-final here, compared Djokovic's task with that of his own when he won the Wimbledon title in 2013 to break the yoke of 77 years without a British male singles winner at the sport's spiritual home.

The American attempt to free us from the yoke of British imperialism failed.

They were certainly reluctant to accept the part played by their own people: witness the huge controversy over the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, thought to have been perpetrated by Poles, not Germans.Now these countries have thrown off the Soviet yoke, anti-Semitism seems in general to be diminishing.

Few will believe the process free or fair, seeing it, like elections in 2008 in the east, as a way of installing candidates in favour in Colombo.Having made a strong case that it was liberating millions of its own people from the terrorist yoke, Sri Lanka's government seems to be doing its best to make those people feel newly oppressed.

MANY women in the richer parts of Asia have gone on "marriage strike", preferring the single life to the marital yoke.

At a packed seminar at Bar Ilan, Israel's religious university near Tel Aviv, Mr Firrouz called on Israel's prime minister to free Israel from the Orthodox yoke.

This book was the result of a stint the essayist and philosopher spent at Heathrow in the summer, after its owner, BAA, installed him as a temporary writer-in-residence.The book was published in September, so this may not strike you as the most prompt of reviews, although if I yoke in a Christmas association it should become more timely.

The first is that it helps countries that, through an accident of geography, suffered for years under the communist yoke.

Rather than a gesture of defiance, the bank looks like an object lesson in why South American unity is so hard.Mr Chávez conceived it as a political tool of his "Bolivarian revolution", to free other countries in the region from the yoke of the Bretton Woods institutions.