Sentence examples for yoke as from inspiring English sources
The notion of foreign rule was anathema to them, and indeed to Faisal, who was determined to throw off the British yoke as quickly as possible.Friction became inevitable.
But even the AMC embraced the goal of reaching Baghdad, "because the ruling regime is there, the source of oppression and crimes against the people, so there is no other way of lifting the yoke as long as the regime fails to look after others".
His own children had not suffered under the same filial yoke as he.
The problem for the Turks is that the Europeans don't exactly remember the Ottoman yoke as a golden age.
Seasonality isn't as binding a yoke as the steakhouse genre, no matter how liberally interpreted, and Mr. Koketsu uses his freedom to have fun.
Beside me, our pilot, Thomas, was riding the yoke as if it was a mechanical bull, trying to keep the single-engine Cessna steady as gusts roared in from the Southern Ocean.
These tools include continuous process improvement (kaizen), mistake-proofing (poka-yoke) as well as a question-asking method most commonly known as "the 5 whys," used to explore the cause-effect relationships underlying particular problems by avoiding assumptions with the goal of ultimately determining the root cause.
He was just an ordinary kid for whom the concepts of self-determination or shrugging off the Yankee yoke were as alien as nuclear physics.
Two years on, with his full-time successor, Monwabisi Kalawe, also succumbing to allegations of malpractice, Mr Bezuidenhout has again been handed the yoke.Now, as then, his task is to lift the perennially loss-making flag-carrier from its financial quagmire.
But instinct is hard to overcome, and I kept trying to yank the yoke, even as John kept nudging it forward.
For many years now, stray W. B. Seabrook fans have written to me asking if we're related, and now that Seabrook and Haiti are again yoked together as Google search terms, as a result of my article "The Last Babylift," I'm anticipating some more of these inquires.
