Sentence examples for yoke for from inspiring English sources

He liked the mesh under the yoke for ventilation.; Craft Double X Jacket $109.99, www.craft-usa.com.

But beyond the financial pain, the bitterest pill for the Irish may be the dawning realization that the country's finances could fall under a foreign yoke for the next 20 or 30 years.

As if honouring the place of music in the Age of Revolutions, everyone - it is said - knew that the true purpose of the chorus was as an expression of poignantly contemporary Italian feeling about their nation-state, then under the yoke (for some reason it's always the yoke) of foreign domination.

Not to mention that the (understandably) Russia-fearing countries that were under Soviet yoke for so long are also not "uninterested" in a big new stick with which they hope to beat Russia down in western eyes to the status of a genocidal equivalent-to-the-Nazis regime.

On the other hand, web-based institutions' insistence that we all hold dozens of unguessable streams of letters and numbers in our heads, or else risk haemorrhaging cash and privacy, seems a heavy yoke for us to bear for those companies' trading convenience.

Muons are identified by arrays of resistive plate chambers in a steel magnetic yoke for the flux return.

The wood has been used for fine furniture, yokes for oxen, shoes, gunstocks, and airplane propellers.

The yoke of buying for Uncle Pete and Cousin Alice was off them.

You know, they haven't wanted to be under the yoke of tyranny for all these decades.

The committee in charge of the festivities dug up a yoke of oxen for the traditional parade, and it turned out that the brutes were suffering from an odd, unhealthy condition known to drovers as "perishing hip and shoulders".

Now, keep in mind that I and Americans took leadership in organizing an international coalition that made sure that we were able to — without putting troops on the ground, at the cost of less than what we spent in two weeks in Iraq — liberate a country that had been under the yoke of dictatorship for 40 years, got rid of a despot who had killed Americans.