Sentence examples for yoke of the from inspiring English sources

It amounts to "breaking the yoke of the kingship".

Consequently, it was directed more against the "cultural yoke" of the Greeks than the "political yoke" of the Ottoman Empire.

The yoke of the European Union is lighter than the yoke of the British Empire, but Ireland has returned to a kind of vassal status all the same.

"Ireland was under the yoke of the British, so this could have been their sympathy".

After a period of rule by independent counts, Vannes came under the yoke of the Franks.

But breaking free from the yoke of the gleefully promiscuous Samantha has been particularly difficult.

All could flourish once the yoke of the giant Hinkley project is lifted.

During his four years as a colonial politician, they argue, he fastened the yoke of the English language onto India.

Neither beast nor folk can shake off the yoke of the man with the terribly long nose.

The Duty to Warn movement now represents an outright rebellion against the yoke of the professional norm.

And now they are coming for the chocolate encasing the gooey faux yoke of the Cadbury's Creme Egg.