Sentence examples for yoke on from inspiring English sources

In debate on the act, Pownall pointed out that retention of the tax would be a "millstone" around English necks rather than a yoke on American ones, and that it would lead to civil war.

Turner illustrates Ghazali's jaundiced view of many jurists in a quote that they disdained other disciplines like medicine because they did not involve "the management of religious endowments (awqaf), execution of wills, possession of the money of orphans, and appointment to judicial and government positions through which one exalts himself above his fellow men and fastens his yoke on his enemies".

This completed the process of imposing the Mongol yoke on northern Russia.

David Politzer's funny, smart work "The Decider," includes two video monitors hung from a yoke on opposite sides of a weight bench.

President Bush called the A.D.A. "the world's first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities," and, allaying concerns that it would put a litigious yoke on the private sector, he framed it as sound conservative policy.

They fashioned a yoke on which to carry two 20-litre jerry cans; slithered down a steep path to the river, filled the cans, and then had to scramble back up under the weight of the water.

There were other variations in navy and French blue, with delicate white specks of embroidery on the yoke of one oxford shirt.

I never suffered under the yoke of super delicious girl-on-girl-on-girl action".

At the same time, the "gig" economy is growing – individuals and freelancers who have decided to take control over their own work lives and dump the yoke of dependency on companies that are becoming quite fickle.

A long-sleeve T-shirt ($95) had an interesting wide neck and ribbing detail; a gray T-shirt ($70) was yoked on the back shoulders with a panel of thin white cotton material.

"We started with floral panels, pockets and yokes on T-shirts," says John Mooney, Asos menswear design director, "but it has now quite dramatically transitioned into full floral suits and formal shirts.