Exempel på gird

• What is under challenge, they argue, is the much vaunted notion that modern society girded by rationalscientific pursuits could deliver the good life.

• It was girded by numerous semi-barren and steep hills.

• They also give the historian little vignettes with which to piece together some of the complex motives that girded the trial.

• Many people have been girding their loins for years almost relishing the battle ahead.

• He girds the attempt to establish physical training for adolescents without direct relation with other forms of education.

• However, it is a battle for which our loins are already girded.

• But we were girding our loins to do it and going through all the correct legal procedures.

• We must gird our loins and stop our nimbyism.

• We must gird up our loins and crack back.

• It is one thing to gird at the lack of skilled management and another thing to devise means of curing that lack.

• We can already see quite divergent national interests girding their loins to jeopardise the ambitious objective of making this project a reality by 2004.

• A major effort lies ahead of us in that regard, and we, the current generation, will have to gird ourselves up for it.

• I think that all of us were girding our loins.

• These indicate the girding up of the loins of a nation determined to go ahead on new paths.

• But it is to be weary we know not why, to be weary yet unrelated, girt up in a cold universal laissez-faire.