Sentences with phrase «dashed upon rocks»
Upon arrival they do not find King Kong but, alas, someone far smaller and less photogenic, mercenary Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), whose goons lord it over a gang of poor souls unfortunate enough to have been dashed upon the rocks there.
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It is precisely because Parliamentary sovereignty, as it has evolved, looks only to executive policy as the fulcrum of constitutional change that ideas — however good and however brave — will be dashed upon the rocks of executive insouciance unless they resonate with what the executive sees as being in its self - interest.