(n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
(2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(3) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(4) I think I would've benefited from more time on the doorstep."
(5) Back on the doorstep is The Pilot , a music-themed pub where you can eat, too.
(6) Years ago the concept of homelessness was drug addicts and bag ladies – now there is a new wave of homelessness since the economy dived – people who are older, had savings and a home, but lost their jobs and their health insurance and finally ran out of money and turned up on our doorstep with a suitcase.
(7) In a Telegraph article, written days before a published version in which he backed leaving, Johnson wrote of the EU: “This is a market on our doorstep, ready for further exploitation by British firms.
(8) Bernardi also attacked Kevin Rudd for changing his position on same-sex marriage, saying he was a “conviction politician of convenience” who used to deliver doorstep interviews outside a church.
(9) Meanwhile, on the doorsteps of the Margate district of Cliftonville, one of Kent’s most deprived areas and historically a Labour stronghold, Scobie, the party’s 25-year-old candidate, was working hard last to consolidate core support in what he characterised a three way marginal where he could emerge as the “anti-Ukip” choice.
(10) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
(11) But in the end, immigration has proved the most successful argument on the doorstep for the party’s campaigners, especially given confirmation that Cameron has failed in his promise to get net migration down to the tens of thousands.
(12) I was dropped right on my doorstep in Blackheath, south London, at 4am.
(13) On a doorstep in Dewsbury, Dorothy Hague promised Sherriff her vote.
(14) Because the nastiness on our doorstep has piled too high for too long, and I just want to get out of the house.
(15) The Debt on our Doorstep pressure group said that many entering "pay lending" or short-term loan agreements become locked into debt because of the rate of interest incurred.
(16) Clegg said: "I think we have to deal with the emergency on our doorstep, rather than tilting at windmills."
(17) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
(18) It is too big to leave,” was a common view on the doorstep.
(19) He now sells over 2,000 litres of milk each week on doorsteps, in restaurants and it’s sold at the local shops for £1.20 a litre under the label Maple Field Milk .
(20) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.