(n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the footloose, fancy-free world do you think, however difficult it might be, it's better to get stuck in, to be engaged and be open, or do you seek to draw up the drawbridge?
(2) The British government has given its first official hint that it hopes the Irish external border will provide the solution to one of the most vexing conundrums of Brexit: how to pull up the immigration drawbridge without installing a “hard border” of customs posts and passport checks between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
(3) I never want us to pull up the drawbridge and retreat from the world.
(4) Johnson, who in 2008 campaigned for an amnesty on illegal immigrants and repeated the call during his first term, changed tack as he highlighted the need to "haul up the drawbridge against illegals" as part of the solution – comments likely to resonate with the Tory grassroots.
(5) We, the generation who took social mobility for granted and enjoyed the sense that we were all in it together as society regathered itself after the second world war, somehow brought up the drawbridge behind us, making it difficult for less privileged members of the generation that followed us to break through.
(6) Most people aren’t desperate to pull up the drawbridge and stop all immigration, nor are they crying out for more of it.
(7) Yet I recall influential voices – including in cabinet – arguing that rather than confront the problem (under IMF supervision), Britain should pull up the drawbridge behind the moat of the English Channel.
(8) The exhibition will be a popular one, for the familiar colour prints - the "Sunflowers," the "Drawbridge at Arles," the "Boats at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer"- occur at regular intervals, like the quotations in "Hamlet," but the most familiar of these pictures are not always the best.
(9) I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the “drawbridges” rhetoric on immigration of the far right, and was horrified to see similar suggestions on leaflets under Labour party mastheads.
(10) The United Nations has repeatedly urged Europe to be more active in its response to the huge displacements of people on its southern flank, instead of responding with a drawbridge-like mentality.
(11) What is wrong with that?” The deputy prime minister also said he would never serve in a coalition cabinet that included the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, adding: “The feeling is probably pretty mutual.” He said what Farage represented was “the politics of fear, the politics of blame, the politics of vilifying foreigners and the politics of self harm by pulling the drawbridge up and driving the economy into recession is just a politics that the Liberal Democrats could ever compromise with.
(12) To an extent this shift has already begun, but the fantasy that the drawbridge could still be brought up can no longer be indulged.
(13) Thirty-seven days hence, Cameron may achieve his patriotic objective, securing the public’s approval for Britain’s continued membership of the EU, persuading us to resist the urge – as he put it in his Bloomberg speech in 2013 – “to pull up the drawbridge and retreat from the world”.
(14) Cameron will say: “A strong country isn’t one that pulls up the drawbridge … it is one that controls immigration.
(15) Our legacy to the next generation will be to pull up the drawbridge and say “tough”.
(16) It might be suitable for a social worker to advise and guide, it might be suitable for quite involved social work, but ultimately, knowing the landscape of local resources and support services is where the drawbridge around duties of care and signposting will take effect.
(17) True, the polling shows stubborn camps at either end of the spectrum – those who would pull up the drawbridge tonight versus those who would keep it open and unchecked.
(18) The pier is plenty deep for diving, with access to a narrow gully beneath the drawbridge and a pristine, horse-shoe beach on the opposite side of the fort.
(19) If the nation is split between young and old, rich and poor, urban and rural, then so are the Brexiteers: between the buccaneering free marketeers who want to conquer the world and the anxious traditionalists who want to pull up the drawbridge.
(20) I couldn’t see you for a moment for all the Ukip drawbridges and Labour tougher-on-welfares and Tory making-works-pays, but there you were all along.
Moat
Definition:
(n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
(v. t.) To surround with a moat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(2) When you read of such sentences, remember that this is the same country in which – just a few years ago – over 300 parliamentarians were found to have claimed expenses to which they weren’t entitled; hundreds of thousands handed over to some of the richest people in the country for duck houses, moat repairs and heating their stables.
(3) Bars and cages are out; moats and discreet electric fences are in.
(4) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(5) It is believed that they went across the small moat to the north of the centre, and got as far as the car park, where they shouted "Our world is not for sale" before being arrested.
(6) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
(7) He informed the housing association retrospectively, and Moat says it "reluctantly" gave permission for the sub-let to run its two-year term, which ends on 13 February.
(8) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
(9) Douglas Hogg , who was ordered by the Tory party leadership to repay the £2,200 cost of clearing his moat, politely declined.
(10) Missing correspondence between MPs and Commons officials must have given most of the game away regarding Tory expense claims for moat cleaning and duck houses.
(11) Yet I recall influential voices – including in cabinet – arguing that rather than confront the problem (under IMF supervision), Britain should pull up the drawbridge behind the moat of the English Channel.
(12) Facebook, which still has sites eulogising murderer Raoul Moat and Holocaust deniers, said it drew the line on groups that attack others, a bold move considering the site's WikiLeaks page boasts more than 1.3 million supporters.
(13) We get lost on our way out and end up standing in the darkness, trapped by a maze of brutalist architecture and a large moat, laughing at our inability to navigate one of the most iconic structures in London.
(14) Minimal bodily adjustment was necessary for free foraging, whereas discrete food presentations on land (DFP-land) and in a moat (DFP-moat) promoted a gross reorientation of the animal's entire body.
(15) "Is it really true that a Romanian side once built a moat filled with crocodiles to stop the crowd from invading the pitch?"
(16) And they have dug a legal moat around the charmed circle, criminalising, for example, the squatting of empty buildings and most forms of peaceful protest.
(17) Activists tried a variety of methods to enter the conference centre, approaching in large groups from several directions and, at one point, sending several hundred people running with seven giant lilos to bridge a moat next to the centre.
(18) Elizabeth Austerberry, the chief executive of Moat, said: “These people are not going to go away.
(19) The couple can't understand why Moat won't allow them to continue sub-letting for a further period.
(20) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.