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Drawbridge
Definition:
(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.
Plyer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, plies
(n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.