(1) It’s been a constant drumbeat: ‘Leave the union.
(2) Despite the drumbeat of austerity, money will be found.
(3) Yet the wall, just like the beatings, arrests and forced demolitions before it, only amplified the steady drumbeat of marches and petitions.
(4) "The counterpoint to the ongoing wars of aggression and the drumbeat heralding a 'clash of civilisations' is the desire of ordinary people in the west and in the Arab world to engage with each other," the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif said at the time.
(5) This official had been due to go on the record earlier this week with his legal opinion – in an attempt to create a "drumbeat" of pressure – but his wife forbade him from going public with such an attack on the prime minister.
(6) But throughout it you could hear the steady drumbeat of pressure from his paid advisers, most of his shadow cabinet colleagues and many of his close circle.
(7) David Cameron is to be hailed for sticking to his guns and allocating 0.7% of the budget to aid but let us never forget the drumbeat of rage and derision that envelopes him all the while because of this, his most domestically unpopular policy position.
(8) Within a year or two, however, Presley and his kind were pushing country acts down the bill, and by the end of the 50s Johnnie & Jack were simply Opry regulars with an occasional minor hit record, such as Stop the World (and Let Me Off) in 1958 and the folky Sailor Man (1959), which borrowed its martial drumbeat from Johnny Horton's recent huge hit The Battle of New Orleans.
(9) To the Tory heartland it continues its incessant drumbeat of being "tough" in "lean" times.
(10) The bombings will be seen as an attack on ordinary Arabs, rather than Saddam.” As the drumbeat to war echoed around the corridors of Downing Street, others in MI6 disregarded Allen’s warnings, seduced by wildly exaggerated intelligence claims about Iraq’s weapons programme – claims they knew would be welcomed by the government.
(11) This is the real cost of the way the politics of border control has become a constant drumbeat in the cacophony of daily political discourse.
(12) She said Miliband was well-meaning but she could discern the "steady drumbeat of pressure" to move to the right from some of his inner circle in response to Ukip.
(13) The injured and lifeless are retrieved, that melodic drumbeat thuds again in the children’s mouths, and within moments the crowd has returned to its starting position, readying themselves for another reckless push into the unknown.
(14) Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making the case against the Iran nuclear deal.” In a speech that also drew comparisons with the cold war arms talks of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, the president warned against heeding the “drumbeat of war” from “lobbyists and pundits ... transformed into armchair nuclear scientists, challenging real experts”.
(15) For two weeks Tripoli has echoed to the drumbeat of artillery, tank fire and rockets as rival militias trade fire, much of it landing on innocent civilians.
(16) The drumbeat has been so consistent it has spawned a yes poster that serves as a reply, one that feeds into the perennial SNP claim that unionists are people who simply don't believe in the Scots and their potential: "Don't let them tell us we can't."
(17) But the daily drumbeat of negative claims about the EU is creating a momentum towards exit that may become unstoppable.
(18) A long, low hum, dressed up by drumbeats, ebbed and flowed throughout, rising to ear-splitting levels at the end.
(19) The individuals who spoke out – part of what Brown critics accepted was a "drumbeat" – intervened despite reports of considerable pressure from the government whipping operation.
(20) And throughout this campaign, there has been a drumbeat denouncing “the Westminster elite”, castigating all politicians, along with anyone in authority or in a public position of expertise, as either a liar or the corrupt dupe of a wicked Brussels conspiracy.
Dub
Definition:
(v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
(v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
(v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
(v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
(v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
(v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
(v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
(v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
(v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
(n.) A blow.
(n.) A pool or puddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(2) Last week at a press conference Putin defended the legislation as an appropriate response to the Magnitsky Act, which he dubbed an "anti-Russian" law.
(3) The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative.
(4) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
(5) Dubbed France's MP for London, Lemaire represents one of the largest populations of French nationals outside France .
(6) DUB diagnosis requires careful exclusion of organic pathology through a detailed history, complete physical examination, and a complete blood count.
(7) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
(8) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
(9) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
(10) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
(11) The prime minister will announce that £400m from dormant bank accounts will be used to help finance the scheme, dubbed Big Society Capital.
(12) Calais's youths: the unaccompanied minors left in political limbo Read more Dubs, who was saved from the Nazis and brought to London in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport programme, has led a parliamentary campaign to take in youngsters from camps near Calais and elsewhere in Europe who, he says, are hugely vulnerable to exploitation, sexual violence and disease.
(13) The incident – dubbed by protesters the “137”, after the number of shots that were fired at the victims’ car – became a cause célèbre.
(14) Some within the party have dubbed it the government's "poll tax", the policy that proved so damaging to Margaret Thatcher's last government.
(15) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
(16) This was dubbed a "death tax" by the Tories, prompting the collapse of all-party talks.
(17) The proposals had prompted an outcry among Tory backbenchers and were dubbed a "conservatory tax".
(18) He suggested that the intelligence agencies were suffering because of the failure, largely due to Liberal Democrat opposition, to give them more powers in what is dubbed a “snoopers’ charter”.
(19) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(20) But it may not have been coincidence that two months later, Farage was being feted by Murdoch’s the Times, which dubbed the controversial leader “Man of the Moment” .