(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” .
Sobriquet
Definition:
(n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutaneous necrosis with microvascular calcification is a rare and serious complication of chronic renal failure and has been given the sobriquet of 'calciphylaxis'.
(2) Mr Putin seems to have worked hard to earn his sobriquet, researching the US president's quirks before their first meeting in Slovenia in June.
(3) Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, 1940) Hitchcock, the brilliant self-publicist who probably devised his own sobriquet "Master of Suspense", virtually invented the movie cameo en route to becoming the world's most recognisable director.
(4) He almost certainly would also have been expelled under Barack Obama, who broke records with 2.5m formally expelled, earning the sobriquet “ deporter-in-chief”.
(5) He had been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague in January 2006 on three counts of war crimes allegedly committed while he was helping to command another rebel group in Congo's Ituri region, a time during which he earned the sobriquet "the Terminator."
(6) Wisson said: “One of gin’s sobriquets is ‘mother’s ruin’ and the drink still has certain associations with older drinkers, contributing to it being likely to be seen as an older person’s drink and the least likely as a young person’s drink.
(7) Long before she merged her middle name with the sobriquet of a porn star to become Angel Haze, Haze was Raeen Angel Wilson, born in Detroit in 1991.
(8) Lesson from 1971 Margaret Thatcher earned the unflattering sobriquet "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher" as education secretary in Edward Heath's government with the decision to axe free school milk for the over-sevens in 1971.
(9) Osborne does not deserve the sobriquet of a work-experience or part-time chancellor – he is in command of the Treasury and I have seen at first hand how he chairs meetings efficiently and inclusively.
(10) "Orbital pseudotumor" remains a sobriquet for a variety of clinical and histopathologic entities including a monomorphous lymphocytic benign or malignant neoplasm; a polymorphous reactive inflammatory lesion; and a densely fibrosing sclerotic variant that appears to behave more aggressively, often locally invades adjacent structures, and may be related to a multifocal fibrosclerosis that also includes retroperitoneal fibrosis, Riedel's sclerosing thyroiditis, mediastinal fibrosis, and sclerosing cholangitis.
(11) There was bipartisan support to close it.” While little is new in the plan, the administration for the first time identified that it believes it will continue to hold between 30 and 60 detainees indefinitely without charge in a replacement domestic facility – a decision, strongly opposed by human rights campaigners since Obama adopted it in 2009, that has earned the plan the derisive sobriquet “Gitmo North”, whereby the practices that made Guantánamo internationally infamous migrate rather than stop.
(12) An intriguing snapshot of a hack's navel, it at least earned me the grand sobriquet "Ranter of the Guardian" in the Daily Mail (who know a thing or two about publishing ill-thought-through opinions themselves, after all), though the affair needn't be examined in any further detail here.
(13) He admits to having been "an ardent Thatcherite" because of her monetary policies, and her stance on the cold war, but objects to the sobriquet "rightwing", which has followed him ever since.
(14) That earned him the sobriquet "Gorgeous George" but also disapproval from some of his local party members.
(15) None of the Argentine players was named Flaco, but in Latin America you only become a real person once you acquire a nickname, and 'Flaco' - 'Thin One' - was the sobriquet of Fernando Redondo.
(16) By 1987, the critic Robert Hughes nominated Freud as the greatest living realist painter, and after the death of Francis Bacon five years later, the sobriquet could be taken as a commendation, or it could imply an honour fit for an anachronistic "figurative" artist working in London.
(17) Some people have suggested there was a racist element to the sobriquet – after all, Brown was the only non-white girl in the group.