What's the difference between hunkerism and junkerism?
Hunkerism
Definition:
(n.) Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress.
Example Sentences:
(1) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(2) She hunkered; she wouldn't ask him to turn up the heating.
(3) "It's all too easy to hunker down and try to ride out the storm but I think for our business that would be a mistake," Darroch said, referring to Sky's HD push.
(4) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(5) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(6) On Wednesday, his father Ray told the Guardian: “CCHQ’s supposedly impartial investigation, conducted not by an independent person but by a party ‘insider’, was always going to cast Clarke adrift and having done this was going to slam the doors of CCHQ shut and hunker down in an attempt to weather the storm.
(7) The success of the operation to remove melted nuclear fuel from the reactors – a process that will not start for 10 years – will depend on the hundreds of Tepco staff hunkered over computer screens in the plant's emergency control room.
(8) There is no comment on current trading, but it is clear that the carpet market is "challenging" and the suspicion remains that Carpetright's market share is under pressure, so the business is hunkering down for another tough year, with cost cutting and store closures in the pipeline.
(9) 12.06pm BST The Institute of Directors doesn't like the sound of British politicians blocking takeovers 'in the national interest'... Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) IoD: "misleading to present AstraZeneca as kind of UK champion...IoD doesn't support extension of any national interest test for takeovers" May 2, 2014 11.45am BST Pfizer and AstraZeneca will hunker down for a long tussle, predicts Mick Cooper, analyst at Edison Investment Research.
(10) With the eurogroup due to meet again next Monday, the financial markets are hunkering down for another delay - but still hopeful that a deal will eventually be agreed.
(11) Hardly anyone, that is, save their quarry: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his lieutenants, hunkered down in a white house just off the corner of Jiquilpan Boulevard, sensed a trap was about to spring shut.
(12) Arrive early or midweek, to hunker down by the fire and drink in these wood-panelled rooms.
(13) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
(14) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(15) "Where communities are already divided along ethnic lines, there is of course a tendency to hunker down," says Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, which researches issues of race and equality.
(16) As long as I've got somewhere to hunker down then I'm OK." The appeal of the house in the country, she says, is that "I can hide there."
(17) As the three party leaders hunkered down for final preparations ahead of the Sky News debate in Bristol, Lib Dem nerves were frayed when Vince Cable , the party's highly regarded Treasury spokesman, was put on the back foot for possibly the first time during a chancellors' debate on the BBC.
(18) This is an outbreak that needs tackling at source, and to change the course of the crisis, we mustn’t simply hunker down in developed nations.
(19) All its people can do when evening falls is to close the windows and hunker down around candles.
(20) They while away the day munching snacks, checking phones, posing artfully with cigarettes or hunkering down on folding stools.
Junkerism
Definition:
(n.) The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
Example Sentences:
(1) "[Jean-Claude] Junker said it himself," he said referring to statements made by the euro group chairman this week.
(2) The signal involved in the packaging of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) RNA pregenome was recently defined as a short sequence located near the 5' end of that molecule (Junker-Niepmann et al., EMBO J., in press), but it remained an open question which viral proteins are required.
(3) We are currently watching a holy war develop in Iraq, then there's Junkers and the EU, the housing bubble and the strengthening pound.
(4) For instance there's no love lost with Mr Junkers and you can be sure he'll rub Tory noses in it.
(5) "I may be unfamiliar with all of Roger Hargreaves' work [author of the Mr Men series], but I am not sure he ever got round to producing Mr Antisemitic Dictator, Mr Junker General or Mr Dutch Communist Scapegoat.
(6) Austin Mitchell, the Eurosceptic Labour MP, tweeted : "Yes folk!It'Junker day.Ein volk ein reich ein junk load.Love it or leave it.Gesundjunk."
(7) If they vote yes it will mean that Greece wants to stay with other members of the eurozone,” Junker said.
(8) The contralight test of Junker is demonstrated as a means of determining the effect of cataracts on visual acuity and could be used as an indicator of the need for surgery.
(9) Stephen O'Brien, a former Tory international development minister, likened Juncker to a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 aircraft.
(10) His 1968 novel, The Junkers , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and dealt with post-war Germany.
(11) Dogfight...live from Kent: BBC war correspondent Charles Gardner on first Luftwaffe attacks There's one coming down in flames ... there, somebody's hit a German ... and he's coming down ... there's a long streak of ... he's coming down completely out of control ... a long streak of smoke ... ah, the man's bailed out by parachute ... the pilot's bailed out by parachute ... he's a Junkers 87 and he's going to slap into the sea and there he goes ...
(12) The town's peace museum displays a telegram from Telesforo Monzón, a Basque politician, sent the day after Hitler's Junkers 52s and Heinkel 111s joined with Savoia 79s sent by Mussolini to drop almost 40 tons of explosives and incendiary bombs.
(13) O'Brien said: "In a previous Battle of Britain we saw off Junkers."