(n.) The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) Ministers have promised there will be no "jingoism", but Cameron says he wants to remember those who "gave their lives for our freedom" and ensure that "the lessons learned live with us for ever".
(3) Unthinking support for the US was the mirror image of virulent Euroscepticism: initial jingoism morphed into silence as the Afghan campaign went wrong.
(4) Labor supported Australia’s contribution to the mission in Iraq, he said, not as “a matter of jingoism or nationalism” but based on “a calculation of conscience and national interest”.
(5) What I did say, in an article in the Guardian on 13 July 2013 , was that the broad and inclusive plans of Maria Miller, the culture secretary, for the commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war have been "in strong contrast to the narrow, tub-thumping jingoism of Gove" in his redrafting of the national schools history curriculum to force schools to teach an uncritically celebratory narrative of English history.
(6) Both men remembered events slightly to their own advantage, but the bigger cause for the discrepancy is jingoism.
(7) There is more Britishness in self-deprecation than in jingoism, more national identity in embarrassment than in brash self-assertion.
(8) Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism.
(9) Quite the opposite, in fact, as the former Smiths singer has sent an open letter to members of his fanclub attacking the "blustering jingoism" of the Olympic Games .
(10) This as we enter 2017, the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Holyoake , the man who coined the word “jingoism”.
(11) This jingoism from Mr Howard, that he wants to put on the battle-dress, is grotesque and ridiculous.
(12) The full text of the letter to members of his True to You fanclub reads: "I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event.
(13) According to Gove, I have demeaned the memory of the British soldiers who fought in the first world war and "attacked the very idea of honouring their sacrifice as an exercise in 'narrow tub-thumping jingoism'".
(14) Indeed, it’s deputy chair, Chris Nineham, told the Today programme that his organisation would not be organising or joining any protests outside the Russian embassy because that would merely fuel the “hysteria and the jingoism” currently being whipped up against Moscow.
(15) Morrissey was as adrift in his comments about "blustering jingoism" as the MP Burley has been about multiculturalism in the opening ceremony.
(16) Jingoism's Guy Mowbray, on the BBC, is arguing that the laughable decision not to award Lampard's goal was more wrong than the one which allowed Hurst's goal all those years ago.
(17) Yet already the "secretary of state who should know better", Michael Gove, has seized the moment for tub-thumping jingoism against his political foes.
(18) Theresa May would go to war to protect Gibraltar, Michael Howard says Read more “I’m sorry, this is 2017-18, it’s not 1851 [...] The idea of Spain going to war against Britain over Gibraltar is frankly absurd, and reeks of 19th-century jingoism,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
(19) If nationalism is supposed to come first, whatever the facts suggest, then you are in the jingoism business, or the propaganda business, not the news business.
(20) Everything was underpinned not by a raucous jingoism but by a determined pride in what our country now is and to show that we can be the best, a patriotism that allows us to be open to the cream of the world but also to use it for our own purposes.
Patriotism
Definition:
(n.) Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(3) I think we need to restore the metadata programme, which was part of the Patriot Act,” he told MSNBC.
(4) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(5) On 23 June, the Cleveland linebacker Ausar Walcott was charged with attempted murder following a brawl in a bar; three days later, the New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead.
(6) He will insist "government should stop feeling embarrassed about the need for more patriotism in our economic policy.
(7) As a patriot who worked tirelessly to keep Britain safe from attack.
(8) If the Senate refuses to pass a strengthened version of the USA Freedom Act this summer, reformers should consider what 24 hours ago was unthinkable: abandon the bill and force Section 215 of the Patriot Act to expire once and for all in 2015.
(9) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(10) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(11) No wonder he was patriotic and believed giving up the empire would be a disaster.
(12) 8.35pm GMT Patriots 0-3 Broncos, 2:15, 1st quarter Brady passes to Shane Vereen for 24 yards, but Edelman can't quite pull in his 1st and 10 pass at the Patriots' 44.
(13) Tebow signed for the Jets in March 2012 , after it became clear that the Broncos – who he had rescued from a 1-4 start to 2011 and taken to an 8-8 finish and a playoff run that was ended by the Patriots – would sign the Indianapolis Colts great Peyton Manning.
(14) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(15) The officially authorised Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement , and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, are organised in such a way as to cloister Chinese Christians from foreign influence.
(16) Critics say that for Obama to say "let's re-debate the Patriot Act" means little unless the still-secret executive-branch interpretation remains undisclosed.
(17) Danes spent a day with an officer at Langley, the CIA's headquarters in Virginia, and that seems to have fortified her patriotism, too.
(18) Massie indicated the coalition is already looking towards the June 2017 expiration of another broad surveillance power, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to force additional rollbacks, much as the USA Freedom Act authors used the expiration of parts of the Patriot Act as leverage to pass their bill.
(19) Can the leftwing candidates unite to offer a credible alternative, or will party patriotism and egos make it impossible, condemning their party to be excluded from the second round?
(20) Her lawyer Tony Muman told the ECHR last November: "She's a patriot" adding that she had suffered "absolutely no pressure" from her family or relatives to cover herself.