(1) What is striking about the history wars of recent months, however, is that the jingoists have not in the end managed to impose their views on the coalition government.
(2) 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.
(3) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
(4) He is at least as tribal, jingoistic, and provincial as those he condemns for those human failings, as he constantly hails the nobility of his side while demeaning those Others.
(5) Responding to May’s comments, the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, called the slogan “jingoistic claptrap” and said it showed no further policy development.
(6) From the crassly jingoistic to the harmlessly patriotic, let us know your own favourites below.
(7) Fair enough, but have you also got anything to say to us about raging jingoist Guy Mowbray?
(8) Referee: Carlos Eugenio Simon (Brazil) In case you were wondering , Carlsberg don't have a monopoly on naff, jingoistic World Cup adverts.
(9) With Labour's normally un-jingoistic leader, Michael Foot, bellowing for "action not words", she pleaded for support for troops which, as yet, were still on British soil.
(10) There have been plenty of controversies in its colourful past, such as its notoriously insensitive story about the Hillsborough football tragedy in 1989, its jingoistic coverage of the Falklands war and the libelling of Elton John that resulted in a £1m settlement.
(11) And sometimes, as with the US Navy-backed Act Of Valour , currently burning up the jingoist and videogamer demographics at the US box office, the Pentagon literally gets final cut.
(12) With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould.
(13) But still, it's both gratifying and a bit surprising to see that this CIA-shaped jingoistic celebration of America's proudest moment of the last decade - finding bin Laden, pumping his skull full of bullets, and then dumping his corpse into the ocean - ended up with the stigma it deserves.
(14) UK will have under 18 months to reach deal, says EU Brexit broker Read more The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, called the slogan “jingoistic claptrap” and said it showed no further policy development.
(15) Let's hope he isn't asked to do his turn on the day of the Final, the jingoistic goon.
(16) Now – with a newly expansionist, jingoistic Russia led by President Vladimir Putin set on reasserting itself internationally, with eastern Europe and the Baltic states wondering fearfully what may follow its armed intervention in eastern Ukraine, and with close military encounters between Russia and the west running at cold war levels – Finland is once again on red alert.
(17) The Danes are aggressively jingoistic, waving their red-and-white dannebrog at the slightest provocation.
(18) He had not gone along with the jingoistic adulation of Bruno in his moment of triumph, and was criticised in some quarters for giving what was seen as only grudging praise.
(19) Sadly, the waters would quickly become muddied as other countries started playing too, although it is not pushing a particularly jingoistic agenda to suggest that, until the end of the 19th century, the winner of this grand old fixture could feasibly claim to be the world champions.
(20) European or American-style imperialism is not a feasible option for them yet; they deploy instead, more riskily, jingoistic nationalism and cross-border militarism as a valve for domestic tensions.
Joisting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Joist
Example Sentences:
(1) This may be because the joists below are defective – it’s worth seeking professional advice in this instance.
(2) They are constructed using rows of thick wooden beams, called joists, topped by floorboards running at a right angle to the joists.
(3) The lines of nails on the boards indicate the position of the joists underneath.
(4) They unloaded bags, tools and two wheelie bins, which they carried (or wheeled) in through the fire escape, and large metal joists.