What's the difference between lapdog and shepherd?

Lapdog


Definition:

  • (n.) A small dog fondled in the lap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
  • (2) He has basically fallen at the first hurdle … the best secretary of states for culture media and sport have not been lapdogs.” He added: “In the end, Whittingdale and Osborne are ideological Tories who believe that the scale and scope of the BBC has to be cut down to size.
  • (3) The euphoric McAllister, sometimes referred to as Merkel's lapdog, threw an arm around her shoulder.
  • (4) Liberal Democrat leader Clegg, who has been variously branded a "jelly", "condom", "lapdog" and "yellow albatross" by Johnson, suggested the mayor should be clearer about his true intentions.
  • (5) Abandoning the vast single market across the Channel doesn’t just mean reducing Britain to the status of lapdog to the woman-groping Muslim-bashing demagogue across the Atlantic.
  • (6) The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
  • (7) Law and Justice accuses the Civic Platform of allowing Poland to become Germany’s political lapdog in the EU.
  • (8) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
  • (9) And ailing on her sofa with a lapdog is how many generations of schoolchildren came to know of her; not that many, probably, got much further.
  • (10) He's a while on the phone though, so the housekeeper makes me a cup of tea and I sit in the conservatory with a pampered little lapdog for company and admire the view out over his lawns and pergola and ornamental pond.
  • (11) The Treasury, once a stern judge of such projects, has become their uncritical lapdog.
  • (12) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
  • (13) The most recent statistics in France underline a doubly increasing preoccupation: the alarming rise in the frequency of bites by dogs (watchdogs or lapdogs), and the great number of pathogenic bacteria isolated from the bite wounds.
  • (14) People derided Tony Blair as George W Bush’s poodle, and Nigel’s version of lapdogging is just a different take.
  • (15) There are voices in London with their Scottish lapdogs – and she knows who they are – who would still seek to replace her with someone they consider "more statesmanlike".
  • (16) Denis Healey, never florid in praise, called him "Harold's lapdog".
  • (17) He has given an undertaking to PASC that he will not be the prime minister's lapdog.
  • (18) I'd hardly go so far as to claim that a certain columnist at the Financial Times is a lapdog for the oligarchic elite.
  • (19) Tillis has tried to ride on the back of the unpopularity of President Obama in this southern state by portraying Hagan as a lapdog of the White House who has no political willpower of her own.
  • (20) "I am proud to be Merkel's Mac," he said, referring to the slightly derogatory nickname given to him by Germany's popular press, who have often referred to him as the chancellor's lapdog.

Shepherd


Definition:

  • (n.) A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
  • (n.) The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
  • (v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Menstrual characteristics of 2,343 women attending the Shepherd Foundation Health Testing Centre have been analyzed utilizing a computer system of data analysis.
  • (2) Children are stoned going to school and Palestinian shepherds and farmers are common targets for violence.
  • (3) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
  • (4) The highest seropositive reaction rate (6.1%) was obtained during examination of shepherds.
  • (5) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
  • (6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
  • (7) Breed predispositions were not documented, although four patients were German Shepherd dogs.
  • (8) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
  • (9) Japan has recalled its whaling fleet from the Antarctic following confrontations with activists from the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group, the government has said, in a move that has raised hopes that the hunts will be halted altogether.
  • (10) Twenty-three puppies with cranofacial and limb abnormalities from a family of Australian shepherd dogs were studied anatomically.
  • (11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
  • (12) Eight German Shepherd pups, about 75 days old and a live weight of 11 kg at the beginning of the trial, were used to assay a diet formulated according to NRC, 1985 (Nutrient Requirements of Dogs).
  • (13) There are tales of hotel chambermaids and shepherds being told to pack their bags, and then come back as hired guns to grab work as and when their former employers require it.
  • (14) Neuroepitheliomas were in three German shepherds as intradural-extramedullary solitary masses, with spinal cord displacement between T10 and L2.
  • (15) Australia's former environment minister, Ian Campbell, told Australian television from aboard a Sea Shepherd vessel that the group would "have to get organised to go out to the oceans and save the whales off South Korea".
  • (16) "I'm reminded of the David Sedaris story about his parents' getting a replacement German Shepherd when their first, Maedchen, dies: "Maedchen was hit and killed by a car.
  • (17) The Institute of Cetacean Research blamed low demand on the complicated auction procedure and reluctance among food suppliers to attract criticism from anti-whaling groups such as Sea Shepherd .
  • (18) A colony of German shepherd dogs was studied in which a high proportion of antinuclear antibody (ANAb) carriers and dogs with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-like signs were found.
  • (19) Skin reaction patterns to the intradermal injection of a whole-body flea extract were examined in five physically healthy dogs and in 24 dogs with German Shepherd dog Pyoderma (GSP) at 15 and 30 minutes and at 1, 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 72 hours after the injection.
  • (20) 7.58am BST Jessica Shepherd, from the Guardian's newsdesk, says surprisingly prestigious courses still have vacancies.