(n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.
(n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only will these leave many more people vulnerable, not least the very young, but also make it even less likely that they or anyone else will be listened to, if they dare to raise their head above the parapet on their behalf.
(2) The impending publication of the putative nude pictures, a humiliation that turned out to be a bluff, might have pulled Watson down among the lower orders of former child stars, those people who now exist in the public consciousness merely as cautionary tales to scare naughty teenagers: “Look what happened to Bieber today!”; “Did you see Cyrus in that outfit?” Although Watson has put her head above the parapet before, the provocation cited by the hoaxers was the New York speech she gave last Monday promoting the HeForShe campaign and arguing that gender discrimination harms both men and women.
(3) E.ON was the only one brave – or foolhardy – enough to put its head above the parapet and make a formal application to the government.
(4) Speaking of Suárez, he had a rather poor first-half and if Liverpool want something from this he is going to have to poke his head above the parapet.
(5) Click here to watch The Ashton Kutcher-starring biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has rather dropped off the radar after its premiere at Sundance - but now it's poked its head above the parapet as its August release date nears.
(6) It’s a way of sticking their heads above the parapet.
(7) Another Russian prepared to put his head above the parapet is oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
(8) "If you put your head above the parapet in Britain and you have self-confidence, especially if you're a woman, people don't like it."
(9) Yet the fact remains women who put their head above the parapet have a much harder time than men.
(10) The experience was a window into just how much hatred and rage you can attract simply by being a black woman who raises her head above the parapet in modern Britain.
(11) To the right, two prosecutors in blue uniforms sit at a desk in front of four windows looking on to a brick building with a snowy parapet and a tree petrified in ice.
(12) The passengers are packed so tightly that those on the outside face outwards, with their legs hanging from the parapet.
(13) "Nobody wants to stick their head above the parapet.
(14) Rexy had managed to get lodged so when looking toward the cervix using a speculum you could just see his head and front claws above this anatomical parapet.
(15) Douglas has never put her head above the parapet, sought out or courted the press, and always seems most at ease with other BBC radio people, with producers, and the talent, who, naturally, like her focus on them.
(16) If you find it’s very difficult to change things, and I had a similar problem to Heather when I was on the FA council, you know that if you stick your head over the parapet, someone is going to want to chop it off.
(17) They are being bullied, they are being intimidated, they are being pressurised not to support me, so we don’t have a contest.” He told the Good Morning Scotland programme: “I wouldn’t even have put my head above the parapet if I didn’t know I had that support.” He said problems with the “party machine” were about “people who want power and position and influence”.
(18) But one Harare-based ambassador has stuck his head above the parapet.
(19) In the statement, he said: "The soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification.
(20) From there, he wrote one the earliest “panoramic” portraits of the city seen from an azotea: “ Come Sundays, and the high windows, what with the red light that they reflect, look like entrances to burning furnaces; just when the sun becomes more endurable and drags its horizontal rays across the city, the people of Mexico appear on the rooftops and give themselves to contemplating the streets, to looking up at the sky, to spying on the neighbouring houses, to not doing anything (…) It is then when the bored emerge to the rooftops, men who spend long hours reclined on parapets, looking at a tiny figure that moves around in another rooftop, on the horizon, as far as sight can carry.
Upstand
Definition:
(v. i.) To stand up; to be erected; to rise.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's because those upstanding Americans who cheered as Barack Obama's predecessor rode roughshod over the constitution in his war on terror have found a new enthusiasm for a strict adherence to the US's supreme law.
(2) People's perceptions of graffiti writers seems to run along the lines of council-housed and violent, when in reality many of us are upstanding members of the community in our late 30s and early 40s with good jobs and families to support.
(3) Hexagonal upstanding light boxes containing 84 fluorescent bulbs were used as sources of U.V.A.
(4) They'd be much better advised to put all efforts into contributing to the "democratic life of the country" – just as any upstanding Good British Citizen would.
(5) Head added: “It is wholly unfair Maria, an upstanding individual of the highest moral and ethical conduct, was banned from playing competitive tennis while not actively engaging in any behaviors [sic] that could be considered cheating.
(6) She is a bread-baking, gardening, doing-it-all-right, legitimate marriage, equality-loving, upstanding citizen at the beginning of this film.
(7) The film itself is a little deeper: as Mackendrick explained in a book published 2005, Mrs W, with her nods to her Navy husband, and her aged friends, is upstanding Old Britiain – conservative sterness rapping the fingers of economic innovation.
(8) Updated at 10.37pm GMT 10.29pm GMT Feinstein asked Brennan to talk about who Anwar al-Awlaki was, because, she says, when people hear he was an American citizen (New Mexico-born), they might get the idea that he was upstanding.
(9) Plato felt that the protection of being unidentifiable could corrupt even the most morally upstanding person.
(10) You only need to look around to see why their work is needed so urgently,” said Henna Rai from Upstanding Neighbourhoods.
(11) Contrary to ungrounded fears that Siv applicants could be terrorists – one of the excuses Johnson cited as often delaying the process – the US would receive upstanding new residents.
(12) They may find that Campbell Newman has been an upstanding, strong premier that’s done the best for the state, and it should help him get re-elected if that’s the case,” he said.
(13) At this point in the series – spoilers follow – the two protagonists, Jesse and Walt, had become dangerously, inextricably tied up with Mexican drug cartels and are under the sway of an ice-cold, manipulative kingpin named Gus Fring, who poses as the upstanding head of a fried chicken franchise.
(14) The membrane had upstanding plugs, 20 nm in diameter, which could fill the holes in the wall.
(15) During his clinical history, complications of diabetes mellitus, such as diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, were aggrevated, and upstanding and gait were impossible at 20 years of age.
(16) Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
(17) But for corruption to flourish, there needs to be a widespread expectation of dishonesty – which in turn drives even upstanding citizens to underhand behaviour.
(18) Whittingdale signalled that he was far too fine and upstanding a man to knowingly date a sex worker, when he advertised that a woman he presumably had liked had turned out to be beyond the pale.
(19) My colleagues and I must teach harder, mark harder, plan harder so our students blossom (despite their experiences beyond the school gates) into fine, upstanding and successful examples of Britishness – just like my cake.
(20) Gone midnight in Manchester and Billy Joe Saunders is caught between exhaustion, euphoria and a grim determination to be taken seriously as a worthy and upstanding world champion, not fodder for cheap headlines.