(n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
Example Sentences:
(1) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(2) There can be little doubt that the populace, whose taxes should be used appropriately, would support such a move.
(3) "It was part of his religion of nothing but the best – not for the elitist connoisseur but nothing but the best for the whole populace."
(4) The populace chose to remain, wrongly believing the world would comply with legally binding obligations to protect them.
(5) Interestingly, also in 400 MS patients examined, hyperuricaemia or gout, which are widespread among the populace, were not found in a single case.
(6) Such decisions are likely to either under- or over-define the requirements and standards for food additives and other chemicals which are important to the well-being of the populace.
(7) We conclude that the primary MS affection (PMSA) is a single, widespread infectious disease whose acquisition in virgin populations follows two years of exposure starting between age 11 and 45, which then produces clinical neurologic MS (CNMS) in only a small proportion of the affected after an incubation period of 6 (virgin populace) or 12 (endemic areas) years, and which is transmissible only during the systemic PMSA phase which ends by age 27 or younger.
(8) The collective punishment of a populace has its own grim legacy in western historical memory.
(9) The regime is a source of violence, but people go there to avoid the violence.” But the manpower shortage remains the Assad regime’s achilles heel – it could never really defeat the country’s demographics, maintaining Alawite rule over an overwhelmingly Sunni populace, and it has faced significant challenges mobilising foot soldiers to fight its war.
(10) Over the course of these long transits of time and geography, the purpose of ideas and objects (like that of the gold coin in India) was frequently changed, lassoed by the local populace for their own use.
(11) The expulsion of the disgraced Bo Xilai from the party and, yesterday, from parliament, for, among other offences, corruption, is hardly likely to convince a sceptical populace that China's leaders are ready to clean up their act.
(12) Active modification of risk factors in the general populace would include using such methods as screening, education, and mass-media campaigns.
(13) Remember Dickens' contemporaries digested the books in shorter episodes – produced in instalments, discussed and relished by the populace as a kind of Victorian soap opera.
(14) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
(15) It is proposing to "support a set of measures" to develop digital audio broadcasting – DAB – radio, including extending its national multiplex beyond 90% of the UK populace and "initiating a stronger marketing effort co-ordinated across the industry".
(16) The government doesn’t drag people off the streets, but the populace acts as if it could be a possibility.
(17) The jury had been picked from the local populace, many of whom earned their living from the prison or had families and friends that worked there; all were white.
(18) In Dodoma Region of Tanzania, the populace consumes large numbers of ground nuts which are believed to predispose to liver cancer.
(19) Concern over potential eye injury from sunlight prompted this study to see if the levels of sunlight in Christchurch posed a particular risk to our population's eyes, whether the populace was aware of any risk and whether effective sunglasses were freely available to the public.
(20) The military incursion is welcomed by many of the populace.
Rabble
Definition:
(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(2) On the other, well, just look at the bigoted rabble.
(3) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(4) Corbyn's Momentum group moves to block influence of hard-left parties Read more Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, calls the group “a bit of a rabble”.
(5) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(6) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.
(7) As much as it pains me to point out the blindingly obvious, Sunderland are some rabble.
(8) They were a rabble and, at this level, a team cannot expect to get away with these kind of collective failures.
(9) Hungarians fought for freedom in 1956, not Orban’s rabble-rousers | George Szirtes Read more Access to transit zones set up at the border with Serbia has already been severely restricted, human rights groups claim.
(10) That is more than West Ham dare hope for, since for a Sam Allardyce side the visitors were pallid here, almost as much of a pushover as the Blackburn rabble that went down 7-1 three years ago at Old Trafford in a result that altered the course of events at Ewood and ultimately Upton Park.
(11) | Oliver Burkeman Read more The real-estate mogul turned entertainer turned political rabble-rouser-in-chief tweeted a photo of himself on Tuesday – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain – which, upon closer inspection, revealed something shocking to his 3.2 million followers.
(12) According to the police report, "a man claiming to be the chief whip" – pause for mocking laughter from the rabble (sorry, from Labour MPs) – "called the police 'plebs', told them they should know their place, and used other abusive language.
(13) Her criticism of Momentum is the most forthright of any MP for some time, after Tom Blenkinsop called for the group to be banned and Tom Watson dismissed it as a “bit of a rabble” .
(14) This time, Republican primary evangelicals and general election evangelicals want a candidate who not just talks a good game, but who has actual accomplishments in the areas that they care most about.” Courting ‘the lifeline of the Republican Party’ In his two-plus years in the Senate, Cruz has made a name for himself as a rabble-rouser who often butts heads with party leadership.
(15) And there will still be a mixture of homegrown material and features glommed from Wired's American edition, alongside an eclectic slate of contributors that includes the distinguished (Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield) and the rabble-rousing (Warren Ellis, the expletive-addicted comic book writer).
(16) While the iPhone remains the acknowledged market leader in the mobile world – more profitable and trend-setting than anything else in the mobile phone market for years – a rabble of challengers is closing in fast.
(17) They’re a rabble with various causes, mostly anti-establishment and anti-gentrification.
(18) If James hadn’t put her name forward at the last minute, we would have had nothing but a rabble of no-name, no-talent nobodies to choose from.
(19) That said, it contains all the elements required to stir the loins: a glorious and triumphant opening string and brass salvo, followed by a regal and stately middle section (to the manor born), building to a rabble rousing climax.
(20) Even the reliably rabble-rousing Bob Crow, of the RMT, is emphasising Fathers4Justice-style publicity stunts over a general strike.