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Praetorian


Definition:

  • (a.) See Pretorian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anna Jefferson Brought into the CQC to stiffen its spine, media manager Anna Jefferson gained a reputation as being part of the management's praetorian guard.
  • (2) They are surrounded by a praetorian guard of public relations and project consultants hired with £253m of taxpayers' money .
  • (3) Danny Alexander is the boy who stands on George Osborne's burning deck and Vince Cable is the self-appointed captain of David Cameron's praetorian guard.
  • (4) The biggest transgressor seems to be the education secretary, Michael Gove, who has assembled a praetorian guard of sympathisers.
  • (5) As Gordon Brown gathered with his praetorian guard of New Labour inside No 10 this afternoon, there was an intense frustration – with the Liberal Democrats , with sections of his own party and, lastly, with the Queen.
  • (6) He set about co-opting key institutions left behind by the Americans; the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, which was soon stacked with officials from his Dawa party, and Iraq's elite special forces unit, which soon became his praetorian guard.
  • (7) And unlike the government's praetorian guard in the media, ministers like Francis Maude , who declined to join the attack on the union movement, understand that it may yet prove to be a dangerous opponent.
  • (8) A statue of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, is pulled down after his fall.
  • (9) Fiona Hill, formerly Cunningham, who lost her official role in May’s praetorian guard as a result of their last major public clash with Gove, is now back by May’s side.
  • (10) David Bogle, chief executive of Hightown Praetorian HA , argues that social landlords could make considerable savings if more of their bank borrowings were at floating rates of interest.
  • (11) He just could not help himself.” Caligula told a captain in the Praetorian guard that he sounded like a girl.
  • (12) Supporters of David Cameron are contacting loyalists to ask them to form a “praetorian guard” to take to the airwaves in support of the prime minister immediately after the general election if the Tories fail to secure a decisive lead in parliamentary seats.
  • (13) In interviews, Bundy had used the language of the "sovereign citizen" movement as a rallying call, beckoning passionate support from members of the Oath Keepers, the White Mountain Militia and the Praetorian Guard.
  • (14) Stewart Jackson, the MP for Peterborough, wrote on Twitter : “Fallon absolutely right to use the word ‘swamped’ about ‘some’ immigration hotspots despite what teenage spin doctors at No 10 might say.” Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, told the Daily Mail: “What the Old Etonian praetorian guard around the prime minister have done shows how out of touch they are, and how in touch Michael Fallon is.
  • (15) Along with Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna, Alexander has formed a kind of corporate praetorian guard around Miliband to pacify the City and CBI and rein in the Labour leader’s instincts for building a new economic model in a post-crash world.
  • (16) But Maude insisted measures had been put in place to prevent the development of “Praetorian guards” within departments where officials were loyal only to their political bosses.
  • (17) An MP contacted by Cameron loyalists One well-placed MP who has been contacted by the Cameron loyalists told the Guardian: “There is an attempt to form a praetorian guard round David.
  • (18) Pirie's report became the central charter of the doctrine we now call Thatcherism, whose praetorian guard called itself the No Turning Back group .
  • (19) As Ken Clarke did in 1990 when his colleagues ummed and ahed and allowed themselves to be browbeaten by Margaret Thatcher and her praetorian guard, so Purnell has said the previously unsayable - that the prime minister must go.
  • (20) IRGC, the Islamic Republic’s praetorian guard, is suspicious of US military activity near Iran’s borders and appears to be sticking to a familiar posture in the Gulf that predates last year’s nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers, including the United States.

Venal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
  • (a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not about who is tied to the most money – "there are so many people you could think should be taken" – but about who is judged to be too busy establishing their own kingdoms and using the party's authority purely for their own venal ends.
  • (2) The political charge sheet is long: incompetence, weakness, venality.
  • (3) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
  • (4) Given the venality of the system, Putin even said he could empathise with the protesters in Maidan square .
  • (5) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
  • (6) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
  • (7) Plasma cadmium and zinc were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in inferior venal caval or peripheral venous blood in thrity hypertensive patients and fifteen normal subjects.
  • (8) The difference between the "rotten apple" (venal or incompetent physician) and the "bad apple" (careless or aggressive physician) is cited.
  • (9) Pigs to peerages: Lord Ashcroft’s act of revenge shows British politics at its venal worst | Simon Jenkins Read more Working for Gordon Brown , a man of Victorian sensibilities and a volatile temper, the second call was invariably greeted with the single word “What?
  • (10) Changes in the choroidal vasculature include: Venal focal dilations and narrowings, increased tortuosity, hypercellularity, increased formation of vascular loops and microaneurysms in choriocapillaries and formation of sinus-like structures between choroidal lobules.
  • (11) The restoration of integrity in banking will not happen without changes in the law to introduce serious criminal sanctions against venal traders and grossly negligent bosses.
  • (12) Thus the therapeutic usefulness for the treatment of chronic venal insufficiency is proven.
  • (13) Nice for those in the art world who view this approach as testimony to my venality, shallowness, malevolence.
  • (14) Did the Kelly affair crystallise everything that was wrong and venal about the whole Iraq adventure for Yorke?
  • (15) Corporations-are-people got the righteous ink, but the venal sin at the heart of Citizens United lies in the appalling equivocation that declares money to be speech.
  • (16) Yet some analysts say that the drive has simply pushed lavish official banquets and venal gift-giving underground .
  • (17) Dan Snyder’s former general manager, Vinny Cerrato, seems to suspect as much , and every crass venal thing everyone knows about Dan Snyder suggests Cerrato isn’t wrong.
  • (18) The authors, American researchers attached to special forces, conclude that the weakness and venality of the government in Kabul is an increasing source of strength for the insurgents.
  • (19) The country is virtually bankrupt ; Yanukovych stole billions from his own treasury, merely the latest in a long line of venal Ukrainian politicians who have looted the state.
  • (20) For local leaders, blaming al-Qaida both deflects blame from their own inefficiency and venality as well as potentially unlocking considerable financial, diplomatic and security assistance from the west.

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