Sentence examples for The lapdog from inspiring English sources

The lapdog of a brutal dictator versus an Islamist in Egypt's presidential elections sure makes our Presidential elections look boring.

The blindness of our energy policy has caused us to become the lapdog of Saudi Arabia.

The tinkling reassures him for he already senses death and the lapdog can't save him.

There are many tasty interpretations here — the punishing punctilio of McKean's Sam, the lapdog loneliness of Saxe's Joey — but Eve Best's Ruth is the most revelatory.

There are many tasty interpretations here — the punishing punctilio of Michael McKean's Sam, the lapdog loneliness of Gareth Saxe's Joey — but Eve Best's Ruth is the most revelatory.

"Rarely, if ever, do you put out a press release on a bill like this," adding, "You can't be seen as the lapdog of the White House.

(The toffee-nosed Goncourts, Mr Wall explains, saw Flaubert as a gauche, loud-mouthed provincial; Flaubert in turn gave them the nickname, les bichons: the lapdogs or little darlings).Mr Wall convincingly traces Flaubert's fascination with the physiological, the grotesque and the cruel back to his early exposure to the world of hospitals, operating theatres and anatomy classes.

Design fault Of course, there are still police officers who abuse their power, who are idle and incompetent and full of prejudice, but far more than ever before, there are officers who are neither the lapdogs of the right nor the demons of the left.

We have tablets and cellphones and Kindles and laptops for the lapdogs.

In October 2014, after France threatened to delay the delivery of Mistral warships on backorder from Russia, Le Pen called for the country to honor its deal, saying, "We are not the US' lapdogs".

Now faculty and students will feel more anxious than ever that views or viewpoints that go beyond the policed confines of what administrators -- or worse, the lapdogs of the watchdog groups -- define as the norm, will be able to be expressed as part of an open conversation.