Sentence examples for badger from inspiring English sources

It's one of those ones that really doesn't require in-depth knowledge of either David McIntosh or his freelance role in the badger cull to be appreciated.

All offer activities such as rock climbing, pond dipping, or bird and badger watching.

He was revealed to have pressed for changes in government policy, ranging from improved equipment for British troops in Iraq to the implementation of a badger cull (whose opponents he criticised as being intellectually dishonest).

"They badger me about things, and it helps to keep our enthusiasm up".

The show will be on air for almost two hours, during which time Wright, his panel and various callers-in will discuss legal highs, househusbands, badger culls and the perils or otherwise of using hand cream on your face.

That would please most farmers, as will the continuation of the highly controversial badger cull, aimed at curbing tuberculosis in cattle but dismissed by scientists – Labour had pledged to abandon the cull.

I for one cannot understand how the 'badger lobby' seem to mind not at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an overpopulation of badgers.

The animals were made a protected species in 1973, mainly in order to prevent badger-baiting setting dogs on badger-baiting setting

They also found genetic material from the Truong Son muntjac, a recently discovered small deer, and from the small-toothed ferret-badger, which is (apparently) impossible to distinguish from the related Burmese ferret-badger without getting close enough to handle it.At this stage, the study is only a proof of concept.

Laws to ban badger-hunting were first passed in 1973.

"Kennedy had no great understanding of the impatience of African Americans or the intransigence of white southerners, while Johnson – from Texas – understood both," says Tony Badger, professor of American history at Cambridge.