Sentence examples for cheap point from inspiring English sources

A cheap point, any point, would have lifted Dementieva's dragging spirits.

I hope I am not making a cheap point when I say that the next crisis will reveal that many conservative thinkers and politicians have shamed themselves by doubling down on a failed ideology.

This parallel underlies the narrative, but the author is not making a cheap point about African "savagery"; instead he's illustrating aspects of the link between colonisers and colonised, and illuminating its consequences.

Following pledges by all three major parties to reform the Lords at the last general election, the Electoral Reform Society said parliamentarians had "squandered consensus, in the name of cheap point scoring and political games".

Nor has there been much effort from the US presidential candidates to address policy towards Russia except for cheap point scoring, she added, and the next occupant of the White House was unlikely to seek to introduce any significant changes.

Abolish the ISA Handle with care Don't give in Adapt or die Reprints Related items The changing of the guardApr 3rd 2003Government supporters argue that, with a genuine terrorist threat in South-East Asia, the ISA is still needed, and also like to score a cheap point by referring to it as Malaysia's equivalent of America's post-September 11th Patriot Act.

Abuse, cheap point-scoring and general trolling will be even less welcome than usual.

He absolutely knew he had to turn down the volume and stop the cheap point-scoring, but he couldn't.

Even cheap point-and-shoots can be used for time exposures, but the shutter speed is often capped at 30 seconds.

In essence, the Mobile X2 card turns any camera, from a cheap point-and-shoot to an expensive digital S.L.R., into a wireless camera.

It would require Labour to grow up and respond sensibly to Clarke's proposals to end short prison sentences, without cheap point-scoring.