Sentence examples for cockroach from inspiring English sources

Zuma's ally Baleka Mbete, the speaker of the national assembly, was forced to apologise after describing the EFF leader Julius Malema as a "cockroach", a word that to many ears had grim echoes of the Rwandan genocide.

Queenslanders celebrated with bull riding in Redland Bay, pig racing in Paddington and cockroach racing at Brisbane's Story Bridge Hotel.

In an interview with The House magazine, Farron likened the party to a "cockroach" for its ability to survive but said this should not be taken for granted.

When the delegado slipped and fell into the street below his tormentors shouted that he had cockroach blood, according to one newspaper.For some of those who mourned the passing of the antebellum South, the sight of a man with mulatto features like Araújo Cunha holding a position of power was maddening.

Another robot, RiSE, resembles a giant cockroach and uses six legs, tipped with short, Velcro-like spikes, to climb coarse walls.

Past observations have hinted that cockroach faeces protect against such parasitism.

One savvy outfit from Chicago does not even use the words "private equity" in Asia, instead describing itself as an "engineering firm"—a particularly appealing label for emerging-market companies, which typically seek expertise and technology as much as money.A second limit on the private-equity recovery is the cockroach-like survival of the region's big and inefficient conglomerates.

As she and her colleagues discovered in a study just published in Naturwissenschaften, wood-cockroach faeces protect the insects from a parasitic fungus.

RiSE, a six-legged robo-cockroach, can climb walls.

Rightly, it has become known as the "cyber-cockroach".

RETIRED workers who once made everything from nuclear-bomb components to wireless equipment are now living miserably in cockroach-infested slums in this corner of north-east Beijing.