Sentence examples for drawbridge from inspiring English sources
noun
A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).
I feel about crazy paving much as Dickens evidently felt about the life Wemmick lived with his Aged P in Walworth, with his drawbridge and his castle and a tiny lake with an island in the middle "which might have been the salad for dinner".
Obama warned against torpedoing this trade agreement, saying that protectionism would undercut economies worldwide: "The lesson is not that we pull up the drawbridge and build a moat around ourselves".
There, they have found the drawbridge up.
Unlike national teams, clubs would be free to compete for players, and so would bid up their salaries.In this section A bundle of trouble After the slumber Pro-active Hardball from the Fund Neither buyer nor seller be Pull up the drawbridge The trouble starts at home 'Owzat?
The "enlightened patriot", says Mr Blair, "is not the person who pulls up the drawbridge and sits in his tower musing on the errors of the world; but the person who recognises that no drawbridge makes a nation safe and that we are better out in the world, fighting for what we believe in".Well of course.
The American suitor rapidly backed off.As protectionism gathers strength, other countries are preparing to raise the drawbridge against unwelcome foreign interest in "strategic" assets.
In January a deepwater port opened in Mariel on Cuba's northern coast, a prime spot to handle traffic with the United States should the drawbridge come down.
In fact, there is mounting evidence, brilliantly marshalled in Daniel Golden's "The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates", that, after a period of outreach, America's universities are pulling up the drawbridge once again.
And it would signal that the NATO drawbridge was indeed being hauled up.
The United Nations has repeatedly urged Europe to be more active in its response to the huge displacements of people on its southern flank, instead of responding with a drawbridge-like mentality.
As a hawkish cold warrior, he would loathe the pull-up-the-drawbridge foreign policies favoured by Mr Paul and the isolationist right.
