Sentence examples for lapdog and from inspiring English sources
To critics, she is the deputy mayor for the City Council — Mr. Bloomberg's lapdog and a sellout to business.
Liberal Democrat leader Clegg, who has been variously branded a "jelly", "condom", "lapdog" and "yellow albatross" by Johnson, suggested the mayor should be clearer about his true intentions.
That philosophy had helped London to become the world's leading centre for "mobile capital", she said.In 2009 the FSA abruptly stopped being the industry's lapdog and showed its fangsIn 2009, too late to prevent the financial bubble which had, at the very least, been facilitated by lax regulation, the FSA abruptly stopped being the industry's lapdog and began to show its fangs.
One might expect no more intelligence and morality than from a lapdog (and it was an untranslatable Austrian slang word for a pet that Adolf used for her nickname).
Maybe Vole – who, in Phelps' and Howle's version, seems less of a chancer or con artist than a naive young man as hopelessly out of control of his destiny in French's world as he was in the trenches of France where we first meet him – finally rebelled against life as a lapdog and killed her.
Since the mid-eighties, she has spent most of her time trying to concoct a cat with the temperament of a lapdog and the appearance of a tiger one that is "small, but it looks like it could take down a gazelle".
In a speech Monday, Georgia's memorial day, Saakashvili insulted the "Russian empire and its lapdogs" and criticized the Kremlin for attempting to thwart Georgia's development.
The poodle is dressed in a shirt, tie, and waistcoat, like all lapdogs, and a red rosette makes it doubly clear who is being depicted.
Cameron's film, he announced, was a brilliant parable of the class war in which "the third-class passengers (the proletariat) struggle valiantly against the ship's crew (craven capitalists' lapdogs and stooges)".
Yet the British media are nobody's lapdogs, and reporters can be brazen in confronting authority and courting official disdain.
On Sunday, he called that article "fake news" and threatened to sue the Post; in a fundraising email that redefined chutzpah, he reassured supporters the accusations were the work of "the Obama-Clinton Machine's liberal media lapdogs" and turned the charges into a chance to ask for money.
