Sentence examples for lapdog as from inspiring English sources

Warren has said the department risks becoming a "lapdog" as a result of its lackluster oversight.

has said the Education Department risks becoming a "lapdog" as a result of its lackluster supervision of Sallie Mae.

The U.S. Department of Education risks becoming a "lapdog" as a result of recent actions toward financial companies such as Sallie Mae, Sen. Elizabeth Warren charged Thursday.

Warren said the Education Department risks becoming a "lapdog" as a result of its lackluster oversight of the companies it pays to handle borrowers.

The architect of the Kargil fiasco tried to reinvent himself as a secular family man, Pakistan's "chief executive", photographed with his fragrant wife and the family lapdog at home, where it was widely rumoured that (like many upper-class Pakistanis) he was not at all averse to a drop of whisky.

Trump Leaks sees the Donald and operatives such as lapdog governor Chris Christie and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway scramble to revive their flagging presidential run, usually managing to make things worse in the process.

Journalism can drift upward toward power, become its lapdog and even, as the News Corpse revelations have demonstrated, become power itself, a behind-the-scenes dictator of events, manipulating the world for its own interests.

And yet, even during hard times, the pompon bloom of a bachelor's button is still as cute as a lapdog's up-do.

The other day, I held him in my arms and started talking to him about the trip, and he was as relaxed as a lapdog.

So week after week, we do Clegg as a lapdog, a ventriloquist's dummy.

The ECB's reluctance to act as a lapdog to the BCCI has left it on the outside.