Sentence examples for lapdog in the from inspiring English sources

Law and Justice has accused the Civic Platform of allowing Poland to become Germany's political lapdog in the EU.

As Bettina Schmitt, the curator, was visiting friends in Florence, she came across an ivory lapdog in the Palazzo Pitti and immediately recognised the hand of the master.

Law and Justice accuses the Civic Platform of allowing Poland to become Germany's political lapdog in the EU, especially in the wake of its support for German chancellor Angela Merkel on issues such as the conflict in Ukraine and the Greek debt crisis.

The party's mantra is that the "biased liberal media" are Hillary Clinton's lapdogs in the presidential election.

If education is failing in the United States, it is doing so because of the wounds being inflicted upon it by our elected officials and educational bureaucrats who try to curry favor by becoming lapdogs in the service of whatever reform trend is making headlines.

Chekhov, in his short story Lady with the Lapdog, set in the resort of Yalta, captures the atmosphere of boredom and frustration of the leisured provincial classes on holiday in Yalta.

A priority must be challenging the Citizens United decision and removing special interest money from our politics, which is in large part how Wisconsin wound up with Koch brothers lapdog Scott Walker in the first place.

I am thinking of the louche 1920's portrait of Jane Renouardt, the actress, and her lapdog in a room of mirrors and red velvet, or "In the Salon, Evening, Rue de Naples," a 1933 drawing room melodrama in saturated Technicolor.

That is at least in part because fund directors, shareholders' supposed watchdogs, are really lapdogs in disguise, says John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, the only fund family owned by its own mutual fund investors.

On several occasions we saw women on the subway carrying lapdogs in wicker baskets under their arms.

Parliament is a lapdog to the ANC, in part because of a system that allocates seats to political parties based on their share of the vote.