Sentence examples for lapdog of from inspiring English sources

The blindness of our energy policy has caused us to become the lapdog of Saudi Arabia.

His allies suspect a plot to silence an awkward figure and to turn COSATU into a lapdog of the ruling party.

After all, Breitbart, like every other site that caters to the populist Republican base, is a faithful lapdog of the N.R.A.

"Rarely, if ever, do you put out a press release on a bill like this," adding, "You can't be seen as the lapdog of the White House.

In response, Mr Obama has softened his opposition to offshore drilling, while denouncing Mr McCain as a lapdog of the oil industry who will do little to bring down prices.Voters are certainly up in arms about the cost of oil.

The term has caught on to an extent that eluded the president's previous array of adjectives for people with pro-American leanings: "lackeys" or "tin soldiers" or, in the case of one Mexican president, a "lapdog of the empire".

Venezuela's foreign minister, reaching deep, dismissed its O.A.S. critics as "lapdogs of imperialism".

I don't agree with the implication that other dolphins are lapdogs of the decadent compared with our flinty subspecies.

Does a small label financially supported by a major, but left free to make its own A&R decisions count, or are they just lapdogs of the evil music industry?

Bill Keller wrote, in an e-mail, "There is a significant liberal antipathy toward the, pardon the expression, mainstream press.... Liberals perceive us, or claim to perceive us, as lapdogs of the Bush Administration, instigators of the war in Iraq, sellouts to big business and panderers to red-state prejudices.

Design fault Of course, there are still police officers who abuse their power, who are idle and incompetent and full of prejudice, but far more than ever before, there are officers who are neither the lapdogs of the right nor the demons of the left.