Sentence examples for petard by from inspiring English sources

The United States of America had been, ever since Kitty Hawk, blindly constructing the elaborate petard by which, sooner or later, it must be hoist.

By citing the 10th Amendment and making what is essentially a states' rights argument, Professor Balkin said Judge Tauro was "attempting to hoist conservatives by their own petard, by saying: 'You like the 10th Amendment?

Indeed, so enjoyable was my own routine set up by myself for my own offspring, that I have sort of been hoist by my own petard by it, since with four, it now takes about two hours to complete, and the younger three still insist on it.

"Baseball might be hoisted on its own petard by providing below-market terms that has no ties to its governance and with no default triggers," said Peter S. Kaufman, the president of the Gordian Group, an investment bank that specializes in bankruptcies and restructuring.

These postmodernists are being hoisted by their own petard by a student who hasn't even read the majority of the works he's stealing from.

The right section of the strong point was eliminated by antitank guns and combat engineers, while the central antitank gun was silenced by petard shells from the British AVREs.

Yet there is no guarantee that any English or Welsh shipyard could build them, so the UK could end up hoist by own petard.

Instead, anchored by Clooney's turn from roguish to righteous, it's popcorn catharsis that lets the audience see the bad guys hoisted by their petard, however briefly, while cheering from the sidelines.

It's possible to conceive of a politics that doesn't need to invest so much in the values and transgressions of a small number of individuals, but that kind of thing isn't as good sport as hoisting an old duffer by his petard.

Heidi Fleiss was too empty and tawdry a subject, while the S&M film Fetishes was redeemed by the final shots of Broomfield hoist by his own petard when the Madam ties him up and whips him.

4. Finally, is anyone else struck by the dreadful irony of Djokovic being hoisted by his own petard in the matter of the pre-serve ball bounce?