Sentence examples for petard to from inspiring English sources

What he does not mention, however, is that with this political blunder, the Bush administration has been hoist with its own petard (to use one of my dear departed mother's favorite phrases).

By setting a sober tone Brown and his ministers have given the media no ammunition with which to up the rhetorical warfare, and no political petard to hoist themselves upon when things go wrong.

So were you lying earlier when you said you would support the generals, or did you just never expect to be called on your words, because you never expected it to happen?" Yet another "hoist on their own petard" item to toss in Republican faces.

Booing: the one petard guaranteed to hoist opera into the headlines.

"That old Shakespearean phrase, 'hoist with his own petard,' applies to the network," Muller said.

Algebraist - "Fifa is hoisting its own petard with the opposition to Video Replay technology.

This musical petard hoists an accompaniment to a drunken soldier's – sung by a helium-swallowing tenor, of course!

But if anything, the object of such flattery, Jon Stewart's program, has itself been a more pointed skewer against the Democrats since they took control of Congress demonstrating that the best kind of political humor is one that simply sits back and observes politicians hoist by their own petard, leaving the audience to see hypocrisy, incompetence or malfeasance for themselves.

Ottaviani admits in the book he invented this, as "the literary tradition of hoisting someone up by his own petard was too good to pass up".

"If they are trying to hang me by my own petard, they have no right to use my petard," Mr. Savage said after Monday's show.

Cricket Australia was hoist by its own petard when it was forced to delete a tweet regarding Monty Panesar on the first morning of the Adelaide Test.