McCluskey insisted that Unite did nothing wrong in the dispute over a parliamentary selection in Falkirk last year and added: "Let me finally say to those elements inside the party who seek to edge us out, or to the grandees who snipe from the sidelines, this is our party and we are going nowhere".
Webb could not snipe with his customary fast-twitch acceleration and Biggar had to run the show on his own.
By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and "buckets and buckets of curlew".
Mr Karzai continues to snipe from his mini-palace a short distance from Mr Ghani's office, warning that Afghanistan must not "be under Pakistan's thumb".
Ministers snipe at him, and the government has just ordered yet another official review of his bank".We are very worried that the commission has been formed and terms of reference include ownership," says Mr Yunus.
Those who cannot, or will not, take responsibility themselves feel free to snipe at those who do.
This made some greens snipe at him, but it also made Walmart send two of its senior people round to his factory in LaGrange to see what he was doing right.
They snipe that the Argentine delegation to the fair consists of those who approve of Ms Fernández's administration or those who keep their political opinions to themselves.
Cynics snipe that crime fell in DC as it fell everywhere, for demographic reasons; that it was the housing boom that balanced the budget; and that it is no great achievement to make Washington solvent when the city is home to the greatest cash-spouting entity on earth.This is surely unfair: rather than surfing these benign trends, Mr Williams could have bucked them (as his predecessors did).
Current ministers snipe at former ministers for not spending enough money on shelters and emergency supplies in the north.
Instead, they snipe at his foreign minister, the redoubtable Makiko Tanaka, a woman whose outspokenness is unsettling those who prefer Japan's usual ultra-cautious diplomacy.With the lower-house election out of the way, however, Mr Koizumi himself could become fair game.
