Sentence examples for was howled down from inspiring English sources

He was howled down by the industry.

Agnes Vadai, a left-wing MP, was howled down by right-wing and far-right opponents when she protested in parliament against the rehabilitation of Horthy.

One of these assumptions is completely wrong, and last week Twiggy Forrest was howled down for suggesting that the Saudis might be on to something.

Everything connected to Liverpool was howled down.

When Obama suggested on the stump that American forces might have to raid into Afghanistan unannounced, he was howled down.

Those who present a reasoned argument are howled down or judged to have lost the argument.

Those who demurred at such a grotesque epithet were being howled down and denounced in the most beastly terms.

One of my earliest political memories was watching Dorothy Rees, Labour MP for Barry, leaving a platform in tears after being howled down by hooray Henries.

The problem is while FitzPatrick's clapped-out moral relativism would be howled down on any undergraduate philosophy course, at a smart country house hosting endless seminars for BBC bureaucrats, this passes for received wisdom.

I half-expect this last line to be howled down, but no: it's some token of both the foreign secretary's chutzpah and the crowd's deference (mobile phone cameras are hoist throughout) that he actually gets away with it.

The former editor of the UK tits-and-bits men's magazine Loaded recently spoke about the deleterious effects of porn on teenagers, while campaigns to remove porny magazine covers from public view are howled down by radical left activists as a threatening new puritanism.