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Parker's attempted coup was able to ring down no permanent portcullis between the moderate reforming ideals which most of his victims professed and their realistic chances of further preferment.
We have a parking area which is surrounded by chains and portcullises.
The portcullis at the door marks its successful struggle for liberty.
As soon as a piece of paper turns up with the portcullis on it—surprise, surprise, things are fixed.
I take the point made about the portcullis.
It has carried the portcullis for a period without official authority.
However, when the portcullis of limitation drops, the sanction of the rule of law is grievous in its severity.
It would cross the portcullis of this place with a most sinister and destructive bar.
Data bank information must have a moat and portcullis as well.
The portcullis and all our proceedings have to be seen to be entirely above board and free of even the most indirect taint of corruption.
That diary bears the name of this place, has the portcullis on the cover and is sold here.
We are hesitant about the portcullis being used on souvenirs for sale outside the building.
The portcullis which should clang against such a proposal would simply be opened from within by a posse of pay clerks.
Now it is a portcullis.
I can assure him that this matter has given us a great deal of thought, and that we have not, as it were, brought down a portcullis upon further thought.
