Voorbeelden van brandish

• The doctrinal aggiornamento of the left meant that the right could no longer brandish the red menace.

• Official reports consummately brandished cold statistics.

• Some of them now see it as something to brandish to stop this text progressing.

• Brandishing rhetorical remarks about good order and discipline never helps in an industrial dis- pute.

• There are also those who believe that it is possible to make people do things by brandishing the big stick of insecurity.

• It is extremely important that those ideas should be dropped, and that even the threat of them should not be brandished before us.

• No longer are statistics brandished to prove the barbarity of the practice.

• The trade unions can continue to march their ghost armies through party conferences and brandish their block votes if that is what their members wish.