Примеры 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.

• We must never be part of an alliance which retaliates to threats by brandishing nuclear arms or nothing at all.

• They like to brandish the goodies they put into the pot, and they enjoy giving it the occasional stir to keep things apparently busy.

• We discovered that figures were being brandished—millions of pounds—but nobody could trace them.

• The contractor has to look at the man who is brandishing the form before him and to decide whether the man is like his photograph.

• A lot of figures have been brandished about this afternoon concerning the rate burden in this or that area.

• I think that he said in one answer that it was "brandished".

• Would he consider brandishing the deterrent of being banned from driving for life in order to minimise, if not eliminate, this type of crime?