Exempel på byword

• I had made it a low byword among low people.

• Another byword here is "irreversibility" because lurking somewhere behind convergent outcomes are footprints leading back along different paths to different origins.

• Unfortunately, maintenance can be a byword for neglect.

• To that end, these societies and their members adopted "controversy" as their byword.

• Its current aim is to develop 'parallel' or 'analogous' architectures which (like some paintings, say, or films) illuminate and explore conceptual domains not satisfactorily to be mapped bywords.

• Those boroughs are a byword for hopeless housing administration.

• They represent areas with outstanding examples of adult education centres — indeed those places are a byword for that.

• However, flexibility should not be a byword for a diminution of standards or of the protection of workers' rights.

• Our byword must be to improve consistently on it, not simply to run it down.

• They have paid sick and accident benefit, and medical men know that their contributions to hospitals are so generous that they have become a byword.

• I pointed out that for a century the name of the firm had been a byword for excellence in steelmaking.

• Consultation and partnership must be the bywords for a successful quality partnership.

• It does not mean that we should allow timidity to become the byword.

• The private enterprise supervision of that organisation has not exactly become a byword for safety standards.

• He mentioned villages and towns whose names are bywords to those who enjoy their holidays in that delightful part of the world.