shibboleth

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Exempel på shibboleth

  • Most usage guides simply list a selection of ancient shibboleths, occasionally spiced up by the prejudices of dieir compiler.

  • Is it not time, therefore, we forgot shibboleths and slogans and looked at the facts of this question.

  • There is no place today for unthinking adherence to outworn shibboleths.

  • The words "industrial democracy" have certain shibboleths attached to them.

  • We should not too lightly adopt platitudinous shibboleths about any privileged class.

  • We do not live by words like "arbitration" and see them as shibboleths.

  • I also think that it is quite wrong to suggest that all the old shibboleths of the 1940s and 1950s should not he re-examined.

  • The fact is that, one by one, the education shibboleths are being abandoned.

  • I do not believe in these worn-out shibboleths of public ownership.

  • He is steeped, as he has shown us once more this afternoon, in his ancient shibboleths.

  • We are accused of uttering musty old shibboleths.

  • We are far too concerned to repeat the old shibboleths of the past without trying to face the vexing and intractable problems of the present.

  • We struggle along with a lot of stereotypes and shibboleths.

  • What is national defence stripped of all its shibboleths?

  • There are new shibboleths; new, false doctrines going about; and we have to bow the knee to them.

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