| 单词 | byword |
| 例句 | His reputation preceded him, for his name was a byword among prisoners for brutality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The setting is Levittown, that Long Island suburb that became a byword for cookie-cutter uniformity. Review: Waiting to Connect in Levittown in ‘The Babylon Line’ 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z His name has become a byword for musical brilliance and danger. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z An improbable sensation in nightclubs and on radio, TV and the Broadway stage, Nichols and May became the royal byword for literate satire until personal friction and temperamental differences drove them apart. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z It was once a byword for the finest in Russian culture – the "big" theatre, grand not just in scale but in reputation. Bolshoi rocked by scandal and intrigue 2011-03-22T19:52:49Z Her name is a byword for shocking, accurate portrayals of humankind’s ugliest elements – her awkward, surreal creations, often described as Pinteresque. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “Aggressively” being the byword of the night, or rather the Biden-word. Debate Watch: Pointed Questions and a Hot Cuppa Joe 2012-10-12T12:16:43Z In the US the name is a byword for social deprivation and substance abuse but that is only one side of the story. On a Native American tour through the badlands 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Even in tech, once a byword for testosterone-fuelled behaviour, she believes recent scandals have prompted a realisation that sexism is bad for business. How Harvey Weinstein’s accusers gave women worldwide a voice 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z In 2005, he began performing with British jazz singer Claire Martin, and the duo became a byword for classic interpretations of popular songs. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z More recycling: “Sacrifice” was the regime’s byword as it called on Cubans to patiently endure hardship during the Special Period, just as the term stands for the Church’s redemption narrative. Why Did Some Cubans Inject Themselves With H.I.V.? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Later we meet Messalina, who remains a byword for manipulative awfulness. TV highlights 05/06/2013 2013-06-05T06:00:05Z “It’s good enough” or “That’ll do” in rehearsal became bywords for a group that sometimes sounded as if the goal of a performance was simply to get by. The National Symphony Orchestra’s forte for falling flat 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “Beethoven” was less a byword for greatness than an alias of God. Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The story spun here is indeed that of the clan whose name became a byword for world-shattering Wall Street hubris in 2008, when the mighty firm of Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Principles and morality were Mitford's bywords but she never denied where she came from and she always knew she was, in the purest sense, a Mitford sister. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z Meanwhile in musical milieus, “minimalism” is often deployed as a polite byword for either minimal effort or maximum pretense. Perspective | The late composer Jon Gibson helped save minimalism from itself 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “It’s very inspiring as a female artist to see how she has done things on her own terms and become a byword for musical activism.” Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Thinkers like Arendt and Sartre looked around the postwar landscape and concluded that freedom would be the era’s byword. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z This was partly because she was a favorite of my mother, whose enchantment with stage acting had been honed in college plays and who evoked Ms. Harris’s name as a byword for theatrical magic. Critic’s Notebook: Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar 2013-08-25T21:50:35Z They didn’t know, but their shipboard byword became, “It will emerge.” Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z A byword for narcissism and violence, she is abandoned by her husband, and lashes out by killing their children. Medea: the mother of all roles 2012-10-02T18:04:21Z Has become a byword for the bearpit mentality of similar shows. Sweat the Small Stuff: have comedy panel shows had their day? 2013-04-19T17:28:33Z “Brooklyn” is now a byword for cool from Paris to Sweden to the Middle East. Will.i.amsburg 2013-05-01T22:16:49Z Its advice to take up the hyggelig activity of cycling is accompanied by a motivational quote from that byword of existential contentment, Sylvia Plath. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The Wombles became a phenomenon entering the language as a byword for certain characteristics and lifestyle choices. Elisabeth Beresford obituary 2010-12-26T17:08:28Z Heather Mills, the Gandhi of Hove, a woman whose very name has over the years become a byword for probity and honesty, has been accused of making stuff up? Heather Mills to save the planet 2011-03-03T20:00:01Z Think Francis Bacon’s paintings of screaming popes grafted onto the archetypal ex-Republican, whose byword was “Bully!” and whose perplexing politics incorporated both progressive and nationalist values. Is that a laugh? A cry? In Ben Jackel's sculpture, messages molded by deft hands 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z That film was so influential that it soon became a byword for the problems and pathologies of the banlieue. Houda Benyamina, the French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z And, indeed, “housemade” and “fresh” are two of the restaurant’s primary bywords. Bites Louisville, Ky. The Blind Pig: Restaurant Review: The Blind Pig in Louisville, Ky. 2010-08-06T12:41:00Z We live in anxious times, and that feeling was reflected at the French Riviera film festival that's a byword for frocks and froth, as well as for serious cinema. Froth, frocks and film at an anxiety-tinged Cannes 2012-05-28T10:28:09Z Suddenly an industry that was a byword for easy money, raking in billions by exploiting the anonymity of point-and-click purchasing, was fighting for its life. How the internet killed porn 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z The Telecaster is a byword for Status Quo. Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster 2010-07-04T19:59:00Z So why is "theatre" so consistently used as a byword for "fakery" by a political industry that relies so heavily on its techniques? Why is theatre such a dirty word in politics? 2011-08-22T15:09:08Z Mr. Gerhaher, a baritone, and Mr. Huber have become bywords for sensitivity, cerebral depth and seeming perfection in a lieder repertory that they have made their own. 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z This hard-nosed reality, denuded of beauty, created an estate that became a local byword for violence and despair. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z “Fast”, the byword of the era, applied not just to Soho “flappers” and Jazz Age ballrooms, but to the country-house set, too. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Hemingway is now a byword for straightforward, just-the-facts prose, which may explain why Elevator Repair Service has taken a relatively straightforward approach here. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z Yet though the imposing high-rises became a byword for violence, alienation and crime, they will be missed by the many artists, writers and filmmakers who made it the subject of their work. Red Road demolition ends Glasgow tower blocks' high art 2012-06-07T14:22:22Z Someone asked the same thing yesterday … and the day before … and the day before that … How did the Italian army, descended from the mighty Roman legions, become a byword for military incompetence? Notes & Queries: Is the Earth getting bigger? 2012-05-30T16:00:01Z Simplicity, modesty and obviousness appear to be his bywords, all the better to disturb the assumptions of preciousness, skill and aloofness basic to art. Martin Creed’s Anti-Spectacle at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z King Haakon VII and the government went into exile, while at home Vidkun Quisling - whose last name is a byword for traitor in English - set up a Nazi puppet government. Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father 2014-04-10T09:28:43Z Bindoon, the name of the school, has become a byword in Australia for the secret migration. The Loach family business 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z As fans held their breath, the Arrested Development movie became a byword for delayed gratification. Arrested Development: meet the people who brought the Bluths back to life 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z But there is also a feeling of the implicit current of menace, for which Pinter became a byword, assuming more literal forms. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z Once a byword for the worst excesses of overtourism, Barcelona now aspires to be a role model for other cities that once put all their eggs in the tourist basket. La Rambla: plans to transform Barcelona's tourist rat run into a cultural hub 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But, as modern anthologies become more prevalent, so they become a byword for hokey lameness and a lack of quality control. Lame, lazy, lifeless: have TV anthologies lost their way? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Making his Broadway debut as a director, Mr. Fish has reconceived a work often seen as a byword for can-do optimism as a mirror for our age of doubt and anxiety. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z It is a byword for mass poverty, violent extremism and the gathering storm of world war. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Opening 30 years ago, it became famous for acid and rave music, and in its latter days a byword for drugs and gang violence, before closing in 1997. Manchester's Hacienda and Peter Hook inspire new university master's course 2012-06-26T00:00:01Z It became a byword for cultural hedonism, but was really trying to depict the reality of that – perhaps with the later series it became a parody of itself. Joe Dempsie: 'There's been a parting of the ways between actors and celebrities' 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z Every summer rich young men from the Gulf states pile into exclusive Knightsbridge – "for years a byword for wealth and respectability" – having airmailed their high-performance sports cars ahead to meet them there. TV review: Millionaire Boy Racers 2013-01-03T23:04:01Z “When they didn’t, the city’s name became a byword for fanaticism, anti-Semitism and deadly nationalism.” Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z The nanny’s name, Ursula Monkton, remains alive in our house as a byword for evil—and if the book had continued in this vein, we would have finished it to begin again. What We’re Reading with Our Kids this Summer 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Serious, sober and guarded are the bywords of the day. Comedy no longer central to TV networks' prime-time programming 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z And so, unfairly, Glastonbury was fixed as a byword for grim weather and hostile conditions. Music festival season: there will be mud 2013-06-18T17:58:53Z This was Elizabeth Taylor, for decades the most famous, adored and desired woman in the world, her name a byword, a catchphrase, for the ultimate fusion of beauty, wealth and power. Elizabeth Taylor: born to be Cleopatra 2011-03-23T19:59:58Z That is to say, a brand name turned byword. Christian Louboutin on Cardi B and His ‘Red Bottoms’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z No doubt, long ago, before the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark became a byword for spectacular theatrical failure and fodder for easy jokes by late-night talkshow hosts, it seemed as sure as eggs. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z As the popularity of tubing grew, so did the number of people dying as a result of their waterborne tomfoolery, and Vang Vieng became a byword for backpacker excess. Laos town known for drunkenness and tourist deaths cleans up its act 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The byword of the series is “To live is to choose,” and in each episode, and each season, the war intensifies, options narrow and collaboration thickens. The TV Watch: ‘Spiral’ and 3 Other French Shows Worth Seeking Out 2013-08-29T21:31:17Z Until fairly recently, however, college towns were not a byword for memorable dining. Beyond tailgate ribs and ’tater salad: The burgeoning food scene in Athens, Ga. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It is instructive to examine the case of Billy Squier, a byword for macho arena rock in the US in the early 80s. Alexis Petridis on MTV's wild years 2012-10-07T19:31:01Z Their practices and cultures have become a byword for success, not just in sport, but in the wider world. The 'little black book' behind every All Black 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The price for peace was Buthelezi's participation in a government of national unity as Minister of Home Affairs - a ministry that became a byword for graft and incompetence under his watch. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu prince who roiled South African politics, dead at 95 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z By doing so, it says Britain "can become a global byword for high-quality, ethical, inclusive AI". More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for good 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Ajax had become "a byword for waste and incompetence", he said. Systemic failures found in MoD Ajax vehicle review 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Decades of one-party rule made the PRI a byword for corruption among many Mexicans, and it has struggled to compete with MORENA's message that it represents a vote for change. Lopez Obrador party poised to gain control of key Mexico state election 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z The early Erdogan years were a byword for strong economic growth and enormous construction projects. Turkey elections: Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu offer stark choices for presidency 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The company has pushed Tiffany upmarket, beyond it being a byword for engagement rings. Tiffany, now owned by LVMH, reopens on a Fifth Avenue in flux 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Millennial South Korea, however has become a byword for cool — with a capital “K.” The Korean Wave: Why in Asia, “cool” is spelled with a “K” 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The decades-long investigation became a byword both for protracted judicial confusion, as well as for the dogged determination of a handful of magistrates not to let the case be forgotten. Academic guilty of Paris synagogue bombing in 1980 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z The spyware, known as Pegasus, has since become a global byword for the chilling reach of state surveillance, a tool used by governments from Europe to the Middle East to hack into thousands of cellphones. How Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World’s Most Notorious Spy Tool 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Holding Bakhmut has become a byword for Ukraine’s resistance to Russian aggression, while Moscow seeks a victory to celebrate domestically and to extend its territory in Ukraine’s east. Russian artillery and aerial attacks against Bakhmut are growing fiercer, Ukraine says. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z "Some kind of hope has emerged," said Tatiana, reflecting on the cataclysmic changes she has seen in the city whose name became known around the world as a byword for death and destruction. Life and death in shattered Mariupol - a survivor's tale of war in Ukraine 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Months later, Bucha has become a byword for the horrors of this war, and he saw an opportunity to zoom in to tell a more personal story. AP PHOTOS: Images of war in Ukraine from cutting-room floor 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Nigeria's election next week marks nearly a quarter century of democracy in Africa's most populous nation, which in previous decades had become a byword for coups and military misrule. Insecurity threatens Nigeria's democracy as voters elect a new president 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Gandhi is still revered far and wide, his name a byword for a certain kind of virtue and action. Gandhi’s Life in Photos, 75 Years After His Assassination 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Ever since the defeat of Nazism, Germany has self-consciously devoted itself to promoting “peace” and integrating into a European and trans-Atlantic security order where consensus has been the byword. Germany’s Reluctance on Tanks Stems From Its History and Its Politics 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z "The specter of 'Russian bots' wreaking havoc across the web has become a byword of liberal anxiety and a go-to explanation for Democrats flummoxed by Trump's unlikely victory." New study blows up myth that Russian bots swayed 2016 election for Trump 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Bipartisanship was also the byword in Ohio, which saw a surprising turn in its speaker’s race on Tuesday despite Republicans holding a formidable supermajority in the Ohio House. State lawmakers turn to creative solutions in speaker fights 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Now, it's become a byword for war and Ukraine's resistance. Ukraine war: Defying Russian onslaught in city 'at the end of the world' 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The Brazilian coastal city of Santos, which sporting giant Pele turned into a byword for soccer brilliance during a glittering club career, prepared to bid goodbye to its hero on Monday with a 24-hour wake. Brazilian city of Santos bids farewell to 'king of soccer' Pele 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The thoroughfare - a byword in households across Britain for describing any slightly busy space in or out of the home - marks the middle of London's entertainment district. Piccadilly Circus: New screen to make landmark bolder and brighter 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z "While their impact remains debated among scholars, the specter of 'Russian bots' wreaking havoc across the web has become a byword of liberal anxiety and a go-to explanation for Democrats flummoxed by Trump's unlikely victory." New study blows up myth that Russian bots swayed 2016 election for Trump 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Regulators argue that the painful lessons from LDI turmoil have a read across for MA, meaning that caution should be the byword for any reforms. Explainer: Britain's insurers become test case for post-Brexit 'unshackling' 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z But transparency — showing with perhaps mind-numbing detail how voting is going in close races — was a byword. Media preps for 2022 election with focus on democracy issues 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The size of the parcels led to the slogan "40 acres and a mule" - a byword for promised slavery reparations - but the promise was ultimately not fulfilled. Reparations: The US town paying its black residents 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z But “expect the unexpected” is the byword for those of us on the outside watching it all unfold with delightful unpredictability. The Mariners finally get to bring big postseason games back to T-Mobile Park 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z “Pivot to video” and Facebook Live are bywords for news media experiments best forgotten. Mystery Solved: ‘Dateline’ Finds Path From TV to Podcast Stardom 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z An economic powerhouse and long a byword for prudent planning, it has been caught wholly unprepared. Energy crisis sires new European order: a strong Italy and ailing Germany 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z But for others, going beyond the ranks of the Truss detractors, that revives memories of Ted Heath's chancellor who became a byword of how not to run an economy. Kwarteng's mini-budget: Shock-and-awe tactics from an unapologetic chancellor 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Issey Miyake, the Japanese designer famed for his pleated style of clothing and cult perfumes, and whose name became a global byword for cutting-edge fashion in the 1980s, died on Aug. 5. Issey Miyake, Japanese Fashion Designer, Dies at 84 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z One source told BBC Sport that Derby County has become a byword for "backdoor chicanery and trickery". Saving one of England's historic clubs from a wild ride to ruin 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z “California can at times be a hiss and a byword around here,” city councilman Nicholas Killpack, one of Delta’s few Democrats, said. Can green hydrogen save a coal town and slow climate change? 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z To many of the protesters, the Marcos name was a byword for excess, corruption and greed. ‘We Can Trust No One’: Marcos Becomes President in the Philippines 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Invention is surely a byword of golf, and thus the Club Car and the E-Z-Go must be entered into the book of historical contributions. Perspective | Golf has done so very much good — for Phil Mickelson and his pals 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Their names were a byword for the very idea of Entertainment writ large. Commentary: Barrel organs, bedazzled jackets: A guide to the Siegfried & Roy estate sale 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Operating through a sprawling web of shell companies, it has become a byword for a broad spectrum of Kremlin-backed operations in over a dozen African countries. Putin’s Shadow Soldiers: How the Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The photo represented hope and change, the bywords of Obama’s campaign. Column: The boy who touched Obama's head is graduating, with the ex-president's congratulations 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z These bywords have clung to Haiti for more than a century. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Yet for many Filipinos, the Marcos family name remains a byword for excess and greed, and a painful reminder of the atrocities committed by the father. Marcos Win Prompts Protests in the Philippines 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z For now, a sorrowful procession arrives daily at the morgue in Bucha, a town whose name has become a byword for hideous suffering coming to light weeks after the fact. What the dead say: Ukraine investigators gather evidence of Russian atrocities 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Now, she says, for many Swiss it's become a byword for sleaze and a very cavalier approach to money. Pierin Vincenz: Swiss banker put strip-club visits on expenses 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Initially seen as the government of a state-in-waiting, the Palestinian Authority is now considered by a majority of Palestinians, polling suggests, as a byword for corruption. Wave of Terrorism in Israel Defies a Simple Narrative 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Bucha has become a worldwide byword for Ukraine’s suffering, and on Wednesday, Pope Francis pointed to the town’s plight as a symbol of why the world must support Ukraine. More sanctions on Russia on tap as Zelensky warns of new hardships 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z For other Filipinos, the Marcos family name remains a byword for excess and greed, and a painful reminder of the atrocities committed by his father. Marcos Win Prompts Protests in the Philippines 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z For 20 years Zimbabwe has been a pariah of Western countries over alleged human rights abuses, and among its neighbours has become a byword for collapse and mis-governance. Zimbabwe by-elections: New party, same fears of dirty tricks 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Like Rwanda, Srebrenica or Darfur, Cambodia stands as a byword for the worst impulses of humanity. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “Resilience is the byword of the day,” said Marc Schessel, a hospital supply chain expert who is working to develop alternative supply chains for personal protective equipment. Why American Mask Makers Are Going Out of Business 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Then, Los Angeles was a byword for racial unrest, still reeling from the uprising over the acquittal of four officers for beating Mr. King. Inglewood Has Experienced Dramatic Change. The Super Bowl Is Proof of That. 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z And it was successful self-marketing: The name “Picasso” has become a byword for audacious invention. Review | The last volume in ‘A Life of Picasso’ is just as astounding as its predecessors 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z But in recent days, Turkish officials have privately claimed to have frozen exports to Ethiopia, apparently in response to international pressure over a war that has become a byword for atrocities and starvation. Foreign Drones Tip the Balance in Ethiopia’s Civil War 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The "free your mind" ethos exploited by red pill theory has also fed into politics - a byword for the modern age of far-right populism that positions itself as anti-establishment. The Matrix's real-world legacy - from red pill incels to conspiracies and deepfakes 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The show is now a shibboleth of public discourse here, a byword among ultra-conservatives who praise it as a patriotic exposé and reformists who denounce it as slanderous propaganda. To sink nuclear talks with the U.S., Iran's hard-liners use a novel weapon: A hit TV show 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It became a byword for a fiendishly complicated diplomatic dilemma. German election: Seven things we learned 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z This seems to be the unpleasant byword of the pandemic. Opinion | Vaccines can only do so much. The rest is up to people. 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Thus, sharing and cooperation are the bywords of wolf life. Perspective | What does dominance mean to your dog? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z By the 1980s, Liverpool was a byword for urban poverty and decay, considered so intractable that government ministers debated leaving it to a process of “managed decline.” Liverpool Loses Its UNESCO World Heritage Status 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. EXCLUSIVE UN official accuses Eritrean forces of deliberately starving Tigray 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Over time, Sen. Joe Manchin III‘s byword has been practicing what he calls “retail government” — connecting with and actually serving his constituents are his top priority, he says. Is Joe Manchin a maverick or a moderate? 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z During the financial crisis, shorting became a byword for vulture capitalism. GameStop: how Reddit amateurs outsmarted Wall Street’s short-sellers 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In fact, the president often uses Facebook as a byword for the ills of a free internet gone wrong. Zuckerberg's Biden problem 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z She is also heartened that the case is taking place in Switzerland, once a byword for banking secrecy and money laundering. Steinmetz trial: Swiss verdict for tycoon in Guinea mine corruption trial 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Marks & Spencer, which announced plans during the summer to lay off nearly 8,000 workers, was a byword for quality for decades, with its cotton underwear and cashmere knits a staple of British households. Retail Cornerstones Fall in Britain, Pushed by Fast Fashion and Pandemic 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z One of its largest cities has become a byword for racial injustice — and for deadly riots. From coronavirus to race to the economy, Wisconsin is a microcosm of the forces roiling America 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z HELP! is probably the byword for the collapsing, uh, rebuilding Jaguars. Life at 40-plus: Brady vs. Brees tastiest of NFL matchups 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z “That one second equaled more than 15 years of war,” Dagher said, referring to the 1975-1990 civil war that made the Lebanese capital a byword for destruction. The Beirut blast leveled historic neighborhoods. Some fear developers may finish the job 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z In a world in which the workplace has become a byword for infection, those trends will presumably accelerate. We fixate on the decline of the high street, but the real issue is Amazon | John Harris 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Commander’s Palace is a byword for New Orleans fine dining, draped with James Beard medals and Wine Spectator awards. Virtual wine party builds something vital for restaurants 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Boone, his 1971 team and the film, these alumni insist, long ago transformed the name of a racist superintendent into a byword for Black achievement. History meets mythology: Debate stirs over push to rename T.C. Williams High School, of ‘Remember the Titans’ fame 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “Caution should be the byword for state budget drafters in the coming year, and restraint the theme for state agencies,” he said. New Mexico lawmakers urge caution amid deep financial hole 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Over the last five years, Playboy – formerly a byword for outdated sexual mores and extremely rigid notions of maleness – has undergone a fascinating evolution. Playboy's Bad Bunny cover is a welcome sign that masculinity is transforming | Priya Elan 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The “Iron Chancellor” behind Germany’s unification in 1871 is also known for hosting the Berlin Conference of 1884, which became a byword for the carving up of Africa between European colonial powers. Lenin statue to be unveiled in west Germany despite legal fight 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Jones’s city, Ferguson, became a byword for racial injustice six years ago and was a precursor to the sort of unrest now visible on the streets of Minneapolis and across the country. Trump is pushing churches to open. Black pastors in hard-hit St. Louis are preaching caution. 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z “His time in office has become a byword for intimidation, vindictiveness, corruption and self-dealing, nepotism, and the threat and realisation of violence.” 'Take him down': Fiji's prison commissioner accused of ordering staff to beat inmates 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z People in power seemed content for such places to remain a byword for low-paid work. Coronavirus has deepened prejudice against older people | John Harris 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z At Finsbury Park mosque in north London – once a byword for extremism, now a model of tolerance and community outreach – the first night of Ramadan heralds a month of communal praying, eating and charity work. British Muslims find new ways to be together for Ramadan under lockdown 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z It was once a byword for boring, but it seems stamp collecting is finding a new – young – audience, despite the fact that some hobbyists have never actually posted a letter. Post modern: why millennials have fallen in love with stamp collecting 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z In fact, it was a byword for all of these things before it even opened. Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The problem is that before the recession hit, the bloated city payroll and the size of government was a concern, and “streamlining” was the byword. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z On the basis of that promise, it raises billions of dollars across its 10-year rise, during which time it becomes a byword for internet-era success, the model for how to disrupt an industry. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z This, to put it mildly, is not something one expects to see in a country that is a byword for patriarchy and religious extremism. In Saudi Arabia the fight for rights puts Joshua v Ruiz in the shade | Sean Ingle 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The similarities are unerring – both were bombed to smithereens and rebuilt in a hurry, both are at the end of the line, are unsettlingly flat and are aware that they are bywords for roughness. Rubbish Seaside: a 'backhanded love letter' to urban Britain 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Twenty years later, it is still a byword for New Labour hubris, squandered resources and hideously bungled planning. Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The byword of this tournament – the 50th in the history of the event and the 11th here before the move to Turin in 2021 and – has been unpredictability. Rafael Nadal overcomes Stefanos Tsitsipas after epic struggle 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z For many in Germany, the case became a byword for the failure of the postwar security apparatus to control far-right extremism. Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Under his guidance, it would burst into the public consciousness as the Islamic State, an organization that would seize control of entire cities in Iraq and Syria and become a byword for shocking brutality. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The checked print is a byword for the wholesomeness associated with this young girl from Kansas – and fashion wanted a slice of it. Statement sleeves and sharp tailoring: the enduring style and legacy of Judy Garland 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Isn’t this the place where they kidnap, torture and kill people, a mafia state that has become an international byword for brutality and deprivation? An eye-opening, first-hand view of Chechnya today 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The People’s Vote campaign is the behemoth at the heart of organised remainism – so much so that it has become a kind of byword for resistance to Brexit. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Cambridge Analytica may have become the byword for a scandal, but it’s not entirely clear that anyone knows exactly what that scandal is. The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z In the architecture world, Passivhaus is a byword for clunky boxes with fat rendered walls and tiny windows, representing a kind of socks-and-sandals, ironed hair-shirt approach to design. I've seen the future and it's Norwich: the energy-saving, social housing revolution 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In the years since, “courage” has become a snarky byword, a shorthand way to crack wise about Apple creating products that have compromises nobody asked for simply in the name of progress. What the Mac needs now is courage 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The hero attacks windmills, believing them to be giants, making his name a byword for attacking imaginary enemies. China: U.S. resembles "Don Quixote" in seeing other powers as threats 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The very name is a byword for provincial conservatism. Joanna Hogg’s Self-Portrait of a Lady 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Once a byword for innovation and progress, many people now view aviation as dirty and dangerous to the environment. Could aviation ever be less polluting? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “All this reinforces in the end a sense of impunity, which is the byword for more deforestation and more violence,” they wrote, arguing that this perceived dismantling was unconstitutional. Ex-ministers blast Bolsonaro for dismantling Brazil's environment... 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Bland’s name became the latest byword for police misconduct. ‘Open up the case, period’: Sandra Bland’s family demands answers over new video of her arrest 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z “Diversity may be the byword for the 2020 field of Democrats, but it does not appear to be a priority in choosing a challenger to Trump,” the Monmouth University Polling Institute reported Tuesday. Andrea Mitchell to Kirsten Gillibrand : ‘White, male candidates’ poll better than Democrat women 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in parts of social media, the phrase “personal brand” has become a kind of ironic millennial in-joke, a byword for pretentiousness. Twenty years of the Beckhams: how they ushered in our era of personal branding 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z We know that Sweden in the seventies was a byword for liberal tolerance, but still; imagine the kidnapped Patty Hearst getting patched through to President Nixon and calling him “Dicky, honey.” Siege Mentality in “Stockholm” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z As time went on, the term “paint by number” became a byword for conformity or lack of originality. Dan Robbins, paint-by-number inventor who made ‘every man a Rembrandt,’ dies at 93 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z For art critics, painting-by-numbers was, and is, a byword for robotic repetition and unoriginality – and that was exactly what Andy Warhol adored about it. From Warhol to minimalism: how painting by numbers revolutionised art 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z How could this have happened in countries that are among the wealthiest in the world, on a continent whose name is a byword, elsewhere, for environmental progressivism? Dirty lies: how the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Napoleon’s defeat in the fields surrounding the city was so stunning that “Waterloo” remains a byword for any and all manner of unmitigated disasters. Exclusive: Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont on the future of Spain and Europe 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The byword at Fox News for State of the Union coverage on Tuesday is “live.” Inside the Beltway: Media are already trashing State of the Union 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The removal of concrete barriers lining major roads and buildings is another sign of a city shedding the vestiges of 15 blood-soaked years that made Baghdad’s name a byword for death. After 15 bloody years, Baghdad is back, but badly wounded 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z “It became a kind of byword for really poor quality food.” Where to Find London’s Premium Pies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z California, once a byword for get-tough-on-crime polices like its three-strikes law enacted in the 1990s, has let thousands of inmates out of prison or jail. In California, Criminal Justice Reform Offers a Lesson for the Nation 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Davos is considered the number one gathering for global movers and shakers, and has become a byword for those who oppose the idea of globalism. What to expect other than Brexit this week 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z But incongruity has been a byword for a Seattle team that traded so many major parts after winning 89 games – rightly so, in my opinion. Yusei Kikuchi signing comes with air of mystery – fitting for Mariners’ risky retooling plan 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z That is why their pairing, more fusion than double act, has endured as a byword for togetherness. “Stan & Ollie” Explores the Slapstick Pair’s Plaintive Dusk 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z And the out-migration from Central America won’t stop until Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala stop being bywords for corruption, violence and impoverishment. Build a wall — on Mexico’s southern border 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The town has been a byword for atrocity since July 1997, when a paramilitary death squad arrived looking for Farc members. Colombia's victims of sexual violence finally get their day in court 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The company is facing declining sales, a rising number of competitors and suggestions that the brand - long a byword for mass-market lingerie in the US - is out of step with fashion. What's gone wrong at Victoria's Secret? 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z For some, the verdict felt like a marginal footnote to a murderous history that has made Cambodia a byword for genocidal mania. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The height of trench warfare was reached on the Western front in France, where well-protected troops were separated by “no man’s land,” resulting in long stalemates for which trench warfare became a byword. On the 100th anniversary of WWI’s end, lessons on life in health care’s trenches 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z But none of them are going to be moved by a mailer that falsely equates an American president with history’s byword for evil. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Department of Homeland Security warned of the use of malware by Hidden Cobra, the federal government's byword for North Korea hackers, in fraudulent ATM cash withdrawals from banks in Asia and Africa. North Korean hackers accused of stealing millions from global banks 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Department of Homeland Security warned of the use of malware by Hidden Cobra, the U.S. government’s byword for North Korea hackers, in fraudulent ATM cash withdrawals from banks in Asia and Africa. NKorea said to have stolen a fortune in online bank heists 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Three times over the past three decades, a Supreme Court nomination has touched off a battle so brutal as to become a national byword: Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, now Brett Kavanaugh. The nation's huge partisan gulf threatens to swallow the Supreme Court, too - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z For decades Switzerland, and its secretive banks, were almost a byword for money laundering. Swiss suspected Abramovich to be a ‘threat’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The case has become a byword for the failure of Germany’s postwar security apparatus to monitor and control far-right extremism. Merkel’s Spy Chief Is Removed After Public Rift 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But coming from the man whose name was once a byword for partisan intransigence, perhaps it’s a start. Ken Starr: 'There are eerie echoes of the past' 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, Donald Trump was hip-hop’s byword for money and success, but since his election, references to the president of the United States have been anything but reverential. 'My eyes looking Korean': can Asian rappers defeat stereotypes? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z But today they’re mere bywords for cynical commercialism and deliberate consumer misdirection. Polaroid is now a brand of sadness 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Integrity was, of course, the byword of the Arizona senator, who died of brain cancer Saturday. John McCain, a man of integrity and honor 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z He was name-checked in rap songs as a byword for showy affluence. Robin Leach, ‘Jacuzzi’ journalist who hosted TV’s ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,’ dies at 76 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z His name has since become a byword for the caution now applied to a pursuit so popular with the liberal Dutch. Suspect named in 1998 Dutch child death 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Despite this the name of Miss Cranston remains a byword the artistic tea rooms she pioneered at the turn of the century. The tea rooms that brought Mackintosh back to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z For many years, China was a byword for shoddy goods produced at mass scale. T-Shirts, Toilet Paper and Rotten Mangoes. This Chinese App Sells It All. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Yet Russia remains a byword for backwardness and corruption. Putin Is Weak. Europe Doesn’t Have to Be 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z It is what makes Brazil the world’s most prestigious national team, a byword not just for taste and style but for success, too. As Brazil Crashes Out, the Magic Appears to Be Gone, Too 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z You realize, almost immediately, that you’ll be a laughingstock and a byword across the N.B.A. for at least a few days, no matter the result of the overtime to come. J. R. Smith and the Perils of Playing with LeBron 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Ms Mottley's new administration - like its predecessor, a broadly centre-left government - faces a host of problems in a country once seen as a byword for good governance in the Caribbean. Barbados elects first woman PM 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z McMafia became a byword for London’s reputation as a magnet for dark money, and it increased pressure for reform within Westminster. Breaking Bad to the Paradise Papers: all you need to know about money laundering 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z In contrast, the byword for bankruptcy work is transparency. McKinsey gets sued for racketeering 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Since it morphed from a low-key project into a global byword, she has embraced #MeToo's A-List flag-bearers - but her focus is on lasting change at all levels of society. Measuring #MeToo: What's changed outside Hollywood? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Yet it also has become a byword for a transportation crunch and the skyrocketing cost of living that has deepened the city’s homelessness crisis. Amazon flexes political muscle, sending message to city officials here and elsewhere 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z A byword for concentrated poverty, rampant crime, drugs, guns and gangs, Englewood seems to have taken everyone by surprise with its progress. Violent crime is down in Chicago 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Ritz himself became not merely a byword for luxury but the actual word for it: the Oxford Dictionary defines “ritzy” as “expensively stylish”. How the son of a Swiss peasant became a synonym for luxury 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Then again, no other Gilded Age dynasty has ever conjured a vision of wealth quite like the Rockefellers, a surname that still serves as a byword for affluence. Will the Rockefeller Collection be the First Art Auction to Top $1 Billion? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Long before police shootings and protests in Ferguson, Mo., or Sacramento focused America’s attention on how the police treat black men, Los Angeles was a byword for police brutality and racism. Anatomy of a Los Angeles Police Shooting: A Black Teenager, a Missing Gun, Protests, Grief 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Iraq was a byword for civil war, sectarianism and the implosion of the Arab state order established at the end of the first world war. Fifteen bloody years after America’s invasion, Iraq is getting back on its feet 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z While this city is known for the creativity of designers and their delight in presenting their work in a dynamic environment, intimacy has been the byword in the fashion trade this season. Review | No sex, please: For the fall season, fashion is all business 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z In his remarks, Mr. Carranza repeatedly echoed the mayor in speaking about equity — a byword of Mr. de Blasio’s educational philosophy. Trying Again, de Blasio Names a New Schools Chancellor 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The Orient Express launched in 1883 with its run from Paris to Constantinople that quickly saw it emerge as the symbol of travel’s golden age; a byword for luxury. Inside Christie’s world: Postcard from the Orient Express 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He has entered the English language as a byword for hubris and unintended consequences. Frankenstein: the monster that never dies 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump made the case of Kathryn Steinle, who was shot to death by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco in 2015, into a byword for the dangers of unchecked immigration. How a Football Player’s Death Turned Into a Political Exhibit 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Maduro’s approval ratings are languishing at around 20 percent amid a collapsing economy, runaway inflation and rising malnutrition: a shocking deterioration in a country that was once a byword in South America for oil-financed opulence. Abstention looms over Venezuela opposition in upcoming president vote 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But it, too, has a tendency to take refuge in fuzzy dreams of yesteryear: 1945, old flags and banners, the idea that a dependable job in a factory is still a byword for emancipation. What happens when the jobs dry up in the new world? The left must have an answer | John Harris 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction? Migration can benefit the world. This is how we at the UN plan to help | António Guterres 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The HMS Bounty has become the most notorious ship in the British navy, its captain, William Bligh, a byword for brutality. The Brutal Story of How Europe Conquered the Pacific 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Middle class, in the US, is not a pejorative with the silent prefix “smug”, but a byword for your average working person – and they are scrambling to find loopholes. Trump’s tax plans: why liberals can smile (ironically) | Emma Brockes 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Maduro’s approval ratings are languishing at around 20 percent amid a collapsing economy, runaway inflation and rising malnutrition: a shocking deterioration in a country that was once a byword in South America for oil-financed opulence. Abstention looms over Venezuela opposition in upcoming president vote 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Almost since its foundation, the “Christ-centered” but nondenominational institution has been a byword in Texas for juvenile reform and a can-do spirit. The Texan boys were beaten, abused, raped. Now all they want is an apology 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Back in Birmingham, there was relief among liberals that, after decades in the wilderness with their state often seen as a byword for backwardness and object of derision, Alabama suddenly had something to shout about. 'A perfect storm': How liberal millennials and African Americans delivered a stunning Alabama result 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Westminster, these days, is a byword for many things, nearly all of them awful. 'A tale of decay': the Houses of Parliament are falling down 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z For all that his company is a byword for the future, Zuckerberg is something of a throwback to the political past. Do we really want Mark Zuckerberg to run the world? | John Harris 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The salt-mining town, which supposedly was under the protection of U.N. forces, became a byword for the inability of the international community to prevent ethnic cleansing. Ratko Mladic, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ guilty of genocide in last Balkan war crimes trial 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Achieving that goal, in a country that 30 years ago was a byword for famine, means realizing a plan of rapid industrial and agricultural growth modeled on the success stories of Asia. ‘We Are Everywhere’: How Ethiopia Became a Land of Prying Eyes 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z It’s something that we started using between ourselves and it became a byword. WhatsApp: inside the secret world of group chat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Her “squad” – a group of models and singers who joined her for sleepovers and on stage – became a byword for showy exclusivity. Taylor Swift’s reputation: will her new album silence her critics? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z His name later became a byword for conspiracy and opposition to Stalin, and he was murdered by an assassin sent by Stalin’s security services in Mexico City in 1940. Russian Revolution's 'rock'n'roll star' Trotsky gets centenary TV series 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z "In the vernacular, 'Canberra' is the byword for Australia's collective disenchantment with politics," he said magazine The Monthly. Australia debates 'city to visit' Canberra 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z “Kansas” remains a byword for “terrible fiscal policy” in the U.S. Recent Kansas Editorials 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Then for a while, “school readiness” was the buzzword and the byword, so, not unreasonably, we talked about school readiness. Literacy Builds Life Skills as Well as Language Skills 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Neither synonymous with glamour nor a byword for luxury, England's best motorway service stations have unveiled after a comprehensive survey... but the services from hell are named and shamed too. Best and worst motorway services named 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Elections in 2015 elevated Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose name was once a byword for acts of conscience, and seemed to usher in a chance for democracy to take hold. Analysis: ‘Never again’ is happening in Myanmar’s as diplomats remain silent 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Startling words since, under Karimov, Uzbekistan became a byword for despotism, torture and worse. Are decades of political repression making way for an 'Uzbek spring'? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z His Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, became a byword for sybaritic excess. Hugh Hefner obituary 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But in Greece his name became a byword for intransigence and harshness. Schäuble to step down as finance minister 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z But he also had dreamed of doing all that while making Chelsea a byword for attractive soccer. After Chelsea Ties Arsenal, a Feeling Something Has Been Lost 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Detroit would emerge smaller, but no longer a byword for decline. In Detroit, the end of blight is in sight 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Maybe you were “sidetracked” – for years, you and Keith Richards were bywords for rock’n’roll excess… Oh yeah – 10 years went by like that! Ronnie Wood: ‘Bowie’s death especially affected me – we were the same age’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Anti-ageing has been a beauty byword since the 1980s, when it was dreamed up by an advertising exec to sell products to older women. Is it time to ditch the term 'anti-ageing'? 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z As one of seven children born to a family of lime farmers here, he is a fierce defender of his town and does not want it to become a byword for murder. Mexico’s Deadliest Town. Mexico’s Deadliest Year. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Even with its so far limited sales, Tesla has grown to be a byword for electric vehicles as a whole, much in the same way as the iPhone has been for the smartphone category. Tesla’s Model 3 and Apple’s iPhone have a few things in common 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z In the years following the disclosure, the Tuskegee study became a byword for the long and complicated history of medical research of African Americans without their consent. How the Public Learned About the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z In the postwar years, it would become a byword for progress. Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z In the form of Donald Trump we have a bloated ball of toxic energy whose name, pasted on gaudy skyscrapers the world over, has become a byword for pathological narcissism. 5 sensible things to do instead of obsessing about, and enabling Trump’s narcissism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z In the early years of the 21st century, it recovered from a spate of spiraling gun crime — Madchester becoming Gunchester — to become a byword for urban regeneration. For Manchester, as for Its Libyans, a Test of Faith 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The regime of President Bashar al-Assad had just recaptured the city after years of bombing and urban warfare that had made Aleppo a global byword for savagery. Aleppo After the Fall 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z It also became a byword for totalitarianism - as one-party states and dictators proclaimed Marxism as their guiding philosophy. What is Marx's Das Kapital? - BBC News 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Hong Kong’s stock market is becoming a byword for dangerous bubble-blowing. Another Bubble Bursts in Hong Kong 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He moved into his wife Philippa’s house near here in the mid-1980s, and watched the area become a byword for gentrification. Grayson Perry: ‘As an artist I find Brexit exciting. No doubt it will be a disaster’ 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z It has been a troubled time for the New York-based agency bearing the Trump name, which is not exactly a byword for style, joy and beauty. The end of Trump Models: an ‘inconsequential agency’ mired by boycotts 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The journal flirted with the New Left and became a byword for radical chic. Robert Silvers, a Founding Editor of New York Review of Books, Dies at 87 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Along with Abu Ghraib, it is viewed around the globe, and especially among the world’s Muslims, as a byword for American hypocrisy, brutality, and injustice. President Trump’s Guantánamo Delusion 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes the word “woke”, a slang term, as “a byword for social awareness.” Inside Teen Vogue: 'Our readers consider themselves activists' 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z The sectarian fighting resumed, and the place became a byword for brutal killing. Can H. R. McMaster Survive as Trump’s National-Security Adviser? 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Yet compared to only a few years ago the category is no longer a byword among Oscar voters for baffling obscurity. Oscars 2017: what's up for best foreign language film? - BBC News 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The firm's staff bear the brunt for an airline that even by Nigerian standards is a byword for utter dysfunction. Nigeria's Arik Air and aviation industry in disarray - BBC News 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Caligula, the mad Roman emperor, infamously appointed his horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate, and that has been for millennia a byword for cracked authoritarian action. Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z To some New Yorkers, “City College” is now mostly a byword for nostalgia. America’s Great Working-Class Colleges 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Aleppo, which was Syria’s cultural and economic hub before the conflict, became a byword for devastation far beyond the country’s borders, after years of brutal air raids to try to oust rebels. 'I couldn't take anything except dignity': stories of the leaving of Aleppo 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Among economists, Japan is a byword, a punch line, a horror story. What the West Can Learn From Japan About the Cultural Value of Work 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z LA has used such injunctions since the late 1980s when the city became a byword for drive-by shootings. Venice's black enclave buffeted by police pressure and tech-driven gentrification 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z But the popularity of the Trump brand – a byword for “Superior Quality, Detail and Perfection” according to his website – has suffered hammer blows as a result of his vitriolic presidential campaign. Trumpitecture: what we can expect from the billionaire cowboy builder 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z For many years, Ivory Coast was a byword for instability. Ivory Coast resurgent in peacetime - BBC News 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Eventually, the character became a byword among blacks for subservience to whites. Residents don’t want to change name of ‘offensive’ road 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z By then, her name was a byword in Britain. Nina Ponomareva, Soviet Olympian Who Set Off a Diplomatic Crisis, Dies at 87 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Now it’s a byword for destruction, recently labeled “the apex of horror” by the top aid official at the United Nations. ‘What Is Aleppo?’ Gary Johnson Asked. Let Us Explain. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It is infused with resentment for the very media coverage of him, and, above all, with the liabilities attached to the name Clinton, which for some is the ultimate byword for America’s entitled élite. Teflon Don: Revisiting Trump’s Early Fans 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But Baruch Spinoza, another revolutionary thinker of the seventeenth century, went furthest in reconceiving the idea of God, in ways so radical that his name became a byword for dangerous atheism. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z For decades Surt was a byword for tribal cronyism in Libya. A Slow, Steady Siege on an ISIS Stronghold in Libya 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The leader of the White House’s task-force on policing had even praised Oakland’s force, which was once a byword for abuse of power. Too many chiefs 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z To many in the U.K. and beyond, the scenes during the European Championships seemed like a throwback to a time when football matches were commonly taken as a byword for violence. Why the Ugly Spectacle of Fan Violence Has Returned to Soccer 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Its power consolidated, the group’s jihadists made the city into a byword for the reign of terror it imposed on those who fall into its hands. Islamic State's Syrian capital becomes the prize in an international fight for legitimacy 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The nickname "Bevin boys" was at that time in that part of south London a byword for bad behaviour. London mayor: The Sadiq Khan story - BBC News 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z If Jeb Bush doesn’t become a byword for the collective delusions of a political class, then the lessons of this election won’t have been learned. Why Cruz, and the G.O.P., Lost to Trump 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Hamlet’s family is a byword for all dysfunctional families, with its overwrought mother-son relationship, its physically absent though emotionally present father and its usurping stepfather. Crime, social climbing, shotgun weddings: meet the Shakespeares 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The demand for labour and materials led to many of the camps being built very near to quarries – among them Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald and Mauthausen, now all bywords for human suffering. Story of cities #22: how Hitler's plans for Germania would have torn Berlin apart 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z His name is a byword for gracelessness and self-importance. 'A certain sort of maleness': Helen Garner on a week spent watching Russell Crowe films 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Since that rebellious era, the Rolling Stones have become a byword for the establishment. Rolling Stones play rock'n'roll diplomats in Cuba's 'biggest concert ever' 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Project Fear became a byword for negative campaigning from the pro-union side. Are the Scottish and EU referendums similar? - BBC News 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z If Baghdad today is a byword for inner-city decay and violence on an unspeakable scale, its foundation 1,250 years ago was a glorious milestone in the history of urban design. Story of cities #3: the birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Five years after the Syrian civil war began, the BBC's Jim Muir charts in forensic detail the rise of so-called Islamic State and how it become a byword for terror. Weekend Edition: The week's best reads - BBC News 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z But in the nearly 18 years since then, those factions remain active and Omagh has become a byword for justice denied. Case collapses against key figure in 1998 car bombing in Northern Ireland 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Lambeth was a melting pot - and it became a byword for corruption, fraud and abuse. The council that employed an abuser to look after children - BBC News 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z But in the nearly 18 years since, those IRA factions remain active and Omagh has become a byword for justice denied. The murder case has collapsed against the Real IRA figure charged with killing 29 people in Omagh in 1998, scene of the deadliest bombing in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Ever since then, Potter writes, "doing a Geoffrey Howe" has become a "byword for the parliamentary hit job." Quitting a job can be an epic step, and some people do it in a powerful way 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z For when was the last time a vanquished opponent described Spurs approvingly as “animals”? Once a byword for flakiness, Spurs are now hailed for their ferocity. Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend’s action 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z After several disastrous mergers and bail-outs, Triumph was moribund, no longer cool but more of a byword for oil leaks and trade-union militancy. The great escape 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Gay rights have become a byword for neo-imperialism in some sectors of society, where it is considered a Western import and like abortion, it's put the Church at loggerheads with human rights campaigners. Social changes to watch out for in Africa - BBC News 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z This allotment colony was set up in 1896 in the eastern Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg — once a centre of red-brick factories and manual workers, and today a byword for gentrification. Living the good life in Berlin's allotments - but for how long? - BBC News 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z From the beginning, when Marks and Spencer sold its first bra in 1926, the brand became a byword for British-made quality goods. M&S fashion: Why does it miss the mark? - BBC News 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z For nearly five decades, the military brutalized the populace, turning Burma into a byword for tropical tyranny. Burma's Suu Kyi to Be 'Above the President' If NLD Wins 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Caution is obviously the byword with Kopitar, who has led the Kings in scoring the last eight seasons. Anze Kopitar's head injury may not be serious; he could play Thursday for Kings 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Kolyma was the harshest island of the Soviet Union’s Gulag archipelago, and the region became a byword for the horrors of the Gulag camp system. Russia's Gulag camps cast in forgiving light of Putin nationalism 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The town’s successful defence became a byword for heroism. The battle for Turkey: can Selahattin Demirtas pull the country back from the brink of civil war? | Christopher de Bellaigue 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Volkswagen, for decades the ultimate symbol of lean, beautifully engineered German industry, is a byword for shoddy corporate practices since it admitted to deceiving regulators over emissions from its diesel cars. Germany readies itself for more woe as scandal and slowdown hit economy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z “Carbon neutrality” is a lost phrase from the 2008 election cycle, a byword from the time when both Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns acknowledged the reality of global warming. United Nations launches program to combat climate change with clicks 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Or, that is, a politically correct one, purged of the bloodthirsty aggression that made the Viking Age a byword for macho violence. Norway Again Embraces the Vikings, Minus the Violence 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z After 10 years in prison, he claims he was determined to overcome the cycle of revenge attacks, territorial battles and police repression that made his country a byword for violence. One murder every hour: how El Salvador became the homicide capital of the world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Kobani was the Kurdish Stalingrad, and its defence became a byword for heroism. The battle for Turkey: can Selahattin Demirtas pull the country back from the brink of civil war? | Christopher de Bellaigue 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Equity and inclusion are the bywords, and teachers are supposed to “differentiate” instruction to meet the unique needs of every child. The Bright Students Left Behind 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Handloom weavers’ resistance to new machines earned them a pejorative name—Luddites—that has become a byword for all those who try in vain to stop technological progress. Automation angst 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z He knows what frustrates them, thus his focus on immigration, which has become a broad byword for everything voters hate about Washington. Trump: A Mismatch for the GOP 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Even Ancient Rome’s grain dole was a byword for corruption and inefficiency. Memo To Venezuela: The Soviets Nationalised Food Distribution And Guess What? It Didn't Work 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z No U.S. atrocity in Iraq came close to the wholesale slaughter of My Lai, or of the many My Lais that never became bywords. Violence in the Age of Terror 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Now, the country whose name was once a byword for hunger is part of a global effort to end it entirely. A Road Map for Eradicating World Hunger 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Since the phrase “republican values” is often used as a byword for resisting the challenge of radical Islam, the new name may speak to those tempted by the far right. Republicans in name aussi 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It became a byword for sluggish and incremental diplomacy that rarely challenged the status quo. Tony Blair resigns as Middle East peace envoy 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Cunard would eventually become a byword for luxury, but not for quite some time. Three Queens: How Cunard transformed travel - BBC News 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Rubio also alluded to the bywords of the Reagan era, when the simple motto “peace through strength” sustained the U.S. through the Cold War. Inside the Beltway: Marco Rubio reinvents ‘Peace through strength’ 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But at the military parade on Saturday, he condemned attempts to build a “unipolar” world — a byword for U.S. domination. No breakthroughs as Kerry, Putin meet in Sochi 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z "Presence," the byword of virtual reality, is an apt word here — a lot of experiences are based simply on the feeling of being somewhere. Virtual reality is for watching things. HoloLens is for making them 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z The ships were a byword for luxury, with royalty, Hollywood film stars and the leading politicians of the day all travelling through Southampton on their way to or from the US. Cunard 175th anniversary exhibition in Southampton - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z As our most prestigious institutions are our oldest, tradition remains a byword for quality. A Snowball's Chance in Hell 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Traditional age checks asking users to enter their date of birth are a byword for ineffectiveness, and although the Conservatives have suggested that credit card checks could be used, even this method might be insecure. UK government plans to introduce mandatory age-checks on porn sites 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z For viewers of Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", Mumbai's vast Dharavi slum is a byword for poverty, but to online retailer Snapdeal.com it is a battleground for new customers and, it hopes, a source of better margins. Snapdeal drums up custom in Slumdog's Dharavi 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “She ate. She drank. She smoked at a moment when the byword was ‘no limit.’ She Rode the Waves, and Broke Barriers 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Like many other popular restaurants, Fattoria embraces bywords like farm to table, organic, local and Mediterranean. A Review of Fattoria Dinner House in Armonk 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The waste and rot, to say nothing of the corruption, within the scheme is a byword. India Makes A Sensible Move On Food Subsidies, Trialing Cash Instead Of Goods In Kind 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z On the Teviot estate, once a byword for social breakdown, I met Chrissy Townsend, who helps run numerous community projects that provide help for the young unemployed. What's love got to do with politics? 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z “Luxury without limits” is the byword of this Knightsbridge boutique, which houses a suite of treatment rooms downstairs. The Best Treatments to Book Now at London's Luxury Spas 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z About ten years ago a curious change occurred in the Western gaming press, it seemed that anything Japanese was a byword for bad. Japanese Games Never Died, They Have Just Been Ignored 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Countless training programs funded by Western allies for lawyers and judges have become bywords for waste. Taliban Justice Gains Favor as Official Afghan Courts Fail 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z As with many things in Hawaii these days, his byword is sustainability. Flexibility exercises can keep muscles in balance 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The initials have become a byword for economic credibility. The Mild-Mannered 'Nerd' Who Might Decide the UK Election In the same period, Luton had become a byword for urban mediocrity. The Murky Side of the Beautiful Game: Life at the Bottom of English Football The British author's name is a byword for the struggle against totalitarianism. Why George Orwell is trending in Egypt 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z As Richard wrote in his history: “Glen Echo became a byword for disease. Land sales practically ceased. In spite of a strong advertising campaign, Glen Echo acquired an undeserved reputation as an unhealthy place.” Did an infestation of deadly snakes really cause Glen Echo Park to close for a while? But Microsoft, once a byword for hated multinational computing firm, elicited no such reaction. Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Middlesbrough put down a record fee for the Brazilian international striker who has now become a byword for money poorly spent. From Torres to Suárez: the hits and misses of transfer deadline day 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z In his barnstorming campaign for prime minister this year, Modi made the river a byword for responsible development. India river development project is a double-edged sword 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Take this comment from a discontented shopper: “Tesco has been a byword for cheap and nasty for years. The Germans have been doing cheap and decent for decades.” How British Supermarkets Are Being Eaten Alive The city’s first family, which prides itself on its down-home image, has made time for a daylong jaunt to Capri, the glittering island that is a global byword for glamour. Words We Love Too Much 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z But the byword for success is to provide clear training and guidelines for participation. Can An Employee's Tweet Land An Employer In Court? 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The attacking blueprint Germany adopted under Klinsmann and Löw at their home World Cup in 2006 has become the new paradigm for a team who were once a byword for cautious pragmatism. World Cup 2014: five things the USA learned from their draw with Portugal 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z There was a period on the circuit when he became a byword for perpetual injury. Super Novak: the world according to Djokovic 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Life magazine introduced the country to bold stories told in photos, and Time magazine became a byword for stature, offering accessible news analysis that is still imitated all over the industry. Time Inc. to Set a Lonely Course After a Spinoff 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z For a moment, it is possible to forget that you are in the new Brooklyn, and to be transported to a grittier era, before Bedford Avenue became a byword for urban cool. Watching the World’s Game, in the World’s City 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z On cable news and conservative talk radio, the de Blasio name has quickly become a byword for the excesses of liberalism, cited in a variety of discussions about the country’s political direction. De Blasio’s Role Among Republicans: Nemesis 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Soy sausages were invented by Konrad Adenauer, the first German chancellor after World War Two, and a byword for steady probity - dullness would be an unkind word. 10 inventions that owe their success to World War One 2014-04-13T22:51:06Z Pride in the local work ethic is fierce; it was here Soviet propagandists found the miner Stakhanov and made "stakhanovite" a byword for hard toil. City on the edge holds key to Ukraine future 2014-03-28T06:07:27Z But in the 20th century it became a byword for poverty, crime and corruption, a region that failed to reap the benefits of free-market reforms that came in the 1990s. From India's northern backwaters, a new business elite rises 2014-03-03T21:02:30Z Once a byword for Bay Area blight, their neighborhood brims with white professionals drawn to its affordable Victorians and proximity to San Francisco. As Neighborhoods Gentrify, Co-ops Find They Are Not to Everyone’s Taste 2014-02-12T01:23:30Z Although in the end Suharto's rule became a byword for nepotism and greed, in its early days it won wide praise for strong economic management. Ghost of Indonesia's Suharto gives life to his old political party 2013-12-13T08:02:50Z Has austerity — that feared and elusive byword for draconian welfare cuts — won the day? Letter from Europe: Vindication, of Sorts, for Austerity in Britain 2013-12-10T15:51:12Z It remained the place to be seen in Sarajevo, a byword for sophistication. Eventful past of Sarajevo's historic hotel 2013-11-02T00:02:42Z One of India's most charismatic politicians, Yadav was chief minister of Bihar - a state that became a byword for violence, poverty and graft - in the 1990s. Fresh blow for Indian government as ally convicted in 'fodder scam' 2013-09-30T12:14:02Z But it was the way he sold them that made him a byword for creative hard-sell salesmanship in the great American tradition. Cal Worthington, Car Dealer With an Incessant Jingle, Dies at 92 2013-09-09T21:37:10Z For decades, molecular cell biology was a byword for reductionism. Systems ecology: Biology on the high seas 2013-09-04T17:20:24.237Z His son's warning has become a byword for nepotism and corruption. Son of Chinese general faces rape trial; raises anger over top families 2013-08-27T21:03:45Z The minister acknowledged that his country's name was once a byword for criminality and terrorism. Colombia forces in hovercraft boost 2013-07-03T12:32:54Z Fracking has become a media byword for all this, but "unconventional gas" actually encompasses three processes. Fracking the nation: the dash for gas beneath rural Britain 2013-06-28T16:09:30Z For much of my life sub-Sahara Africa was a byword for military coups, disasters, famines and a host of negative news stories about hopes and aspirations squandered. Letter from Africa: Too early to celebrate growth figures 2013-06-19T09:07:19Z Both companies had become bywords for monopolistic power when they were taken apart, with U.S. authorities arguing they were impeding the emergence of new players. Insight: Threat of break-up looms over Mexican telecoms tycoon Slim 2013-06-10T11:02:57Z But in the ordinary world, Starbucks was already becoming a byword for sloppiness and mess, not to mention coffee that tastes like the hot milk my nan used to make me circa 1973. OK, this mug's got my name on it – but that doesn't mean Starbucks cares 2013-05-27T05:59:02Z As charged as the atmosphere still is, it has changed a lot since the dark days of the 1970s, ’80s and early ’90s, when English soccer was a byword for criminality, violence and hooliganism. Game Hunting in England’s Premier League 2013-05-21T01:15:46Z Once Guantánamo was a byword for an overmighty executive and the excesses of Mr Bush’s “war on terror”. The Guantánamo hunger-strike: The oubliette 2013-05-02T15:06:01Z The Godolphin management, for whom Mr Al Zarooni trains, is a byword for the highest levels of professionalism, integrity and sportsmanship. Trainers' shock at Godolphin scandal 2013-04-23T15:01:49Z They may also attract unscrupulous athletes seeking a handy oral alternative to injections of EPO, or erythropoietin, the blood enhancer that has become a byword for doping in cases involving cyclist Lance Armstrong and others. Astellas, GSK vie to make "high altitude" anemia pill 2013-04-19T11:59:47Z In the 1980s, the island became almost a byword for "structural adjustment". Jamaica's decades of debt are damaging its future 2013-04-16T06:00:38Z Martinez de Hoz's name became a byword for economic mismanagement in Argentina, but his plan to get the troubled national economy in order was initially lauded on Wall Street. Argentina's dictatorship economy chief Martinez de Hoz dies 2013-03-16T17:07:42Z The German rail network, heavily dominated by the state company, Deutsche Bahn, is a byword for rail comfort and sophistication compared to our own fractured and often controversial system. What should German passengers expect from a British operated rail route? 2013-02-07T11:17:00Z Where once it was a byword for music shopping, it became – from this music buyer's perspective – a place of last resort. HMV: 'Not too bad. But still not as cheap as Amazon' 2013-01-15T13:55:50Z But for some, spirituality is a byword for irrational beliefs and a sense that anything goes. Spiritual, but not religious 2013-01-03T12:34:58Z Steve Royston, a businessman based in Bahrain who blogs regularly on Gulf matters, believes that, though caution remains the byword, social media is a force for change. Gulf states attempt to stem tide of online criticism 2012-12-06T14:06:22Z By then, the party had become a byword for corruption, cronyism and vote-rigging. Mexico's Pena Nieto takes power, begins new era for old ruling party 2012-12-01T06:02:46Z Photograph: Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP It has become a retail byword for affordable, functional furniture: plain, cheerful items with a certain Nordic wholesomeness about them that millions of consumers the world over can't seem to resist. Ikea 'deeply regrets' use of forced labour 2012-11-16T18:49:49Z For many Americans, California has become a byword for debt, dysfunction and decline. Californian politics: Brownian motion 2012-11-15T16:05:22Z After the ending of most economic sanctions against a country that was a byword for repression they are ready to embrace the opportunities in a land of 60m people, tucked handily between India and China. Myanmar’s investment rules: Burmese haze 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z Before War For Cybertron, Transformers was a byword for tripe in gaming. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron – review 2012-08-28T13:17:17Z Capable of indexing knowledge in a manner accessible to all, "Googling" caught on fast and the company became a byword for subtle ingenuity. Google: a paragon of internet virtue no more 2012-08-13T20:30:01Z Photograph: Matthew Humberstone for the Observer To many, the sidecar is a byword for eccentricity – a throwback to a time of tartan travel rugs, boiled sweets and dog-eared road maps. Watsonian Squire sidecar – review 2012-08-04T23:05:11Z Now it is also a byword for fiscal strife. Municipal bankruptcy: The sadness of Scranton 2012-07-19T15:02:30Z One result is that Mr. Shaoul’s name has become a byword for aggressive development in the East Village. Ben Shaoul Takes the Village 2012-07-07T04:15:47Z Simplicity and restraint are the bywords here, starting with the spare, contemporary décor. | New Haven: A Review of Miso Japanese Restaurant, in New Haven 2012-06-29T22:35:44Z How did the Italian army, descended from the mighty Roman legions, become a byword for military incompetence? Notes & Queries: Where's the furthest tube station, please? 2012-06-27T15:00:01Z In the 1980s and early 1990s, Escobar and his cartel turned Medellin into a byword for violence, and the most conservative estimates hold him responsible for some 4,000 deaths. Colombia's Pablo Escobar drama a hit 2012-06-21T06:44:47Z His name was a household byword during the past football season, and his name almost revered among aspiring young football players. The anniversary of signing Sammy Baugh 2012-06-12T20:04:00Z Finally, even after being a byword for catastrophe for more than a generation, no country in Africa deserves, as has happened to so many in the past, to be written off. Dispatch from Somalia: War, But a Glimmer of Hope 2012-06-08T05:35:23Z India, by contrast, was a byword for basket case. Last night's summit: The feeling's mutual 2012-05-24T11:06:50Z Bancaja operated in eastern Valencia, a coastal region that became a byword for both voracious construction and political corruption. Former Bankia executive gets €14m payoff 2012-05-29T18:03:07Z These will intensify the sense of lockdown in a city which is already a byword across the world for remarkably intensive surveillance. via Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London | Stephen Graham | Sport | The Guardian. London's Amazingly Explicit Surveillance State Mascot For The 2012 Olympics Has A Huge Camera Eye That 'Records Everything' 2012-05-17T16:43:40Z On Thursday came its most intrepid offshoot yet, a hastily organised meeting in a city that has become a byword for war and nihilism – a place where pontificating might appear a western indulgence. TED stages Mogadishu conference to celebrate city's 'rebirth' 2012-05-17T16:02:47Z The diverting history of the flea and the gout shows that the luxurious abbess was already a byword early in the thirteenth century. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z So the war went on between players and payers, and "Merrie England" became a byword of reproach in the comity of nations. Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:33.287Z Burma was until just recently a byword for almost every early 21st century ill. U Thein Sein by Thant Myint-U 2012-04-19T01:05:48Z The city never recovered from this terrible blow, and to-day Kerman is a byword among Persians for its poverty and extraordinary number of beggars. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z The oppressors who scourged us with many whips Have become a hissing and a byword among the generations. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z The historic city of Timbuktu, once a byword for a place lost to obscurity and myth, is now in the grip of very real political events. In Mali, Terror Stalks the Treasures of Timbuktu 2012-04-06T01:35:37Z Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, which had been reduced to rubble during 21 years of civil war, becoming a byword for anarchy, is making a remarkable comeback. Somalis Embrace Hope and Reconstruction in Mogadishu 2012-04-03T19:00:51Z “Our submarine fleet” has become a byword, while none of their exploits have excelled those of the Merrimac and Monitor, two of the very earliest examples constructed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z With us the name of the savage is a byword of reproach. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z It was a colony thrown off by Sybaris, that great city of Calabria which became a byword of luxury while Rome was young and counted for little in the Italian land. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z He was a byword in Aldersbury for caution and shrewdness, and his adhesion to any scheme would, as Ovington well knew, commend it to the town. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Uncle Jasper was so fond of this house that it was a byword among the relations. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z Afterward it grew to be a byword that they always used between themselves, when one carried home a letter for the other. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z I grant you he hit all the trades, except the one that is a byword for looseness, and pride, and sloth, to wit the clergy. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z For years"--he spoke more rapidly as his passion grew--"she made her name a byword and dragged mine in the dirt. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Were they to be protected from the growling rabble--these hereditary legislators, who had abused their trust--these amateur colonels who had disgraced their cloth--this venal degraded senate which was a byword among senates? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z His name was a byword in the land. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z This Government means to protect all its citizens, at home and abroad, or it becomes a byword in the mouths of the nations of the world. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z But O sovereign wisdom of bywords! how true they put the finger on each nation's, or particular's, fault. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z After all, that was when he was a byword for managerial perfection. Fabio Capello: a bullying autocrat whose invincible aura faded 2012-02-08T21:56:08Z I shall become a byword, a thing of scorn for every scribbler to aim his wit at.' Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z But this remark tickled him immensely, and became a byword with him. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The condition of the town was rapidly growing into a byword, when the municipality obtained parliamentary powers in 1866 enabling it to condemn for purchase over-crowded districts, to borrow money and levy rates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z "May I go to bed then, dame?" said he sulkily, "for it is ill sitting up wet and fasting, and the byword saith 'he sups who sleeps.'" The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z That and my infernal itch for shifting have made me a scoffing and a byword. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The panel said it found no evidence that money was funneled to antisocial forces, a byword for criminal gangs. Olympus Remains Delisting Risk After Report, Exchange Says 2011-12-06T09:31:01Z The panel said it found no evidence that money was funneled to anti-social forces, a byword for criminal gangs. Heart of Olympus Management ‘Rotten to the Core,’ Panel Says 2011-12-06T07:20:33Z The "governor's temper" was a byword in the office. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Ay they that set these bywords a rolling had eyes and tongues, and tongues and eyes. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z All in the building had come full of faith in the man whose fame as a surgeon was a byword; it was as though their faith had received an ugly jar. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z So snobbish are we Americans about our eating, that we make the best of our foods into bywords. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The effort became a byword for government fallacy on energy, yet the research helped lead to coal gasification and carbon capture and storage technology that's being used today. Does the U.S. Spend Too Much on Green Energy -- Or Not Enough? 2011-11-14T09:00:00Z When he began, the almond, because of almost universal failure of the old varieties, was a jest and a byword in our horticulture. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z For decades the state was an Indian byword for poverty, violence and corruption. Breaking Free: How Nitish Kumar Turned Bihar Into a Model of Indian Reform 2011-10-31T04:50:00Z When all was said, such virtue was a byword, and the story of Joseph a thing for a quiet smile! The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z It is that pestilential spirit which has wrought evil among God's people, and caused them to become a byword to the nations of the earth, and an abomination to the Lord of Heaven! The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z And his luck became a byword in the North. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z What?—wouldst thou become a jest and byword for every tavern table between the Temple and the Tower? Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z The hero of this era was the VP of manufacturing, and his byword was efficiency. The Creator Economy: Futurist Paul Saffo On The New Business Epoch 2011-10-19T16:24:02Z Hence he incurred an amount of hatred even greater than that which encompassed Leo III., and his very name has been handed down to history with the insulting byword Copronymus tacked on to it. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z Augustus did much for Neapolis, and Tiberius sought refuge in that entrancing island, Capri, where to this day his infamies are a byword. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Nobody disputes that the political atmosphere in Liberia, once a byword for repression, has lightened beyond recognition under Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf. Prize or Not, Liberian Faces Tough Race to Keep Office 2011-10-07T23:29:06Z To break it, he declared, would be to sink to the depth of dishonor and to make the name of the city a byword throughout the world. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z The name of Tiberius was a byword for impenetrable disguise. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z All the cruelty in her, which in after life made this wretched woman's name the byword of history, seemed just then to smother her very womanhood, her every tender thought. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z RIM, once a byword for corporate communication, warned in April that weak sales of its aged BlackBerry portfolio were hurting its prospects. Outlook and new BlackBerrys key in RIM results 2011-09-13T17:34:00Z His power, wisdom, and opulence, were a byword over Europe and Africa, and had even reached to the furthest limits of the Moslem empire in Asia. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z For over 20 years the Rovers name was a byword for homelessness after their owners, the Kilcoyne family, enraged fans by selling the club's Milltown ground to property developers in 1987. After fighting extinction, Shamrock Rovers saviour unlikely Hoop dreams 2011-08-26T13:06:27Z The company's service was a byword and a hissing in the town, and he did what he could to better it, working long hours, but enjoying the labor. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Among the seventeen girls who composed Va there was of course every variety of disposition, from Laura Kirby, who was nicknamed "the walking dictionary", to Sheila Moore, who was a byword for silliness. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z His capacity was a byword among his friends. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z I stopped for dinner at a house, the lavish hospitality of which had been a byword in the old days. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z The instability which characterizes their several governments in their present isolated interests has passed into a byword. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Now he could only lie back in his car, while the sailorman, driving him, obeyed the reckless instincts which have made him and his comrades a byword for devotion. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The PRI, whose record made the party a byword for corruption in Mexico, won 63 percent of votes in the state. Battered Mexican left stumbles towards 2012 election 2011-07-22T00:00:42Z Even so recently as the days of our grandparents “Sarah Gamp” was the general refuge—now her name is a byword. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Chris Kluwe , the punter for the Minnesota Vikings, wrote on his Twitter feed, referring to the reports about demands for some of the plaintiffs, “Sigh, and once again greed is the operative byword.” N.F.L. Deal Near, Lawsuits Seen as Stumbling Block 2011-07-20T01:00:40Z Obduracy became a byword and he revelled in sticking two fingers up at his critics, or more momentously three fingers after scoring his only one-day century at Lord's in 2002 from No3. How Sourav Ganguly and Nasser Hussain revitalised India and England 2011-07-19T22:01:00Z Cynicism and greed are the bywords of the modern game – on both sides. Andy Murray's tears shine a light on a misunderstood fighter 2011-07-11T22:00:01Z What if they were killed or captured in some engagement, and he were thus left at the mercy of this ruffian, whose barbarities were a byword upon that border? The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z For ages the “roads” of this country were a byword and a reproach to us. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The friends of the Bible have unwittingly made this great book a jest and a byword by their wretched interpretation of it. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Japan is still a byword for quality and efficiency. How Post-Tsunami Japan Can Move Forward 2011-06-27T03:00:00Z Analysis: Youth is the Aussies' byword in this tournament. Women's World Cup teams at a glance 2011-06-25T01:30:06Z For many years, the Colombian city of Cali was a byword for drugs and was best-known for the notorious Cali cartel. Circus from the slums 2011-06-22T09:37:27Z RIM, once a byword for corporate mobile communications, has lost allure as Apple's and later Google's Android operating system changed the rules of the game. RIM Shares Tumble as Forecast Slashed Again 2011-06-16T21:56:14Z Had not the justice of the strong become a byword and a loathing? The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Over the years, the name of Dalby Bedford had become a byword for freedom in the Americas: under his hand Barbados had been made a democracy, and virtually independent of England. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z And yet in one corner of the UK, the Titanic is a byword not for disaster but a source of pride and nostalgia. Disaster rewritten 2011-05-31T09:19:23Z And it was that one simple oversight that ultimately turned the from the greatest ship in the world to a byword for disaster. Belfast Celebrates the Centenary of the 'Titanic' Launch 2011-05-31T08:31:16Z Indeed it was a byword for respectability, until Good Friday, 1918; but that is anticipating. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z Await another storm like a crab in its shell, or venture forth and become the byword of an overwrought populace, the scorn of old men and matrons? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z A relevant piece of advice may be contained in a byword that emerged from “Fawlty Towers,” the British television comedy series. Politicus: Awkward Moment for Obama and Merkel 2011-05-02T17:50:04Z Kate Middleton is already a byword for style and glamour according to the man who made Princess Diana's wedding dress. AUDIO: Diana's dress designer on 'divine' Kate 2011-04-27T12:14:12Z Will Myspace forever be a byword for the fickleness of consumer websites, and the failure of big media to exploit them? MySpace: Revenues and audience looking up, apparently 2011-04-13T15:56:00Z It is also the 21st century incarnation of an 87-year-old marque that was once a byword for all that was nippy, open-topped and carefree about British sports cars. The new MG: made in China, fine-tuned in Birmingham 2011-04-12T17:43:49Z After all, if recent history tells us anything it is that the man who was once a byword for consistency is no longer reliably excellent when he absolutely needs to be. Masters 2011: Rory McIlroy leads charge of the new power generation 2011-04-09T13:31:19Z After all, Ulster was—until really quite recently—a byword for terrorist violence. A Tragic But Rare Political Murder in Northern Ireland 2011-03-04T16:45:00Z James Richardson lifts the big pink organ for which his name is a byword off the table and waves it about in front of the camera in this week's European press review. The Fiver 2011-04-01T15:14:13Z Here a dreadful sight presents itself on a sudden to my eyes: The judge, tired with interrogating bywords, has recourse to interrogation by tortures. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z From that day the byword with which they had formerly designated Felix changed. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Science can go too far The term "Frankenstein foods" - applied to genetically modified products - suggests the name of the novel has become a byword for bad science. 10 meanings of Frankenstein 2011-03-14T11:25:12Z Municipal taxes were high, and the city had been a byword for labor troubles since a violent 1934 strike at Auto-Lite. P. J. O'Rourke Reflects on Toledo, His Hometown 2011-03-13T14:00:00Z The name Pinewood used to be a byword for successful British films like the Carry On series. VIDEO: Pinewood promises boost to UK films 2011-03-08T20:26:29Z Then there was Halliburton, the oilfield services company whose name became a byword for what critics viewed as the Bush administration's overly cozy relationships with corporate America. Special report: Weapons and the art of diplomacy 2011-03-04T14:27:19Z It was very nice in you to consider our foo----" in spite of all the bitterness which for the moment he feels toward Elsa, he cannot use the byword foolish, and rather says--"little traditions. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z "I don't care to leave ye," he said, and made a sort of byword of it that served when there was nothing else to say. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z This is France’s northern rust belt, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, industrial heartland turned byword for decline. Marine Le Pen's New National Front in France 2011-02-20T05:00:00Z So with the kind of monotonous predictability for which our name has long been a byword, that's exactly what the Fiver is going to do. The Fiver 2011-02-17T16:05:48Z But now it's the poorest, with Naples a byword for crime and corruption. Dissent in the ranks 2011-02-16T14:17:09Z The man is a byword; you know that. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z His blasphemy was a byword in the congregation. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z In the last few years, human rights have become, like health and safety, a byword for foolish decisions by courts and administrators. UK 'should cut Europe court link' 2011-02-07T00:51:58Z I had always considered him the most fearless man in a regiment whose name was a byword for reckless courage. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Indeed for many the name of Lucretia Borgia, which has become a byword for everything worst in human life, is supposed to be a better symbol of the Renaissance than that of Vittoria Colonna. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Long before Obama made hope his byword, Reagan was offering a share of the American Dream to all comers. The Reagan Revelation 2011-01-27T08:30:00Z He hath given you over into the hand of the spoiler; ye are a byword among nations; the followers of the victorious Christ spit in your faces. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Lampard, whose name had previously been a byword for durability, was ready to make up for lost time. Chelsea hope Frank Lampard's return can spark stuttering season 2010-12-17T22:37:00Z The Madoff name became a byword for fraud in December 2008 when Bernard Madoff confessed to his sons that the family business they both worked in was based on "one big lie". Son of jailed financier Bernard Madoff commits suicide in New York 2010-12-12T00:08:00Z It is a now a byword for a badly handled IPO. Ocado has been marked down but it's still no bargain 2010-09-04T23:07:00Z Indeed, Mumsnet has become the byword for mothers on the internet, as if all we do is have warm, helpful conversations. What do women get up to online? 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z More than 150 people were killed in the standoff, which made madrassa a byword for "terrorist incubator" in the minds of many. Perilous Studies: Americans in Pakistan's Islamic Schools 2010-06-18T08:15:00Z "BP is a great British company, for long a byword for good management and successful performance on an international scale," the Express newspaper said in an editorial. BP oil crisis could spell declining fortunes in Britain 2010-06-03T20:51:00Z She's fully aware that her name is a byword for extravagance - in fact she even embraces it. Meeting Imelda 2010-05-27T12:11:00Z For Psion, mutualisation mixed with its decision to produce modular products, could be the key to it recapturing some of its former glory, when the name Psion was a byword for British innovation. Psion's new take on internet business 2010-04-14T18:34:00Z But the Wagner family over the years became a byword for venomous squabbles. Composer's Heir Revived Bayreuth 2010-03-23T01:27:00Z Twitter is becoming a byword for a chaos that political parties cannot abide. Welcome to the first e-election 2010-03-17T08:00:00Z Spokesman Fakhri al-Obaidi of the Diyala provincial council said the bombings reflected a "major security failure," shattering a period of relative calm in the province that was once a byword for savage sectarian fighting. Three suicide bombs kill 32 ahead of Iraqi vote 2010-03-03T16:28:00Z Why is Beirut still a byword for chaos? Why is Beirut still a byword for chaos? 2010-02-20T08:49:00Z His hardness in collecting small sums was a byword. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men His wife, Faustina, has almost become a byword for her lack of womanly virtue; but she seems to have kept her hold on his affections to the last. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" This sudden eloquence from the one man on earth whose cold self-restraint had become a byword moved him strangely. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 All October and November he kept it up, his name a byword far beyond the confines of the Estate, and by December he must have been near the inevitable climax. Witching Hill This I know, my poor friend, the byword of those who knew him, overwhelmed with a hopeless passion, thrown on the sea of life without anchor or rudder, drifted. The Man Who Rose Again But his name came to be a byword of disgrace, his story a dark, grotesque legend among records of infamy. The Unknown Sea She told every one to keep still; she spoke in bywords that barked the shins of profanity. A Yankee from the West A Novel In college the saying was that Marsh would sputter but Crocker would stick, and this byword expressed the difference between them. Making Money Harvard overconfidence was a byword when he was in college, and it was overconfidence which he feared now. The Bachelors A Novel Was he so weak, then, as to return to the poison that had made him the byword of clodhoppers? The Man Who Rose Again The very name of our kind has become a byword for all sorts of trickery and cheating. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. No, I've come to tell you that I mean to make that woman's name a scandal and a byword from end of town to the other. In And Out In a tablier of white, she might well and naturally bear rule in the episcopal kitchen, of which the waste and expense had long been a byword. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion Here, then, was the renowned slaver, the man whose name was a byword from Zanzibar to Morocco. Haviland's Chum |
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