| 单词 | placeman |
| 例句 | To hit back, various Dubya placemen, chiefly the vice-president's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, made a nasty little leak to the press. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z There were a fair number of failure models on view: the drunk, the incompetent, the placemen and the pompous. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z Though barred from a third consecutive presidential term, he is said to be planning to do a Putin: put in a placeman and come back next time. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z Gov Sitnikov is Vladimir Putin's placeman in his home region, so he's hardly a rebel or fearless teller of uncomfortable truths. The cost of the Ukraine war for one Russian regiment 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z On April 26th its placemen in a “reform” committee are due to finish debating the first full version of a planned new constitution intended to do just that. A baby-sitters’ charter 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Not all potential cabinet appointees are placemen or hacks. Taking the reins 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z This is fine in the pages of a polemical novel, and an excellent thing for democracy in a parliament that often appears full of placemen. Douglas Carswell’s defection leaves Cameron’s strategy in tatters 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Duncan Smith and his placemen have to intimidate because his department is the administrative equivalent of a failed state, a collapsed institution, where ministers mouth promises that never and can never come true. Why stubborn Iain Duncan Smith is no statesman 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z But while the administrators controlled Polly Peck's assets on paper and in law, in Northern Cyprus and Turkey those properties and businesses remained firmly in the hands of the tycoon's placemen. Asil Nadir, Polly Peck and the headless chickens 2012-08-26T17:02:13Z It has been widely criticized for allowing the parties to stuff their lists with unqualified placemen with no direct connection to the electorate and totally dependent on party hierarchies for their political careers. Italian parties clash over electoral reform plans 2012-07-25T19:19:47Z In the House previous to the present, there were 205 members closely related to the peers of the realm; 153 officers of the army and navy; 63 placemen; and 247 patrons of church livings. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The new placeman, having achieved office, subsides into a long silence. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z It was impossible to defend a system which confined the suffrage to 200,000 citizens, and returned a chamber of whom half were placemen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z He went once, at all events, to the gallery of the House of Commons, where he witnessed an altercation between a placeman and an alderman—two well-known types still in our midst. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Such a government is an aristocracy, which would require a standing army and a numerous train of pensioners and placemen to prop and support its exalted administration. Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States 2011-04-24T02:00:09.423Z Independent directors should be exactly that – not placemen for single shareholders. National Express hears from backseat drivers 2011-04-12T19:59:19Z Then he suddenly flashes out, not as a royal attendant or a minor placeman, but as the people's darling and the champion of the country. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z He put to death a few of his courtiers, placemen, and pensioners, and among the rest his tutor. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z The placeman had misquoted Terence, and the alderman had corrected him; whereupon the ready placeman thanked the worthy alderman for teaching him Latin, and volunteered in exchange to teach the alderman English. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z No "Heroic" surely, in that sleek young placeman. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z His object was to emancipate parliament from the control of placemen and pensioners and to break the power of the borough-owners by the extension of the franchise. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z The eighteenth century was the golden age of Whig families, at least till George III. became king, and the house of Russell continued to provide the country with a succession of dignified placemen. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z The cry was now for two drastic measures of change: the political emancipation of the Catholics, and a reform of Parliament substituting freedom of election for nomination and clearing the legislature of pensioners and placemen. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z This small body of Whigs therefore laboured, though with little success, to maintain the purity and independence of the Commons by the exclusion of placemen and the reduction of sinecures. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z In January 2010, demonstrators protesting at a sharp increase in the cost of public transport directed their anger at Mr Boos, who is seen as a Kremlin placeman. Kaliningrad 2010-02-10T19:52:27Z We know too well that, in the words of Litton Falkiner, it was a parliament of landlords, of placemen, and of Protestants. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z When first to the village he went; All pensions and placemen were bad, Of doctrine so foul he’s relent, By vanity’s rays he’s misled. An Address to a Wealthy Libertine or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction; with a Letter from an Unfortunate Farmer's Daughter, to her Parents in Norfolk The House of Commons continued to swarm with placemen and pensioners, whose votes were at the command of government. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Till we gain a reform, and do placemen away, We’ll at Liberty’s call, all her dictates obey. A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England His opponet he hit with skill, Sir, so hard, As put the said placeman quite off of his guard. The Independent Statesmen, and Liberal Landlord or a respectful tribute to T. W. Coke, M.P. for the County of Norfolk The sole connexion of the islands was between Whitehall and the Castle—between power and placemen—between cabinets and viceroys. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The tendency of the abuse of Executive patronage is to make those in the civil service mere placemen and mere tools or willing servitors of the President. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. They failed to purify the House itself by substituting free election for nomination boroughs, or by the effective exclusion of pensioners and placemen from the House. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z An incorporation of its pure doctrines with decaying pagan ideas was the necessary consequence of the control that had been attained by unscrupulous politicians and placemen. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition I consider the proposed address as calculated to give countenance to placemen, pensioners, enormous taxation, and corruption. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 To us the poet Prior is better known than the placeman Prior; yet in his own day the reverse often occurred. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors By another wise measure placemen were removed from the Assembly; that is to say, permanent officials, such as judges and registrars, could not hold their positions and be members of parliament. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 The House, moreover, swarmed with placemen and pensioners. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z In these contests of Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria for supremacy—for, after all, they were nothing more than the rivalries of ambitious placemen for power—the Roman bishop uniformly came forth the gainer. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The Society mistakes the fears of borough-mongers, placemen, and pensioners, for the fears of the people; and the temperate and moderate Reform it talks of, is calculated to suit the condition of the former. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 A series of reform laws, which struck at the very roots of Berkeley's system of rule through placemen, was introduced in the Assembly, rushed through, and signed by the governor. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The restricting of local officers to one office at a time struck a blow at Berkeley's system of government by placemen. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 To punish the masters for their delinquencies was not enough; greater sacrifices than a few comparatively obscure placemen were demanded by the suitors and wards whose money had been squandered by the fraudulent trustees. A Book About Lawyers Under a thin veil he hides an undisguised scepticism, and, with the instinct of a placeman, leans rather to the investigation of public concerns than to the profound and abstract topics of philosophy. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The canons, prebends, and placemen had been chosen with great care. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England His Radical friends were denouncing placemen and jobbery, and Cobbett began to perceive what was at the bottom of the evil. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Now, it was some prosperous placeman, his equal, or his superior in rank. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Other Memoranda dealt mainly with the difficult question of compensation to the borough-holders and placemen who would suffer by the proposed change. William Pitt and the Great War Some of the latter were men of honour and energy, but others were mere placemen in need of a job. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe And, accordingly, every placeman, from the highest to the lowest, was made to understand that he must support the throne or lose his office. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges During the war little was achieved, though a revival of the old complaints about placemen in parliament was among the first symptoms of the rising sentiment. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Cæsar, who was Master of the Rolls, was generous, and, for a Jacobean placeman, just. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He was a legislator and Executive Councillor, but not a placeman. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Native Nova Scotians have shown that we do not need to go abroad for lazy and impecunious placemen. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe Newcastle never counted the cost so long as there was a county member to be bought or a placeman to be satisfied. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III The placemen, who were denounced as one of the great abuses of the time, were rewarded for voting power not for literary merit. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century She was well aware of our matron's inveteracy against her and her establishment, and she resented it as a placeman resents the efforts of a radical. St. Ronan's Well It was a positive grievance, and indeed it was a partial destruction of the constitution, at the instance of a placeman. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Mr. Speaker Colfax was in excellent spirits, and so were the scores of Congressmen and placemen present, each one anxious to say a word to the next President. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis He dilates to his uncle, Lord Seymour Temple, a greyheaded placeman, on the profligacy of the press. The Young Duke It separated the administration from the legislature by excluding placemen from the House of Commons; and it prohibited the king from visiting his foreign dominions without leave. Lectures on Modern history In the midst of the news of the gaieties of the town, of the begging of political placemen for a higher rank in the peerage, we now come upon the question of America. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life The imported nobility had dwindled down to the condition of placemen or traders. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 At the moment the newly appointed placeman had been rather glad that such was the case. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Lord Clarendon, a typical Whig placeman, said that Stanley was "a great aristocrat, proud of family and wealth, but had no generosity for friend or foe, and never acknowledged help." Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences Frederic, Prince of Wales, was the first object of all needy politicians, and Rigby for a while attached himself to this feeble personage with all the zeal of a prospective placeman. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Would not even this emasculate order of placemen, standing apart a sacrificed though favored class, still present themselves as unpardonable offenders? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Garfield's assassination by a disappointed placeman added to the public demand for reform, and on January, 18, 1883, the Pendleton Civil Service Law was passed. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Emancipation apart, the franchise without Reform was a complete farce, for the boroughs, which controlled the Parliamentary balance, were the personal property of Protestant landlords, and the 110 Parliamentary placemen were indirectly their tools. The Framework of Home Rule In the prosecution of their measures they were traversed by an opposition of a new and singular character; an opposition of placemen and pensioners. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) We have letters from all sorts of persons, great lords and little, statesmen and travellers, placemen and place-hunters; and amusing enough many of them are. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 He would have disfranchised the rotten boroughs and excluded placemen from Parliament. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Tattles of disquiet vex us, And among us are new enemies— Cowards, weak, ignoble whiners, Esaus, placemen, low-browed livers, Traitors, salesmen of a nation. Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure No less than 44 seats were occupied by placemen, 32 by gentlemen who had promises of pensions, 12 by gentlemen who stood out for higher prices from Government. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious junto; or that their resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) I mean the false position, and usually mischievous character, of the Irish Executive, which, with its army of placemen and expectants in Parliament, was commonly absolute master of the situation. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question We were patriots together.—Ah! placeman and peer Are the patrons who smile on your labours to-day; And Lords of the Treasury lustily cheer Whatever you do and whatever you say. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 They are a nation of placemen; they are a commonwealth without a people; they are a state made up wholly of magistrates. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) But the complaints of these persons against you are the more unreasonable, because they say not a word against the sums paid to sinecure placemen and pensioners. Political Pamphlets A body of loquacious placemen go out to tell the world that all he aims at is to get into office. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) It was the lavish expenditure to meet a compliant list of placemen that brought the country to its present state. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I The Constitutional Society desired frequent parliaments, the exclusion of placemen from the House, and the increase of the county representation. Burke The stuff that he has perpetrated is happily no longer present to his memory, and neither placeman's sophistry nor patriot's rant will be likely in any way to interfere with his repose. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 They do not propose, far from it, to check the breeding of sinecure placemen and pensioners, who are supported in part by the taxes which you help to pay. Political Pamphlets An ejected placeman goes down to his county or his borough, tells his friends of his inability to serve them and his constituents, of the corruption of the government. Samuel Johnson The truth happens to have been exactly the other way, and Greville's notes are only the echo of the grumblings of the disappointed Whig placemen who talked to him. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. An ejected placeman goes down to his county or his borough, tells his friends of his inability to serve them, and his constituents of the corruption of the Government. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 These political phases were not the acquiescence of a placeman, or indifferentist, in mutations for which he does not care; still less were they changes either of party or of opinion. Milton There are several individual placemen, the profits of each of which would maintain a thousand families. Political Pamphlets So, from a flaming patriot, he sunk into a pensioned placeman. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 The cannon's roar, the muffled drums proclaim, In one short blast, thy momentary fame, And some war minister per-hazard reads In what far field the tool of placemen bleeds. The Columbiad Here, then, we have a proof, an experimental proof, of the practicability of conducting a government without giving placemen seats in the Legislature. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 The truth is no placeman now knows his right key, The Treasury pitch-pipe of late is so various; And certain base voices, that lookt for a fee At the York music-meeting now think it precarious. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes But I should be glad to know how the sinecure placemen and lady pensioners have assisted to create food and raiment, or the means of producing them. Political Pamphlets He did not favour his hearers with any history, but gave them his views about taxes, free trade, placemen, and pensioners, whoever and wherever they might be. Coningsby Under Walpole's administration the imperial Parliament had degenerated from an independent assembly to a junta of placemen, and the most flagitious system of bribery was openly practised and avowed. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Resolutions were now proposed and passed, which exposed the glaring injustice of paying away enormous sums of the public money to sinecure placemen and unworthy pensioners, &c. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 It actually lifts the lucky elf, Thus acted upon, above himself;— He jumps to a state of clairvoyance, And is placeman, statesman, all, at once! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes But satire disturbed not the calm equanimity of the pensioner and placeman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Every man had his double; the heels of every placeman were dogged by friendly rivals ready to trip them up. Coningsby Some of them were dejected; Bourbousson maintained the silence of a vanquished placeman. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness The baron was a courtier and a placeman. Precaution An ejected placeman goes down to his county or his borough, tells his friends of his inability to serve them, and his constituents of the corruption of the government. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons There was hardly a hungry placeman in London who had not as just pretensions to the honor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 But he does not yet know, for it was not necessary for our story he should do so, that the honourable Mr. Prattle was a commoner and a placeman. Damon and Delia A Tale Some who had proved ineffective asserters of the views of the country party were alarmed for their seats; the King was easily persuaded that many of his own most obedient placemen might disappear. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Here never languish honest men and true, Except by placemen’s fraud, misgovernment, Jealousies, anger, or some spiteful crew. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini The French Constitution says that to preserve the national representation from being corrupt, no member of the National Assembly shall be an officer of the government, a placeman or a pensioner. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man In all they were a menacing element, made up of the conservative, the prosperous, the well-educated, with a mixture, of course, of mere placemen and tuft-hunters. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters You are a placeman, mutually disgracing and disgraced. Damon and Delia A Tale The government had created a world of parasites and placemen housed in enormous hotels, where they were engaged at large salaries upon mysterious unproductive labors which seemed to have no result in front-line trenches. Now It Can Be Told He was blindly ignorant of naval affairs, coarse, obstinate, a placeman who owed his position to intrigue and favoritism. The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars But in England there are no such occasional bodies; and as to those who are now called Representatives, a great part of them are mere machines of the court, placemen, and dependants. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man The only charge which malice can prefer against me is that I am a placeman. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 They were opposed by Sir Henry Colt, a dull, surly, stubborn professor of patriotism, who tired everybody to death with his endless railing at standing armies and placemen. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 The Tories hooted the two placemen who were raising great estates out of the plunder of the poor overburdened nation. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 He had neither adroitness to parry, nor fortitude to endure, the gibes and reproaches to which, in his new character of courtier and placeman, he was exposed. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Every placeman, from the highest to the lowest, must be made to understand that, if he wished to retain his office, he must, at this conjuncture, support the throne by his vote and interest. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 The "spoils" were the salaries paid to the lower grade of placemen and women—salaries usually not very large, but often far above what those persons could earn in honest competition. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography That he was a placeman, and that he was for a standing army, were grave objections to him in the opinion of many who were not Tories. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Many Tory country gentlemen, who had looked on Seymour as their leader in the war against placemen and Dutchmen, were moved to indignation by learning that he had become a courtier. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The placemen were not turned out of the House of Commons. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 A body of loquacious placemen go out to tell the world, that all he aims at, is to get into office. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. More than a hundred and fifty years ago there was a general cry that the number of placemen in Parliament was too great. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 The sceptic and the zealot, the revolutionist and the placeman, meet on common ground in a gallery of paintings or a laboratory of science. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 One was a law excluding placemen from the House of Commons. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The only rational recommendation which we can find in all these instructions is that the number of placemen in Parliament should be limited, and that pensioners should not he allowed to sit there. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious Junto, or that their resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. Though the population of the city at the inception of the Reformation had sunk to eighty thousand, there were vast crowds of placemen, and still greater ones of aspirants for place. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science They will agree in thinking that it would be most pernicious to open the House of Commons to all placemen, and not less pernicious to close that House against all placemen. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。