Sentences with word «defenestration»

Its famous public defenestration of Amazon, Google and Starbucks for paying tiny amounts of tax in the UK was, she said, «unfinished business».

What few regicide attempts the party has witnessed have come off more embarrassing than lethal, reinforcing its unease with the whole business of public defenestration.

News of Mancini's imminent defenestration has been dribbling out for months, but was substantially leaked in the run - up to last Saturday's FA Cup final, which suggests two things.

Putnam said he couldn't have signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act as it was, though he added that if he were to be elected Governor, the self - proclaimed «NRA sellout» would enforce the law that has led to a lawsuit from the gun group, and a ritual defenestration of House Speaker Richard Corcoran for pushing the gun control bill through.

Either way, a Clegg defenestration would turn much of the conventional Lib Dem thinking about life after the election on its head.

Cameron is unlikely to be the victim of an accidental defenestration like Thatcher but all it takes is a resentful reaction by backbenchers to bad news to set the process in motion.

Trends of the Year: Ironically self - conscious sequels (22 Jump Street, Muppets Most Wanted), drum solos (Birdman, Whiplash), Tilda Swinton in terrifying makeup (Snowpiercer, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Jason Reitman making awful movies (Labor Day; Men, Women & Children), final - act defenestrations (Birdman, Ida), tragic marital outcomes for Sienna Miller (Foxcatcher, American Sniper)

ZKM Karlsruhe... 22Jun > Defenestration.

As ecclesiastical discipline declined precipitously in the 1950s and 1960s, systematic Thomism underwent a kind of defenestration.

My favorite is «defenestration», which is very hard to work into a sentence these days.

The defenestration of Tory moderates such as George Young, Sayeeda Warsi and Clarke with Tory hardliners such as Grayling, Patterson and Theresa Villiers was evidence of this.

«Peter Walker: The consequences of the defenestration of Godfrey Bloom Main Dominic Raab MP: This week's fire brigade union action shows why we need strike law reform»

There are enough straws in the wind that we could still be about to witness one of the rarest events in British politics: the defenestration of a major party leader.

Whereas Conservative MPs have seldom baulked at ridding themselves of leaders who proved to be liabilities, Labour's more collectivist political culture meant it was averse to defenestration.

If the prime minister is to avoid a defenestration, the loyalty and industry of his old friend will be essential.

Never fully recovered from the defenestration of Margaret Thatcher, a period of calm in the Tory Party was only restored when....

If the defenestration of Anne Mackintosh tells us something about Tory activists» attitude to women, what about the dumping of Tim Yeo?

The unexpected sacking and replacement of Rosie Winterton by Nick Brown has seen her defenestration treated as if the office was hers by divine right.

It is felt he has succeeded a little in getting Cameron and ministers to concentrate more on the issues that they believe voters really care about; but many MPs were shocked at the extent to which this unelected import influenced the July reshuffle, and particularly his role in Michael Gove's defenestration.

But also worthy of our attention is the fact that it's not cause for the self - defenestration you'd think was contemplated by some of our colleagues on hearing the word.

Among them: defenestration, encincture, perlustration, philotheoparoptesism, rodomontade and ultracrepidarian.