Sentences with word «jackboot»
The word "jackboot" refers to a type of tall, sturdy military boot that reaches up to the shin. It symbolizes authority, power, and sometimes oppression, particularly when used to describe the actions or behavior of an authoritarian regime or an oppressive ruler. Full definition
Dr Helen Evans, director of Nurses for Reform and a signatory to the letter in the Telegraph, said: «Away from all the government's blather concerning enterprise, freedom and personal responsibility, the illiberal jackboots of the do - gooders are again on the march.»
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It's often forgotten that the Nazi jackboot did tread on one small part of Britain.
It isn't necessary to see jackboots in the streets to see echoes of the 1930s in these alarming developments.
He said, «For a moment, I will look at the bright side and express some gratitude that the stranglehold placed on the nation by various jackboots is no longer there.
She says she was inspired to write A Changed Man after seeing two skinheads on the New York subway, all dressed up with jackboots and shaved heads, but looking terrified - it was clear to her that they were out of their element, which made her curious about what kind of people they were.
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Railing against the Soviets» «dirty jackboots» all over Europe, and how «Lady Thatcher saved us» from socialism made him sound stuck in a geo - political past, or at least a battered history textbook, not relevant to Conservative defectors, floating voters, and even loyal Conservative voters the party needs to target today.
There's a lot of spectacular imagination on show here, albeit thoughtfully framed in reasurringly familiar ways, as we appreciate further glimpses of life under the giant jackboot of the Galactic Empire.
As the Wachowskis proved in the «Matrix» trilogy and as copycat moviemakers have been affirming since, jackboot fashion and heroic hyperviolence go together in movies like guns and ammunition.
Trouble is most definitely a-brewing, and that's when the Sunday worship is interrupted by the sound of stomping jackboots.
Black draws on the Romanian developers» memories of life under the Soviet jackboot.
A pair of jackboots away from being a wunderbar stormtrooper himself, my publicist.
Just in case I missed the point, the sound of jackboots emanates from waste bins.
He talked about how bizarre it was to be learning about the League of Nations and mandates and the obligation to disarm, «while most of Europe was under the Nazi jackboot.»
He wore jackboots and gave the fascist salute.
I was on the subway in New York once, and I saw these two very young skinheads — all dressed up, with jackboots and shaved heads — and I noticed that they looked terrified, like they'd been dropped from Mars.
But he goes on: «When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»
«This is a community that has really felt the jackboot of the Iranian government,» says Leonard Leo, chairman of the commission.
The people queue for a half hour for ice cream cones, and while St. Wenceslas, the city's patron, once promised to pop back if things ever got really sticky, neither religious atrocity nor foreign occupation, neither the jackboots of the Nazis nor the tanks of Moscow have been enough to summon his return.
For Boles is also «willing to say, or do, almost anything to advance himself», not to mention crushing «local opinion and expertise» beneath his «jackboots».
If the crowds at Glastonbury are considered fans rather than fanatics, maybe they are not destined to put on jackboots and goosestep behind their leader.
Sadly, Tinubu, Ambode, Mohammed, Fashola, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the visiting President know that state visits caused hardship to the citizenry and brought Lagos to its knees since the days of the jackboot when innocent schoolchildren were lined up along routes where visiting military tin gods rode.
The dancers in hot pants, jackboots and Nazi insignia plus a 16 - tonne Second World War tank turned up outside the party's spring conference
It's a worrying reminder that fascism, when it comes, does not always come with truncheons and jackboots.
As the Arab Spring played out over the past year and a half — as Egypt's first free presidential ballots were totaled up in late May, and Morsi faced off against a former general, Ahmed Shafik, in June — social media gave a platform to the competing voices and points of view silenced for decades under the jackboots of various Arab regimes.
The jackboots detract from the Cougar Lady effect.
This film, which juxtaposes Altmann's flight from Austria as the jackboot of the nazi party descends against her seemingly helpless appeal for justice from an Austrian government desperate not to lose a national treasure, should be brilliant.
You can see in Anakin s face that he wants more action and is starting to dress for his future destiny with long, flowing black robes and jackboots.
The jackboots are obligatory, so you'll feel at home with yours.
Both a spirited maverick and a man of real principle, Robert had refused to bow to the jackboot of Nazi oppression as its forces had invaded his native Czechoslovakia several months before.
The other type refuses to leave others alone and these humans are the Mobocracy Looter Minions with their hords of bureaucrats, jackboots, and mercenaries that perpetuate the perpetration of the loot and booty gravy - train.
With all people who choose a position of authority, there's this sinister - authoritarian energy — dressed in jackboots and tight trousers.
The tale takes place in the «Stalag» of Tweedy's Farm — minus the machine gun towers and jackboots — and comes with a feathery twist; and from a feminist perspective.