Sentences with word «ragbag»

I am sure your comments will aid us immensely in persuading them that the best chance of removing the current ragbag government is to vote Labour.

I started to realize that there was a great hunger and thirst for regular, cynical, ragbag people to talk about God and goodness and virtue in a tone that didn't frighten and upset you, or make you feel that you were doing even more poorly than you'd thought.

Everything he does — drawing (he's a marvellous draughtsman), sculpture (sometimes utilising frozen Vaseline and «self lubricating» plastics, just as Beuys used lumps of fat), film - making and performance — is interconnected: his own ragbag cosmology.

Given the embarrassing and boring ragbag of art at biennials in 2009, the so - called biennial «Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again» at castillo / corrales in Paris was stimulating.

The United States team that so humiliated England at Belo Horizonte in the 1950 World cup was a ragbag collection of part - timers and international nonentities.

Don't risk Britain's progress by the prospect of chaos under a ragbag of political parties pulling in different directions.

Unlike much of the rest of the EU — and unlike Germany, which has posted a major success story in growing its renewable sector — the UK has mostly eschewed the simple FIT approach to support in favour of a ragbag of measures.

The ragbag of candidates have no platform in common apart from having signed up to the «Bell principles», drawn up by ex-Independent MP Martin Bell, which amount to little more than agreeing to be «free from the control of any political party», yet also committing to «work with other elected independents as a group with a chosen spokesperson» - which sounds to me like the makings of a political party, but there you go.

The Queen's Speech was a ragbag of eye - catching measures worthy of Tony Blair, says Steve Richards in The Independent

And you will be as dust, along with the ragbag of fascist Nazis and Stalinists that previously dared to challenge democracy and failed.»

The peer writes: «Like a brand - new car that loses a chunk of its value the moment it is driven off the forecourt, the Lib Dems were bound to lose part of their ragbag coalition of voters as soon as they entered government.

The answer, equally inevitably, is a ragbag of Trots, anti-war veterans, trade unionists and malcontent and rebel MPs.»

Yes, not totally sure about how socially conservative UKIP voters are / were as a whole in terms of the proportions and how much was simply a ragbag protest vote some of which went to Labour in certain coastal areas, South Wales etc..

This ragbag collection are trying to impose full State Press regulation upon all of us — the «ordinary people» of this country.

he says excitedly, inviting me to peer into the ragbag lichen through a magnifying lens.

In this ragbag of his popular and semipopular writings, he ranges from quantum theory to extraterrestrial life, from science teaching to the arms race.

Actually, I know that there are many people with autoimmune in the same boat, having a ragbag of symptoms that seem to require conflicting.

Duane has skillfully crafted a documentary that is an enthralling portrait of a difficult and often infuriating subject who is a ragbag of hoggish traits and bellicose attitude, and, as Duane told the audience in an enlightening post-screening Q&A, is a man who is difficult to be around, a man who creates drama and tension wherever he is.

Set in Tokyo, it is a tale of a ragbag family led by the Fagin - like Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), who works a construction job but really spends time pilfering from supermarkets.

It's not that «Annihilation» is lacking in interesting concepts, it's that they're wrapped around predictable subplots and a ragbag of conflicting tones.

Just a ragbag collection of knee - jerk reactive sound bites led by the issue du jour.

True, the show is a ragbag of sinister domestic art gambits, the thinking person's version of Bill Bryson's At Home book, but the hard imaginative work that has gone into it points to how conservative, plodding, dull, specious and intolerably wet the great galleries of Britain are from May to September.

The horrible catalogue is incomprehensible, and the exhibition itself is a ragbag of sometimes good, often bad and mostly indifferent art.

So in summary, what we have is a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at.

a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at.

Confronted with obstinate refusal by nature to comply with climate model predictions / projections, she now has serious doubts and makes it very clear to the ragbag collection of looney warmista that, like it or not, they have a very uncomfortable reality to confront.

They are akin to the experts you would trust your desperately ill child to, not the ragbag of mavericks you would avoid.