| 词汇 | example_english_rearguard-action |
| 释义 | Examples of rearguard actionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Cleomenes' superior numbers forced the defenders to retreat, but their rearguardaction allowed most of the population to escapeonly 1,000 were captured. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Parkinson claimed that the criticism was a rearguardaction by the establishment against the perceived desecration of an institution by an outsider. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yet much of the book is a foot-dragging rearguardaction which subtlely attempts to undermine the established hypothesis. Rather, the past two centuries have been a perpetual rearguardaction against the modernising forces at the gates of both palace and temple. Their criticisms amount to a kind of cultural protectionism, the rearguardaction of outmoded gatekeepers protesting the rise of new mediators. In fact, the triumph of the dean and chapter was only achieved through a highly effective rearguardaction to defeat a major threat to its authority. We want to shape the future, and shaping the future does not mean fighting a rearguardaction or useless protectionism, but accompanying change. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The second rearguardaction which has to be fought is on the question of affinity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We usually fight a rearguardaction but there are now 44-tonne lorries on our roads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, that rearguardaction has itself adversely affected confidence in the police. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will be fighting a rearguardaction to get some of that money back in the autumn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps the post offices are trying to fight a rearguardaction because they do not want people to move over to automated credit transfer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it really does have the feel of a rearguardaction after a major campaign. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For many years now anti-fluoride campaigners have been fighting a rearguardaction against fluoridisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have fought a rearguardaction and have lost, as we shall lose tonight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Have not those vested interests been fighting a rearguardaction on this for the last two or three months? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no doubt that some will fight a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I trust that there will be no rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I sincerely feel that this is a rearguardaction, out of step in terms of the information now available to our fellow citizens. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I have no doubt that there will be a powerful rearguardaction in some parties to prevent this from happening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be proud of our manufacturing industry and the position we hold, but we are now fighting a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that in the years ahead, we shall not have to fight a rearguardaction to save our own competitive practices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was little it could do but fight a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet they have fought a rearguardaction against the sort of statutory rights for trade unions which have long been accepted in other countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were engaged in a rearguardaction when rising prices and scares about sterling got the better of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our people are fighting an economic rearguardaction leading to a losing war unless a fundamental change is brought about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am tired of this rearguardaction, fighting and giving way a bit here and there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It fights a stubborn rearguardaction against progress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During the last 20-odd years they have been asked to fight a sort of rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think there is one other important consequence that we should note of the rearguardaction to defend the concept of absolute national sovereignty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They clearly saw themselves as involved in a rearguardaction against the onslaught of communism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should bear in mind where old people are concerned that we are fighting a very stern rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rearguardaction has been conducted with great skill and great obstinacy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is perfectly plain that she is unwilling to consider reform; she is still fighting a rearguard action against the abolition of the hereditary principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is this just another holding operation in a long rearguardaction? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Resistance of the kind displayed by governments, diplomats and officials last week, is a form of rearguardaction, however. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In five or 10 years, people will be asking what all the fuss was about from those fighting a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are fighting a rearguardaction; we are retreating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It depicts soldiers standing in the snow, preparing a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So by their own admission the county council were fighting a rearguardaction on this point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are still fighting a rearguardaction, on which many of their supporters cannot agree. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that is probably a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been fighting too long a rearguardaction in our withdrawal from the empire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will need a really intensive rearguardaction by local authorities to maintain these rising costs within bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of us have appreciated and realised that a rearguardaction was being fought by some renegade local education authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Frankly, it is part of a deliberate policy of the iron and steel trade in fighting a rearguardaction to defend their industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is fighting a rearguardaction, having lost the original argument on seat belts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So far he has conducted a stubborn rearguardaction to prevent social security from occupying more than a limited proportion of the national income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is my belief that the upholders of the tax are fighting a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All one can say is that perhaps they are fighting a very effective rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is presumably why he is so vulnerable to the rearguardaction that is being so fiercely fought by the poll tax ideologues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They seek instead to prevent their being introduced by means of a highly devious and somewhat discreditable rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has fought a very gallant rearguardaction, if not against all, against many new things in tourism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At one time the landlords fought a long rearguardaction against the curtailment of their power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He rather expects that he will be fighting a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are, however, in the last stages of the rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They really must not risk making these deserving people the casualties of a political rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, this is not the rearguardaction of a diehard preservationist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been fighting a rearguardaction in respect of our deficiencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are fighting a long, weary rearguardaction with no hope of success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we are seeing now is a rearguardaction and nothing more. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The opponents are fighting a rearguardaction. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English So we were fighting a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether those who have spoken in favour of it and those who have voted against its abolition will now fight a rearguardaction to maintain it, remains to be seen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have not known exactly what they were supposed to be doing, but it has been a sort of rearguardaction of political concession and economic improvisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its rearguardaction is over. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, the resort to administration looks like a rearguardaction of complex corporate gamesmanship to avoid responsibility for paying out legitimate court-won compensation awards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been fighting a gallant losing rearguardaction against the 150 years' protest that our history has shown in favour of civilising our penal system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not so naive as to think that there will not now be a rearguardaction from those who use the system, but we have started well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We know that many of the labour leaders are fighting a rearguardaction with the extreme element, who are doing all they can to undermine them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is really a rearguardaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now that we are in 2000, we should be moving forward on worldwide protection issues, not fighting a rearguardaction to maintain protection for animals such as turtles and whales. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How much better that would be than waiting until the problems become so serious that we have to impose drastic rearguardaction on the industry from outside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now, as well as fighting a rearguardaction, they had to capture positions between themselves and the railway line. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They managed to fight a rearguardaction for some of the escaping women and children, but soon they too retreated into the fort. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They fought a thirty-eight-mile rearguardaction, contesting every village, field and, on occasion, yard... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Firms that had once dominated colonial polities now found themselves fighting rearguard actions, compelled to give way on one critical issue after another. Of course there are fierce rearguard actions from the protectionists, and we read of the battles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is convenient from this point to follow separately the desperate rearguard actions fought by each wing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has looked at rearguard actions against sensible and decent reform over the centuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we cannot produce those qualities, we shall have to try to fight a series of constitutional rearguard actions, without enthusiasm and without hope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The duty of cavalry—reconnaissance, rearguard actions and pursuit—must be conducted by whatever means are available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In one of the great rearguard actions, the pair proceeded to play out the remaining time. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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