In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon. |
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The use of the concept of 'denialism' as a cudgel with which to beat anybody who questions global warming has become familiar. |
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She carried her weight like a swagger stick, and brandished it like a cudgel. |
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The muscular man carried a sturdy blackthorn cudgel in the field when supervising the emergency men. |
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Single stick involves using a cudgel or light stick in much the same way as the sabre. |
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He didn't actually call for Colless's head but he did embroider the story with enough venom for his followers to take up the cudgel. |
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Instead of a burglar with a bag and maybe a cudgel or shotgun, they saw a small mound under the bedclothes. |
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He changed from the cudgel to the rapier, and achieved a rare mastery at it. |
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The vicious movement had caused him to drop his makeshift cudgel in fear a moment before his life was taken. |
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The Government was wielding a rapier, not a cudgel, and wanted to concentrate on the clear and pressing dangers. |
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Just as noise trumps silence and rage trumps courtesy, the cudgel of lawsuits to silence or cower the opposition trumps free debate. |
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The insane, obscene, yawning difference between the pay of workers and bosses has long been used as a cudgel by labor groups. |
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The temple guards cudgel him even before he has been judged. |
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Posuelo is wrong: 6 months later a Funai empolyee is slayed down by a cudgel. |
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I sometimes think that we are trying to ask for secure, stable supplies of vitally important raw materials while wielding a cudgel. |
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I quite cheerfully take up the cudgel on behalf expatriated Britons living in Canada who are scattered fairly evenly across the country. |
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In the 28 cudgel heads that surround the temple you can see the process of transformation. |
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Why, steep as a cudgel, cramped, without legs, often without arms, did the poupard so for a long time remain beside the beautiful doll? |
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Gina Dominguez, the spokeswoman for Gov. Javier Duarte and his cudgel with the local press, resigned a mere three days later. |
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In 2010's election, they used Obamacare to cudgel Democratic opponents. |
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He is at least taking up the cudgel and doing what he said he would do. |
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Hereupon Ted drew forth his cudgel, hit the Turk a donnybrookian whack over the skull that laid him flat on the ground, and took to his heels. |
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We must also ensure that Motion No. 455 is not used as a cudgel to slam on the head of the executive world when it is not negligent and not responsible. |
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I know the member opposite, who will soon be on her feet, will be taking up the cudgel on behalf of the British ex-patriots living in Canada as well. |
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You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. |
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You have this privilege to be famous and you use it as a cudgel? |
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Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength. |
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He stood in the middle of a narrow part of the road, stopped the horse, and struck Fyot with a heavy cudgel, leaving him for dead in the ditch. |
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Like mad-dog in the hottest day Byron runs snapping strait away, And those unlucky fellows judge ill Who go without a whip or cudgel. |
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The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye. |
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Lady Thatcher was still using that very cudgel at Fontainebleau in 1984. European integration is a tide, with its own logic and its own ebb and flow. |
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Here Parsley buys from the gipsy-profiteer old without zubuju a jade and beats the seller a cudgel or talks to the corporal who wants ' zabrit ' it in soldiers, and too awards a beating. |
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But if comprehensive immigration reform does flop, it will at least present Democrats with a wonderful cudgel with which to thwack their opponents for the next three years. |
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When someone, A, is using something and someone else, B, comes along and grabs it from A, probably whopping him with his cudgel in the process, B invades and aggresses. |
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