shibboleths in a sentence

1. The latest IPCC Report merely repeats previous shibboleths.

2. Shibboleths can also play a more subtle social and cultural role.

3. Any number of examples of shibboleths can be found across the world.

4. Historically, shibboleths have often been used as passphrases, just like in the Bible.

5. They hold on to shibboleths about the nature of Stalinism which just do not match reality.

6. It should not have taken a Donald Trump to come along and challenge these Republican shibboleths.

7. It occupied a similar place in the shibboleths of political economy as the Ten Commandments in the Bible.

8. Garments such as school ties may be shibboleths, acting like secret codes to convey information without explicitly stating it.

9. So reality in Iran—before or after the Islamic revolution of 1979—is far more complicated than the common shibboleths of the right or the left.

10. During the last 20 centuries, various Christian groups have devised their own "Shibboleths" to identify those who belong to their group and those who don't.

11. All the old socialistic shibboleths have been laid to rest – and yet still people support government power, because they believe that government power is moral.

12. Creeds and arguments, even when people seem to make much of them, are really only shibboleths, convenient expressions of what they really care about — their nation.

13. Creeds and arguments, even when people seem to make much of them, are really only shibboleths, convenient expressions of what they really care about — their nation.

14. And that means taking on some of the old shibboleths, taking on some of the old historic memories and images of our own country and recognising that we’re part of humankind.”

15. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

16. the majority, under the influence of vague nineteenth-century shibboleths, understood him to be associating himself with the doctrine that every nation has a right to be a sovereign state

17. Thirdly, on a number of these poster stamps, the message was reduced to minimalist shibboleths and slogans urging action: “Don’t read books by Jews!”, “Don’t buy from Jews!” or “Jews, get out!”

18. All those who cannot "pronounce" the Shibboleths (the acceptable theological terminology of the group) correctly are slain - with the sword (in the Middle ages), and with the tongue (in these more civilized days).

19. For example, people with certain accents often have access to higher social circles because they share shibboleths in common with people in those circles, while people with accents associated with the lower classes are excluded.

20. Today, politicians and businessmen speak of “growth” and “progress” as abstracts, but growth and progress are meaningless without reference, becoming merely hollow ideological shibboleths aimed at reassuring the faithful and gaining their approval.