"national" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Through the middle decades of this century, Faulkner's excellence was Mississippi's shield against national ridicule.
- He fathered children with multiple women that led to him being the subject of national ridicule.
- As the extent of Gadsden's problem was discovered, television cameras descended, conspiracy theories brewed, and Gadsden County became an object of national ridicule that haunts it still.
- Mecham was showered with national ridicule.
- The explanation quickly became the butt of national ridicule, prompting television crews and opposition politicians to visit the office to request tastings of the pricey purified water.
- He's going to make Meriden the object of national ridicule.
- In September 2007, after national and international ridicule over the expense of this project, the Alaska government ultimately chose not to build the bridge, and will spend the appropriated funds elsewhere.
- Among these agreements was one on the reform of the Canadian Senate, an appointed body that is an object of national ridicule.
- By the early part of March observers were noting that the F-35 and its procurement had become an object of national ridicule.
- Nonetheless, the city and its Mayor have become "a focus of national ridicule," as Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said the other day.
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