How To Use Defenestration In A Sentence
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Yet the company also tipped itself into a corruption scandal that involves its two most recent chief executives and led to the defenestration of another senior manager.
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Instead, more than 22 years since her defenestration, Thatcher's brand of neo-liberalism is the unshakeable paradigm for our economy and politics.
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Historically, the word defenestration was used to refer to an act of political dissent.
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What, we wonder, does he make of a flurry of recent articles calling for his defenestration?
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Folks, it's just not a complete movie without at least one good defenestration.
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In the Old Town Square the town hall dates back to 1338 and windows all over the city were used for the purpose of throwing political opponents to their deaths, an act known as defenestration.
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I stress I know nothing about the woman herself, but the background to his defenestration – hate mail from pro-life and animal cruelty groups, frenzied character assassinations from the ghastly Cristina Odone, and an unspeakably unpleasant piece of twit-gloating from the even ghastlier Nadine Dorries soon afterwards – is inescapable.
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The alternative on offer was to jump through a window, which literate readers will know as defenestration, a popular way of inviting kings to commit suicide in 17th century Europe.
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I didn’t know there was a word defenestration, or that it actually meant “the act of throwing something out of a window.”
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This is never fun, even for fans that have spent months clamoring for the defenestration of some coach or GM or other.
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Remember: the autodefenestration that Froomkin describes took place, for the most part, outside the classroom. posted by Eric 11: 46 AM |
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Is the throwing of the pumpkin off the balcony referred to as the defenestration of the pumpkin?
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The film is riotous good violent fun, with spectacular explosions, all manner of shootings at close range, garrotting, defenestration and several other creative methods of annihilation.
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His defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star for seven games.
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Several other revelations have begun to seep out in the wake of O'Brien's forced defenestration.
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In France an 1860 shooting and an 1886 defenestration inspired episodes in Emile Zola's railway novel La Bete humaine.
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The justice minister was, until recently, best known for calling on Iain Duncan Smith to resign as Tory leader in 2003, sparking the crisis that led to the Quiet Man's eventual defenestration.
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When I hear the GOP running some nonsense about how Obamacare is scaring small business I find myself beating back the desire for autodefenestration.
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Yet the company also tipped itself into a corruption scandal that involves its two most recent chief executives and led to the defenestration of another senior manager.
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When I first learned the word "defenestration" it was using a cat as an example.
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The announcement, hurried out after the Stock Exchange had closed, and most of the City had gone home, speaks of a defenestration.
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To make the situation more interesting, King Wenceslas IV had an apoplectic fit and died of a heart attack upon learning of the defenestration.
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defenestration" and says on the topic of Royal Mail part-privatisation (below):
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Make it a rule that anyone, interviewer or interviewee, who uses that word will be subject to immediate defenestration.
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Isn't "defenestration" especially when someone throws HIMSELF out of the window in an act of suicide?
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