How To Use Foxhunt In A Sentence
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The examples are legion: caretaker, steamroller, gag, passing the torch, and domino theory are among them, though whip (abbreviation of the foxhunting term whipper-in) is not metaphorical in the sense often erroneously supposed.
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A Foxhunting vote in the lobbies now has been timely set to try and lessen the blow of bad rail failures and the push for oil in Afghanistan.
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So maybe it's not so much a foxhunt, more a variant of polo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Royal participation in foxhunting is more likely to come to the notice of the media than other types of hunting, because hunts are often open to the public and always take place in well-populated areas.
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Foxhunting carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison or a £5,000 fine.
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Indeed Foxhunting didn't start until about the 1830's as most hunts believed it to be beneath their status to hunt ‘vermin’.
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The night before the hunt, foxhunters cover up any earths and badger setts to make sure that the foxes have to run until exhausted.
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By the late thirteenth century, King Edward I had a royal pack of foxhounds but it was not until several centuries later that foxhunting was generally taken up by the nobility.
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It was especially galling for the locals because not only did Jane Seymour spend most of her time in Malibu, meaning that she was effectively letting strangers irresponsibly ruin the peace and quiet, but the noise also shattered the concentration level of each of the participants in the recent Bath And Wells 'Why Immigrants Should Be Burnt' foxhunt and chili cook-off.
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Once, during a foxhunt at Peterhof, he grimaced in pain after leaping into the saddle.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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Foxhunters block up earths and badger setts the night before the hunt to ensure that foxes are forced to run until exhausted.
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Only a hypocrite would ban foxhunting but allow the more proletarian pleasures of fishing, which is quite clearly a form of drawn-out torture.
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Perhaps last year's foxhunting ban in England, which outlawed hunting the animals with packs of hounds, may tempt a few foxes back to the countryside.
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Foxhunting may be cruel, but it inflicts less pain on ‘sensible beings’ than fishing which, as a popular sport, is never going to be banned.
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It isn't just foxhunting though as deer, mink and many other animals are hunted with dogs.
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And even though she doesn't foxhunt and winter in Palm Beach, there seems to be little point trying to clarify the media narrative that she's the second incarnation of Jacqueline de modele.
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Both are valid, in their environment - you wouldn't foxhunt through Camden (though you might shoot the little scavengers).
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My laptop and BlackBerry are always on, and I can tell you exactly how many people are watching me and which influencers I am chasing like a beagle on a foxhunt.
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This interest in what Prince Charles often wistfully referred to as “time-honored country pursuits” did not extend to hunting, however—and definitely not to foxhunting.
William and Kate
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Over the years, it has been Labour that has moved to protect the countryside, if not, as in the case of foxhunting, rural pursuits.
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Shooting parties at Sandringham, fishing at Balmoral, foxhunting in the hills and valleys surrounding Highgrove—over the years these are some of the most important memories Charles created with his sons.
William and Kate
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This ability was improved further when Fairfax imported a pack of foxhounds, and Washington developed a passion for foxhunting.
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Burderop farmer Charles W Whatley recalls his schooldays at Swindon High School in his autobiography Farming And Foxhunting published c1940, where Mr Snell had the reputation of pushing on the smart and forward boys.
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The majority of the foxhunters wear black coats and top hats or derbies.
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Time allowed 06:31 Read in studio A council has voted to ban foxhunting on all its parks and open spaces.
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Read in studio Councillors have thrown out a motion calling for a ban on foxhunting on all council owned land.
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Mr Holmes, who is also a keen foxhunter, said he provided a service to local farmers by ridding their land of vermin.
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Anti-foxhunting protesters are continuing to demonstrate at hunting meets in mid Essex despite a Government decision to ban the blood sport.
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The launch was held at a press conference at which graphic footage of foxhunting, staghunting and hare coursing was also released.
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They were desperately trying to generate support and sympathy among people who hadn't formed an opinion on foxhunting.
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Horton was built by Humphrey Sturt in the 1760s, probably following the contemporary fad for having an observatory, but it was more likely to have been used as a viewpoint for watching the local foxhunt.
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And indeed we have been gifted at outwitting many groups of hounds out after us upon a foxhunt through carefully planned tactics of one sort or another to lead them in the wrong direction.
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Advocates for banning foxhunting in England argue that hunting and killing animals with packs of dogs is cruel and unnecessary.
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Prince William managed to stand one of the world's most eligible women up last week when he got tied up foxhunting.
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We've outlawed badger-baiters and dog-fighters for their sick pleasure in torturing animals, and we can only hope foxhunting will go the same way.
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Their free time was now largely devoted to polo, shooting, and foxhunting—all those pursuits for which the Windsor men were famous.
William and Kate
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So maybe it's not so much a foxhunt, more a variant of polo.
Times, Sunday Times
