lariat

How To Use lariat In A Sentence

• They will emigrate or pay their accountant to avoid the taxes and only the salariat will be hit. Times, Sunday Times
• From the beginning of the mechanical age, the men of science, the technical experts, the inventors and discoverers, the foremen and managers and organizers, had been essentially of the salariat. The Shape of Things to Come
• One journalist described Madison as a ‘Montana ranch girl, expert in the art of whirling a lariat arid revolver marksmanship.’
• The painting classes in the film focus on mountain landscapes, still-life studies of ‘the West’ such as a western saddle and lariat, and life drawings of local Stoney people posed cross-legged in front of a picturesque teepee.
• Down-sizing, delayering, outsourcing and reengineering haunt the suburbs as well as the inner cities, mocking the commitments and hollowing out the institutions which were once the lodestars of the salariat. Archive 2009-08-01
• I have just encamped under a lauhala tree, with my saddle inverted for a pillow, my horse tied by a long lariat to a guava bush, my gear, saddle-bags, and rations for two days lying about, and my saddle blanket drying in the sun. The Hawaiian Archipelago
• The Indians had copied saddles, stirrups, the crupper, and the lariat from the Spanish explorers, who in turn had borrowed these innovations from the Moors Arabic people from North Africa, who had previously occupied Spain for seven hundred years. Diffusion of Innovations
• Scotland no longer has a middle class, either on the Victorian entrepreneurial model or within the Marxist concept of the bourgeoisie: instead, it has a Soviet-style nomenklatura, a public-sector salariat living well.
• I sat there, currently in a very indifferent mood, braiding together plastic strings to make lariats or something like that.
• In spite of its own interests in restraining a rise in prices, the old official "salariat" is likely to be obstructive to any such innovations. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war