How To Use Shibboleth In A Sentence
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I've read the word shibboleth a hundred times, written it a few, and probably even said it myself, but I had never understood it until then.
Slate Magazine
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And the mummy's return to life always seems to be caused by some archeologist's hubristic violation of some ancient shibboleth, which, like Shelley's interpretive intervention in the 1831 preface, encourages us to see the story as a conflict between authority and the overreacher, between age and youth, between fathers and sons.
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_
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It is more or less free of regional, class, and other shibboleths, although the issue of a ‘standard accent’ often causes trouble and tension.
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It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter.
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It is mandatory reading for the high school and college students who are spoon-fed the politically correct shibboleths that obscure an understanding of the men to whom we owe a unique debt of gratitude for our freedom.
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If you talked of hard-money, you were denounced as a Benton bullionist; if you talked of credit, you were called a Whig banker, plotting to devour the poor; and the calmest phrases of science were turned into the shibboleths of an internecine warfare.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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Ideological liberalism and cutthroat business tactics went hand in hand with a slackened commitment to the traditional journalistic shibboleths of objectivity and accuracy in reporting.
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The various shocks that have convulsed the Japanese economy in the past decade have tested traditional management shibboleths to destruction.
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As with the country's crusade against communism, the pointless violence reflects America's own shibboleths, fears, and internal politics rather than meaningful policy.
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“A shibboleth is a test—a way to separate da wheat from da chaff that's as old as the Bible, but as new as the latest trend in men's fashions,” Gus says.
Our Merchant-Ivory Weekend
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I am looking to add a new feature to integrate Shibboleth (Open source) into our website.
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Shakespeare imposed no exclusive criteria upon his vocabulary and erected no shibboleth of purity of diction, such as was to hamstring Continental theatre for centuries.
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In these globalising times, nobody likes to hear the old shibboleth from the past.
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Political correctness is a shibboleth, a convenient catch - all term with which progressive policies can be tainted by association with absurd anecdotes.
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Notice that in each case the objection is based on a shibboleth.
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They broke with the old shibboleth that sovereignty cannot be divided and thus that there must be some supremely sovereign legislative body in every independent political unit.
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If it means questioning old shibboleths and finding new means of spending public money in partnership with the private sector then that might be no bad thing.
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Yet, it points to a tendency - I'll put it as weakly as that - toward re-marketing tired conservative shibboleths as funky new contrarian understandings.
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Bizarre or not, uncritical attachment to old shibboleths inexorably yield contradiction.
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And we can't blind ourselves to it or hide behind old shibboleths.
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The notion that there is a global conspiracy by professional scientists to falsify results in order to get more research money is, to borrow Quiggen's words about birtherism, "a shibboleth, that is, an affirmation that marks the speaker as a member of their community or tribe.
David Roberts: What We Have and Haven't Learned From 'Climategate'
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But discarding a few outmoded shibboleths does not create a society that is at ease with itself and free of class anxieties, frictions and divisions.
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The old pre-war shibboleths of laissez-faire, including the hallowed principle of free trade itself, were bypassed or ignored.
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The pattern is familiar: vested interests rage against change and do their best to strangle it by cynically invoking such shibboleths as tradition, the family and the sanctity of Sunday.
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That is why those people arguing shibboleths, arguing for referendums, are defeating their own argument, because the strength of the argument we have heard today is exactly why we should not have a referendum.
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These are shibboleths, a word rooted in the name of a place that was pronounced differently by Israelites and Ephraimites, and was useful in revealing spies.
No Uncertain Terms
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His Shibboleth was, that the disgrace of the State must be wiped out by the repeal of the Yazoo Act; and _repeal_ rang from every mouth, from Savannah to the mountains.
The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
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They still cling to many of the old shibboleths of education.
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And, so, this shibboleth, which is largely used by Republicans, to say, oh, the Democrats want terrorists in your -- in your neighborhood, in your community, that is a lot of baloney.
CNN Transcript May 14, 2009
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I am looking to add a new feature to integrate Shibboleth (Open source) into our website. The ideal candidate will have experience intergrating Shibboleth before.
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“The ullage of the pedagogical recitation was this: no shibboleths in soliloquies.”
Today is International Make Up a Word Day « Whatever
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Some ppl have called me a "chihuahua" which I take offense, but gladly welcome myself as the pest against their redundant shibboleth and lies.
Time to Hit Back Harder
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Another Western shibboleth about the future will thereby fall.
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A subversive is one who works to undermine the structures and shibboleths of society.
A meme by any other name
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Here's hoping that his misrendering of toponymic shibboleths is the worst damage they suffer.
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[41] We who, in many departments, ways, make _the building up of the masses, _ by _building up grand individuals_, our shibboleth: and in brief that is the marrow of this book.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
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The piece is nothing more than a mash-up of Establishment shibboleths, but I especially like his description of the current policy as "suave" ... let's call up Taiwan News again:
Five Commentaries for Wednesday
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In fact, it appears to us that a number of longstanding economic shibboleths are about to be blown apart if the dollar's descent continues.
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The idea that liberalism is something confined to a few deadheads on the coasts is a shibboleth.
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It's not bad to be reminded that there's a whole horde of men of his generation out there in the sticks for whom the old shibboleths are pretty important.
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Again modernism is tartily in line with many media shibboleths, one of which, the new and the disposable, comes in the guise of renewal after a twenty-five year or so or less depending on the object life span.
The Guardian World News
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We believe that it is based on utterly false allegations regarding the Minnesota legal system and that it provides for indoctrination in the shibboleths of political correctness.
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He was up at the microphone chanting two of the most sacred lefty shibboleths.
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Yet, it points to a tendency - I'll put it as weakly as that - toward re-marketing tired conservative shibboleths as funky new contrarian understandings.
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It holds up the assumptions about Beauty, Truth, Genius, Civilisation, Taste and other shibboleths to bracing class and gender analysis.
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Darwin knew he had a problem here, and the original idea to play a trick on the idea of selectionist explanation is a clever piece of legerdemain, that has grown since into a new scientific shibboleth, an artifice of logic, and one that has never been verified properly in practice, and which certainly fails any empirical test as we examine the reality of religion in world history.
Darwiniana
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In English the Hebrew word shibboleth now sometimes refers to clichés or tired slogans.
Bloodlust
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Beware the old shibboleth of using birdshot for home defense because ‘it won't go through walls and hurt your kids’.
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The word shibboleth in ancient Hebrew dialects meant 'ear of grain' (or, some say, 'stream').
BP | Asian Correspondent
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People who want to make this about Joe Wilson have their official Faux News blinders on (you can tell when they repeat catch phrases like “criminilization of politics” – that’s what you call a shibboleth).
Think Progress » White House Responds To Criticism of Bush’s Leak With More Leaks
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At that point I knew that I was in the presence of an Irish Catholic as this pronunciation is a shibboleth for the religious difference in the province – Protestants call the letter aitch.
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