Spokesmen

Label spokesmen cited "doctor's orders" as the reason for his absence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Through them Lewis established himself as one of the main spokesmen for a new wave of Welsh nationalism, a militant nationalism hardened by a younger generation's experience of the Great War and its aftermath. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The message of administration and military spokesmen is that Iran is deliberately killing US troops and is a major source of insurgency in Iraq. ❋ JDsg (2007)

A better, if less felicitous, description I’ve seen used by U.S. military spokesmen is “anti-Iraqi forces” to refer to militants who predominantly attack Iraqi troops and civilians. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All missed the bigger point – a stage-army of pundits and so-called spokesmen for business rehearsing what they would have said anyway. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The other of the spokesmen was a Jew of Gibraltar, a tolerably well-bred person, who spoke English very fluently. ❋ Alexander William Kinglake (1850)

David Cameron of Britain took the position, according to Downing Street spokesmen, that issues affecting British sovereignty are the exclusive purview of the British Parliament, as specified in the statute that granted limited powers of self-government to Scotland - what is known in Britain as devolution - in 1998. ❋ By JOHN F. BURNS (2012)

I mean, these people now have become so embedded with the establishment, so embedded with authority, they're what Brecht called the spokesmen of the spokesmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today several "spokesmen" for the administration have claimed that the stimulus package has worked (it did what it was intended to do), the healthcare package will not cost most taxpayers a penny extra and will provide the same level of healthcare as they currently have, most Americans have received a tax cut that they began seeing on their paychecks back in May. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Caution - report quotes Taliban "spokesmen" again, who claims they will conquer Kandahar after occupying Arghandab] The propaganda of the Taliban seems to be working on the scared rural civilians though: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Listening to these so called 'spokesmen' you get the impression that the whole of British Muslim society is oppressed and victims of an islamophobic state yet talk to an average muslim in business, a shop or workplace, especially a woman and a different picture emerges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a Canadian observer, I always thought of Kerrey as one of the "four horsemen" - the Democratic senators whose main aim in life was to get on as many TV programs as "spokesmen" for the Democrats, whether they actually represented the Democrat's position or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

U.S. officials believe that the suspects include some of America's Most Wanted: Saad bin Laden, Osama's son and possible successor; Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti who surfaced as one of Al Qaeda's top media "spokesmen" after 9/11; Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian alleged by Colin Powell to be a key link between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and possibly Saif Al-Adel, once Al Qaeda's military and security chief. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since a free press is the only way the People can ask the questions we have a right to know, maybe the media should stop granting access to McCain "spokesmen" until their candidate for Vice President of The United States answers some questions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We weren't it all, but we were kind of spokesmen for it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Allegedly acting as "spokesmen" for the WTO's developing nations, though many of the poorest of the poor were decidedly unhappy with their "leader's" decision, China joined with India to oppose a Doha deal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Is it really bad for anyone but the Sharptons, Jacksons and other parasitic "spokesmen" of the black community? ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)