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Meanings of strawman in English
Portuguese
falácia do espantalho Catalan
tapadora A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.
Portuguese
espantalho Catalan
espantall Synonyms
Examples for "front"
Examples for "front"
1
Yet the performance regime demands councils continue to produce so-called 'up-front' allocations.
2
However, Ireland went in front after 16 minutes from a McAllister penalty.
3
BNZ front line staff say regional businesses and economy in good heart.
4
Of course, when power is needed, the front motors do their work.
5
However, the front-line remained just 50 metres from hundreds of armed troops.
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On some level, he stands as a very apropos figurehead for Potentialism.
2
But now this job makes her their figurehead for the whole company.
3
To him Louis had been but a name, the figurehead of state.
4
She wondered why he allowed Duvalier to hang around as a figurehead.
5
Beyond Hockenhull he could see one upraised paw of the lion figurehead.
1
No more than a front man, no doubt; certainly not the mastermind.
2
Then our front man made the long descent and we lost one.
3
Effective in going beyond his front man, was also comfortable receiving possession.
4
He had taken on the role of front man and image projector.
5
Maybe I was just playing the front man to a big cover-up.
1
He hereby became nominal head of the League and its real slave.
2
This was Jo's household, and he was the nominal head of it.
3
In Ayacucho it was Ikela, the nominal head of the original five.
4
The presidium president had historically been the nominal head of state.
5
And now Mr. Snawdor, the nominal head of the family, was acknowledging it to be true.
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The next criticism is a related one: the great ' straw man' offensive.
2
He set up this straw man here, just to keep me company.
3
Ivy hugged me and slipped a little straw man into my hand.
4
And a marvelous straw man to knock down with their scientific exorcisms.
5
He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
Usage of strawman in English
1
They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
2
I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
3
One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
4
There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
5
We end the so-called strawman provision.
6
Any document where your name is spelled out in capitals is likely to be artefact of the strawman.
7
The official identity is a "strawman" that financially bankrupt governments use to sell bonds on the productive energy of their citizens.
8
This 12 per cent compares with the mooted 14 per cent under the auto-enrolment strawman from 2028 onward.
9
On the bright side, a lot of the products that say they contain "nanotechnology" probably don't, so maybe I'm worrying about a strawman.
10
It is flawed as far as that is concerned. The strawman document also envisages a €20,000 income floor below which people wouldn't be auto-enrolled.
11
Then I learned that my indefinite gentleman had been a partner of the forger's brother, and that his name was Strawman.
12
In the mid-1980s, after Operation Strawman, the upperworld took over Las Vegas and pronounced that everything was now sanitized enough to bring the kiddies along.
13
They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
14
I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
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One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
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There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
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