a stab in the back in a sentence
Examples
- But Beame, friends said, never forgave Carey for what the mayor saw as a stab in the back that slashed his powers and made him the scapegoat . ( MORE ) nn
- The KDP allowed Iran to seize the famous Iran Iraq border crossing of Haji Omaran, a move that one Western diplomat called " a stab in the back Saddam will never forget ".
- Brit HaBirionim demonstrators outside handed out leaflets declaring that peace studies were " the work of Satan " and were " an anti-Zionist measure, a stab in the back of Zionism . ".
- Hajdari's killing was " a stab in the back to Kosovo's Albanians for whom the corrupt government of Fatos Nano doesn't care, " the Kosovo Albanian Liberal Party, close to Rugova's LDK, said.
- In areas where " S . pallida " is absent, the local members of " P . labiata " do not use this combination of deception and detouring for a stab in the back.
- Ricardo Blazquez, who fled Cuba in 1967 and now lives in the Washington area, agreed, saying the removal of Elian from the Miami home was " a stab in the back " of the Cuban-American community.
- Though the deal intrigues them, other environmentalists saw the Conservation Law-AES alliance as a stab in the back, coming after a year in which Conservation Law increasingly disagreed with them on how utility restructuring should proceed.
- The journey of that foreign minister who made these statements and is making the trip with the concurrence of the United States, to Teheran, the capital of Iran, is a stab in the back for Israel,
- Russia called two deadly bombings in Israel on Sunday " a stab in the back of the peace process, " and Britain's John Major expressed sympathy deepened by the recent resumption of IRA attacks in London.
- National coach Javier Aguirre is accusing regional rival Costa Rica of " a stab in the back " for demanding a punishment that will keep a key Mexican player out of two World Cup soccer games.