| The idea that liberalism is something confined to a few deadheads on the coasts is a shibboleth. |
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| In these globalising times, nobody likes to hear the old shibboleth from the past. |
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| If Mr Modi is serious about reform, he will have to discredit the shibboleth that banks can only serve society's ends if they are state-owned. |
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| Measured by that other shibboleth of conservationists, energy use, organic farming was also better. |
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| In Jersey politics, rolling with the punches of graft has long been a shibboleth of manhood. |
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| But a new study, arguing that some Americans get better care than do Britons at a comparable cost, calls that shibboleth into question. |
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| Unless the corporate social responsibility issues are understood properly, this will become another sort of shibboleth for the global economy. |
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| So that what happened on September 11th was that the shibboleth that international natural forces of economics existed was shown to be a joke. |
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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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| The old shibboleth one hears worldwide of the right being for nuclear weapons and the centre-left being opposed does not, and did not, apply in Canada. |
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| He wants Mr Clegg to go further by reversing his party's opposition to student fees, the final shibboleth remaining from Charles Kennedy, his more left-wing predecessor-but-one. |
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| Glide retention in these contexts has occasionally been held to be a shibboleth distinguishing Canadians from Americans. |
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| They write it on banners, mark it on their bodies and litter it through their conversations, a shibboleth that is both idee fixe and unattainable goal. |
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| It's about time we abandoned the bourgeois shibboleth that earning money makes you a better person. |
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