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Sentence Examples Jamieson, a lawyer, raised the spectre of legal trouble for the assembly if chiefs were not allowed to vote. The phenomenon is usually referred to as a Brocken spectre as it can often be seen on the Brocken peak in the Hartz mountains of Germany. Such a government is threatened at all times by the spectre of a vote of non-confidence, forcing an election or change of government. Overblown fears about social instability have created the spectre of the terrorist asylum seeker. Biological, chemical and nuclear threats have all figured large, as has the spectre of the suicide bomber or pilot. The spectre of higher mainland interest rates was the key reason for the selldown, said Merrill Lynch strategist Spencer White in a report. The spectre of Chicago 1968 looms, when police unleashed a brutal assault on anti Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic convention. The spectre, who wears Victorian costume, has apparently been seen several times by the hotel's male night porter and male guests. The new South Africa is confronted by the spectre of an ever-expanding army of unemployed and unemployable youth. As well, the spectre of death hangs over the film in another sense, as an undetonated bomb sits in the middle of the orphanage. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 also greatly intensified middle-class fears of the spectre of the radical Left. The spectre of fascism is not haunting Europe, reports Dominic Standish from Italy. The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater. One would think that this spectre would galvanise the concerned authorities into mobilising all the resources at their disposal. He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment. We have immensities of creativity unknown to previous history, but also the spectre of unparalleled jadedness. This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country. The spectre shoved the corpse into a nearby gathering of troops, surprising them briefly when he charged into them, bowling them to the ground. The train, with its dim lights, stood there like a monster spectre in the dark. This opens up a spectre of interesting possibilities, none of them attractive to him. Show More Sentences Her last point raises a spectre of uncertainty around the Summit and its long-term reverberations. They talk about it less now than they did a week ago, but the spectre of it is omnipresent. For the believers in society and community, however, such views raised the spectre of lawlessness and anarchic self-indulgence. The spectre of further development of the green fields around Swindon is looming. Analysts foresee the spectre of further asset write-downs in coming quarters, which could increase pressure on finances. Then the spectre began to laugh, the noise a deep, ominous rasp which snuffed out the spark of hope that had briefly lit Robert's soul. Unequal access to water will lead us to disputes and war, and heading off that spectre is also what skilled politicians exist for. Though there are no statistics on custodial violence, it is a spectre that continues to haunt society. Neighbours are incensed at the spectre of losing yet another walkable grocer. The spectre of plurality and difference became a pseudonym for inchoateness and ineffectiveness. Overdependence on a single operating system also raises the spectre of one really bad virus. The shocking discovery of discarded glue bags raises the frightening spectre of youngsters hazarding their lives in search of cheap thrills. Yet the spectre of drugs returned with vicious abandon culminating in his being imprisoned in 1991 and serving 5 years. Not knowing her to be a spectre he hallooed to her to stay for him, but receiving no answer thought she was deaf. The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection. Either of these would make excellent narrative fodder, but I fear exposure through specific disclosure and the spectre of losing my job. There is not a sport within the Olympic movement that does not have a cloud hanging over it in terms of the spectre of drug abuse. The spectre of Thomas's brutal occupation is always there to hint that he could use his skills for vengeful justice. In a pre-emptive strike against the menacing spectre of boredom, I had decided I would write a letter to someone conducting themselves meritoriously. We should never under-estimate the pushback we'll see from those who feel threatened by the spectre of 30 million Canadians armed with equal and effective votes. Show More Sentences They live in a country looking to exercise the spectre of genocide whilst striving towards EU integration and NATO membership. Agriculture, however, was the key to development, and only greater productivity could hold at bay the spectre of poverty. The adherence of the majority of States in the world to this treaty is proof of its importance in dispelling the spectre of nuclear war. The bill is silent on genetic testing and should deal with the looming spectre of eugenic cleansing, which is a distinct possibility. The spectre of mental illness held in olden days is being banished by new developments in diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, the spectre of animal rights is very much a prescient one which should concern all of us in this bill. Nonetheless, it would have been better if the Supreme Court had not raised this spectre by halting the process. The spectre of the repairable society is on the loose once again in Europe. As if this all weren't enough, the spectre of a world-wide pandemic of avian influenza increasingly haunts us. As the spectre of bird flu hovers menacingly, many African households are already counting the cost of the H5N1 virus. This provides much scope for ethical dilemmas, and opens the door to the spectre of eugenics. In addition, the menacing spectre of racism and xenophobia must prod the German Presidency to take a firm stand. When war broke out on September 1, 1939, the spectre of conscription, so reviled in Québec, reared its head again. I can fully guarantee you that, in those countries, the spectre of union is very easy to conjure up. This is the dragon we are tempting in summoning up the spectre of a free trade area in the Americas. In Elazig, an eastern city, a mob attacked a Kurdish neighbourhood, raising the spectre of inter-communal violence. The spectre of himself as he might have been was sometimes beside him as he probed through obfuscations for the details of appalling crimes. This journalist, John Jennings, disproves the spectre of the Afghan countryside as an Oriental Wild West on the basis of his own observations. The ease with which he could jump from a crisis of British farming to the spectre of biological warfare highlighted the salience of fear as a political resource today. That was the Fed's first rate hike in four years, driven by growing evidence of a strengthening U.S. labour market and the spectre of new inflationary pressures. Show More Sentences Mormo was a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same class of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia. Conducts research in a wide spectre of topics, but focuses on the study of liturgical music and Gregorian plainchant. The spectre of a conflict in Iraq hangs over us all like the sword of Damocles and that is something that we all need to have in mind. We have reluctantly been forced to take this step by the wretched spectre of swine flu. Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis. The spectre of being turned into an area producing only palm oil, corn or sugar cane to produce ethanol is all too real. The spectre of the ancestral rivalry between Sunnis and Shiites is never very distant when the Arab world experiences a grave crisis. Mere side issues to the spectre of horror that is a pregnant woman making a decision about what suits her best as an individual. That is the spectre that this leader of the opposition is now holding out to the people of Australia. And like narcosis in deep-diving, there is the ever-present spectre of altitude sickness that affects the climber's ability to correctly assess the environment around him. Doctors' emphasis on the mildness or earliness of the condition raised the spectre of future pain and disability rather than providing reassurance. Chapter five, which deals with the spectre of bioterrorism and biowarfare, prognosticates with frightening plausibility on the worst, largely unregulated modern evil. It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet. In short, the government has met with such unalloyed success selling its hard line to an anxious electorate that it has rarely needed to invoke the spectre of absconding. Of course, any such attempt is constrained by the spectre of a nuclear war, whose bogey is very calculatingly turned off and on by the country's government officials. The spectre of public drinking, in your face stuff, groups of undesirables blocking doorways and paths, shouting abuse at passers-by, is again becoming the norm. These go largely unmentioned but, for followers of provincial politics, hover over the entire story like the spectre of death in DeLillo's White Noise. We must urgently eliminate the spectre of all solitudes-which I even took as my motto-in order to promote solidarity among all the citizens who make up today's Canada. The spectre of a stronger yuan will, temporarily at least, worsen China's asset-price bubbliness, as foreign capital floods into the country in anticipation of a stronger currency. In addition, I welcome Mr Piebalgs to the energy brief as a promising and able candidate untainted by the spectre of alleged impropriety, unlike his country's original nominee. Show More Sentences However, challenges must still be addressed in order to let peace and security take root in a lasting manner and to forever dispel the spectre of the conflicts that have afflicted this part of the continent. Massive power blackouts, navigation failures, disrupted satellites and communications, and more recently, even the spectre of plane crashes, are all testament to the awesome power of the aurora borealis. Lovely Linda, who only has to frown to spark the nation's tears, hasn't had the easiest of pregnancies, what with the spectre of her latest offspring being the spawn of rapist Deano hanging over it. There are bawdy house charges in the case of a gay bathhouse in Hamilton, Ontario, and the spectre of those environments being policed and prosecutions being made is one that for our community is unacceptable. Still, in the first few months of 2008 the spectre of inflation has surfaced in almost all economies around the world, even as global growth falters. And as my colleague from the Bloc said, we had the spectre of our government breaking its very own fixed election law, that the Minister of Justice crowed about when it was brought in. But it's all just a spectre of old-fashioned bawdiness. For Chandra Muzaffar, flaunting the spectre of the clash of civilisations would result only in diverting attention from our tasks and in evading our responsibilities. Child suicide bombers also constitute an effective instrument of psychological warfare because the spectre of the child attacker is as terrifying as it is incomprehensible. Quite the contrary: we must eliminate the spectre of all the solitudes and promote solidarity among all the citizens who make up the Canada of today. In light of the reemergence of the spectre of an impending shortage of physicians, this paper examines the trends in the supply, income and migration of Canadian physicians. This will make it easier to shoulder a problem in which we would otherwise have been held to ransom by old-school politics and would have needed to raise the spectre of Mr Berlusconi to feel absolved from our mistakes. And he has highlighted the horrors of ISIS to the West, as the spectre of what may come next were he to fall. Two ogres versus a bunch of thugsMr Maliki has been less brutal but more crass than Mr Assad. If the government fails to do this, the spectre of new disorder and violence against the media may loom over the general elections planned for 2005, which is not so far away. Scholars and survivors of the society are frequently determined, beyond what is warrantable by the facts, to see the spectre of Birchism in any full-throated contemporary manifestation of conservatism. The fact that the overwhelming majority of States have acceded to the NPT is a sign of their belief in its importance in ridding the world of the spectre of nuclear war. Thus, the Bulgarian and Romanian workers, faced with the spectre of hunger, are forced to work for slave wages and, at the same time, there is pressure on workers in Greece. The Ontario Court of Appeal has handed down a decision that will be of some comfort to employers wary of the spectre of ex-employees using inside information to launch competing businesses. But the I-T D has been conducting investigations for months and in its leaked report it has traduced Modi and raised the spectre of match-fixing in the IPL as financial improbity on a grand scale. To achieve this it is necessary to vote against the possibility of a referendum, and to remove the spectre of leaving the EU from the political horizon. Show More Sentences And yet the spectre of regulation mania in Brussels is constantly being talked about. However, for quite some time now the Commission is not striving towards detailed harmonization at Community level. Cameron's 48-second message continued the Conservatives' campaign theme of raising the spectre of Miliband as prime minister propped up by the Scottish National party. Furthermore, this uncertainty raises the spectre of major short-run stabilization pressures in the near future, jeopardizing hard-earned nominal price stability. He is dethroned by the spectre of an actor, and we shall never be able to keep the usurper out of our dreams. During this period, he witnessed a Brocken spectre and glory, caused by the sun casting a shadow on a cloud below the observer. The company's third loss warning in two years raises the spectre of eventual collapse and bankruptcy. According to folklore, the spectre often haunts graveyards, sideroads, crossroads and dark forests. Theresa May, the Conservative Party chairman, briefly raised the spectre of Enoch Powell the party's late 1960s anti-immigrant firebrand but only to gloat over the appointment of an Asian candidate in his old constituency. The judgment passed by the International Court of Justice in the Hague last month has reopened old wounds and reawakened the spectre of war and other antagonisms within the Bosnian political arena. The red must be pure, of primary indecomposable colour, and exempt of blue and yellow having, according to the below-indicated diagram, a wavelength of 6.562 and the position 285 on the normal spectre. The spectre of regimentation in centrally planned economies and the dangers of bureaucracy even in mixed economies deterred them from jettisoning the market and substituting a putatively omnicompetent state. Its most visible effect, other than the destabilisation of Lebanon, was the deep division that it caused between Lebanon's various communities as it reawakened the spectre of civil war. In light of recent trends in real interest rates, we can see that the spectre of the liquidity trap is certainly present, at least in the United States. In Canada, the spectre of the liquidity trap still seems remote. Many decisions and personal financial commitments were made during better times, but under the spectre of hard times, those decisions have become financial burdens which weigh heavy and cause you to lose sleep every night. More important, he thinks excessive rhetoric on the right routinely involves dehumanising one's enemies and invokes the spectre of violence in a way leftist rhetoric rarely does. Another austerity budget in December has already raised the spectre of widespread industrial action and could yet put him on a collision course with the Greens and his own backbenchers. Although there can be little doubt that the spectre of violence will hover over South Africa for some years to come, difficult as it may be with the constant media focus, the matter needs to be kept in broad perspective. The spectre of death is haunting dozens of political prisoners in Turkey who have been on a hunger strike to the death for the past two months in protest at the inhuman conditions in Turkish prisons. At the same time, several provinces have again raised the spectre that publicly funded health care is not sustainable if it continues to consume a rising share of their budgets. Show More Sentences The report indicated that Mr. Martel had said that the information Mr. Arar had given him was likely more accurate, being more candid and not tainted by the spectre of big money and lawsuits. Some are now raising a Red scare and even the spectre of Militant Tendency, which hasn't existed for over 20 years. With her acute eye, Lawler seizes upon this plastic sheet for its morbid connotations-she connects the spectre of death conjured by Hirst's cow with the elegiac dimension of preserving, collecting, and showing art. It is heartening therefore to learn of Senegal's conspicuous success in grappling with the spectre of the dread disease, as a workshop hosted by UNIFEM in Dakar earlier this month revealed. The spectre of unemployment is casting its shadow over many people's lives, and the long-term cost of the ill-advised investment practices of recent times is becoming all too evident. So many European intellectuals brandish the spectre of an Islamicized Europe following on the heels of Turkey's membership that one ends up frightened. There ain't nothing gnarlier than slapping on some brightly coloured sunblock to ward off the blinding spectre of dangerous, snow-reflected sunlight. The pope gladly accepted the role, as it allowed him to detach Sicily from the rest of The Holy Roman Empire, thus ending the spectre of the Papal States being surrounded. One answer is that unreciprocated transfers raise the spectre of economically irrational social transactions, which the legal vision of the market denied. It was followed by A Woman of No Importance in 1893, another Victorian comedy, revolving around the spectre of illegitimate births, mistaken identities and late revelations. Examples from Classical Literature The barghest was essentially a nocturnal spectre, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death. How bravely they met the grim spectre which crept so insidiously into their homes! Mr. Wallace, on the contrary, at once raised the Lamarckian spectre, and declared it exorcised. Pierron consented to this, and consummated his abominable passion with this spectre. How does she manage to recognize in this spectre the near relation of the praying mantis? But it was not enough to abolish liberty by conjuring up the spectre of demagogy. And behold the thought of Therese brought up the spectre of her husband. I just hope the spectre of a trainload of Belgian and Italian vets, butchering the BSE ridden cattle, doesn't strike a negative note. When first he sees the spectre, he fortifies himself with an invocation. One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. There was always the spectre of a slip-up, an aroused suspicion. Get rid of that, and you have driven away the spectre of hunger for ever. It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts. Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands. He came towards me silently, with his arms crossed, gliding like a spectre rather than walking. They were both silent again, and Archer felt the spectre of Count Olenski's letter grimacing hideously between them. Perhaps, to observe whether he had any spectre on his conscience. The purblind day was feebly struggling with the fog when I opened my eyes to encounter those of a dirty-faced little spectre fixed upon me. Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly. She would have been a spectre spoiling the joy of the festival for him, just as Banquo's ghost did that of Macbeth. Show More Sentences The spectre did not move when Dr. Renton arose and lit the chandelier. The frightfulness of his intention stood like a spectre before me. He was afraid that Therese might bring the spectre of Camille with her. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of spectre? Words that rhyme with spectre What is the plural of spectre? What is the adverb for spectre? What is the adjective for spectre? What is the noun for spectre? Translations for spectre Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words spectrally spectrality spectral spectra Spector spector spectres spectrofluorimeter spectrogram spectrograph spectrographic spectrography 7-letter Words Starting With s sp spe spec spect spectr