

(9) The car company, which lives on despite, and because of, becoming a byword for reliable plodding, was promoting a new range of electric vehicles to council delegates visiting the racecourse yesterday. (8) This is the sixteenth book by a woman whose name has become the byword for the authentic account of Irish living in the ÔÇÿFortiesÔÇÖ and ÔÇÿFiftiesÔÇÖ. (6) ÔÇ£Small is beautifulÔÇØ may be the byword for most couturiers (7) ÔÇÿThe ÔÇÿcircumcision from AfricaÔÇÖ feature that we were defined by became a byword for all you'd satirise in a woman's magazine as earnest and worthy,ÔÇÖ she says. (5) Pluralism is often attacked as a byword for anarchy an ÔÇÿanything goes' approach to ethics and politics. (4) The most intriguing of the calls is the one said to have been made by the flight's most famous passenger whose ÔÇÿLet's roll!ÔÇÖ phrase became a byword for the victims' heroism and patriotism. (3) The former home secretary inherited a department that was a byword for inefficiency and incompetence, and ordered a large scale clear-out of the dead wood. (2) But, instead, the plucky teenager is an academic high-flier and the life and soul of his school, where his name is a byword for good natured generosity. (1) Listening to this week's forecasts of a ÔÇÿkiller winterÔÇÖ, it seems worth recalling that meteorology has often been a byword for untrustworthy predictions.
