| Bearing this in mind, it is intriguing to see it taking up the cudgels on behalf of the family of a murdered police officer. |
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| Last week the government took up the cudgels and lodged a formal complaint that could eventually lead to a full-scale trade dispute. |
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| Anyway, it is not surprising that some of the townspeople have taken up the cudgels against the hunt. |
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| He was extremely polite to his opponents and often took up cudgels for them too. |
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| Seven armed men jumped out, four carrying cudgels, two with spears, and one holding a bow. |
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| Grim-faced shepherds swing heavy cudgels, anxious to be clear of the road where horns blare impatiently. |
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| The muledrivers with their cudgels made short work of the pair, and Don Quijote and his faithful squire soon joined Rocinante on the ground. |
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| Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues. |
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| I wrote to those who were talking about affordable housing, but neither took up the cudgels. |
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| This week I took up the cudgels of credit controller for my small business. |
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| As they poured out of cars, waving cudgels, swords, hammers and guns, the West Indians who were enjoying the sunshine fled for cover. |
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| I traced the sound of dripping water past a shelf case stacked with thick wooden cudgels and a full row devoted to big butcher-type knives. |
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| An assortment of rifles, pistols, dirks, daggers, and cudgels were quite literally dripping off their massive persons. |
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| When she left later that year, he took up the cudgels and drove the school towards achieving its target. |
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| It is time for some humanity again, instead of beating our hardworking small farmers senseless with bureaucratic cudgels. |
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| She is adamant there is need to again take up the cudgels and for people to become involved in a campaign to have a general hospital located in Carlow Town. |
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| The municipal workers union has taken umbrage at the allegations and has vowed to take up cudgels on behalf of their comrades in the flying squads. |
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| The notion that peace demonstrators had arrived at a demonstration tooled-up with cudgels and swords seemed improbable to practically everyone bar the time. |
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| Khan was among a mob wielding cudgels, swords, hammers and guns who attacked a group of West Indians in what was described as a premeditated and racially motivated attack. |
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| He first declared a state of rebellion in May 2001 after his opponent's supporters, armed with cudgels and sticks, attempted to come close to the presidential palace. |
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| She took up the cudgels after her husband Michael died a year ago after being seriously ill for two years, during which time she had to provide him with 24-hour care. |
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| Politics seems to assail Carvalho, forcing him to take up former cudgels and defend his corner. |
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| We should do something to show that, in the cultural field too, we are prepared to take up the cudgels for this wonderful Europe of ours. |
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| And where is he going with all those people armed with machetes, cutlasses, cudgels and all? |
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| Our boats bristled with cudgels, axes, knives, and machetes. |
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| Diego, a shoe magnate, and Andrea, the current club chairman, decided to take up the cudgels. |
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| I hope then you can cant, for by your cudgels, you sirra are an upright man. |
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| And while the RCA establishment cudgels them, communities embrace them. |
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| In a particularly violent part of Gómez Palacio, in the northern state of Durango, children counselled on gender equality have painted street scenes showing men carrying cudgels and verbally abusing women. |
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| But the Commission must take up the cudgels with those Heads of State or Government, with those ministers and councils of ministers, that are not willing to pay the price on Monday for the speeches they made on Sunday. |
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| A bad mood widespread very soon and, a day early in the morning, some peasants armed with hoes, pitchforks and cudgels moved, with the intention to solve the situation, to Porta Pacentrana. |
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| I was delighted when a new generation of young women took up the cudgels. |
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| Perhaps the only thing that might dent the popularity she and her party enjoy would be for her to take up the cudgels on behalf of this benighted minority. |
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| His son Charles Ladame, president of the VSI, also took up the cudgels in his address on behalf of fruitful cooperation between the two fundamentally independent specialist societies. |
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| I will, of course, take up the cudgels against neoliberal policies, and I will also fight against all that tends to turn the European Union into a military power. |
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| It was ten years ago that the European Community took up the cudgels in the consumer's defence, but, however justified the ambitions of this policy were, the outcome so far is a fairly meagre one. |
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| Later, commoners were given war hammers, cudgels, or quarterstaves with sharp iron tips. |
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| Dawn, Pakistan's leading daily, took up the cudgels without reservation. |
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| It is often the case in these debates that we take up the cudgels against small-time dictators and neglect to address the human rights situation in major states that are of strategic and economic importance to us. |
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| Mr Barroso, much as I, of course, appreciate your willingness to take up the cudgels in the European cause, it really is stating the obvious to say that this House is largely pro-European. |
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| The EU needs to be determined in taking up the cudgels for Airbus. |
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