The bugle sounded retreat.

Tom played Reveille on his bugle every morning.

Mary's nipples became erect.

Ned held the flag erect.

Morales sympathizers threaten to erect roadblocks.

'Yes. There they erect buildings rationally...'

Her mouth was slightly open and her ears erect.

Mrs. Karenina stood very erect and her eyes were smiling.

Sandbags can be used to erect a temporary wall to protect against floods.

Trying to erect an Iron Curtain around Russian funds and businesses will prove counterproductive.

Western Europe chose to integrate within itself and to erect an extensive welfare state.

This means that the US could erect barriers to almost three fifths of Bangladeshi exports.

The military man, with merry, ever laughing eyes, who held himself very erect, was Gagin, from Petersburg.

BERLIN Like old battle horses feeling young as the bugle sounds, Cold War strategists are feeling the adrenalin mount as missile defense becomes front page news.

So the rich world will, in a knee jerk response, erect ever higher barriers to stem the human tide.

Now, as governments erect barriers and reinstate border controls, the refugee crisis is disrupting flows of people and gumming up trade.

On 17 June, the Hungarian government announced its plan to erect a four metre high fence on its border with Serbia.

George III gave permission to erect the building on the condition that it resembled a garden mausoleum rather than a church.

After Reagan's death, both major American political parties agreed to erect a statue of Reagan in the place of that of Thomas Starr King.

According to journalist, the tree that the authorities traditionally erect in the capital is so ugly that the country would be better off without it.

If buying dollars is not sufficient to stem the appreciation tide, regulators in emerging economies will erect an array of other barriers to keep money out.

But if present EU members erect conditions on membership that are too harsh for newcomers to meet, they run the risk of creating a Catch 22 situation.

Our Arab neighbors should never be trusted hence, as Jabotinski preached, the new Israeli nation must erect an Iron Wall of Jewish power to deter its enemies forever.

She was standing among that group, very erect as usual, and was talking to the master of the house with her head slightly turned toward him, when Kitty approached.

These international rules left enough space for national development efforts to proceed along successful but divergent paths. Western Europe chose to integrate within itself and to erect an extensive welfare state.

Rich countries like Germany can afford to pile more and more indirect taxes on business, and erect more and more obstacles to the efficient operation of business for a long time.

Russian officials intimate that the US is using the threat of a North Korean or Iranian attack on the US with nuclear armed ballistic missiles as a pretext to erect defenses against Russia (and probably China).

At the same time, one need only recall the damage that unregulated carry trades wrought on Asian economies in the 1990 s to understand why China must erect barriers to protect its domestic markets from inflows of hot money.

Nevertheless, Putin still considers it necessary to pose in front of television cameras every few months to report that Russian scientists have developed some new missile that can penetrate any anti ballistic missile system that the US may erect.

And on the last day, we will erect revolution traffic lights which remind people that Calling People Apostates is a Critical Juncture , Revolution is a One Way Street , and The Road Ahead is Monitored by Media Cameras, among others.

In mid November 2012, the official website of the country's Islamic Revival Party urged the authorities in Dushanbe, Tajikistan's capital, not to erect the traditional New Year's tree, suggesting that it was unwise to spend money on an 'un Islamic' holiday.

1. Welcomes the initiative of the States members of the Caribbean Community to erect in the halls of the United Nations a permanent memorial in acknowledgement of the tragedy and in consideration of the legacy of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade

Activists from the Macedonian citizen platform Ajde Hajde reacted to the government's decision to erect an iron fence around the main government building in Skopje, as well as all other walls erected by decision makers in Macedonia, by inaugurating a wall of their own.

One additional problem concerns the establishment within applicant countries of administrative and democratic structures compatible to those that exist in today s EU. But if present EU members erect conditions on membership that are too harsh for newcomers to meet, they run the risk of creating a Catch 22 situation.

The sprightly guard blew his whistle and jumped off while the train was still moving, and impatient passengers began to descend one after another an officer of the guards, erect and looking sternly round, a fidgety little tradesman with a bag, a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.

Rich countries like Germany can afford to pile more and more indirect taxes on business, and erect more and more obstacles to the efficient operation of business for a long time. But even Germany can't afford to expand the socialist stranglehold of labor on what is supposed to be a capitalist economy, for one day worker use and abuse of the political system will cannibalize economic substance.