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Definition of old guard in English: old guardnoun The original or long-standing members of a group, regarded as unwilling to accept change or new ideas. the ageing right-wing old guard Example sentencesExamples - This week, though, the old guard will aim to re-impose the established order.
- If that's the most the Treasury has learnt since Black Wednesday, let's hope the old guard has resigned or retired.
- But even some of the old guard are aware of the acute need for change.
- He was pushing 70, and the last representative of the old guard within the Congress.
- The Cannes selectors put a great deal of their faith in the old guard of cinema greats this year and the decision appears to have paid off.
- In the decade since Independence, most of the old guard have by now been amply rewarded for their loyalties.
- We're using media in a new way that's fresh and exciting and it's making the old guard nervous.
- The old guard, some of whom I cursed at the time, are a different breed from those who are taking their place.
- The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger.
- In my last years of teaching I was regularly informed that when the new breed of keen young teachers emerged from the colleges the old guard would be shown up.
- Nevertheless, 1977 put anyone resembling the old guard into the firing line.
- The other test will be how he handles renegades and copes with the vacancies caused by the departure of the old guard.
- In Holland, talented new generations emerge to nudge out the old guard.
- You've got a built-in bureaucracy - people will fight tooth and nail to keep their positions - and there are old guards in the ruling party.
- When you were justice minister, you met resistance from the old guard.
- Many of the old guard have now moved down a level, which will hopefully help to bring on the many youngsters in the sides.
- He does this with bags of charm and eventually we're completely on his side despite his earlier culling of the old guard.
- He was too easily swayed by others and too anxious to be accepted by the old guard of the Senate.
- Tom was the last of the old guard who were a group of true community policemen.
- There was an old guard moving out, as they gradually retired and people like myself came in.
Definition of old guard in US English: old guard(also Old Guard) nounˌōld ˈɡärdˌoʊld ˈɡɑrd usually the old guardThe original or long-standing members of a group or party, especially ones who are unwilling to accept change or new ideas. the aging right-wing old guard Example sentencesExamples - This week, though, the old guard will aim to re-impose the established order.
- In Holland, talented new generations emerge to nudge out the old guard.
- He does this with bags of charm and eventually we're completely on his side despite his earlier culling of the old guard.
- The old guard, some of whom I cursed at the time, are a different breed from those who are taking their place.
- But even some of the old guard are aware of the acute need for change.
- Many of the old guard have now moved down a level, which will hopefully help to bring on the many youngsters in the sides.
- If that's the most the Treasury has learnt since Black Wednesday, let's hope the old guard has resigned or retired.
- The Cannes selectors put a great deal of their faith in the old guard of cinema greats this year and the decision appears to have paid off.
- Tom was the last of the old guard who were a group of true community policemen.
- In my last years of teaching I was regularly informed that when the new breed of keen young teachers emerged from the colleges the old guard would be shown up.
- You've got a built-in bureaucracy - people will fight tooth and nail to keep their positions - and there are old guards in the ruling party.
- Nevertheless, 1977 put anyone resembling the old guard into the firing line.
- In the decade since Independence, most of the old guard have by now been amply rewarded for their loyalties.
- The other test will be how he handles renegades and copes with the vacancies caused by the departure of the old guard.
- There was an old guard moving out, as they gradually retired and people like myself came in.
- He was pushing 70, and the last representative of the old guard within the Congress.
- We're using media in a new way that's fresh and exciting and it's making the old guard nervous.
- He was too easily swayed by others and too anxious to be accepted by the old guard of the Senate.
- The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger.
- When you were justice minister, you met resistance from the old guard.
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