1. Today, regrettably, Churchillian honesty in high places is less fashionable.

2. Yergin is a Churchillian. He argues that we should consider all possible energy sources, the way Winston Churchill considered oil when he spoke to the British Parliament in 1913.

3. Where the Communists had adopted a Churchillian strategy of promising their people nothing but "Blood, sweat and tears, " Chiang had promised his followers immediate victory.

4. Cameron strikes a Churchillian tone when he talks about the nation's austerity plans.

5. The V sign itself is a challenge, for the famous Churchillian invention that used to mean Allied Victory is no longer valid. Instead of having to do with war, V today is made to mean peace.

6. In those harsh postwar years, ideals of infant beauty resided chiefly in fat, in Churchillian multiple chins, in dreams of an end to rationing and of the reign of plenty to come.

7. When it comes to assessing the world's energy future Mr. Yergin is a Churchillian.

8. Sometimes, when it is necessary and justified, stubbornness is the quality differentiating the Churchillian leader from the average ones.

9. On the Iraq war, his position has been almost Churchillian: victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror.