1. Add to that the official demonisation of business trips as frivolous , starting at the top with Barack Obama's public condemnations.

2. The main objection to the demonisation of smoking has come from liberals who insist that it is a matter of individual rights.

3. We abhor the creeping delegitimisation and demonisation of Israel. But we also believe that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own. These two beliefs are entirely compatible.

4. Who knew that by 2011 the old Protestant demonisation of Guy Fawkes would be virtually forgotten and his attempt to blow up the mother of parliaments reclaimed as a great democratic act?

5. We abhor the creeping delegitimisation and demonisation of Israel. But we also believe that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own.

6. Bankers fear this demonisation is driving down their share prices.

7. But their heightened xenophobia and demonisation of contact with the West augur badly for Barack Obama's effort to engage with Iran's rulers.

8. Demonisation of China today, especially in America, can sometimes seem almost as shrill.

9. It has responded to the rise of open - source software with both accommodation and demonisation.