(n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]
Example Sentences:
(1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
(2) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(3) If anyone should have been briefed on Prism and Tempora, it should have been the NSC.
(4) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
(5) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(6) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(7) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(8) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(9) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(10) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(11) I think they want to set an example … I don't see anyone who has broken the law."
(12) Yes, we need consumption to get the economy moving, but if you spend more than you have, you’re not helping anyone and certainly not helping yourself.
(13) At present, anyone can bring a legal action for an indefinite period over a posted article.
(14) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(15) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(16) 11.57pm BST "Can anyone remember anything, anything at all, from the debates four years ago?
(17) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(18) Anyone who has committed war crimes should be brought into the courts," the BBC reported him as saying.
(19) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(20) Currently, junior doctors – anyone below the level of consultant – are paid extra for working after 7pm on a weekday and at any point over the weekend.
Whoever
Definition:
(pron.) Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) Whoever is Tory leader then may breathe a sigh of relief.
(3) Yet Leveson proposes giving his new board the power "to hear complaints whoever they come from", including from "a representative group affected by the alleged breach" of an as-yet-unwritten code.
(4) Sonali thought, “Whoever those people are, at least I have helped somebody.” Sonali could not say what her clients paid for her surrogacy.
(5) Malaysia's foreign minister Anifah Aman added that whoever was responsible should be brought to book regardless of nationality.
(6) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
(7) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(8) Whoever wins the job will have to manage their peers from within the club – a tough task for any manager.
(9) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
(10) "It still wasn't enough to satisfy whoever killed those journalists."
(11) Pandora’s box is officially open.” North Korea consistently denied any involvement in the Sony hack, but has now offered to help find “whoever” was responsible – using the occasion to attack the US.
(12) A semi-structured questionnaire was designed, tested and applied to the housewife or whoever performed this role within the family.
(13) There’s a prize of about £7,000 for whoever writes the winning song, so maybe next time I’m in the studio I’ll stay behind for a bit and submit one to the parliament of Switzerland .
(14) Read more By not doing so, the theory is, and by bequeathing the responsibility to whoever succeeds him, Cameron has handed the next prime minister a poisoned chalice.
(15) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
(16) George Galloway and moral repugnance in the same sentence: whoever would have thought it?
(17) There have been dozens of inundations in the course of the world's history, and whoever wrote this bit of the Bible had probably experienced one.
(18) A few years back, a survey of 3,000 11-year-olds revealed that nine out of 10 parents swear in front of their children, and the average kid heard six different expletives per week (whoever said profanity was bad for your vocabulary?).
(19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
(20) As joint partners both companies will ultimately benefit equally, however running the gross revenues through one balance sheet would benefit the top-line figures of whoever handles the sales – assuming the format is picked up internationally.