(1) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(2) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(3) No one condones what happened in the 70s, but I think this is pretty appalling."
(4) While Brown – finally fit again after appalling knee trouble that very nearly ended his career –began a home game for the first time since January 2012, Poyet only found room in Sunderland's starting XI for five of the 14 summer signings secured by Roberto De Fanti, the club's director of football.
(5) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(6) On the back of some appalling results, including a six-game losing streak, the atmosphere at the game against Cardiff was toxic and the abuse intensely personal.
(7) [The loan is] appalling, no one had any idea whatsoever,” said Elena Korka, a senior culture ministry policymaker involved in restitution efforts since 1986.
(8) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
(9) Many supporters are neither leftist, nor admirers of Syriza’s anti-capitalist rhetoric, but Greeks appalled by the catastrophic effects of policies that have left 1.5 million unemployed, 3 million facing poverty and the vast majority unable to pay their bills.
(10) But up against the dislocation of the industrial revolution, ideas of citizenship had to change, as inspirational leaders appalled by the suffering of the new working class sought to transform a brutal economic free-for-all into a civilised society.
(11) It has shocked and appalled, but with the compulsive appeal of something like entertainment.
(12) And when S&P downgraded the US long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+, it was doing so for some sound reasons – because of the appalling immaturity of the Republican Tea Partiers in their negotiations over the debt ceiling.
(13) Despite its abundant natural resources and potential wealth, the figures on hunger in Congo are appalling.
(14) But the crowd at Bob Jones University did not seem to care for the journalism of the New York Times, or that Cruz senior has recently said that LGBT activists will try to “legalise pedophilia”, that it is “ appalling ” that Houston has a gay mayor, and that he has opined that President Obama is an “outright Marxist” who should go “back to Kenya” .
(15) The year since Jo Cox’s death has seen rapid political change around the world: unexpected election results, a rise in digital interference in democratic elections by foreign powers , and a spate of appalling terrorist attacks.
(16) It’s because of this power that most people in poverty are in work , and the state must pay billions to supplement their appalling wages.
(17) While acknowledging his appalling failings as a man, we also, surely, should not entirely blind ourselves completely to the many hugely interesting and important things that he did.
(18) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
(19) Leyland regularly took to Twitter to draw attention to what she felt was an appalling miscarriage of justice.
(20) We are appalled that the government should use those who have made considerable personal and professional commitments to this country, and who enrich our own culture, as a negotiating chip.
Rucksack
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(2) Security will include a police and military presence and private security guards carrying out several layers of checks, including individual body searches using metal detectors, there will be video surveillance cameras and a ban on rucksacks, motorcycle helmets and banners with political or offensive messages.
(3) Like rucksack wearers, Friedrich's figures are often seen from behind, which is why they are known as ruckenfigur .
(4) He sports a wedge haircut like the England star Raheem Sterling, wears tight black leggings and sleeves that he pulls over his hands as he talks, offset with a bright pink rucksack.
(5) The continuous drip treatment was made possible by a specially designed infusion rucksack 19% of the cases still showed a moderate effect on the walking capacity.
(6) Now, this switch in fashion has worked out well for ruckers' backs, but it has been less beneficial to every body part of everyone else because, as previously discussed, when a rucksack goes on both shoulders it instantly becomes invisible to the rucker and extremely dangerous to everyone else.
(7) For women, there is also a high fashion motivation for adopting the rucksack, derived from the trend for luxury sportswear.
(8) Last year she went backpacking in eastern Europe (complete with maple leaf on her rucksack so as not to be mistaken for an American).
(9) Then, when I got into the hearing room, I carefully took it out of the rucksack and hid it under my chair.
(10) He appears with a big pair of headphones round his neck and a black rucksack over his shoulders.
(11) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(12) For a start, I never get whacked in the face by a French schoolchild's rucksack and, secondly, it is most cheering to see them en masse from a distance because they look like a pack of Santas, on their way to a meeting.
(13) Video footage from Brussels showed a man lying on the ground at a tram stop holding a rucksack over the tracks as a bomb-disposal robot inspected him.
(14) A courier can travel from Vietnam to South Africa, pack rhino horns into his rucksack and return within 24 hours.
(15) I'm not sure this is what Jack Kerouac meant when he called for "a rucksack revolution".
(16) If you don't know the name, you will know the rucksack.
(17) The only logical explanation here is that rucksacks must be magical and in possession of some special sparkly quality that renders them weightless and invisible to all those who sport them.
(18) Abedi had carried a metal box containing “well packed” explosives, metal nuts and screws in a box probably inside a Karrimor rucksack, the leaked details showed.
(19) It said he had planned to blow up his car but also had 12 pipe bombs strapped to his body, and a bomb in a rucksack.
(20) Beside them, the belongings of the dead passengers have been piled in heaps: dozens of suitcases, rucksacks, a red summer hat, a broken laptop and a stuffed toy monkey.