(n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Howard Archer of consultancy IHS Global Insight said: "Given the dominant role of the services sector in the economy, the steady growth in May reported by the purchasing managers is welcome news and supports hopes that it can avoid further contraction in the second quarter."
(2) 10.34pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 8, bottom of the 6th David Ortiz leads off the inning against Chris Archer, still in the game, he grounds into the Maddon shift.
(3) Archer said he was sticking to his view that house prices would see "solid but limited increases" in 2013, but admitted "there is a growing possibility that … house prices could surprise on the upside over the second half of in 2013".
(4) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(5) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(6) "It is premature to call the all-clear on the jobs front, despite recently improved economic activity and the overall resilience of the labour market through the economy's travails," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
(7) Two right-handed archers presented with posterior instability of the shoulder.
(8) Large-scale demonstrations of low-carbon vehicles, smart energy grids and green buildings received £25m of the money, with £13m going to a high-performance computing facility called Archer.
(9) Howard Archer, UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said the construction sector is exhibiting "marked sustainable improvement following extended, deep weakness".
(10) "Pressure for accelerated fiscal tightening in the UK is being maintained by countries across the eurozone stepping up their austerity measures in reaction to the region's sovereign debt crisis," Archer added.
(11) Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: "While the further pick-up in UK car sales in October was clearly driven primarily by the scrappage scheme and a desire to beat January's VAT hike, it may also be a sign that a significant number of consumers have greater scope and willingness to step up their discretionary spending.
(12) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(13) Continued harsh lending criteria means many would-be buyers are finding it difficult to secure a mortgage unless they have a large deposit, said Archer.
(14) 7 | John Archer’s death Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam Barriscale as John Archer in 1990.
(15) Their second album slumped in the charts, guitarist Gem Archer fractured his skull , and Liam Gallagher split with his wife, Nicole Appleton.
(16) "Latest mortgage data and survey evidence suggest that housing market activity has – at least temporarily – lost momentum recently," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
(17) Archer also said China had its eye on the global EV market, as well as on cutting its own air pollution crisis.
(18) These results are very similar to those reported by Pancoast and Archer (1989) who found remarkable stability in the MMPI scale scores of normal adult samples across 40 years.
(19) Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: “The strong suspicion is that housing market activity will be pressurised in the immediate term by a combination of weakened interest from the buy-to-let and second home sectors as well as heightened concerns and uncertainties over the UK economic outlook, particularly in the run-up to June’s referendum on EU membership.
(20) She's also a fan of the BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers.
Marcher
Definition:
(n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Wednesday, the ire of the marchers was focused on all those Lib Dems who blithely signed the NUS's anti-fees pledge ("I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative" – yesterday, Nick Clegg limply said that he "should have been more careful" than to put his name to it).
(2) "I want to see double the number of marchers next year, and double that the year after.
(3) The government had taken few measures to protect the marchers; what security personnel were on hand contented themselves with teargassing the survivors.
(4) It always targets the poor," said Maria Koumoundourou, a retired bank employee as she joined the marchers.
(5) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(6) Beijing warns Hong Kong marchers not to challenge mainland rule Read more “The way the Chinese government treated him and the pain it inflicted on him and his family just for writing words and talking about democracy, all this proves he deserved the Nobel prize,” said Lui, 27, a graduate student.
(7) Back in June, after 20,000 people marched in Belfast in favour of equal marriage, I took part in a radio discussion with a representative of the Evangelical Alliance who evidently thought the fact that 170 countries in the world did not permit gay marriage (he repeated the figure often enough) trumped the marchers’ wishes.
(8) Massive demonstrations that overtook many Brazilian cities last June were initially sparked by a violent police crackdown on marchers calling for the reversal of a rise in public transport fares.
(9) After being forced to apologise for the mayhem two weeks ago when fewer than 250 police were unable to marshal a crowd of more than 50,000, Scotland Yard sent almost four times as many officers onto the streets and quickly penned marchers into a section of streets.
(10) I have lost my job as a machine operator in a paint manufacturing company because of this power cut,” said 54-year-old marcher Samuel Addo.
(11) The desperate attempts by the unionist parties to resist an effective code of conduct for marchers and protesters showed that very clearly.
(12) "I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour," he said.
(13) The overwhelming majority of marchers, Ed Miliband and the TUC included, had nothing whatever to do with smashing windows, throwing things at the police or behaving badly.
(14) The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, a few months after civil rights marchers were beaten and teargassed on the Selma to Montgomery March.
(15) The crowds gather at 10am – a sea of saffron flags held by millions of marchers dressed in white cotton, the colour of mourning.
(16) But marcher KC Wong, who was pushing a giant red monster he had constructed, with flashing eyes and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag, said: "It's not only CY Leung that people are unhappy with: he is a puppet; it is who is behind the puppet."
(17) Onlookers on the street seem a little bemused, but the marchers are getting thumbs-up and cheers from a few drivers.
(18) It's the ceremonial budget that marchers are hoping to burn in front of town hall.
(19) Outside the Madison police department, marchers chanted: “What’s his name?” They answered: “Tony Robinson”.
(20) Some marchers burned cars, smashed office windows and fought with riot police, leaving a £2m trail of destruction in London's most violent protests since local tax riots in 1990.