(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.
Marksman
Definition:
(n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
(n.) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(2) A former Navy Seal who went on to write a bestselling book chronicling his life as the US's most prolific marksman has been shot dead at a gun range in Texas .
(3) He added: "If you are familiar with a holographic sight, it's built up in such a way that you could have given it to your grandmother and she would have been a super marksman.
(4) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
(5) Duggan’s death on 4 August 2011 at the hands of a police marksman triggered riots across the capital in which shops were looted, buildings set alight and standoffs with police occurred.
(6) Another player hoping to head to Germany to revive a career is Tottenham’s anti-marksman Roberto Soldado who is hoping the goals in the Bundesliga are a foot wider and are hung 20 foot up in the air so he might find them more often.
(7) For him, it was Ian Wright, and he still seems a little starry-eyed when he recounts how he signed for West Ham at the age of 16, and Wright took the time to stay behind after training to practise drills with him, and pass on tips designed to hone a marksman's eye and develop his cunning.
(8) "I didn't want to personalise [the tragedy] and blame the marksman.
(9) On Sunday, exactly a month later, both arrived together at the the Zeinhom morgue – but this time Fahmy was dead in a battered brown coffin, shot through his right temple by a police marksman, after a night-time pro-Morsi march on Saturday morning turned into a massacre.
(10) They also said the marksman’s mistaken belief that Duggan had a gun should have meant the jury were told not to conclude the killing was lawful unless they also concluded the mistake was reasonable.
(11) Shooting a suspect in the arm or the leg would be difficult for John Wayne, never mind the most skilled marksman on the force, said Candace McCoy , a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
(12) But Liverpool, sharper in all facets than of late and showing the obvious benefit of a proven marksman in their ranks, held firm to release some of the pressure on Rodgers.
(13) Duggan was shot by a Scotland Yard marksman after armed officers stopped the taxi in which he was travelling in Tottenham, north London, in August 2011, sparking riots across England.
(14) The marksman was granted anonymity because of fears of reprisals and was known at inquest into the death only as V53.
(15) In January, an inquest jury decided Duggan was not holding a gun when shot by police but also found the decision by marksman "V53" to open fire was lawful.
(16) Some sources suggested it was a Basij volunteer on a motorcycle, while others have attributed it to a marksman on the roof of a nearby house.
(17) A jury at the inquest into the 29-year-old's death found he had been killed lawfully by a police marksman, despite also finding that he was not carrying a gun when he was shot.
(18) When they were on the pavement, a police marksman immediately jumped out from behind the bus.
(19) An inquest jury this month found he was lawfully killed by a police marksman despite being unarmed when he was shot.
(20) If Agüero appeared every inch the expert marksman as he toe-poked Navas’s deflected left-wing cross into the roof of the net from close range, Billy Jones looked a thoroughly wrong-footed right back.