(prep.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
(adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
(adv.) Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others were catapulted down corridors running athwart the ship or hurled from the starboard decks into the sea.
(2) Standing athwart the the typical lineup of conservative justices were the three women, all liberals, on the court: Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg.
Travers
Definition:
(a.) Across; athwart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(2) Streep made her comments during an awards presentation to Emma Thompson, who starred in Saving Mr Banks, the story of how Walt Disney persuaded PL Travers to let him adapt her book Mary Poppins into a film.
(3) In fact, after the film was released, Travers never tired of telling people she "couldn't bear" it.
(4) It is proposed that these heads bind ATP loosely without hydrolysis, as found with S1 [Tesi, C., N. Bachouchi, N., Barman, T., & Travers, F. (1989) Biochimie 71, 363-372].
(5) "We put the figure slightly higher, at around 25,000 lions, but whether you use these figures, the LionAid report or the Duke study, there is common agreement among everyone involved in conservation of African lions that the situation is extremely serious," said Will Travers, director of the Born Free foundation.
(6) "When friends have babies, I take ice cream to their houses," says Kitty Travers, who runs La Grotta Ices, a hole-in-the-wall in Bermondsey, south London.
(7) This work is a continuation of our study on Ca(2+)-activated myofibrils [Houadjeto, M., Travers, F., & Barman, T. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 1564-1569].
(8) Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, said: "Rather like old and new Labour, it shows there will be a tension [if the Conservatives win the general election] between the radical Conservatives we could call the new Thatcherites and the more moderate Conservatives ."
(9) It tells the story of PL Travers, author of the six Mary Poppins novels that most people haven't read, and her battle with Walt Disney over the film that everyone's seen.
(10) Being given a copy of Mary Poppins by PL Travers for my eighth birthday was both a thrill and, as it turned out, one of the greatest disappointments of my young life.
(11) Admittedly, most writers are a bit like that, but Travers is at the extreme end of the spectrum.
(12) The extent of the reduction in Vo by ethylene glycol was much larger than that in the actomyosin ATPase activity reported by Travers and Hillaire (Eur.
(13) On the first page Travers tells us that No 17 Cherry Tree Lane is the smallest and shabbiest house in the street because Mr Banks has given Mrs Banks the choice between a large family or "a nice, clean, comfortable house".
(14) Views from local government on George Osborne's spending review Read more Prof Tony Travers from the London School of Economics said Osborne’s changes were radical because they meant councils will only be able to increase revenues in the future by attracting more businesses to benefit from the changes to rates.
(15) Daniel Hart (@KingDingDan) "Ed Miliband says Labour will lower the voting age in the UK to 16.” GOOD April 13, 2015 Robbie Travers (@RobbieTravers) If you are deemed old enough to have sex with your elected MP, you should have the ability to elect them.
(16) Anyway, as Travers's text makes clear, Mary Poppins is no beauty.
(17) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
(18) Will Travers, president of the Born Free Foundation , said that elephants across Africa were being killed by poachers in the tens of thousands so that illegal ivory could be laundered by criminal syndicates through legitimate markets.
(19) Which is exactly the way of looking at it that would have made Travers, if not Mary Poppins herself, break into one of her very rare smiles.
(20) PL Travers had a complex nature, but I think what fascinated me most, while working on the documentary, was this issue of control.