(1) Even the avuncular governor of the Irish central bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, was forced to admit that pumping up to €70bn of taxpayers' money into the ruined banks "doesn't score highly on fairness" when he announced the fifth bailout on Thursday.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Pigott-Smith as the avuncular businessman Ken Lay in Lucy Prebble’s Enron at the Minerva theatre, Chichester, in 2009.
(3) Does he feel the cuddly, avuncular Alan Bennett is a misrepresentation?
(4) For an avuncular former teacher, known for a toothy smile and sometimes nicknamed "Fozzie Bear", it adds up to an uncompromising platform designed to cause palpitations in both the Amsterdam stock exchange and European commission corridors.
(5) The play confronts two hot-button issues: immigration, most obviously, but also Eddie's relationship with his teenage niece , which see-saws between avuncular over-protectiveness and something more troubling.
(6) Around the same time emerged what has been commonly referred to as “is that a photo of Bill Murray or Tom Hanks?”, which stoked a debate about which avuncular actor was actually pictured.
(7) You could never accuse Frank Lowy of not caring enough about Australian football, but in his press conference announcing Postecoglou as coach there was a warmth and an avuncularity that had been missing in his more perfunctory public interactions with Osieck, Verbeek and even Hiddink.
(8) The defendants' outbursts led to unlikely exchanges between them and the judge, Ahmed Sabry Youssef, who tried to calm them in an avuncular fashion.
(9) At times he talks with a soft, cooing seduction, mellow in voice and avuncular in manner.
(10) Twain's cult of personality – as lecturer and novelist, commentator and social critic, travel and humour writer, gadfly and avuncular curmudgeon – was carefully judged, his folksy humour natural, but strategically deployed.
(11) Authoritative figures such as the silver haired, avuncular ARD anchorman Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs – who declared, at around 10.40pm: “This 9th of November is a historic day.
(12) Jeremy Corbyn restates Trident opposition in conference speech Read more He knew exactly what he wanted to say to the sneery commentariat who didn’t see him coming (fair point) and to the rightwing papers; viewers at home will struggle to reconcile this rather mild, avuncular man with the wild-eyed Trot of tabloid legend.
(13) 'I wondered why would someone make such a radical change in their lives if they were basically a good person, a non-criminal' Gilligan, who is 45 but speaks with an avuncular southern drawl that makes him sound 20 years older, made his name working on The X Files .
(14) His voice, normally kind and avuncular, assumes the acid venom of his critics.
(15) On one level, Watson is an avuncular figure, blessed with populist presentation skills.
(16) Tim Pigott-Smith: a life on stage and screen – in pictures Read more In the last decade of his life he achieved an amazing roster of stage performances, including a superb Henry Higgins, directed by Hall, in Pygmalion (2008); the avuncular, golf-loving entrepreneur Ken Lay in Lucy Prebble’s extraordinary Enron (2009), a play that proved there was no business like big business; the placatory Tobias, opposite Penelope Wilton, in Albee’s A Delicate Balance at the Almeida in 2011; and the humiliated George, opposite his Hecuba, Clare Higgins, in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , at Bath.
(17) Putting an avuncular arm round my shoulder, Jim enquired "Have you met Roy Hattersley?
(18) As it turns out, the God of Fuck and post-Britpop’s most famous crack smoker had very little on some of our booked-for-lolz, avuncular old geezers in terms of genuine evil.
(19) For supporters of the avuncular former senator from Delaware, the answers are obvious.
(20) I have not met Mike Leigh before, although we’ve spoken on the phone, yet it’s like encountering an old friend or a relative (he can be slightly avuncular).
Cougar
Definition:
(n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not known whether limitation of ammoniagenesis and elevated plasma glucose concentration also characterize larger felidae such as panthers and cougars.
(2) The rest is left to mule deer, cougars, marmots, badgers – and me.
(3) It’s also good to take advice on bear and cougar safety .
(4) FULHAM Accounts for the year to 30 June 2014 Ownership Owned by Shahid Khan, via Big Cat Holdings, a company registered in Bermuda (tax haven), and Cougar HoldCo London, registered in the UK.
(5) This is an industry that has Cougar Night practically next door to my office and thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to meet there for business conversations.” Since some of the big tech companies began releasing their generally dismal diversity statistics back in 2014, prompting rebukes from both the media and the federal government , the race has been on to make Silicon Valley a more welcoming place for women and minorities.
(6) I hope Bridget's not some awful giddy cougar but I think that's unlikely."
(7) Islet amyloid isolated from the pancreas of a 20-year-old cougar (Felis concolor) was dissolved and purified by gel permeation and reversed phase HPLC for amino acid sequence analysis.
(8) An estimated 650,000 Nanophyetus salmincola were recovered from the small intestine of a wild female cougar kitten (Felis concolor).
(9) The new fossil suggests central Asia, rather than Africa, was where the panthera sub family, including lions, jaguars, tigers, leopards, snow leopards, and clouded leopards, diverged from the rest of the cat family tree, felinae, which includes cougars, lynxes, and domestic cats.
(10) The movie's central theme will be familiar to those who have seen Hollywood's "cougar" films: older, recently retired woman has an affair with younger, sexually voracious man.
(11) The woods are home to grizzlies, black bears, cougars, wolves and coyotes, so it’s important to keep to the 191 miles of trails in the park – which range in difficulty from short strolls to steep treks of several days’ duration – and to make a noise while walking to scare off any bears.
(12) IAPP from the cougar, like IAPP from the human and domesticated cat, incorporates an inherently amyloidogenic AILS sequence at positions 25-28.
(13) The common occurrence of sarcocysts in muscles of top carnivores such panthers and cougars is unexplained.
(14) Washington State blows the New Mexico Bowl Facebook Twitter Pinterest Okay, not one of the marquee bowls on the schedule, but any game where a team blows a 45-30 lead in the final three minutes as the Washington State Cougars did against the Colorado State Rams belongs on this list.
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(16) Cross-reactive antibodies to FIV were common in several free-ranging populations of large cats, including East African lions and cheetahs of the Serengeti ecosystem and in puma (also called cougar or mountain lion) populations throughout North America.
(17) Rafael Gutiérrez, executive director of Costa Rica's national conservation system, agrees: “It has always been a controversial issue, mainly because the media was all over ministers to stop the programme.” He told the Guardian an eradication effort would begin in 2015, with castration or the introduction of cougars being considered as well as hunting or poisoning.
(18) were found in the striated muscles from 11 of 14 wild Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and four of four cougars (two wild F. concolor stanleyana and two captive F. concolor of undetermined subspecies).
(19) We laugh about Mamils (middle-aged men in Lycra) and cougars (middle-aged women sleeping with younger men).
(20) Ollulanus tricuspis is reported for the first time from cougars and represents the first occurrence of this parasite in a sylvatic felid from North America.