(1) Or is that slot already taken by the Bell-baiters for when he has taken over and failed?"
(2) But even if they struggle for cohesion, the incoming nationalists, neo-fascists, establishment baiters and hard leftists will make it trickier for the mainstream to push through its legislative agenda on everything from trade pacts with America to climate change to immigration policy to eurozone economic and fiscal integration.
(3) The far-right Islam-baiter Geert Wilders did worse than expected, albeit not so badly on 13% and one seat down.
(4) Ishihara, who has earned a reputation as a China-baiter, said the Senkakus' owners had told him no deal had been finalised, while Tokyo officials said the governor was expected to visit the islands in the coming weeks.
(5) A liberals-led coalition has just taken office in the Netherlands dependent on the parliamentary support of Geert Wilders, Europe's leading Islam-baiter.
(6) The baiters are always free to organise their own demonstration (I would be happy to join), and protest movements can only realistically aspire to put pressure on governments at home, whether it be on domestic policies or alliances with human rights abusers abroad (whether that be, say, the head-chopping Saudi exporters of extremism, or Israel’s occupation of Palestine).
(7) Plenty of the jokes in 80s sitcom The Young Ones, or even the 70s comedy Butterflies were at the expense of similarly youthful pretentions.Though these newer, online baiters pick similar targets, it isn't clear that the term hipster, in its modern usage, is sharply defined enough for truly cutting satire.
(8) Could Hackney's hipster-baiter ever concede that east London's trendies might, in the words of one n+1 contributor, remind us of "youth and daring and style, that we don't have any more or perhaps never did?"
(9) Pouring out your heart online will ensure a tidal wave of empathy, interspersed with comments from the deluded teacher-baiters waiting to make bizarrely inarticulate points about the private sector or long holidays.
(10) It is a duty, which if you shirk it, leaves the field clear for race baiters and dictatorial movements.
(11) Founder and frontman Matt Healy is a jittery, tireless chatterbox – an NME -baiter who might yet stoke up a major breakthrough for his band on quote-combustion alone.
(12) But they were always thorny, never safe, and they made enemies of liberals as well as conservatives: the black critic Stanley Crouch went as far as calling them “afro-fascist race-baiters”.
(13) It accused him of waging war on “Anglo-Saxon males, who work for a living, believe in God and the right to keep and bear arms” and called the president and his then attorney general, Eric Holder , “race baiters with blood on their hands”.
(14) The Netherlands' iconoclastic populist and Islam-baiter Geert Wilders is plotting a new campaign to rile the political establishment – a "resistance tour" of the country.
(15) A typical bit of Wilsonian intrigue in the 1960s made it seem cunning to bring in Charles Hill , then regarded as a reliable BBC-baiter, a disruptive move which David Attenborough likened to putting Rommel in charge of the Eighth Army.
Banter
Definition:
(v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.
(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Example Sentences:
(1) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
(2) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(3) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
(4) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(7) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(8) Jack soon suspected that the cynical comments emanating from behind him belonged to a Manchester City supporter but, typically, enjoyed the banter.
(9) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(10) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
(11) Gordon Brown spoke fluently and even managed some banter with cabinet colleagues.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) But instead of condemning such behaviour as sexist, the Bar Council chairman described it as “banter”.
(14) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(15) I tried to address it and have a bit of bunny-based banter with him: "Why are you wearing a full rabbit costume?"
(16) These recordings will include an approximation of the original Smile album, plus outtakes and studio banter.
(17) "I've met all my colleagues this week so I've received a little bit of banter from them which has been good natured.
(18) We survived for six hours with only scraps of quality banter, three cans of Rockstar and a lukewarm quarter chicken that my mate Karl smuggled in his Superdry man bag.
(19) He added that the banter on Top Gear was an "imperfect science" that would "invariably upset some viewers at some point".
(20) Is banter the act of whispering "IDon'tFancyYouIDon'tFancyYou" with your eyes?