(1) There's an extraordinary array of high performance models that can do almost anything, but there's also a lot of clapped-out old bangers from the former communist bloc that can leak, break down and possibly even explode.
(2) When I speak to Win Butler's younger brother, Will, keyboardist, synth player and drum banger, he says: "Every so often someone will say we're the new U2, but we really make some pretty weird music a lot of the time.
(3) Marisol was a topless waitress before drugs fried her brain, Becky was a nurse, despite being raped at 14, before she killed someone and was jailed, and another man was a serious gang banger.
(4) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(5) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
(6) When two previously separate parties come together as smoothly as bangers and mash or apple pie and custard, your only thought is “Why the hell didn’t we do this before?” But if your company’s apple pie is in fact an incredibly complex bit of technological kit which is designed, manufactured and marketed as part of a global enterprise, and the accompanying custard in the metaphorical partnership is a small company thousands of miles from your headquarters, putting the two together isn’t quite so straightforward.
(7) Ben Hayoun is in talks with publishers regarding a series of Disaster Playground books, and a concert from Ed Banger Records, which provided the soundtrack, is also planned.
(8) Anyway, as anyone with ears can hopefully tell, Vermillion is a very good song; the sort of sophisticated, slowly blossoming emo-banger that usually gets the music blogosphere all hot under the collar.
(9) As historical sagas go, the book itself is a banger.
(10) A comparison of the ages at which 12 "milestones" first appeared supported the hypothesis of developmental precocity for the body rockers and the head bangers, but not for the head rollers.
(11) Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne: Rather Be A nonpartisan banger to be used over shots of traditional British life: rolling hills, old person waving flag, policeman dancing at Notting Hill carnival, Clean Bandit popping champagne corks at this song’s 8,000th sync etc.
(12) Dan Snaith looks as if he’s about to deliver an informed running commentary on Istria’s Roman remains; instead, he pulls up the fader on another tropical disco banger and a boatload of expectant ravers go politely bananas.
(13) The kitchen serves Asian dishes as well as some foreign favourites – from Mexican tacos to bangers and mash.
(14) Being categorised by the World Health Organisation as a cause of cancer might be bad enough, but being lumped in with English bangers and bacon has prompted a particularly outraged response from the guardians of Italy’s sacred tradition of Parma ham.
(15) Two procedures were used to compare the effects of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) and differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) on self-injurious behavior (SIB) of three profoundly retarded head-bangers in a multiple-schedule within-subjects design.
(16) Fourteen were head bangers, of whom two had cavum septum pellucidum.
(17) Tadashi Arashima, its chief executive, warned that the various "cash-for-bangers" programmes set up by European governments have artificially fuelled sales in recent months.
(18) We have lunch – bangers and slightly cold mash – at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s rundown and soon-to-be-redeveloped rehearsal space in Maida Vale.
(19) What to buy: Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans will be released by Ed Banger on 14 February 2010.
(20) The sausages are a nominally seasoned plain pork (the correct banger for breakfast), the bacon is excellent, the fried egg bright and fresh.
Banker
Definition:
(n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
(n.) A money changer.
(n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
(n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
(n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.
(n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(2) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(3) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(4) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
(5) For example, the Bank of England was nationalised in 1946, but remained in effect the voice of merchant bankers in the City.
(6) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
(7) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(8) The sense that someone else is running the show – bankers, Europe, multinationals – is no longer the province of the radical left.
(9) How ironic it would be, if the bankers came round to the same argument again.
(10) Lord Mandelson told bankers today that the one-off tax that will be imposed on their bonuses in today's pre-budget report was not designed to "teach them a lesson".
(11) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
(12) Stockman said much of the $1.6tn spent by the Federal Reserve as part of its QE policy was swallowed by Wall Street and simply made bankers richer.
(13) The British Bankers' Association "The commission's proposed options will have to be considered alongside other reforms under way at a national and international level.
(14) Until the October 2008 banking crisis there were no restrictions on the way bankers were paid, but rules were devised to try to link payouts to performance when it emerged that banks would still pay bonuses despite receiving taxpayer bailouts.
(15) The bankers try to answer without making the company look bad.
(16) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(17) Murrawah Johnson, 20, who is Burragubba’s niece, took time out from revising for her university finals to meet the bankers.
(18) But for this to work the political power of the alliance of bankers and lenders has to be broken.
(19) The crash exposed shortcomings in standards in regulators almost as bad as in banks.” The Treasury denied it was involved in the review being dropped, although it has been involved in changing some of the tougher rules being used to clamp down on bankers.
(20) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.