(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?
Bartering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barter
Example Sentences:
(1) Children with living parents were bartered, abducted and palmed off to Americans and northern Europeans who paid large sums to have a child of their own.
(2) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
(3) We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
(4) It is "our only remaining bartering tool" one union leader said.
(5) The real bartering will be around the question of an acceptable definition of inequality.
(6) The question for the White House now is how the Copenhagen agreement will affect its ambitions to present Congress with a wide ranging energy bill that would enshrine a cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions through bartering.
(7) Women's rights have become a kind of bartering chip to be traded away for political agendas that have little or nothing to do with the interests and wellbeing of women and girls."
(8) People worked long hours for little, bartering farm produce for the few store-bought necessities.
(9) Leveson said her testimony was evidence that the family had been "targets of press intrusion" and felt there "was no remedy apart from bartering away your privacy".
(10) Once he had assembled his cast in the rehearsal rooms, Lepage mixed in some of his own family folklore, the tale of a grand-uncle who became so indebted to Chinese gamblers that he was forced to barter his pregnant daughter.
(11) This shows that restrictions on commercial and barter transactions, to be imposed by the authorities, are required.
(12) It leaves Arsenal with mixed feelings as the summer bartering comes to an end.
(13) If comics have to start bartering for groceries, their dignity's gone for good.
(14) A senior Russian government official – who spoke to Reuters – said separately that Russia has started supplying grain, equipment and construction materials to Iran in exchange for crude oil under a barter deal.
(15) We speculate that the enrichment of polyunsaturated fatty acids on the cell membranes may represent a condition favoring the lipoperoxidation and therefore the development of the retinitis pigmentosa characteristic feature of Laurence-Moon-Barter-Biedl Syndrome.
(16) The Kalunga have a cooperativist society and money is not frequently used as they favor the barter system.
(17) The rebels have described the kidnapped Europeans as prisoners of war and said they might be bartered for imprisoned pro-Russian activists in Kiev.
(18) Russia also said it has struck a barter deal with Iran, exchanging Iran oil for Russian grain and other commodities, although traders said they saw no sign of any increased shipments of either.
(19) Barterers are shown to be the heaviest drug users, using the greatest variety of drugs, using larger amounts of drugs, and using more frequently.
(20) By day, guests loll in the lounge area or sun themselves on the beach, bartering for fresh catch with local fishermen when they return from the sea in the afternoon.