(n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
(n.) A person destitute of culture.
(n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
(a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
(2) Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices , branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
(3) These barbarians, they are murdering cartoonists for drawing cartoons they don’t like … murdering, killing, torturing Christians, Muslims, other religious minorities.
(4) He was already living in an empire in which the "barbarians" were not so barbaric anymore, but had been influenced by Roman civilisation for decades or even centuries, and were not a threat to the Roman " Leitkultur ".
(5) John Milius's Conan the Barbarian, from 1982, is considered the best film about Robert E Howard's Cimmerian warrior, and helped launched its star on the road to the Hollywood A-list.
(6) In the hands-on available in the Microsoft booth, players control the game's protagonist, Marius Titus, as he storms the beaches of Dover and lays waste to the Celtic barbarians he encounters.
(7) Samoa will complete their World Cup warm-up schedule by facing the Barbarians, who have already lined up matches against Ireland, England and Argentina.
(8) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(9) A former international rugby player, he played for Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians and is the highest try scorer in the history of the Lions.
(10) Mao is supposed to have created order in the Chinese empire by kicking out the barbarians, punishing evil-doers, and restoring virtue.
(11) Trump's Warsaw speech pits western world against barbarians at the gates Read more The government describes the moves as a necessary means to speed up the process of issuing judgments and to break what it describes as the grip of a “privileged caste” of lawyers and judges.
(12) On sale: barbarian repellent, anti-robot fluid and opposable thumbs.
(13) He added: “We will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.
(14) It is a great privilege for the Samoan rugby union to play the Barbarians in the run-up to Rugby World Cup 2015 ,” said the Samoa coach, Stephen Betham.
(15) Dawkins states: "A native speaker of English who has not read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."
(16) The nadir came last week when Sarkozy's new immigration chief Arno Klarsfeld – the eldest son, ironically, of Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld – called for a wall to be built between Greece and Turkey to save Europe from barbarian invaders.
(17) Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.” The issue of women’s reproductive rights has been resuscitated in the Republican base in recent weeks after an undercover sting captured employees of Planned Parenthood, which offers a range of women’s health services, discussing the sale of fetal body parts following abortions.
(18) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(19) Male figures include a Constable, a Barbarian, a Mountain Climber (very heroic he is too) and an Island Warrior.
(20) We are delighted to add the Barbarians-Samoa match at the Olympic Stadium to our testing programme,” the England Rugby 2015 chief executive said.
Custom
Definition:
(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
(v. t.) To supply with customers.
(v. i.) To have a custom.
(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
(v. t.) To pay the customs of.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(4) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(5) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(6) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(7) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(8) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(9) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(10) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(11) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(12) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(13) TalkTalk said customers should monitor their accounts over the coming months and report anything unusual to Action Fraud.
(14) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(15) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(16) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."
(17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(18) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(19) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(20) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."