(n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
(n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
(n.) A pistol.
(n.) The spotted redshank.
(n.) One who strips trees of their bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(2) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
(3) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(4) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
(5) Microgeneration like home wind and solar panels will not be covered by the project, but could be marketed by selling companies alongside the core efficiency measures, said Barker.
(6) The rates "will come down", Barker confirmed when we spoke last week.
(7) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
(8) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
(9) At the moment the club needs a long term strategy but has an owner with a short term view - Al Reading It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season Ben Barker, Reading fan It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season.
(10) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
(11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
(12) As Greg Barker told me last week , "the focus of the current scheme needs to be on the small scale, to get the maximum number of installations".
(13) It is a far cry from Barker's promise of: "A radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions."
(14) He beat his fellow MSP, Richard Barker, and Glasgow city council leader, Gordon Matheson.
(15) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Patriots inactives: DL Sopoaga, CB Green, G Barker, TE Williams, DE Bequette, WR Thompkins, LB Beauharnais.
(16) Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker welcomed an increase in the number of people having their homes assessed for the green deal .
(17) The interim report from the five-strong Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England , chaired by Kate Barker, a former Bank of England economist, has been published as all three main parties decide how to approach the issue of social care in their election manifestos.
(18) Read the biographies - Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker and, in particular, Lucasta Miller - and you can begin to discern a more formidable woman who could cope with the world rather better than the image of the doomed Emily might suggest.
(19) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(20) Following the physiological investigation, the muscle was fixed and stained according to the method of Barker and Ip (J.
Spruik
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He had committed to attend the show – and was likely to spruik the agriculture white paper – having said as recently as Sunday morning that he would be there.
(2) To do good medical research you need good chemistry and good physics and good biology and good genetics … it doesn’t make sense to separate one thing out.” Abbott and Dutton were again spruiking the new fund on Monday, but few leading scientists entirely agree with the strategy.
(3) It’s a far cry from the usual desperate pleas for attendance from those emotionally and physically ragged students who march up and down the street spruiking petitions and street press rags.
(4) My only financial benefit was the remuneration I was receiving at KPMG.” Conroy said: “That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for.” Fitzgerald responded: “I'm not spruiking for anybody.” Infrastructure Australia provides advice to the government on infrastructure priorities but it is up to the government to decide whether and where to allocate funding.
(5) Her income is higher than it was before and she can afford someone to come in for four hours a day to help out, but it is nothing like the paid holiday that advocates of do-what-you-love independence spruik.
(6) But Shorten does have the advantage of entering the election fight knowing what he’s selling and why, and not having to spruik a bunch of policies everyone knows he doesn’t believe in.
(7) MinMetals spruiked Robert’s visit on its website by saying the then assistant defence minister was speaking “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence”.
(8) (Christensen and Bernardi say it has resurfaced now because “more information has come to light” which is a neatly circular argument since it is them and their fellow conservative objectors who have been spruiking the new “information”.)
(9) That would be the kind of supporters who are willing to fundraise, doorknock, spruik on social media and take the personal time to convince their friends, relatives and neighbours that Labor have a political vision worth voting for.
(10) After all the venom spruiked about debt, deficit and the so-called “budget emergency”, Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb produced a four-year budget which was only $6bn different from Labor’s.
(11) Fitzgerald replied: "I'm not spruiking for anybody."
(12) This explains why the bulk of the billions of dollars extra the former Labor government was spruiking was due to arrive beyond the four-year budget cycle – and why the Coalition never committed to match funding beyond the first four years.
(13) He said at the time his vote “was not a vote for deregulation” but “to continue discussion”, but as the government embarked on an $8m advertising campaign to spruik the defeated package and a new round of lobbying to secure its passage this year, it was widely assumed it would secure Muir’s support.
(14) During question time on Tuesday, Abbott evaded questions on the cabinet leaks, instead spruiking the government’s credentials on national security.
(15) Conroy said: "That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for."
(16) Crossbench seek sweeteners for supporting revised family benefit cuts Read more While the childcare changes are not scheduled to start until 2017, they would be harder to spruik in the 2016 election year if the government had failed to secure its self-identified funding stream.