What's the difference between barney and fisticuffs?

Barney


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (2) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
  • (3) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
  • (4) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
  • (5) Forty-nine out of 50 of the most popular Premier League games were shown on Sky Sports last season and a quick look at our opening schedule of fixtures shows Sky Sports is still the place to go for more of the games that matter,” said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.
  • (6) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (7) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Bizarre spectacle as world's press swarms over woman in (very small) chile shirt.
  • (8) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Today I ruined the World Cup by writing an article about how exciting it was.
  • (9) Wales’s epic journey comes to an end as Ronaldo gets to run the Portugal show | Barney Ronay Read more Adrien Silva 6 Provided a teasing cross for Ronaldo from the left wing late in first half and was comfortable in possession without any truly blistering moments.
  • (10) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) @JacobSteinberg come on Steinberg.
  • (11) After issuing a warning yesterday we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today," said Sky Sports' managing director, Barney Francis.
  • (12) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (13) The conserved open reading frames of Tc1 and Barney share identity with a structurally similar family of elements named HB found in Drosophila melanogaster, after the introduction of 3 small centrally located deletions in HB1.
  • (14) A new look for Darth Vader, as imagined by designer Barney George (www.barneygeorge.com) So how will Episode Seven play out?
  • (15) Northern Ireland are homeward bound but their fans are leaving on a high | Barney Ronay Read more Grigg failed to make it off Northern Ireland’s bench in France, but became one of the names of the tournament after the 90s song Freed From Desire was adapted in his honour.
  • (16) When her career took off at the age of 10 – a childhood of performing in the living room led to a stint jollying around with Barney the purple dinosaur in the 90s series Barney & Friends – Gomez's mother, Mandy Cornett, became her manager, a relationship Gomez now describes as "like a Gilmore Girls bond, except the dialogue's not as clever".
  • (17) The Sky Sports managing director, Barney Francis, said he had spoken to Keys and Gray personally.
  • (18) Until the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was able to claim to be one of the biggest financial institutions in the world as a result of the takeovers it was permitted to make as a result of the legislative changes – including a move into investment banking by buying brokers Smith Barney and parts of Schroders.
  • (19) Barney Chilton, the editor, told the Guardian: "On the Red News forums the percentages have ebbed away from Moyes like the English coastline.
  • (20) England’s future still has promise, but Wayne Rooney is part of the past | Barney Ronay Read more But the surprise is that people are surprised.

Fisticuffs


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I've spent a most enjoyable evening with the redoubtable Professor Elemental, who as you know is not averse to a bit of fisticuffs himself .
  • (2) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
  • (3) It is unheard of for the Bank to get involved in such verbal fisticuffs.
  • (4) It was only when he had a bout of fisticuffs with his deputy of 17 years, Adam Helliker, whose coming departure for a column of his own Dempster regarded as a betrayal, and when he faced another drink-driving charge (a previous conviction had been quashed on appeal) that his world began seriously to implode.
  • (5) Five cases (six eyes) of retinal detachment due to fisticuffs are recorded; at least four eyes went blind.
  • (6) He did not want to get into fisticuffs with Mitt," he said.
  • (7) Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation.
  • (8) While it never amounted to fisticuffs, this lairy threat has been repeated in different forms at regular intervals throughout the past 13 years of Williams's career, depleting slightly in its extremity as each album campaign gets churned out.
  • (9) 12.19pm BST Verbal fisticuffs between Labour's Chris Bryant and economic secretary Sajid Javid .
  • (10) We are all used to the sort of annual fisticuffs at press awards, and all the shouting matches, and we all hate each other."
  • (11) A patient with osteomyelitis of the distal right first metacarpal bone due to Actinomyces israelii following a punch injury during fisticuffs is described.
  • (12) But no amount of political fisticuffs could have prepared him for breaking up fights, trying to persuade students who "couldn't sit still for more than five minutes" to write essays, or, in one memorable incident, dealing with a teenager who was threatening to climb out of a window, six floors up.
  • (13) It’s not like this in real life – but how would you know?” Undeterred by protests about his infringement of copyright, Trump uses Jerry Goldsmith’s embattled but rousingly brassy music from the film to underscore his campaign appearances, and when he arrived in Cleveland for the Republican convention in July he was greeted by the fanfares that accompany Ford’s gung-ho bouts of fisticuffs with the hijackers.
  • (14) After fisticuffs in parliament the Italians have agreed on a package of the economic reforms demanded by EU leaders .
  • (15) Each one of us must shoulder some of the responsibility for Falkirk MP Eric Joyce's allegedly drunken fisticuffs, because it is we who subsidise the drinks in the Houses of Parliament, and therefore we who must acknowledge our role in the cheap booze culture that MPs have rightly observed is shaming Britain.
  • (16) But let's not pretend that fisticuffs are a regular feature of the Palace of Westminster.
  • (17) But these exchanges rarely culminate in fisticuffs.
  • (18) The catfight didn't stop there, with proper fisticuffs breaking out, giving Charity the opportunity to feign a miscarriage.