(v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
(2) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
(3) Last week Lebedev posted photos from his Hampton Court bash on his personal LiveJournal blog .
(4) In the end, Miliband's measures have a psychological effect not dissimilar to the youth-bashing policies that have come before: student fees, cuts to the education maintenance allowance and housing benefit for the under-25s , and the prioritising of private landlords at the expense of affordable housing.
(5) But at least it was offering something positive, not just bashing the Tories, like everything else.” But for many, it was symbolic of a vague and complacent Labour campaign strategy that would, ultimately, doom them to one of their worst ever election defeats.
(6) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(7) They are the only party which has refused to be drawn into the immigrant-bashing competition with the others, and the only which proposes a vote in the general elections for EU citizens based on residency, rather than nationality.
(8) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
(9) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(10) But Panmure's Zonneveld isn't so bashful - - he's got a target price of 570p.
(11) Jindal bashed the debate moderators to a crowd of roughly 50, saying: “The mainstream media lost the debate.” He went on to say that the GOP should take “a free market approach” to debates and “have as many debates as possible and let candidates decide which ones they should go to”.
(12) OFFICE COST PER DESK $10,430 pa Banker-bashing rating ■ ZURICH PROS The financial sector accounts for 6% of all jobs in Switzerland and 16% of tax revenue.
(13) If it means bashing your head against the wall, or whatever.
(14) I thought bashing bureaucrats was purely my domain.
(15) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(16) But I will also defend my record, and will not take lectures on “the politics of division” from parties that bash immigrants and those on welfare benefits, or from politicians disgraced by expenses scandals, discredited by lies told to justify war, and intent on scapegoating the vulnerable in our society for an economic crisis caused by the most powerful.
(17) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(18) Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics , the rise of anti-austerity parties Podemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more.
(19) For many years afterwards, the family bashed their heads against a brick wall of indifference and worse.
(20) Debate moderators Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, and Juan Carlos Lopez are sure to ask some tough questions of the candidates.
Bush
Definition:
(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
(n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
(v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
(n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(2) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(3) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(4) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(5) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(6) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(7) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
(8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
(9) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
(10) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
(11) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(12) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(13) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(14) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(15) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(16) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
(17) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(18) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
(19) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
(20) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.