(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.
Nash
Definition:
(a.) Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
(2) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(3) Born Gladys Nash on 18 January 1903, she was brought up in Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex, and went on to study at college.
(4) Nash also conceded that Furnival had not declared any conflict of interest at the meeting of federal, state and New Zealand ministers on 13 December, which Nash chaired and Furnival attended.
(5) In an ideal world, Nash said, the average OB-GYN might perform abortions, and the procedure would be just one of many ways doctors cover their business expenses.
(6) Bovine estrogen sulphotransferase c-DNA has recently been cloned; the encoded protein having a maximum Mr of 35,000 (Nash, A.R.
(7) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(8) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
(9) In the document, dated October 2013 and circulated to senior officials, Cummings said he and schools minister Lord Nash had “serious concerns” about Ofsted’s operation.
(10) That the Nash-reactive material was formaldehyde was validated by a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase positive reaction.
(11) John Nash is one of the founders of Sovereign Capital, a private equity firm with interests in the healthcare sector.
(12) Guardian Australia understands that at the last meeting of the state, federal and New Zealand ministers responsible for the new system, at which Nash has conceded Furnival did not declare a conflict of interest, Nash argued that the scheme should be subject to a full regulatory impact statement (RIS).
(13) The Lakers know all about injury absences: Bryant hasn't played since tearing his Achilles tendon during Golden State's last visit to Staples Center in April, while Nash is out for at least another week with nerve root irritation.
(14) On 31 March, the assistant health minister, Fiona Nash, announced drug and alcohol treatment programs costing the commonwealth $87m would continue for one year.
(15) One was designed by a famous architect, John Nash, the other by anonymous builders, though both were from an era (and in Nash's case, an architect) notorious for jerry-building.
(16) The patients were divided into bronchitics, emphysematous and broncho-emphysematous, according to the clinical and radiological Nash's score, and to another personal score derived from the former.
(17) 10.49pm GMT Nash says this was essentially an administrative error.
(18) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
(19) There was then a second call from another, more junior adviser in Fiona Nash’s office asking that the website be taken down.
(20) In most cases, NASH results in a progressive hepatic distortion with can end in cirrhosis, although the change is slow and silent.