(1) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(2) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(3) An officer claimed McKenna had shouted: "Fucking Yankee bastards out."
(4) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
(5) The Duchess of Cambridge is too thin, has a “bastard of a job” and was pressured into getting pregnant a second time, Germaine Greer says.
(6) "Don't be such an ungrateful bastard," God snapped.
(7) ", but nothing helped, there was so much other noise – both the helicopter above us and the bastard's rifle.
(8) A nonchromaffin paraganglioma was found in the periglandular connective tissue of the glandula suprarenalis of a sheep-dog bastard and characterized by histological and immunohistochemical techniques.
(9) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
(10) She ended up having six children with him and he was a real bastard to her, left her when I was a baby.
(11) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
(12) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(13) For instance: I'd place a bet that if our Paralympic football team loses in the first round, they will still be described as "inspirational"; if the regular England team had done the same at Euro 2012 they would be called a bunch of bastards.
(14) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
(15) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
(16) "We told the mujahideen to leave it to us ordinary Fallujans, but those bloody bastards, the sheikhs and the clerics, are busy painting some bloody mad picture of heaven and martyrs and the victory of the mujahideen," said Ali, another refugee.
(17) Former leader Michael Howard, dubbed by John Major as one of the Eurosceptic "bastards", voiced strong backing.
(18) This has been encouraged by the press' standard strike narrative: these selfish bastards are striking, this is bad, and it will affect you in this awful unacceptable way of maybe making you slightly late for work.
(19) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
(20) "I am now able to tell my staff there is light at the end of the tunnel rather than some bastard antagonising us with a torch."
Mean
Definition:
(v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
(v. t.) To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.
(superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.
(superl.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.
(superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
(superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.
(superl.) Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.
(a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
(a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
(a.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
(n.) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.
(n.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.
(n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.
(n.) Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.
(n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.
(n.) Meantime; meanwhile.
(n.) A mediator; a go-between.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(6) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(7) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
(8) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(9) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(10) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(11) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(12) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(13) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(14) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(15) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(16) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(17) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(18) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(19) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(20) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.