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Bavarian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It said that the Bavarian finance ministry last week threatened to take legal action against an academic at the Technical University of Berlin, who had uploaded a PDF of Mein Kampf to the university's website.
  • (2) Horst Seehofer, Bavarian state premier "Integration is the achievement of one who has integrated … I don't have to recognise anyone who lives from the state, rejects that state, refuses to ensure his children receive an education and continues to produce little headscarfed girls."
  • (3) The CSU, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democrat CDU, has accused the chancellor of making an “unparalleled historical mistake” in opening Germany’s borders.
  • (4) German Chancellor Merkel’s sister party won the Bavarian election which bodes well for her to keep her position in next week’s general election.
  • (5) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
  • (6) The Bavarian International School, north of Munich, was paid £32,000.
  • (7) Bavarian public gardens are regularly pilfered for their hydrangea flowers.
  • (8) Wheat, barley, and maize, each in 15-kg parcels at 15 and 19% initial moisture content (IMC), were kept in a Bavarian farm granary from June through November 1990.
  • (9) Bayern scored their third with Müller netting from a tight angle in the 82nd minute, setting the Bavarians up in style for their Champions League quarter-final with Porto.
  • (10) Frank Sillner, the chief executive of the brewery in Straubing, said he had intended the special issue of 2,000 crates to be a commentary on the migration crisis and a reminder of Bavarian values.
  • (11) He was in the Bavarian capital to cover the walls of the Haus der Kunst with thousands of brightly coloured school backpacks spelling out Chinese characters quoting the lament of a mother of a dead child in Sichaun interviewed as part of Ai's project: "She lived happily for seven years in this world."
  • (12) Citing anonymous security sources, Bavarian state broadcaster BR reported that Germany had received warnings from both US and French intelligence agencies earlier in the day.
  • (13) "Bavarians live the baroque life," says Angela Schmid, head of the German housewife association's Württemberg branch.
  • (14) He recently shared the Berlin stage – the Admiralspalast where Hitler once had a vast purpose-built box from which he would watch operetta – with Michael Mittermeier, a Bavarian comic with a considerable following in Germany.
  • (15) Anti-B19-IgG antibodies were tested for by the ELISA method in 768 sera, 76 from children and juveniles, aged 1-15 years, attending the Outpatients Department of the Children's Clinic, University of Munich, and 692 from persons, aged 18-68 years, attending the blood donor service of the Bavarian Red Cross in Munich.
  • (16) Mixing that pace of new arrivals with up to 6 million beer-drinking revellers who usually descend on the Bavarian capital for two weeks of festivities could cause tensions, regional interior minister Joachim Herrmann warned.
  • (17) In southern Germany, the Bavarian state premier, Horst Seehofer, said there was “reason to believe” that a man arrested last week during a routine motorway check with “many machine guns, revolvers and explosives” in his car might “possibly be linked” to the attacks.
  • (18) The room’s contents were confiscated by Bavarian authorities and some works have gone to the Kunstmuseum in Berne, Switzerland.
  • (19) The centre of town is totally underwater, all the shops are destroyed.” In southern Germany, dangerously swollen rivers have severely damaged Bavarian towns.
  • (20) The collective even went to Landsberg, the Bavarian jail where Hitler was imprisoned for treason following the Munich beer hall putsch, and where he wrote his ominous tome.

Slash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
  • (v. t.) To lash; to ply the whip to.
  • (v. t.) To crack or snap, as a whip.
  • (v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
  • (n.) A long cut; a cut made at random.
  • (n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
  • (n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
  • (2) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
  • (3) But in April, this was reduced to 70% as ministers tried to slash the welfare bill.
  • (4) We write to deplore the coalition's withdrawal of support from the hugely successful school sport partnerships (" Michael Gove's plan to slash sports funding in schools splits cabinet ", News).
  • (5) It’s just one piece of New York’s air quality strategy, which also aims at slashing greenhouse gas emissions 80% from 2005 levels by 2050, says Mark Chambers, director of the mayor’s Office of Sustainability.
  • (6) It’s clear from our time in government that the Tories target will be slashing support for families.
  • (7) Perhaps an independent Scotland would offer a restrained alternative to Westminster's current slash and burn.
  • (8) The energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said the new policy balanced three challenges: the need to ensure the security of the UK's energy supply, the need to build a low-carbon economy and the need to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
  • (9) Forrest noted Fortescue’s rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton had a break-even price of about US$30 a tonne, and the latter announced plans on Tuesday to slash costs at its WA iron ore mines to US$16 a tonne.
  • (10) The company this week announced it would attempt to slash wages at its Australian manufacturing plants.
  • (11) That line in the accounts reveals that costs were slashed by 32%, or £2m, to £4.3m – without which the company would have booked another loss.
  • (12) A leading thinktank has forecast that Britain will remain mired in recession this year, and slashed growth forecasts for almost all members of the G7 group of leading industrial nations.
  • (13) Detainees have seen their time allowed outside cells slashed, and been forced to undergo humiliating body cavity searches if they want to speak to lawyers, it has been claimed.
  • (14) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
  • (15) Payet was at it again before Zaza and Antonio slashed at a couple of other presentable chances.
  • (16) At the same time, local authorities are being offered cash to approve house building, but the budget for affordable housing has been slashed by 50%.
  • (17) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
  • (18) As a result, today it is slashing the cost of a Sky+ HD box by two-thirds to £49.
  • (19) Ofcom has slashed the £20m-plus per year cost of ITV and Channel 5 regional broadcasting licences to almost zero, in recognition of the cost of delivering public service obligations such as news and current affairs.
  • (20) But within North Rhine-Westphalia – which includes the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, and the industrial Ruhr region – it would appear that the CDU's arguments that the state needed to make sacrifices to slash its €180bn (£144bn) debt backfired.