(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the 12th edition of the winter spinoff of Art Basel, the prestigious Swiss art fair, is drawing the usual assortment of private jet passengers, museum bigwigs, advisers, consultants and social butterflies.
(2) Owing to the whole “ underage sex slave allegations ” thing currently besetting the Duke of York, an utterly bewildering number of bigwigs are coming out of the woodwork to speak up for Andy’s indispensability.
(3) "If you are a sibling of someone who is very important in China, automatically people will see you as a potential agent of influence and will treat you well in the hope of gaining guanxi [connections] with the bigwig relative," said Roderick MacFarquhar, an expert on Chinese elite politics at Harvard University.
(4) Under the gaze of protesters, Republican bigwigs such as Condoleezza Rice arrived to pay homage to – and write cheques for – a governor who has taken stances against gay marriage and the issue of raising taxes on the rich, while at the same time embarking on a union-bashing crusade against teachers in his home state.
(5) He has capitalised on his international upbringing and education to become chairman of Socialist International and build bonds with such global bigwigs as economics Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz and former US president Bill Clinton.
(6) But don't think it's just Republican bigwigs and oil execs rushing to lend the pipeline a hand.
(7) But the arrests of seven Fifa bigwigs in Zurich on Wednesday, and the coordination of a raid on Fifa’s $100m headquarters down the road with a raid on the Miami HQ of international football’s north and central American federation caught everyone off their guard.
(8) But,” he says without a trace of hyperbole, “I believe the journey up there will be the thing.” Inside the hangar we hear speeches from Virgin Galactic bigwigs, trumpeting what a fabulous achievement the new aircraft is.
(9) "On the doorstep," lamented one Labour bigwig, "people saw it as Boris v Ken."
(10) King, and four other Bank bigwigs, have been called to answer questions about the latest financial stability report – we expect plenty of questions on the eurozone crisis.
(11) New Labour bigwigs insisted that those voters “had nowhere else to go”.
(12) The other half, the party bigwigs roll up their sleeves and bruise in, weaklings following Ukip thugs.
(13) Against all the conventional wisdom of the then prevailing mindset of the studios’ marketing bigwigs, Universal Pictures – with a new monster on hand to match such signature Universal properties as Frankenstein and Dracula – decided on an unprecedentedly wide immediate opening in an era when the move was still largely a ploy to defang bad early word-of-mouth by vacuuming up all the available ticket-buyer money before the bad news got out (actually, this still holds good now).
(14) The bigwigs pressured the police to prosecute me," he says.
(15) One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken.
(16) I am a casual tutor, you are permanent (an academic, subject coordinator, faculty bigwig).
(17) That combination has clearly endeared her to the SNL bigwigs: she was one of four musical performers on the show’s 40th anniversary special, alongside Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Paul Simon.
(18) Don't all the bigwig shrinks – your Freuds, Jungs and Laings – drone on about the importance of separation, individuation and self-actualisation?
(19) Given the ceremony’s choice of host, the outspoken Chris Rock, it’ll be a nervous night for Academy bigwigs.
(20) Better Together had Gordon Brown's impassioned rhetoric; it parachuted in Westminster bigwigs to make hurried vows for new Scottish powers.
Macher
Definition:
(n.) One who marches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because many humans have high levels of circulating antibodies directed against the enzymatic product of alpha 1----3-galactosyltransferase (Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcN Ac) (Galili, U., Clark, M. R., Shohet, S. B., Buehler, J., and Macher, B.
(2) 162, 573-582; Galili, U., Buehler, J., Shohet, S. B., and Macher, B.
(3) This natural antibody, designated "anti-Gal," was previously found to bind to terminal Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc-R on biochemically defined glycolipids (Galili, U., Macher, B.
(4) Previous studies (Galili, U., Clark, M. R., Shohet, S. B., Buehler, J., and Macher, B.
(5) 84, 1369-1373; Galili, U., Shohet, S. B., Korbrin, E., Stults, C. L. M., and Macher, B.
(6) A mouse monoclonal antibody, VIM-2, specific for human blood cells of myelomonocytic lineage, was found to bind to a series of minor gangliosides isolated from the cells of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (Uemura, K., Macher, B.A., DeGregorio, M., Scudder, P., Buehler, J., Knapp, W., and Feizi, T. (1985) Biochim.
(7) alpha 1----3-Galactosyltransferase is widely expressed in different mammalian species, with the notable exception of man and Old World monkeys (Galili, U., Shohet, S. B., Kobrin, E., Stults, C.L.M., and Macher, B.
(8) Thus, in an apparently pure batch of crystalline lipid X as obtained by a published procedure (Macher, I.