(1) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(2) These are likely to include its 20% stake in online bingo business Cashcade and the German price comparison firm Verivox.
(3) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
(4) 11.30am: Those playing "Leveson bingo" with Robert Jay QC 's florid language might like to note that he has so far used the word "adventitious" .
(5) In fact, her pithy insults are deployed so regularly that colleagues on the spending watchdog have come up with the idea of playing “Margaret Hodge bingo”, scoring points when one of her putdowns pops out.
(6) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
(7) The broad relationships are explored between the genetic and the phenotypic structures of the bingo-gamma model (ie, the shortest waiting time among competing, independent, multiple-hit systems).
(8) Duties • From next year's budget, bingo duty to be cut from 22% to 20%.
(9) 1.42am BST Some have bingo, others have drinking games; here at the Guardian we have something much more cerebral to pass the time.
(10) If Barnes once called the contest "posh bingo", this year looks a lot less adventitious.
(11) Photograph: Fox Searchlight This article was amended on 28 February 2014 to credit the online magazine Slate with the Wes Anderson Bingo game.
(12) A real corker of a package if you are a bingo-playing pensioner who likes a tot of the hard stuff and has a few quid in the bank.
(13) Which, in worker-oppression bingo, sounds like a full house.
(14) The magic of reading a whole book in one sitting because I couldn’t tear my child away from the kids’ club (“Cinderella is coming later and we’re going to play bingo with Donald”).
(15) Governmental figures from 1989 show that in the Autonomic Region of Andalucia, with a population of 7 million inhabitants, more than three hundred billion pesetas (approximately UK pounds 1,500 million) were spent during 1988 gambling in casinos, slot machines and at bingo.
(16) ‘Or,’ he continues, ‘I will press the baby to bring the head up.’ He firmly kneads the pregnant belly, slowly encouraging the foetus until: ‘Bingo.
(17) The other four – the aerobics class, warehouse workers in De Piero's constituency, a bingo club of mostly former miners in Derbyshire, and golfers in Yorkshire – were "iconic" groups.
(18) Hip Hop Karaoke every Thursday at The Social, London and at Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 20 February; Limelight, Belfast, 8 March, hiphopkaraoke.co.uk Rebel Bingo Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once called The Underground Rebel Bingo Club, the riotous night of number yelling and covering yourself in daubers has had to drop the “underground” part of its name, presumably because it’s gone stratospheric.
(19) However, we’re not convinced the painting featured on our bingo card is by Eric, since he is better known for his intricate illustrations (see: The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox).
(20) Also you should have included "pesky" and "dirt dog" here to win "Talking About Pedroia" bingo.
Eureka
Definition:
() The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
(2) When Vince was on the [Andrew] Marr programme, and I had been on earlier, I heard him say the problem was demand, and I wanted to run out onto the set and shout 'Eureka!
(3) • Devils Postpile link s camping , geology , Pacific Crest Trail King Range national conservation area Photograph: Mary Caperton Morton Look at a map of California and you'll see that Highways 1 and 101 run along the entire coast, except for a 65-mile slice between Eureka and Rockport known as the Lost Coast.
(4) It is well documented that her eureka moment for founding Ultimo came at a rugby club dinner dance, when she found herself disrobing in the ladies’ because her cleavage-enhancing bra was so uncomfortable.
(5) He cites the seminal British director of the 70s, Nicolas Roeg, as his principle inspiration, recalling the closest he himself came to fainting in a movie as being in a cinema in Belsize Park, north London, watching Roeg's neglected 1983 movie Eureka , starring Gene Hackman.
(6) With new designs – the glassware is still for sale today – the pair dropped clocks and plates which were part of their range to focus solely on the kitchen at around the same time as Richard had a eureka moment in New York.
(7) We love the idea of a eureka moment, but the danger of following every move in the laboratory is that cynicism sets in when promising results fall at the next hurdle, or contradictory evidence turns up.
(8) Quaint lodgings can be found in the nearby small towns of Klamath, Requa and Orrick, with larger hotels in Crescent City, Arcata and Eureka.
(9) The eureka moment came about because of Blecharczyk's empty room.
(10) McNamee said that the Eureka Street author was “homeless for a time, but is an absolute autodidact, who went to Cambridge, is phenomenally intelligent, and fucking frighteningly bright”.
(11) The site's mission is heralded by a quote from Isaac Asimov: "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'
(12) Graphene wasn't so much of a eureka moment as a eureka year or two, but since it was first identified the exclamation marks have kept coming.
(13) From the makers of the beautiful and bleakly atmospheric Limbo, it’s another wordless game of mystery and discovery via exquisitely designed puzzles that require experimentation and lateral thinking to reach their “Eureka!” moments.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Book and antique shops in Eureka, northern California.
(15) "I thought this might make the journey a bit more exciting," says the 60-year-old artist, jumping back on the heels of his Doc Marten boots, a wild mop of hair swishing behind his balding head, giving him the look of a punk professor caught mid-Eureka moment.
(16) On graduation from Eureka College, Illinois, in 1932, he got a job as a radio sportscaster in Des Moines, Iowa, which he held for five years.
(17) She has said that, making the first Bunny, she got that "'Eureka!'
(18) Above all, Cameron needs to tell a political story with this reshuffle, or what Clegg in a different context yesterday described as providing a "Eureka moment".
(19) Specifically, I examine Archimedes' 'eureka', some aspects of Freud's work, then turning to a self-analysis of my own experiences and associative notes regarding an idea that occurred to me in the course of writing the present paper.
(20) It’s exactly what we hoped St George’s would be like.” Dewsnip talks, like every successful youth coach, of the eureka moments he has felt when he sees a prodigy for the first time.