(v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
(v.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
(v. t.) To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, less flashy politicians such as Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears were the ones who made it to the top.
(2) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(3) Two days later, another letter was dispatched to Blears, this time from Hank Dittmar, the chief executive of the foundation and an aide to the prince.
(4) Should the NEC move to support this, ministers such as the communities secretary, Hazel Blears, would be vulnerable.
(5) The Home Office minister Hazel Blears yesterday welcomed the report, and said: "We have always acknowledged that the CRB's initial performance was unacceptable.
(6) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
(7) Intelligence and security committee report: the key findings Read more The leading Labour member on the ISC, Hazel Blears, said: “What we’ve found is that the way in which the agencies use the capabilities they have is authorised, lawful, necessary and proportionate.
(8) Earlier, Brown promised that Labour's national executive would deselect MPs who had broken the rules of parliament, describing the expenses claims of his communities secretary, Hazel Blears, and the Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, as "completely unacceptable" – his harshest condemnation yet.
(9) The Labour MP for Chorley, Lindsay Hoyle, said grassroots members were angry at the "treacherous behaviour" of senior figures such as former communities secretary Hazel Blears.
(10) "The aim of the event," he told Blears, "is to frame a positive way forward to respond to Gordon Brown's recent, and extremely timely, call for the construction of new ecotowns throughout Britain, using the model of HRH the Prince of Wales's development at Poundbury in Dorset."
(11) Ed Miliband, the Cabinet Office minister and a figure close to Brown, was sceptical, as was Hazel Blears, a former party chair.
(12) Action already taken : Blears said she had done nothing wrong but paid back £13,000 in CGT.
(13) But without the private correspondence being released, there was no way the public could assess the extent and influence of Charles's lobbying, said Paul Richards, adviser to the former communities secretary Hazel Blears and health secretary Patricia Hewitt.
(14) I am assured that Blears, invited to write by the Observer as part of its European election coverage, did not intend her article to be taken as a "savaging" of Brown.
(15) His Blairite tag could be another boon to the rebel movement: it has been easy enough to dismiss Blears's resignation as being about expenses and bad timing, but Lord Mandelson is unlikely to be able to attack Purnell's motives.
(16) Blears rocked the party when she told Brown, at about 9.30am last Wednesday, that she wanted to leave the government for "personal reasons".
(17) Hazel Blears, the senior Labour member of parliament's intelligence and security committee , said it was right that a debate was under way in Britain over the powers of the security services, adding that the inquiry into agencies' powerful new capabilities would go wherever the evidence takes it.
(18) Howarth says it's almost as if Blears has read his speech in advance.
(19) "Hazel Blears wore a brooch saying, 'Rocking the boat'.
(20) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
Blurred
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Blur
Example Sentences:
(1) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(2) One subject reported slight transient faintness and visual blurring after 20 mg of the drug.
(3) There is also a continued blurring of the lines between games and other entertainment media.
(4) The relationships between dioptric blur, pupil size, retinal eccentricity, and retinal sensitivity were investigated in the central 5 degrees of the visual field in 10 normal subjects using the Humphrey Field Analyzer.
(5) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
(6) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
(7) Two principles have to be considered: 1. the image of a curved surface will only show the surface area where the rays form a tangent to the surface; 2. in tomography the blurring of the image increases with an increase of the tomographic angle and the distance of the object to the plane in focus.
(8) Presenting complaints included blurred vision, visual field scotoma, and a field defect.
(9) Back in Christchurch, as my day goes on, at least some of these intergenerational questions start to feel a little more blurred.
(10) We have been able to remove the rotational blur from each of the fibers in the unit cell using the procedures described by Carragher et al.
(11) The thresholds for both tasks increased linearly with decreasing resolution (increasing blur), for a constant ratio of the resolution parameter and the separation of the outer two blobs.
(12) A patient with recurrent weakness and blurring of consciousness associated with hyperkalaemia due to aldosterone deficiency is reported.
(13) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
(14) The data indicate that target proximity will influence AR even when both blur and vergence cues have been stabilized.
(15) Determination of degree of blur is done by calculating a focusing measure for each point in each base image and a composite image is then constructed using only the unblurred regions from each base image.
(16) --Minimum power output of 100 mA at 25 kVp desirable to avoid movement blurring in contact grid work.
(17) The use of axial rather than planar blurring and intensifier camera filming rather than radiography does not reduce the clinical usefulness of the method.
(18) To determine the effect of optically induced blur on the visual field measured with high pass spatially filtered targets, 10 normal subjects had field examinations with 0 diopter + 1.00 diopter or + 2.00 diopter of overcorrection in the cyclopleged state.
(19) It is causing damage at every level and it needs to be addressed.” Smith said her desire to reach out to all audiences and blur the boundaries between the art forms had been a motivating factor in her taking on the role of guest director of this year’s Brighton arts festival, one of the biggest cultural events in the UK, now in its 49 th year.
(20) Part of the appeal for the authors of the course format described here is the blurring of that distinction.