(1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(2) Bell made the comment in response to a blogpost from Emily Bell , in which the Guardian columnist claimed that "the great VC‑backed media blitz of 2014", including Vox, FiveThirtyEight and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, is being led almost exclusively by white males as it ostensibly aims to reform journalism.
(3) For weeks after the budget both Hockey and Abbott blitzed the airwaves, arguing their case in similar terms.
(4) Margie Abbott, who rarely speaks to the press, did a media blitz last week, telling one news programme that "Tony Abbott gets women and … the women in Tony Abbott's life certainly get him."
(5) Rubio’s allies have vowed to replicate this in coming weeks with another “multi-million” dollar blitz, according to Jeff Sadosky, a spokesman for the Super Pac.
(6) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
(7) In the UK, sales of almonds increased by 45% over 2012-13 after a marketing blitz in lifestyle magazines.
(8) Taking up his post on Tuesday, Hall is planning a blitz of broadcast interviews, part of a concerted response to accusations that the previous regime was not responsive enough to the media.
(9) They then blitzed the series with Apple products "as a thank you".
(10) Unions are gearing up for a hospital-organizing blitz, say three attorneys.
(11) That is the importance of historical memory in these moments – and of course Britain has the blitz spirit in its DNA: we are people who do not crumble during crisis.
(12) I used to see Clinton from Pop Will Eat Itself and Blitz [top Oi combo] on scooter runs; we used to get attacked by bikers in Stourbridge (the Poppies' home town), till we followed Clinton down an alternative safe route."
(13) Clarkson and fellow presenters James May and Richard Hammond announced the expansion in a YouTube video on Wednesday, amid a marketing blitz that includes billboards, print, radio and television ads.
(14) While Obama has put a large portion of his war chest behind the largest and best oiled ground operation ever seen, Romney and his Super PAC supporters have taken a more conventional approach of blitzing battleground states with largely negative television advertising.
(15) Wander Spitalfields market for street food and new and second-hand clothes; or head to vintage stores, such as Blitz and Rokit, for a bigger selection of retro gear.
(16) Corroborating a typology of rape proposed 10 years earlier, a recent demographic study of 1,000 incidents of rape concluded that the two predominant types of assault were blitz and confidence rape.
(17) The pro-Trump blitz comes despite the real estate mogul’s earlier backing for a ban on assault weapons and longer waiting periods for background checks with gun purchases, ideas that the NRA has rejected.
(18) David, no under-achiever himself, remains awed by the fact that his father could have worked for a while in the Blitz clearing houses while "teaching himself English and getting his A levels, and within two years of arriving be at the LSE and then a year after that be in the Royal Navy".
(19) Since the riots, when the country veered between its Blitz-spirited best and its give-me-free-trainers-or-tax-breaks worst, a delicate peace has held between Nice Britain and Nasty Britain.
(20) When we came to London we finally went to the Blitz , and we thought, “This is it?” Because it was all so manicured and nice.
Drunk
Definition:
() of Drink
(p. p.) of Drink
(a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
(a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
(n.) A drunken condition; a spree.
Example Sentences:
(1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
(3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
(4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
(5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
(6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
(7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
(8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
(9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
(14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
(15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
(16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
(17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
(19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
(20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.