(1) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(2) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(3) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(4) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(5) We studied bobbed loci at different magnification steps, analysing their behaviour through the reversion process and the way they carry out a second round of magnification.
(6) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(7) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
(8) The remaining four crossbench senators – Jacqui Lambie, Bob Day, Dio Wang and Glenn Lazarus – are still in negotiations and have not yet reached a position on the bill.
(9) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
(10) Bobbed mutants also have the same molar ratios as wild-type flies.
(11) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
(12) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
(13) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(14) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(15) Analysis of the rates and amounts of rRNA and 5s RNA synthesized in Drosophila melanogaster bobbed mutants was done by using acrylamide-gel electrophoresis.
(16) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
(17) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
(18) "Ghana are a talented team and their coach has them well organised," the USA coach, Bob Bradley, said.
(19) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
(20) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the bobbed locus contains multiple cistrons, some threshold number of which are needed to produce ribosomal RNA and the normal phenotype.
Bounce
Definition:
(v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
(v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
(v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
(v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
(v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
(v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
(v. t.) To bully; to scold.
(n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
(n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
(n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.
(n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
(n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
(adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(2) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
(3) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
(4) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(5) Salmond also made a tacit admission that the "Brown bounce" – the prime minister's success in rebuilding voters' confidence during the financial crisis – had been a factor.
(6) And then the ball is in Caballero's hands.At the other end, Courtois beats away an awkward, bouncing drive from long range.
(7) Besides, his tax cuts are already factored in with voters.” The Tories had no bounce when Cameron first sprung these tax cuts.
(8) Radio 3's commitment to bring the BBC Proms to a wider audience has been rewarded as the network bounces back above the 2 million mark."
(9) The Labour leader Ed Miliband has maintained his post-conference speech bounce in the polls, with an 11-point lead.
(10) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(11) Although Obama's campaign team played down the chances of Obama securing a poll bounce from the Democratic convention, beginning Tuesday, it is privately hoping he can open up a significant lead after months in which the two have been tied in the polls.
(12) Southampton's manager Mauricio Pochettino praised his side's ability to bounce back from adversity.
(13) Too many people had been asked if they would be interested in joining for it to remain secret for long Plans for the Hatton Garden job were bouncing around for 18 months.
(14) She served four double-faults at around 30mph and could hardly bounce the ball.
(15) But international analysts have called the recovery a dead cat bounce – and the leadership’s reputation with its own people for sound management, along with the promise for international investors that the government was on track for overdue economic reforms, has suffered a serious blow.
(16) However, analysts said that with construction also weak, there was little sign that the recession-hit UK is bouncing back strongly.
(17) She bounced back into the charts in 1989 with Another Place and Time, overseen by the British producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the single This Time I Know It's for Real was a major international success.
(18) Charity leaders accept that circumstances aren’t changing anytime soon, so they’re bouncing back; building great teams that support great services.
(19) Of the three relegated clubs, Norwich have adjusted best to the Championship and, Alex Neil having replaced Neil Adams as manager in January, are challenging for a bounce-back promotion.
(20) His right-foot effort was miscued but the ball bounced conveniently for Evans, running in at the far post, to beat Mannone from close range.