(n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
(n.) One who sifts flour or meal.
(n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
(n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
(2) Bolter has since abandoned her bid to stand in South Basildon in Essex.
(3) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
(4) Bird told the BBC : “We were in a relationship briefly, but that relationship developed well after she had been admitted to the approved candidates list, so her selection was not connected to this.” He added: “Natasha Bolter’s candidate assessment was conducted entirely within the rules, as the party has already verified.
(5) Bolter said she had decided to speak out to highlight the pressure on women to sleep with men in powerful posts to enhance their careers.
(6) She describes advocates of withdrawal as “bolters”, and adds: “They pose as the great patriots, but would any prime minister or British monarch (at least since Elizabeth I refused to marry a continental king) develop a clear policy to reduce the UK’s influence in Europe?
(7) In October, Smith was deselected without explanation, and a new contest was ordered, which was due to include Neil Hamilton, the former Conservative minister, and Natasha Bolter, a former Labour supporter.
(8) In October, Smith was deselected as the candidate for the Essex seat without explanation and a new contest was ordered, which was due to include Neil Hamilton, the former Tory minister, and Natasha Bolter, a former Labour supporter.
(9) We do not have a monopoly on stupidity, I promise you.” Farage said the problems his party had suffered in Basildon – where former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton withdrew his candidacy after questions about his expenses, and another would-be candidate Natasha Bolter made allegations of sexual harassment against the party’s general secretary – were caused by a struggle to secure what might be one of Ukip’s most winnable seats.
(10) Subsequent to that, Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship.
(11) The contest descended into chaos as questions were raised by Ukip about Hamilton’s expenses and Bolter became involved in a controversy about whether the party’s general secretary, Roger Bird, had made inappropriate sexual advances towards her.
(12) Bolter, a teacher, said: “He interviewed me for my PPC [prospective parliamentary candidate] exams … He interviewed me on policy.
(13) Bolter admitted sending friendly texts signed with an “x”.
(14) Bolter told the Times that Bird, who was involved in vetting candidates, made unwanted advances to her on the day she was interviewed after taking her to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.
(15) One of the other most remarked-upon features of Lessing's life is that, along with Muriel Spark, who unbeknown to her at the time lived nearby in Rhodesia, she is one of literature's most famous bolters - something for which she has been given a hard time, for refusing to demonstrate insufficient breastbeating.
(16) The suspended general secretary of Ukip, Roger Bird, has fought back in the battle to save his career amid claims that he sexually harassed Natasha Bolter , who until this week was a prominent female member of the party.
(17) I felt a little bit uncomfortable because it’s as though he found me attractive and he wanted to get to know me in a more intimate way as opposed to just being a good representative for the party.” At a subsequent meeting at his office Bird asked Bolter whether she would like to go for dinner though he insisted on buying her a dress because she was not dressed smartly enough.
(18) "Tom is a bit of a bolter – he's come from left field," added McNamara.
(19) Bolter told Newsnight: “If I would have slept with him, I would of probably had an easier time than I have had in Ukip.
(20) As Bird fought back by releasing intimate text messages from the former Labour supporter, Bolter said she assumed it was “party protocol” when he invited her to continue the interview at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.
Upset
Definition:
(v. t.) To set up; to put upright.
(v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
(v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
(v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
(v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
(v. i.) To become upset.
(a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
(n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(3) Treatment is therefore often palliative, and endoscopic modalities cause considerably less general upset to the patient than surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
(4) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
(5) She stayed calm during the upsetting search that led to Cynthia, who turned out to be flaky, chain-smoking and white (played by Brenda Blethyn).
(6) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
(7) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
(8) Al-Jazeera's coverage has also upset the authorities.
(9) Our observations lead us to think that effectively, an event during which an important emotional state is induced, by upsetting the immune equilibrium, could more predispose a child (in this case the first born) to the action of pathogens.
(10) The interview was a friendly, intense discussion about upsetting situations the subject faced.
(11) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
(12) She [Plath] was very worried about it because she thought it was going to upset her mother.
(13) Diagnostic characteristics of RSDS are: spontaneous burning pain, hyperalgesia, vasomotor disturbances, exacerbations by emotional upset, occurrence either spontaneously or after minor injury, occasional spontaneous resolution, extension to other body parts, and relief by sympathetic denervation.
(14) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(15) The territory is actualy reached by deep demographic and social upsettings and chemiotherapy used alone is not enough efficient to obtain a definitive decrease of the endemy or even to avoid, for a long time, a new increase.
(16) The amount he is being paid for three short columns a week would “only get you sandal wearers all upset” if revealed, he says.
(17) The CPS doesn't just have to consider the public interest in prosecuting individual cases, but also the more general public interest in being able to say potentially upsetting things without fear of prosecution.
(18) As with other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most common side effect is gastrointestinal upset, especially nausea.
(19) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
(20) The conclusion from this, the first reported series on adjuvant Tamoxifen therapy for MBC, is that significant improvement in disease-free survival can be achieved with minimal upset to the patients.