(1) A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
(2) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
(3) In public life you meet people, and from time to time they give you things, they might give you ties, they might give you pens … sure a bottle of grange is pretty special.” Asked when he had learned of O’Farrell’s bombshell decision, Abbott said “he texted me that I should call him, by the time I saw the text he was about to go in and make his statement.
(4) Our ConservativeHome poll of party members shows Theresa May now leads the blond bombshell in the stakes to be the next leader.
(5) Many foreign nations have also now realized that the scope of US spying exceeds any reasonable standard of behavior, so much so that if there are any bombshells remaining in the documents taken by Snowden, they would most likely relate to the specific targets of overseas espionage.
(6) At their post-summit press conferences, neither of the two sent any signals of the bombshell from Athens.
(7) Senate staffers, notorious in Washington for selectively leaking classified information, kept silent for years on a bombshell investigation into the use of torture by the CIA.
(8) These bombshells come in the absence of serious work – like the interim report of the McClure review – or indications that government is engaging with a meaningful program of broader reforms capable of addressing the many systemic and attitudinal barriers that keep too many people with disability out of the workforce.
(9) This bombshell will weaken supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, chief negotiator Saeed Jalili, and the rest of Tehran's hardliner crew abroad and at home although, as usual, they will try to bluff their way through.
(10) In a £2bn tax bombshell, from April 2017 landlords will no longer be able to claim tax reliefs worth 40% or 45% of the interest payments on their buy-to-let mortgages.
(11) Just 24 hours before the hugely contentious deal is voted on in Athens, you arrange for the IMF to drop a bombshell: the agreement won’t work.
(12) Everyone has to help and we are here to help the boys – it’s our duty to participate.” “He [ Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas] promised a bombshell during his last speech, but we still haven’t seen anything,” a young woman told Agence France-Presse in another interview.
(13) Its basic thesis - though still vigorously contested - became so much a part of the framework of later thinking that it is difficult to recall what a bombshell it was at the time.
(14) The contest between Labour and the Conservatives is shaping into one of the crudest fights in British politics since John Major defeated Neil Kinnock in 1992 with his warnings of a Labour tax bombshell.
(15) In his new book The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom , ex-ABC journalist Andrew Fowler drops a bombshell.
(16) Amid this dense electoral fog, what is clear is that Comey’s bombshell last Friday that the FBI is in a sense reviving its probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was US secretary of state has had a profound impact on the race.
(17) In the press conference that followed their Oval Office meeting , there were no bombshells: Trump managed to get through it without insulting an entire ethnic group, trashing a democratic norm or declaring war, any of which might have diverted attention from May’s big moment.
(18) But days after he dropped his anti-Muslim bombshell, evidence is starting to build that he might actually be right – the proposal, so abhorrent to so many, has actually gone down well with many conservatives.
(19) The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, accused the government of planning “a tax bombshell” while former Lib Dem business secretary Sir Vince Cable accused May of being at war with her chancellor, Philip Hammond, over tax.
(20) And on that bombshell … we await The Alan Partridge movie, which should be hitting cinemas in 2013.
Impact
Definition:
(v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
(n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
(n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(5) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(6) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(7) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(8) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(9) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(10) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(11) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(12) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
(13) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
(14) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(15) These agents may improve functional status, but in general have had little impact on survival.
(16) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
(17) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(18) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(19) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
(20) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.