(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.
Thunderbolt
Definition:
(n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
(n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
(n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
(n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along But Swartz's death came like a thunderbolt in cyberspace, because this insanely talented, idealistic, complex, diminutive lad was a poster boy for everything that we value about the networked world.
(2) There was nothing Reddy could do about super-sub Kwame Yeboah’s 89th minute thunderbolt , which keeps Brisbane at the top of the table.
(3) It has a taste so sweet that one is never enough and a kick as hard as a Roberto Carlos thunderbolt.
(4) TL: Tony leaped out of his P-47 Thunderbolt feeling so great about being alive.
(5) During the 17 years preceding March 1985, 140 patients sustained lightning injuries caused by 44 thunderbolts.
(6) 1.43pm BST Marin Cilic remains one of the great nearly men of men's tennis, a former top-10 contender, complete with a thunderbolt serve and a powerful net game.
(7) Faster Flash storage - up to 60% faster; wireless 802.11ac; Thunderbolt 2 connector.
(8) Less reliable predictions from analysts and the supply chain have claimed a cover with built in-keyboard is in the works – hence the invite line about 'we've got it covered' – along with a new Thunderbolt external screen.
(9) Samir Nasri puts Man City in the lead with an old-fashioned thunderbolt.
(10) Murray saved break point with a stunning cross-court winner in the sixth game of the fourth set, held, and then served out the match to love with an away-swinging thunderbolt down the T. “The way I feel today compared with how I felt after losing in four sets last year [to Roger Federer in the quarter-finals], I could barely move at the end of the match because I was so sore and stiff.
(11) Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe review Read more The case has sparked huge controversy.
(12) Kenny said the tapes, disclosed by the Irish Independent this week, were a "thunderbolt", adding that they showed "the contempt and the arrogance and the insolence" of senior people in the bank towards everyone.
(13) Describing the revelations as a "thunderbolt", the prime minister said: "This has damaged our reputation."
(14) "I thought: 'Here were go again' but this time he kept it down and it was a thunderbolt.
(15) Radja Nainggolan’s 30-yard thunderbolt felt as though it might be the prompt for a rout.
(16) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
(17) Poverty is still shot out indiscriminately but deliberately, like thunderbolts from the palm of Thor.
(18) Bale put the icing on the cake with a thunderbolt from outside the penalty area on the left that went in off the far post.
(19) "These tapes from Anglo are actually a thunderbolt, but they shine a light on a very dark period of Ireland's recent past that we want to get away from."
(20) Out of a clear blue English sky came a thunderbolt to eclipse anything the Rugby World Cup has ever seen.