(1) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(2) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(3) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(4) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
(5) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
(6) Instead, she has used the take-no-prisoners bossiness that for years served as a distraction from her day job to develop a second career.
(7) Kate Winslet pops up as Jeanine Matthews, the aggy bossy boots on hand to keep the population down.
(8) In support of his new policy, Bossi explained that a war had been fought in Europe – monetary and non-military, but nevertheless a war – and Italy had lost.
(9) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
(10) "Whoever is behind this attack had a message and it has been heard," said Mary Bossis, professor of international security at the University of Piraeus.
(11) Fat chicks deserve that, too.’” I probably would have finessed it a bit if I’d been sober, but way to lean in, bossy, drunk past-Lindy!
(12) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
(13) Earlier this year Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg launched a campaign to stamp out "bossy", claiming that it discourages young women from developing leadership skills.
(14) I'm the boss," announced Beyoncé in one of Sandberg's anti-bossy TV adverts.
(15) At Company X we had a joke that there were only two reviews for women – you are either too reticent or you are too bossy – no middle ground,” said one respondent .
(16) Confident women at work are still labeled "bossy" and "bitchy", to their own detriment – unless they can "turn it off" .
(17) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(18) "I'm not saying I'm a shrinking violet – I'm not – I've been bossy all my life.
(19) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(20) She, like Abramson, was criticised for poor communication skills ("very difficult to talk to") , her bossiness ( "authoritarian" ) and her brusque nature ( "Putin-like" ).
Studded
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stud
Example Sentences:
(1) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(4) In some places the shit was knee deep, and studded with dead pigs.
(5) Ear-piercing techniques include needles, safety pins, sharpened studs, and self-piercing kits.
(6) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(7) Conversely inhibition of protein kinase C, a second messenger system activated by excitatory amino acids (mitral to granule cell synapse), in the accessory bulb during a 4-h period after mating permits all male pheromones including the stud's to activate pregnancy block.
(8) Glen Johnson eased his way through for a 50th cap and to Hodgson's intense relief, that initial sense of panic when Daniel Agger's studs connected with the top of Jack Wilshere's boot eventually dispersed.
(9) The concentrations of 1-NP and airborne particulates changed significantly in all examined areas in parallel with the rise and fall of the frequencies of studded tire use.
(10) Females paired with stud males exhibited a doubling of uterine weight within 12 h, and vaginal sperm were present after 48 h. This indicates that although behavioral responses to males--including mating--require prolonged contact, physiological responses to males occur rapidly.
(11) The name change made little difference to star-studded Toulon, who ran out 24-18 winners to ensure they remain European club rugby’s top dogs for the third successive season.
(12) Yet Ferguson ignored him and the dispute over stud fees for Rock Of Gibraltar, the retired racehorse, started to have damaging ramifications at Old Trafford, with Magnier and McManus using their position as major shareholders to submit their infamous 99 Questions document, predominantly looking at 13 transfers from the Ferguson era.
(13) When fixed at low CO2 tension, the apical membrane area of the alpha cell was reduced; its surface displayed microplicae as well as microvilli, and the apical cytoplasm contained many vesicles with rod-shaped particles and studs.
(14) An already grim night for United might have been even more harrowing if the referee, Martin Atkinson, had taken action against Marouane Fellaini for embedding his studs in the back of James McCarthy's leg.
(15) The Irish band played at a hotel in Beverly Hills, appearing as part of a star-studded benefit concert for Haiti relief.
(16) 60 min: Marchisio is astounded to see the ref flourish the red card ... for a studs-up challenge on Gimenez.
(17) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
(18) There was little variation in the susceptibility of teneral male and female flies, young fed flies, and fed stud males with all the compounds tested (dieldrin, resmethrin, tetrachlorvinphos, bromophos, and propoxur) and increased tolerance in old fed pregnant flies occurred only with dieldrin and resmethrin.
(19) Two trotter stud farms were visited on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during 1972 and 1973.
(20) Ferguson sued Magnier , a former friend, claiming he had been cheated out of stud fees when the prizewinning horse retired.