(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this regime is by no means a temporary regime,” Brandis said.
(2) O’Sullivan said a number of “third parties” whom Brandis met would need to be consulted before they could consider release.
(3) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(4) Brandis rejected suggestions the Coalition had made a deal with the Greens to pass Senate reforms as long as the ABCC was not raised.
(5) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(6) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(7) Brandis is yet to make a final determination about whether the government will implement such a regime or not – I suspect it is very likely to happen – but he's quite clearly reserving himself time and space to think it through.
(8) Brandis has asked the ACT government not to put the new laws into effect until the court can determine their validity, but the chief minister, Katy Gallagher, has vowed to press ahead.
(9) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
(10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
(11) I want to emphasise the point: it’s a common responsibility on all citizens if they become aware of information of concern, they should make authorities aware.” Brandis said he had spoken early on Friday to the AFP commissioner, Andrew Colvin, who told him the New South Wales police had “no reason to believe” the Merrylands police station incident was an act of terrorism .
(12) Brandis said former human rights commissioner Tim Wilson, who retired in February and was preselected as Liberal candidate for Goldstein , had a “particularly distinguished term”.
(13) Asked about his forthcoming Christmas television special in an interview in the Radio Times, the BBC presenter, who turns 90 next year, said: “At Christmas we’re under the impression we have it all: we have turkey and brandy butter and Christmas pudding and the family and we have a great time, by and large.
(14) The latter of these focus on the things Chile does best: wine and pisco, the local brandy with a grassy colour and spicy-sweet taste.
(15) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(16) Brandis conceded to Liberal Democratic senator David Leyonhjelm, explicitly prohibiting Asio from engaging in torture, but would not even answer a reasonable question from Greens Senator Scott Ludlam during what passed for the debate over the bill.
(17) Carboxylic acids were present in much higher levels in plum brandy, vinegar, lamb and mutton (heated), whereas alcohols, esters and carbonyls aldehydes are particularly abundant in brandy.
(18) Brandis said the measures were developed in conjunction with the New South Wales government.
(19) In an interview with Sky News on Tuesday, Brandis emphasised that the government had not made any decisions about second-generation Australians and had instead opted to “lead a national conversation about the rights and obligations associated with citizenship”.
(20) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, the attorney general, George Brandis, the trade minister, Andrew Robb, the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, and Turnbull are understood to oppose Billson’s proposed changes.
Randy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Randy denton (@RandyHusker) Scarface showing on Spike TV right now.Every channel buried in white powder.
(2) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(3) The Yankees president, Randy Levine, and Cashman had a conference call with Tim Lentych, the head athletic trainer at the player development complex in Tampa; Rodriguez; and Jordan Siev, co-head of the US commercial litigation group at Reed Smith.
(4) This week people around the internet have taken to photoshopping WWE wrestler Randy Orton’s famous head slam move on to videos of people falling over.
(5) When she refuses to watch it, Randy vomits masticated Member Berries on both of them.
(6) On the defensive side of the football, the South Florida club also added former Houston Texans DT Earl Mitchell (4-years, $16m), who’ll go someway to replacing outgoing veterans Paul Soliai and Randy Starks.
(7) State they’re in This was the season American MBNA credit-card scion Randy Lerner finally announced his Villa venture was over and he wanted to sell.
(8) Several clubs increased their wage bills by £6m or less but Aston Villa actually reduced theirs by £3m from £72m as the American owner, Randy Lerner, sought to wrestle their finances into shape ready for a sale of the club.
(9) This year Randy Ryder will meet his mother for the first time.
(10) Villa Ownership US holding company Reform Acquisitions LLC, sold by Randy Lerner in June 2016 to Chinese businessman Tony Xia, who owns the shares via Zhejiang Ruikang (Recon) Investment Co, based in Hong Kong.
(11) MacDonald , who was interviewed by Randy Lerner, Villa's owner, on Wednesday, has indicated that he would be receptive to working in partnership with a more experienced figure.
(12) Andy Hunter Aston Villa 13th Money to spend Three years ago Randy Lerner smashed Villa’s transfer record when he sanctioned the signing of Darren Bent for a deal rising to £24m.
(13) Large jazz ensemble album: Night in Calisia, Randy Brecker, Wlodek Pawlik Trio and Kalisz Philharmonic.
(14) I saw the video of Garner being arrested, it was horrible,” said Randi.
(15) Profumo was an oddity – a randy politician à la JFK in a dry-balled, homophobic, strait-laced Tory administration.
(16) He told LBC radio: "I am hoping that the real predators are the ones we are going to find out about: the Glitters of this world, the Saviles of this world, not people that were randy young pop stars in the 1960s, 70s and 80s even, that had women throwing themselves at them everywhere they went, because that is a whole different area and a whole different situation.
(17) Today the Birmingham Mail makes one simple, stark request to the Aston Villa board: sack the manager.” Yet his departure still comes as a surprise given the support Lambert, who won the Champions League as a player with Borussia Dortmund in 1997, had from owner Randy Lerner.
(18) Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win Read more The other plotlines are more complicated: while Randy and Mr Garrison have been (mostly) obsessed with the election this season, rest of the town in up in arms about online harassment.
(19) On Monday the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine went to James E Rothman (US), Randy W Schekman (US) and Thomas C Südhof (Germany) for their exquisite work on how cells organise and transport molecules such as hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters.
(20) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.