(1) A fast-talking and brash Glaswegian, he had walked into the party's then headquarters in Cowley Street and offered it money.
(2) Hodgson’s methods, especially towards the end, were viewed as dated and a coach, as Roy Keane put it brashly a few weeks ago in a slightly different context, “who’s got the whistle around his neck and a clipboard” appears sought after.
(3) Letta was thrust aside by the brash, ambitious Renzi just as Italy began to show signs of growth and bond market investors appeared less concerned over the country’s ability to repay its debts.
(4) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
(5) It is expressed quietly in the case of singer-songwriters Laura Veirs and Laura Marling, and brashly in pop with Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
(6) Lewis Nkosi, who has died after a stroke aged 73, once described his fellow writers on South Africa's Drum magazine as "the new Africans, cut adrift from the tribal reserve – urbanised, eager, fast-talking and brash".
(7) The older generation regard the set as brash youngsters scheming their way to the top in what Conway called the "bistros" of Notting Hill.
(8) Speaking in his hometown of Miami, Rubio congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the Florida primary while nodding to the grassroots uprising that had propelled the brash billionaire to frontrunner status.
(9) Of course there was, and still is, wild hedonism among some of the more flamboyant and brash members of the trading community, but focusing on the outliers is no way to properly judge the majority of the industry.
(10) The brash, 39-year-old Matteo Renzi is Italy's third unelected prime minister since November 2011.
(11) Mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk Too many Negroes, it was said, showed off the wrong things: their loud voices, their brash and garish ways; their gift for popular music and dance, for sports rather than the humanities and sciences.
(12) A recent visit to Hamleys' new dolls area turned up a bumper brash-pack of new fashion dolls from the big companies: LaDeeDa Dolls (a swift move by SpinMaster), buzzing Flitter Fairies (Wow Stuff), glow-in-the-dark Bratzillaz (a brazen MGA fast-follow of the huge Mattel Monster High), Ever After High (Mattel), flashing Novi Stars (also MGA, alien dolls with Camden market hair springs and extensions) and all sorts of blinky, noisy merch spinoffs.
(13) Trump insisted that he is a believer in free trade and declared: “I am not an isolationist.” But it was hard to escape the testy relationship between the bookish woman now seen as a crucial bulwark of the postwar liberal order and the brash businessman who rose to power on a populist tide.
(14) The brash Candy brothers, who are behind some of the most ambitious upmarket residential developments in London, appear to have benefited from Kaupthing's demise.
(15) And while the brash billionaire may not have the support of the majority of Republicans, a growing plurality has propelled him to overwhelming victories in one contest after the other.
(16) As the twin inspirations of the pro-democracy movement, they were strikingly contrasting figures: Walesa a flamboyant, brash, working-class union agitator; Havel a soft-spoken intellectual from a well-to-do family, who was a reluctant politician.
(17) This year, an unnamed Washington media executive was quoted as saying: “There will be minimal celebrities in that room … it’s going to be difficult to get any talent there.” The gulf between the traditionally more liberal-leaning household names of show business and Trump the brash populist was evident at Trump’s inauguration in January.
(18) Trump likes to boast he is the only politician that doesn’t use a teleprompter, but the truth is he adheres to a well-rehearsed script in which he is the brash, uncompromising and tough protagonist.
(19) Charismatic and brash, the 62-year-old son of a Communist party "immortal" won admirers with a string of bold initiatives, but alarmed liberals and party insiders who saw him as a dangerously ambitious rival and a potential strongman.
(20) Photograph: Evgenia Eliseeva Those hoping to catch a glimpse of Walter White must have been sorely disappointed in the second act of Bryan Cranston’s brash, confident performance in All the Way .
Nerve
Definition:
(n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
(n.) A sinew or a tendon.
(n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
(n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
(n.) Audacity; assurance.
(n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
(n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
(v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(3) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(4) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(5) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(6) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(7) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(8) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(10) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(11) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(12) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(13) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(14) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(15) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(16) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(17) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(18) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
(19) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(20) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.