(1) The Mrs Brawne role is quiet, but has the visceral quality that marks Fox's best work; she is a widow, trying to negotiate her daughter's passion for the penniless Keats and the pressing financial need for her to marry well.
(2) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
(3) Campaign magazine says: “To help propel an agency to the top through its strategic work takes some doing, but to keep it there for ten years demonstrates a scary strength of will.” When they named her as top media planner for the second year they wrote “the brains behind the brawn of MediaCom her impact and influence on the business remain second to none”.
(4) It was taken over by Brawn GP, who went on to win the constructors' title in the current season, which ended in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
(5) People need to aspire to become partners.” Miranda Brawn, a barrister and a director at Daiwa Capital Markets, said it was important for young people to have role models or mentors so they could see people like themselves in senior legal positions.
(6) Both teams played with three central defenders, which felt sophisticated, but this contest was all about brawn.
(7) But while Brawn supported the idea of an apprenticeship, she was worried that it would come up against snobbery, and there was a general concern among those at the roundtable that without support from the top of the legal profession it could lead to a two-tier system.
(8) Now 43, the boy from Quebec city has gained a little brawn and is no longer quite so feline and delicate.
(9) Their creative cuisine has seduced local Parisians and the place is packed out every lunchtime for dishes such as smoked haddock and cabbage chowder, pork brawn and prune pâté, and lamb chops with broad beans and crunchy puntarella (chicory).
(10) Indeed, with his mixture of brawn and earthy charm, Pratt is increasingly coming to resemble a more contemporary Hollywood star: Harrison Ford.
(11) It was not a party political debate, not left versus right, spooks vs traitors, or even brains versus brawn, though critics of GCHQ and the NSA could probably muster more GCSEs and PhDs on Thursday than the muscular "Spying is what spies do" spooks lobby, several of whom have "interesting" CVs.
(12) I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn.
(13) Fox's other new work is the film Bright Star, a biopic of John Keats and his love Fanny Brawne, whose mother Fox plays.
(14) Under the auspices of Peter Wright, the FIA’s president of the safety commission, the panel comprised such figures as Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali, Emerson Fittipaldi and Alex Wurz.
(15) • One hour from £17, kayakrepublic.dk emilydevon Family rafting adventure in Sweden Facebook Twitter Pinterest Building our own timber log raft was a real family team exercise: our 13-year-old became the knots and rope expert, the 15-year-old provided the brawn and the eight-year-old verbally supervised.
(16) Last year's How to Train Your Dragon, for example, bravely centred on a wimpy geek – a feminised hero who relied on brain rather than brawn, thus winning the affections of a physically superior female.
(17) He has to rely on brains, brawn and guts, nothing else.
(18) They laboured to deal with Romelu Lukaku’s brawn, and the invention of Ross Barkley, Aaron Lennon and Kevin Mirallas in midfield, with team-mates forever galloping upfield in support.
(19) Wielding a mixture of legal and diplomatic brawn, the letter warned the institutions to "bear in mind … the sovereignty dispute and … the consequences of any unlawful hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Argentine continenal shelf in proximity to the Malvinas [Falkland] islands".
(20) The property boom, at least in the London area, is also pushing wages for bricklayers above £100,000 a year, according to a report by consultancy EC Harris, after a "brawn drain" of labourers during the recession has left the capital with a shortage of skilled workers.
Strong
Definition:
(superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
(superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
(superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
(superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
(superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
(superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
(superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
(superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
(superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
(superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
(superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
(superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
(superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
(superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
(superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
(superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
(superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
(superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
(superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(3) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(4) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(5) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(6) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(7) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
(8) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(9) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(10) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
(11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(12) Although the productions of deoxycortisol and androstenedione from 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone were strongly inhibited by progesterone, androstenedione formation from progesterone was not inhibited by a high concentration of progesterone.
(13) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(14) The activity is strongly inhibited by SH-blocking reagents (e.g.
(15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(16) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(17) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
(18) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(19) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
(20) Incubation of membrane with DL-Hcys alone (5 X 10(-5) M), the combination of both Ad (5 X 10(-5)) and DL-Hcys (5 X 10(-5)), or S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) (1 X 10(-6)) strongly decreased the methyl ester formation.