(a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
(2) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
(3) But that is the thing that we have to do: We have to try and fight through that,” Team Canada assistant coach Claude Julien said before his Bruins played the Kings Monday night .
(4) Houston bring on Weaver for Bruin (who has cut a rather lonely figure up front, all alone) 3.38am GMT 72 mins SKC win anther corner and Zusi puts it into the right area but again it's met by a Houston head.
(5) In Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Boston Bruins held a 2-1 lead over the Chicago Blackhawks with 77 seconds remaining in regulation and looked poised to force a Game Seven in Chicago.
(6) Bruins, Cnossen and van Boheemen built their first rough prototype using the heater element from a hairdryer and some other stuff they picked up at the home improvement store, Home Depot for €40 (£33).
(7) Then Jonathan Toews stunned the Boston crowd by pushing the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, tying the game up at 2-2 with little more than a minute left.
(8) The large effect of low PCO2 on both fetal and adult erythrocytes was related to the higher affinity for CO2 of deoxyhemoglobin compared to oxyhemoglobin and a model for CO2 binding analogous to that described by de Bruin et al.
(9) Chicago's Andrew Shaw finally ended t he fifth longest ever Stanley Cup final game 12:08 minutes into triple overtime (112:08 in total to save you the mathematics) and capped a 4-3 comeback victory for the Blackhawks over the Boston Bruins.
(10) And it paid off in a goal early on, care of Chris Kelly , a new standout in the Bruins lineup.
(11) Here's a look courtesy of our favourite wikipedia: 1942 Stanley Cup when the Toronto Maple Leafs came back and won four straight over the Detroit Red Wings 1975 Stanley Cup quarterfinals when the New York Islanders came back and won four straight over the Pittsburgh Penguins 2004 American League Championship Series when the Boston Red Sox came back and won four straight over the New York Yankees 2010 Stanley Cup conference semifinals when the Philadelphia Flyers came back and won four straight, winning the fourth game 4-3 after being down by a score of 0-3 to the Boston Bruins 2014 Stanley Cup conference quarterfinals when the Los Angeles Kings came back and won four straight over the San Jose Sharks.
(12) BRUINS 4, DEVILS 3, OT In Boston, David Krejci completed his second career hat trick in overtime to give the Boston victory and its first season sweep of New Jersey since 1985-86.
(13) Updated at 2.56am GMT 2.55am GMT 45 mins Bruin breaks past one and then two men and shoots hard and low from 22 yards out.
(14) With two fast goals in the dying moments of the third period Monday night in Boston, the Chicago Blackhawks came from behind to beat the Bruins 3-2 and win the 2013 Stanley Cup.
(15) Several studies have suggested that binding of the receptor antibody and TSH to the TSH receptor is mutually exclusive (Manley et al., 1977; Petersen et al., 1977; Rickards et al., 1981) but recently the formation of termolecular complexes consisting of detergent solubilized receptors, labelled TSH and Graves' IgG has been reported (Konishi et al., 1982; De Bruin et al., 1984).
(16) 7.56pm GMT 2 mins: A long ball for Will Bruin in the SKC box but he's judged to have fouled Collin.
(17) The Rangers will play the winner of Wednesday's Game 7 at Boston between the Bruins and Montreal, while Chicago will meet either Anaheim or Los Angeles, with the Ducks leading that series 3-2.
(19) In and around that they gave up two soft goals to Will Bruin, whose resurgence under Coyle is one of the early stories of the season.
(20) Bruins and his colleagues also approached academic medical researchers, who agreed that malaria detection was a good use for their PCR machine.
Ruin
Definition:
(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(3) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(4) A procedure is described for the rapid determination of putrascine, spermine and spermidine in ruine and whole blood.
(5) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(6) Conference, five years ago this motion would have ruined my life.
(7) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(8) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(9) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
(10) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(11) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
(12) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
(13) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(14) Even the avuncular governor of the Irish central bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, was forced to admit that pumping up to €70bn of taxpayers' money into the ruined banks "doesn't score highly on fairness" when he announced the fifth bailout on Thursday.
(15) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(16) But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company.
(17) His torturers accused him of passing on to British officials information about previous beatings at the hands of state officials and other human rights abuses, to ruin diplomatic relations between the two countries, he said.
(18) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
(19) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(20) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.