(n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
(v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints When Drew Brees runs in for a touchdown in the fourth, that's pretty much end of the game.
(2) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(3) The FBI investigated threats of violence made against Malcolm Glazer and his family around the time the late owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was acquiring Manchester United, according to newly released documents.
(4) Anderson, the perennial new-season hope of the United faithful, was the midfield pivot who also made buccaneering runs at goal, while Zaha's pace, and his natural inclination to drift into the area whenever play shifted away from him, nearly yielded the former Palace man a goal.
(5) Mr Glazer’s long-established estate succession plan has assured the Buccaneers will remain with the Glazer family for generations to come.
(6) The Patriots gave up a seventh-round pick plus the rights to Jeff Demps, the Olympic sprinter who claimed a silver medal in the 4x100m relay at London 2012 , in order to obtain Blount from the Buccaneers in April of last year.
(7) He bought the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1995, paying a then record sum of $192m, even though the Bucs were a dismal team.
(8) A third-round pick from the 2002 draft is set to start for the Buccaneers this year.
(9) NFC Wildcards: San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers .
(10) They were of questionable vintage but against a backdrop of spongy-white plaster and dark wood beams, their buccaneering credentials appeared unimpeachable.
(11) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints But, as they say, it wasn't as close as that score indicates.
(12) At Seattle, Steven Hauschka kicked a 27-yard field goal with 8:11 left in overtime as the Seahawks overcame a 21-point deficit to beat the Buccaneers.
(13) In the postwar period he argued passionately for western Europe to come together, to promote free trade, and to build institutions which would endure so that our continent would never again see such bloodshed.” Vote Leave campaigners frequently paint themselves as making a patriotic argument for a buccaneering, free-trading Britain to cut itself loose from the ties of the EU.
(14) Several current and former Sky Sports employees claim Keys and Gray were a double act who were emblematic of a Sky Sports culture that characterised the broadcaster's buccaneering early days but which had failed to move with the rest of the company as it grew to become the biggest media force in Britain.
(15) Buccaneers to win And the rest Here are the rest of this week's games.
(16) Manchester United swept into the EFL Cup semi-finals with the kind of buccaneering display missing from their recent history.
(17) Some of the same buccaneering spirit is at work in Company Theatre .
(18) 6:37 3rd Qr Denver Broncos 31-0 Oakland Raiders, 0:15 3rd Qr Buffalo Bills 3-16 New England Patriots 2:33 3rd Qr Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-28 New Orleans Saints 28, 6:35, 3rd Qr San Francisco 49ers 17-7 Arizona Cardinals, 6:13, 3rd Qr Kansas City Chiefs 24-14 San Diego Chargers, end of 3rd Qr St Louis Rams3-13 Seattle Seahawks, 5:00 3rd Qr Updated at 11.35pm GMT 11.28pm GMT TOUCHDOWN!
(19) He told a conference of the National Association of Pension Funds that shareholders, including pension funds, would need to take their place alongside regulators as a check on the excesses of buccaneering managers.
(20) 2) Tampa Bay Buccaneers Last season: 7-9 What next for the Muscle Hamster?
Century
Definition:
(n.) A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
(n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
(n.) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
(n.) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(4) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(5) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(6) We asked our team to design the 22nd century newsroom.
(7) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(8) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(9) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(10) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(11) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(12) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(13) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(14) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(15) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(16) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(17) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(18) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
(19) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(20) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.