(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?
Seamen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Seaman
(pl. ) of Seaman
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
(2) Among them, tourists, servicemen and merchant seamen are the groups most at risk.
(3) Certain behavioral risk factors were more dominant among the seamen than among the control group (smoking level, alcohol consumption and lack of leisure-time physical activity).
(4) Helena writes: First it was striking metro workers, now it is seamen.
(5) The chi 2-test showed a statistically significant difference in the prevalence of alcoholism, and the t-test a statistically significant difference in the daily consumption of alcohol between the two groups of seamen and the control group.
(6) The prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis A (HAV) was 36% in seamen born in 1945 or earlier and 5% in younger individuals, an age-dependent pattern which is essentially similar in the general Norwegian population.
(7) The degree of hearing loss correlated with systolic blood pressure in both groups of seamen as well as with diastolic blood pressure in the engine-room personnel.
(8) He also raised concerns about a number of his fellow seamen, including one whose hobbies he claimed were killing small animals and watching extreme pornography.
(9) The majority of them--16 men were seamen, 3 were fishermen and one was a harbour worker.
(10) Seamen aged 35-44 years had on average 4,3 decayed (clinical diagnosis), 10,4 missing (due to caries) and 8,0 filled teeth.
(11) In this paper, the authors tried to establish the association of alcoholism with arterial hypertension as well as with risk factors for atherosclerosis, which are invariably accompanying arterial hypertension, in engine-room personnel (N = 80), in other seamen of the "Jugolinija" (N = 119), and in the control group which was made up of employees of the Technical Department, Shipyard, "3. maj", Rijeka (N = 108).
(12) Europeans, ship officers and younger seamen were better informed than the other groups.
(13) To a greater extent they should be involved in training seafarers in first aid and primary health care, and in health education activities among seamen, during sea voyages.
(14) Of the features which could be connected with arterial hypertension and are known to be risk factors of atherosclerosis (age, length of service, body mass index, body fat percentage, plasma cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose, cigarette and alcohol consumption, psychic tension index and recovery time in Lorenz test), only the body mass index could have caused the marked differences in blood pressures between seamen and the controls.
(15) The health risks for seamen exceed those of other occupational groups and involve serious social problems.
(16) The mean age of persons examined was as follows: 47.6 years - fishermen, 44.8 - seamen, and 42.9 - dockers.
(17) A total of 3324 chest radiographs (1985-7) of long term United States seamen were reviewed.
(18) The methodological approaches valid in other branches of the national econom cannot be fully utilized for the assessment of seamen's labour intensity.
(19) Three cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in seamen, all acquired while working off tropical West Africa, and all in patients coming in for treatment at a New Orleans hospital during one six-week period, are described in the context of the importance of considering recent travel history for arrival at the correct diagnosis and treatment.
(20) Symptoms of acute intoxication occur in 35% of the seamen, related to work with organic solvents, to tank cleaning work and to insufficient use of protective respiratory equipment.