(n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
(a.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
(a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(2) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(3) The government would also be making a big call if it refused to budge because it would risk having to negotiate with the disparate group of crossbench senators to salvage the deal, a difficult proposition on such a significant trade agreement.
(4) With the Swedish courts last month rejecting an attempt by Assange's lawyers to quash the warrant for his arrest, Britain continuing to insist he will be arrested the instant he steps foot outside the building and the Australian refusing to budge, the situation has now reached political and legal deadlock.
(5) And we won't budge a single centimetre from Ukrainian land.
(6) You can see by this handy income-distribution chart that over the past 44 years, middle-class incomes have barely budged .
(7) Earlier this year its popularity barely budged when it tried to reform the constitutional court in moves that critics including the European Union said undermined democratic standards.
(8) His habit of refusing to budge until he felt a song was absolutely right infuriated some, but guaranteed that he rarely turned in disappointing work.
(9) ‘He doesn’t budge in what he thinks even if he has to give way – he just gets irritable.’ Cameron sees their opposition as a problem to be handled, not as an occasion to stand in another’s shoes.
(10) Budge Wells, a Conservative councillor, has called a meeting of the executive of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association to be held this week to discuss the implications of Dorries having the whip suspended .
(11) I have already engaged lawyers, written to the PM and met Jo Johnson, minister of state for universities and science – and at every stage the government has pig-headedly refused to budge.
(12) Tory MPs in 71 marginal seats at risk from cuts to tax credits Read more The Treasury and No 10 are insisting that they will not budge and will press ahead with their plan to slash tax credits from next April.
(13) The Liberal Democrats' election manifesto retained the party's long-standing commitment to scrapping tuition fees, and for most Lib Dem MPs it is a matter on which they will not budge.
(14) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
(15) President, you got your tax increase' The Republicans aren't budging on taxes.
(16) In a meeting on 2 February, just over a month before Green sold BHS to Chappell, Paul Budge, the finance director of Green’s retail business Arcadia, and Neville Kahn, a partner at Deloitte, told Martin that Green was unlikely to agree to take part in the pension regulator’s long-requested moral hazard review unless he was compelled to do so.
(17) For much of Friday, they refused to budge, turning away offers of water, fruits and sweets and shouting “No food!
(18) This is a diplomatic dance which is likely to go on for some years, with both sides making all the right faces while knowing the other will not budge.
(19) And the Senate refused to budge, stripping out the healthcare section and booting the legislation back.
(20) But the MP added: "This issue of course is visceral for many colleagues who will probably not budge."
Nudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
(n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) There may, however, be a large section on "the nudge unit", otherwise known as the cabinet office's behavioural insights team .
(4) So it must be very tempting to introduce "nudge" legislation.
(5) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(6) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(7) When Javier Hernández scored from close range to make it 3-0 after his captain Rafael Márquez had nudged on a corner, Mexico and their army of supporters had everything they wanted and more.
(8) With climate change and energy use nudging the top of political and commercial agendas, these are companies that have a stake in how our world develops.
(9) Walters, all alone in the crowd, nudged home after a slight pause.
(10) Breyer, who is on the lefter side of the bench with Ginsburg, nudged her at least eight times during the ceremony, according to the Washington Post .
(11) That should have ended it but Griezmann eventually did, nudging over the line after Saúl had headed Turan’s perfect pass across the face of the goal.
(12) As for Disney’s ‘pressure’ to lose weight, she should be even more grateful for being nudged to get healthy.
(13) Geoff Mulgan, a former head of the strategy unit at No 10, where Halpern once worked, and who is now the head of Nesta, said the partnership with the nudge unit allowed for talent sharing and international expansion with cities around the world.
(14) Rooney is nudged over by Friedrich, 40 yards out, just to the right.
(15) Schools prove the point: per capita funding falls but free schools and Theresa May’s grammars get (relatively small) financial nudges.
(16) "Governments whether right or left have become commissioners in chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of," said Iannucci.
(17) The unit may offer contracts based on risk and reward so that if its advice to public- or private-sector bodies does lead to significant savings, the nudge unit gets a share.
(18) Someone nudged their friend so I said: "Who do you bank for?"
(19) If the nudge unit has discovered anything, it’s that an understanding of human behaviour is vital for almost all public policy.
(20) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.