(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."
Stir
Definition:
(v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
(v. t.) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
(v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
(v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
(v. i.) To move; to change one's position.
(v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
(v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
(v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
(n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
(n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
(n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(3) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
(4) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(5) This modification facilitated a wider range of application of the Kedem-Katchalsky equations to systems in which the solutions were stirred or unstirred.
(6) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
(7) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
(8) Additionally, in 12 of 15 cases examined by Short-TI-IR (STIR) image, the trabecular structures and fluid collections in the subcutaneous tissue were shown more definitely in high signal intensity than by T2-weighted image.
(9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(10) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
(11) Stirring of the sample induced a significant decrease of neutrophils (P less than 0.001) but no changes of red blood cell (RBC) and platelet count.
(12) There was no potentiation when A119 alone was pre-stirred or left standing for several days in the presence of divalent cations prior to use.
(13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(14) 3) After stirring for 1 and 5 minutes, there was a negative correlation (Spearmann's rank correlation coefficient test) between the pH values of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
(15) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
(16) And after stirring for 10 and 20 minutes, there was a negative correlation between the Ca concentrations of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
(17) Having stirred the viewer's emotional responsiveness, the art work provides a reliable "container" for the objectification of latent emotions.
(18) The inversion recovery sequence with short inversion time (STIR) will suppress signal from fat tissue and this is of particular value in differentiating dermoid from hemorrhagic cyst.
(19) At different intensities of medium stirring the lysins synthesizing activity was directly related to the activity of tricarboxylic acid cycle dehydrogenases.
(20) The experimental result of the quantitative determination of magnolol in Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and its processed samples by HPLC has shown that the stir-fried sample has the highest content of magnolol among all sample and so does the ginger-fried sample among all ginger-processed samples.