(a.) Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) But now they have a bullish and vociferous spokesperson in Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina.
(2) Bullish as ever, a press release reveals that the service should be available by 2015 – once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s rules on the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles are finalised.
(3) Despite his bullish defiance over the weekend following his re-election – blaming US investigators and the British media for trying to unseat him – Blatter cut a diminished figure following a day of speculation over the fate of his right-hand man Valcke.
(4) Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick has been bullish about his desire to automate the company’s cars and cut out the human element of the taxi service, which is its largest operating cost.
(5) She's been taking a bullish tone, declaring that they will "send a clear message to the market about the resilience of the financial system."
(6) But David Cameron, really from the off, understood that this was a question which would have to be answered.” Despite Salmond’s bullish confidence in public after his victory, he was far from confident in private.
(7) Gove and his team are more bullish, and Allen describes an unremittingly positive dossier of evidence that the coalition recently published as "deliberately selective".
(8) But if the referee doesn’t whistle for it, we can’t say anything about that.” Roberto Martínez offered a bullish take on the incident, seeming to suggest Sterling was hoping to deceive the referee into awarding the kick.
(9) Grainge was bullish that the enforced asset sale – which will include EMI operations in nine European countries and labels such as Chrysalis, Mute and Sanctuary, home to artists including Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode and Iron Maiden respectively – will draw premium bids and that Universal will not lose out by offloading them.
(10) Others are even more bullish, predicting growth in the bio-based chemicals market from $78bn in 2012 to $198bn (pdf) by 2017, eventually accounting for 50% of the chemicals market by 2050.
(11) Moreover that bullishness irritated the Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy.
(12) Despite the bullish mood from both chief executive and chairman, outside the conference centre some institutional investors were less than happy that the huge revolt has not been taken more seriously.
(13) In a note to investors, Bernstein's Todd Juenger was "bullish" about the near-term.
(14) Taylor Wimpey said it was fully sold for 2009 and was bullish on a recovery, albeit at a sluggish pace.
(15) Despite the downgrade, the Berlin government is still bullish – blaming the downgrade on the eurozone crisis and weakness in emerging markets.
(16) Had those bullish bankers overestimated the dividend-paying capabilities?
(17) CEO Henri Winand is bullish, saying “the hydrogen age has arrived” but it is not just automotive where the company is finding a home for hydrogen.
(18) It was with a mixture of wistfulness and his usual forthright bullishness that Sam Allardyce, briefly moving his attention away from the 21st-century football that West Ham United intend to confront Chelsea with on Friday afternoon, looked back eight years and contemplated what he might have achieved in his final season at Bolton Wanderers if he had received greater financial backing – or, to be precise, any financial backing – when his team were hovering around the Champions League places at Christmas.
(19) Chime is increasingly bullish about its prospects for the next few years, which are peppered with major sports events.
(20) Salmond appeared to be even more bullish about the prospect of a yes result by the time he reached Perth yesterday evening, predicting that there would be a "decisive yes vote" next week.
Physique
Definition:
(n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factor analysis by the Jöreskog method was applied to data obtained from measurements of 19 skeletal measurements of human physique, carried out in 1971 on 166 men and 122 women students of the Warsaw Technical University.
(2) Measuring items of the physique were the height, the weight, the chest circumference, the sitting height, and the foot area.
(3) Maternal factors and perinatal outcome of low birth-weight (less than or equal to 2,500 g) infants of 46 adolescent mothers was studied and compared with 160 adolescents who delivered infants weighing greater than 2,500 g. The significant factors found in the low birth-weight group were anaemia, small maternal physique and preterm delivery.
(4) Using the cluster analysis of objects in the space of physique factors the objective classification of peripubertal stage of ontogenesis in girls has been constructed.
(5) In the whole, the results indicate the existence of marked genetic determination of physique's growth and development in a stage under study of human ontogenesis.
(6) In this context, mesomorphy appears to provide the optimum description of physique variation.
(7) An examination of 16 of the 28 children to determine the relationship between their physique, personality, and blood pressure was made.
(8) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
(9) The volleyball players were the more linear in physique and the better jumpers.
(10) The exact relation between social variables and physique, as part of this triangle, did not yield gracefully to delineation.
(11) The subjects' physiques were assessed using the Health-Carter anthropometric somatotype method.
(12) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
(13) Racial variation in physique and body composition are of interest to sport scientists because these characteristics may be related to athletic performance, fitness, strength and injury.
(14) Thus, the perception of somatotype and discrepancy between perceived and preferred physique could significantly differentiate the character traits attributed to body build among male and female children.
(15) As it was supposed that some improvement of the nutrition and physique since the end of the war should make the heart weight heavier, the value on 1,399 cases of medicolegal autopsy was measured and analyzed.
(16) Even his physique answered to 19th century notions of muscular Christianity and a masculine ideal premised on imperial service.
(17) A predictive research design was employed as 56 runners ran each of the three distances and were evaluated for VO2max, running mechanics, physique variables, ventilatory threshold, and anaerobic capacity and power.
(18) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
(19) If they want to learn how people's health, physiques and attitudes change over time, they have to come here.
(20) In Sussex C ounty, England a computerized school health service records the health a nd physique of school children.