(n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
(n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writing in his Daily Telegraph column , Johnson said most Britons wanted “someone to come along with a bunker buster” and kill the man, reported to be British, “as fast as possible”.
(2) While each is moving forward to develop strategies and programs suited to its circumstances, all eschew the bunker mentality that comes to mind in tough times.
(3) In his search for a new economic model for the paper that would take it into a secure digital future, Thompson has been experimenting with innovations that appear to stray from his corporate bunker on the 16th floor of the Times building into the editorial realm.
(4) One newspaper declared that Mohamed had "made a mockery" of the government's claim to protect the public, while another offered a reward for information leading to his capture: "£25k to Find the Burka Bunker" .
(5) Short of holding parliament in a bunker, there are limits to what more can or should sensibly be done.
(6) Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.
(7) The first time I saw the building - a stark, unapologetically angular silver bunker throwing back the heat of a rather desolate part of Berlin - I was content to register its disturbance without question, submitting to its strategies of oppression and disorientation as a child would.
(8) The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said 300 sorties since Saturday had destroyed 49 tanks, nine armoured personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammunition bunkers.
(9) His organisation has been co-operating with WikiLeaks since August and has lent two of its 20 servers, which are located in a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm, to WikiLeaks, he said.
(10) In an interview with the Financial Times this morning, Bradshaw – who replaced Andy Burnham in a cabinet reshuffle last month – said the BBC should "show some leadership" on the issue of sharing the licence fee with other broadcasters, rather than "feel that the bunker is the place that they want to be in".
(11) In one he said he felt he couldn’t see the band again “even if they offered me a private concert in the presidential bunker”.
(12) At least there's now external scrutiny, even if it comes at the risk of its grim commentary exacerbating the bunker mentality of those trying to make it work.
(13) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(14) Bradshaw told the FT that a consultation period lasting until early September was "an opportunity for the leadership of the BBC to show some leadership rather than feel that the bunker is the place they want to be in".
(15) Houghton, who is expected to reiterate the military's misgivings about entering the conflict, is expected to tell ministers the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines, warships and aircraft against targets such as command and control bunkers.
(16) Bunker-busting is a dangerous business, but with average monthly incomes in Albania about £200, the lucrative explosions are unlikely to abate soon.
(17) These data are interpreted to suggest that feeding a mixture of HMC, ground and stored in a bunker or silo bag, with DRGS will result in a 3.2% associative effect.
(18) He's probably still blinking in the light following his escape from the BBC Sport Banter Bunker, a lot of things are likely to seem strange to him at the moment.
(19) NHS faces 'humanitarian crisis' as demand rises, British Red Cross warns Read more As pressures grow for NHS trusts to do what they can to minimise their deficits in the coming financial year, they have bunkered down into emergency mode.
(20) "The arms trade in the delta is dominated by Ukrainian and Russian dealers who swap automatic weapons for illegal bunkered oil.
Junker
Definition:
(n.) A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
Example Sentences:
(1) "[Jean-Claude] Junker said it himself," he said referring to statements made by the euro group chairman this week.
(2) The signal involved in the packaging of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) RNA pregenome was recently defined as a short sequence located near the 5' end of that molecule (Junker-Niepmann et al., EMBO J., in press), but it remained an open question which viral proteins are required.
(3) We are currently watching a holy war develop in Iraq, then there's Junkers and the EU, the housing bubble and the strengthening pound.
(4) For instance there's no love lost with Mr Junkers and you can be sure he'll rub Tory noses in it.
(5) "I may be unfamiliar with all of Roger Hargreaves' work [author of the Mr Men series], but I am not sure he ever got round to producing Mr Antisemitic Dictator, Mr Junker General or Mr Dutch Communist Scapegoat.
(6) Austin Mitchell, the Eurosceptic Labour MP, tweeted : "Yes folk!It'Junker day.Ein volk ein reich ein junk load.Love it or leave it.Gesundjunk."
(7) If they vote yes it will mean that Greece wants to stay with other members of the eurozone,” Junker said.
(8) The contralight test of Junker is demonstrated as a means of determining the effect of cataracts on visual acuity and could be used as an indicator of the need for surgery.
(9) Stephen O'Brien, a former Tory international development minister, likened Juncker to a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 aircraft.
(10) His 1968 novel, The Junkers , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and dealt with post-war Germany.
(11) Dogfight...live from Kent: BBC war correspondent Charles Gardner on first Luftwaffe attacks There's one coming down in flames ... there, somebody's hit a German ... and he's coming down ... there's a long streak of ... he's coming down completely out of control ... a long streak of smoke ... ah, the man's bailed out by parachute ... the pilot's bailed out by parachute ... he's a Junkers 87 and he's going to slap into the sea and there he goes ...
(12) The town's peace museum displays a telegram from Telesforo Monzón, a Basque politician, sent the day after Hitler's Junkers 52s and Heinkel 111s joined with Savoia 79s sent by Mussolini to drop almost 40 tons of explosives and incendiary bombs.
(13) O'Brien said: "In a previous Battle of Britain we saw off Junkers."