(1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(2) I knew immediately the words came out it would be cut.” At a time of intense pressure on the media to cooperate with an army public relations campaign that is burnishing the image of General Sharif, channels routinely edit out or drop the sound on the mildest criticism of the military.
(3) But while some have undoubtedly burnished the government's green credentials – the commitment to pushing Europe to a 30% emissions cut by 2020 , for instance – others have been less successful.
(4) The granular structures on the burnished amalgam surface were found to be of tin-mercury alloy.
(5) He wants the decision to be made in the interests of fighting crime and for it not to be used by the Tories to burnish their Eurosceptic credentials.
(6) Despite the U-turn on austerity, Mr Tsipras has burnished an image as a bold defender of his nation.
(7) When cavity varnish use was compared with no use of cavity varnish, significantly less microleakage was noted with the nonburnished control, single-burnish, and double-burnish techniques utilizing the cavity varnish.
(8) The trip is meant to bolster his state’s economic and cultural ties with the UK, though it has the added benefit of burnishing his foreign policy credentials ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
(9) The types and distribution of airborne microorganisms isolated from microbial air samples were not unusual nor were they directly influenced by the floor burnishing processes.
(10) The coalition has tried to blame Labour for £150m cuts in housing and burnished their progressive credentials with an extra £170m to fund social housing.
(11) No significant increase or decrease in microleakage occurred as a result of single or double burnishing of amalgam.
(12) The Liberal Democrats are to burnish their credentials as the tax-cutting party for the low paid by floating the possibility of cutting national insurance contributions for anyone earning below £12,500 a year.
(13) Helen Hunt and John Hawkes are deservedly recognised for their fine performances in The Sessions, while Kathryn Bigelow 's sombre, gripping Zero Dark Thirty bags a quartet of nominations, burnishing its credentials as the dark horse of this year's Oscar race.
(14) So there would be no big job for Corbyn in a Cooper shadow cabinet, and the new leader will instead seek to reach out to the left by highlighting some of the traditional Labour values she burnished during the campaign.
(15) These spaces in the burnished specimens were filled with an amorphous bulk of amalgam apparently caused by the burnishing process.
(16) The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of citric acid and tetracycline HCl application to dentin surfaces by a "passive dripping" or an "active burnishing" technique.
(17) This could allow Johnson to burnish his Eurosceptic credentials before the Tory leadership contest by endorsing the out campaign while claiming that he is not calling for a definitive break with the EU.
(18) The current-density peak associated with gamma2 was of greater magnitude in polished specimens than in burnished specimens throughout the range of mercury concentrations investigated.
(19) The leak prompted some senior Tories to declare that Gove was "on manoeuvres" to burnish his blue Tory credentials as the party looks to a future after Cameron.
(20) The Barnsley Central MP and former paratrooper had appeared to be burnishing his leadership credentials with an article calling for Labour to embrace change and a wide-ranging speech next week setting out his economic vision.
Shiny
Definition:
(superl.) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
Example Sentences:
(1) You've got that shiny new promotion and the job looks great - but do you really know what you're letting yourself in for?
(2) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
(3) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(4) This is why, preposterously, America is able to confirm plans to send four shiny F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian military on Thursday, while still talking democracy and inclusion for Egypt's transitional process.
(5) With her background in radio, news and current affairs her supporters say she realises that if she wants to be director general she needs more populist programming and the "shiny floor experience" that the Vision post would bring - but she dislikes exposure so much it is not obvious she would enjoy the public pressures of the top job.
(6) The first symptom is usually Raynaud's phenomenon, followed by skin changes; at the beginning the skin is swollen and oedematous, and then becomes thick, taut, shiny and atrophic.
(7) But Sky, which has built its business on the back of Premier League football and other live sports, chose Wednesday to talk up its new schedule and technological advances at its own shiny new £330m studio complex in west London.
(8) Outside the branch in Rochdale, sandwiched between a Nationwide and a bookmakers, Nora McDowell, a retired school cook whose son works at the bank's shiny new Manchester headquarters, said she was disappointed the bank would not be owned by the mutual any more.
(9) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(10) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
(12) Sitting in a shiny studio peopled with uniformed soldiers, athletes, doctors and more, a heavily bronzed Putin held forth for four hours and 47 minutes, beating his previous record by 15 minutes.
(13) Ownership of eight cattle and a shiny steel roof on their wood hut indicates relative prosperity.
(14) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(15) 1. pale mucosa; 2. shiny surface and 3. prominent submucosal vessels.
(16) Shareholders may be forgiven for thinking wistfully of the £55 which Pfizer offered to pay for each of their shiny shares.
(17) This was made more explicit as the show developed – the addition of shiny PVC jackets in red, yellow and orange had the clean, zesty futurism popular during the decade.
(18) Europe’s elites have surely been guilty of letting political idealism run ahead of hard-nosed economics – thinking that by constructing a shiny new set of institutions and rules, they could just legislate away the deep differences between European economies.
(19) It has a full operating theatre, with shiny metal and glass equipment.
(20) It's causing Kenya – despite all our growth, the shiny buildings, all the nice cars – to head towards failure."