(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(3) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(4) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
(6) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
(8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
(9) This question was answered, from the standpoint of human postures, by observing the antagonistic postures exhibited by a bus-driver and a passenger, and also by the findings in postrotatory eye nystagmus (an indication of artificial motion sickness) which was varied according to the three different positions of the head.
(10) After eating, the report says, Castro "returned to the bus and drove around for a while.
(11) Measurements were carried out in a street reserved for diesel-engine bus traffic for concentrations of suspended dust, the distribution of aerosol particles according to size (0.01-25 microns) and the CO, HC and NOx concentrations.
(12) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(13) It’s one of the social benefits government bestows on the old, like free bus passes and the winter fuel allowance,” she added.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
(15) Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight.
(16) It appears to be as much about educating and inspiring young people through its direct work on the bus tour.
(17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
(18) Ole Tommy Pedersen was standing at a bus stop 100 metres from the government high-rise when the explosion occurred.
(19) "When the bus doesn't come our children, especially those who work under a very strict routine, become very anxious, so we have lots of anxious children and equally anxious families."
(20) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
Headway
Definition:
(n.) The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
(n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
(2) On the basis of their review, the authors conclude that, generally speaking, suicide prediction research has made little headway over the past 25 years.
(3) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
(4) That there is now genuine competition among them for the best talent, that the internet and the international viewing audience now mean programme makers can circumvent traditional channels and commissioners if they feel they're making no headway for them.
(5) Its findings – including evidence that the Republican nominee is making dramatic headway with female voters, young people and those in the heartlands of the mid-west – appear to confirm that Obama's listless performance at the debate, and by contrast Romney's strong showing, has translated into a powerful political force.
(6) There has been an effective ban on federal funding related to gun violence prevention research since 1996, when Congress put language in its Appropriations Bill stipulating: “None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” This hamstrings our national health protectors, CDC and the National Institutes of Health, from getting the science necessary to make headway.
(7) Those in Bangladesh who demanded government intervention in one of the country's few economic success stories made little headway when dozens of garment factory owners sat in parliament and powerful industry bodies had the ear of policymakers.
(8) Qatar’s sports minister, Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali, on Tuesday told Associated Press that it was making headway.
(9) The National Farmers Union is taking legal advice to try to get compensation for the region's farmers but regional director Melanie Squires said they were having a "torrid time" making any headway with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
(10) Meanwhile the government appears to be making little headway in negotiations with the crossbench over the $5.5bn it wants to cut from family tax benefit B, which is paid to single parents and single income families earning up to $150,000, to fund its $3.5bn childcare plan.
(11) Britain believes that the twin-track approach to dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions – negotiations and sanctions – is failing to make much headway, and Cameron expects to receive support for tightening sanctions.
(12) The UK has made headway in some respects on gender equality at work, according to separate research published on Monday that shows the country rising up a “women in work” league table .
(13) Though deadlocked at home, Barack Obama impressed both sides of British politics and in 2009 entered the hostile atmosphere of the Kremlin to befriend the then-president Dmitry Medvedev and make headway on a difficult disarmament treaty.
(14) Activists fear that as western troops head home, taking with them both money and the attention of the voting public back home, conservatives are making headway in undermining rights they see as a foreign imposition.
(15) Attempts by doctors to change the public conversation made little headway, and those who continued to prescribe opiates to addicts as part of treatment programs were jailed .
(16) While biomedical research continues to make headway in uncovering factors related to the disease, the causes, and therefore, the treatment remain just beyond our reach.
(17) EADS on the other hand has struggled to make as much headway in the US defence market, and analysts say the Americans may downgrade BAE's SSA if it looks as if France may interfere.
(18) Hopes of headway being made late Wednesday when the two party leaders met with prime minister Antonis Samaras for talks aimed at finally forging some consensus fell on stony ground.
(19) Others, including the Dutch finance minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem – who chairs the Eurogroup of euro area finance ministers – continued to blame the lack of headway on Athens.
(20) Their leader had tried this line of the attack the previous week and made little headway.