(1) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
(2) Fewer complaints and calmer policing, said Farrar, would reduce lawsuits and expensive payouts.
(3) We’ve expressed our concern about the need to try to establish a calmer, more rule-of-law based, less confrontational regime” in the disputed areas, Kerry said.
(4) The coalition itself, while in calmer mood, had previously repealed these same powers for the very good reason that they didn’t work.
(5) Good, but nutmeg would have been a calmer addition than the red pepper.
(6) I think it gave [Sandy] the additional spirit to get through the hearing.” Fry, too, seemed to be much calmer than he was during the tense standoff the day prior, Arnold said.
(7) I just thought, “Yeah, Jol has told you what I’m like and has told you to do that.” It seems strange to say it after a third incident, but I have improved, I am calmer.
(8) Yesterday pressure on bond yields eased, with the cost of benchmark 10-year yields dropping for both Italy and Spain as markets enjoyed a calmer day.
(9) However, 15 patients felt calmer and 29 patients (90.6%) stated that the purpose of requesting access to their records had been fulfilled.
(10) In contrast to the days when dealers would surge around the British Telecom pitch on the stock exchange floor, waving their hands, thrusting pieces of paper forward and trying to drown out competitors by shouting buy or sell orders as loudly as possible, the trading these days is superficially calmer, mostly done electronically, with just the odd phone call.
(11) Hunt mentioned the scandal at Mid Staffordshire hospital several times and Burnham placed a strong focus on the cost of agency staff: Guardian Healthcare (@GdnHealthcare) Burnham: "Trusts are in the grip of private staffing agencies" #healthdebate April 21, 2015 There were calmer interjections from the Lib Dem’s Lamb who focused on mental health provision throughout and Ukip’s representative Reid.
(12) Feeling calmer was the most frequently reported effect and daily smokers were more likely to report this than non-daily smokers (64% versus 38%, P less than 0.001).
(13) "They're a lot calmer than when they arrived," she says.
(14) It was a game that got away from us and we could have lost it in the end, which would have been a travesty.” While Villa did not play like a side in trouble, points are ultimately what matter and Lambert still has to convince all of his side’s supporters that he is the man to lead the club into calmer waters.
(15) Half-an-hour after the US open a calmer sense of perspective emerged as the FTSE traded 100 points above its early morning low.
(16) Elsewhere, in Gombe district, where Kabila cast his vote, the scene was much calmer, with people casting their votes in 15 minutes and describing the process as orderly.Jean-Pierre Okito, 45, a designer based in South Africa , said he had returned to vote for the first time in his life, choosing Kabila.
(17) If you can make it through that, calmer waters await.
(18) Now I go to anger management classes, and well, I am a lot calmer now.
(19) Prospects for a calmer, more technocratic debate about migration policy do not look good: the public looks too divided, the rejectionist minority are too angry and – thanks to Ukip – too politically entrenched.
(20) "However, when the imam appeared they spoke calmly, and the situation became calmer and people were less concerned.
Palmer
Definition:
(v. t.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
(n.) A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places.
(n.) A palmerworm.
(n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Clive Palmer told Guardian Australia he did not know if this reflected a move towards his party, or voters’ disenchantment with the government.
(3) We will support any political party with a good solar policy.” Coalition at risk of losing Canning byelection, poll shows Read more It advocates a vote against the Liberals and for either Labor, the Greens or the Palmer United party .
(4) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(5) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.
(6) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(7) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
(8) Balance of power resides in the hands of Clive Frederick Palmer.
(9) Palmer is demanding more resources for his senators, and on Thursday threatened Abetz with a "very, very, very cold winter" if the Liberal Senate leader failed to recognise that he was now negotiating with a group of four crossbenchers in the upper house.
(10) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
(11) Usherwood's account of the breakage of Palmer's diathermy forceps (June 30, p. 773).
(12) Palmer, 55, has not been charged with any offence , although Zimbabwean officials have said they would like to question him.
(13) We approached the police and then the prosecutor general, and it turned out that Palmer came to Zimbabwe because all the papers were in order,” the environment minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, told reporters, adding that the American could not be charged.
(14) Palmer told the ABC’s Insiders program last month: “We haven't reached a determination, and it's not for me to deal.” And he said his senators would have no conflict of interest.
(15) 5.22am BST Clive Palmer has the crossbench question today.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(17) But in the short-term it’s better to have something reducing emissions than having nothing.” Palmer, whose senators also voted to repeal the former government’s emissions trading scheme – which is how Australia was left without a climate policy – said he believed Australia would eventually have to move to such a scheme.
(18) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
(19) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
(20) Palmer eventually became his official spokesman, until Bjelke-Petersen’s star faded with the Fitzgerald corruption inquiry.