(n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(2) And in November, the US sixth circuit court of appeals ruled against these decisions , leaving Johnson and Campion in the same demeaning and inconvenient legal status they have faced since getting together.
(3) The project reunites her with Jane Campion, director of An Angel At My Table, in which Fox hiked, rotten-toothed and bubble-haired, across the hills of New Zealand.
(4) The substitution of arginine 45 with lysine also showed no effect on receptor binding, unlike the absolute requirement observed for the arginine side-chain at position 41 [Engler DA, Campion SR, Hauser MR, Cook JS, Niyogi, SK: J Biol Chem 267:2274-2281, 1992].
(5) Dolan made an emotional speech thanking his family and the jury president, Jane Campion, whose film The Piano was one of the first he saw.
(6) My own view is that we do: people such as Pedro Almodóvar, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jane Campion, Pedro Costa, Wong Kar-Wai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jacques Audiard – and, perhaps most importantly, the Austrian Michael Haneke, who has produced a string of lacerating movies: Code Unknown (2000), Hidden (2005) and The White Ribbon (2009).
(7) Ten of the nominations in the TV categories were for the BBC, including Dancing on the Edge, Stephen Poliakoff's 1930s London jazz scene, detective drama Luther, the White Queen, BBC1's adaptation of Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses novels, and BBC 2's Top of the Lake, Jane Campion's New Zealand-set thriller.
(8) This year's Cannes film festival jury will be led by Jane Campion, who beat both Leigh and Loach to the Palme d'Or in 1993 for her critically acclaimed film The Piano.
(9) The longer the delay, however, the longer couples like Campion and Johnson must deal with the practical issues of being a couple, and parents, in a legal system that doesn’t recognize their families.
(10) "I'd been dreaming about writing a story that was basically a mystery detective story, set in this area I know very well, which is New Zealand," said Campion.
(11) It's significant that a film director of the calibre of New Zealand's Jane Campion chose BBC2 with which to make her first foray into TV, Top of the Lake.
(12) He cries, thanks Jane Campion for The Piano, marvels at the pleasure of his short time in "this crazy business".
(13) He added that the corporation had "for all the difficulties … created some absolutely extraordinary content", highlighting its coverage of Glastonbury, Wimbledon, the Proms, and dramas such as The Fall, The Village, The White Queen and Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, which started last weekend on BBC2.
(14) I wonder whether Fox and Campion, both from New Zealand, share a sensibility.
(15) In Campion's new film, she strolls, strong but crumpled, through the bleached skies and brilliant green grass of London's Hampstead Heath.
(16) The paucity of female visions in Hollywood has come in for increasing criticism in recent years, despite the Oscar-winning success of notable exceptions such as The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and The Piano's Jane Campion .
(17) At the podium, a tearful Dolan paid tribute to Campion.
(18) "I could have happily stayed there for another couple of hours," insisted jury president Jane Campion.
(19) Jane Campion 's jury now retires to consider its verdict at Cannes.
(20) So that's Paradise, the prime patch of real estate that serves as the tumultuous backdrop to Top Of The Lake ( Saturday, 9.10pm, BBC2 ), Jane "The Piano" Campion's bleak, eccentric six-part drama about child abuse, murder, domestic violence, painful secrets and terrible beards in a remote New Zealand community.
Champion
Definition:
(v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) Mutai dropped back and Kebede proved too strong for Kirui, the world champion.
(4) At least any notion that this tournament had meant little to the European champions can be dispelled.
(5) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
(6) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(7) "Consider this, all six or so hours of his Champions League finals would have been torture."
(8) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.
(9) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(10) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
(11) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
(12) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(13) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(14) Champions League would be better than Europa League, but it makes it difficult to get the result.
(15) His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Crown Prince is a leading champion in the Middle East for improving child health.
(16) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(17) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
(18) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
(19) Even the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , whose EU membership was championed by Britain, seemed reluctant to offer him public support.
(20) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).