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Carper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carps; a caviler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.11pm BST Carper rejects blame on the Obama administration for the increase of child immigrants.
  • (2) Sure, the carpers will bring up all the times the credit rating agencies have got it wrong in the past.
  • (3) Given the unique circumstances of the Presidency, OGE’s view is that a President should comply with this law by divesting conflicting assets, establishing a qualified blind trust, or both,” the agency wrote in response to questions from the Democratic senator Thomas Carper.
  • (4) 3.51pm BST Carper asks the first question: "Why this shift in Mexican migration, almost to an out-migration?
  • (5) This review by Congress is long overdue,” said chairman Tom Carper.
  • (6) His words are a low rumble not a full-scale eruption, and he moves on quickly: why waste time on the carpers and little Englanders?
  • (7) Blando added that the Democratic senators Tom Carper of Delaware, Mark Warner of Virginia and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island had also traded valuable health-related stocks.
  • (8) Committee chairman Thomas Carper, Democrat of Delaware, is discussing the particularly difficult nature of the question of what to do with child immigrants from Central America.
  • (9) That said, appropriations law prohibits the use of DHS grant dollars for the purchase of goods or services from other federal departments or agencies.” Senator Tom Carper, the Delaware Democrat who chairs the homeland security committee, said the grants “provide critical resources to ensure that state and local emergency management agencies and first responders are prepared to effectively respond to instances of terrorism and other disasters – both natural and manmade.” In a statement to the Guardian, Carper said his committee “will continue to closely examine the Department of Homeland Security’s grant programs and its implementation in communities across the nation as part of our ongoing oversight efforts”.
  • (10) Many others, including young marines, quite literally have done so.” Democratic senator for Delaware Tom Carper described Kelly as: “exceptionally well qualified leader”, and added: “He has the courage to stay out of step when everyone is marching in tune.” 3.56pm: The hearing into John Kelly’s nomination as homeland security secretary commenced with opening remarks from the homeland security and governmental affairs committee chair, Wisconsin Republican senator Ron Johnson , who described Kelly as an “extraordinary individual, a great American who has served faithfully and sacrificed mightily for this nation”.
  • (11) Republicans have to go forward and have their vote that they’re preparing early next week,” said Carper.
  • (12) In February, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del) also introduced the Cyber Threat Sharing Act of 2015, which would accomplish similar goals.
  • (13) Tom Carper, a Democratic senator from Delaware, said he had been speaking to Republicans privately about working together to stabilize the insurance markets if a repeal vote fails.
  • (14) Although personal knowing, i.e., discovery of self-and-other arrived at through reflection, synthesis of perceptions, and connecting with what is known, has been identified as a fundamental way of knowing for nursing (Carper, 1978), the process has not previously been systematically developed or tied in with the theoretical, syntactical, and practice structures of nursing.

Carver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.
  • (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.
  • (n.) A large knife for carving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
  • (2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
  • (3) John Carver accuses Newcastle’s Mike Williamson of getting sent off deliberately Read more
  • (4) Correlations were determined for male (n = 225) and female (n = 242) college students between sets of undesirable personality traits (anxiety, stress reactivity, anger, and alienation) and desirable personality traits (instrumentality, achievement strivings, and optimism measured by the Scheier-Carver [1987] Life Orientation Test), and a series of outcome variables related to health (self-reported health complaints and health maintenance behaviors and beliefs) and academic performance (academic expectations and actual grade point average).
  • (5) Significantly Moussa Sissoko, Carver’s key midfielder, failed to make much of an impact throughout, leaving Sunderland’s Lee Cattermole free to dominate central midfield.
  • (6) The sending-off could have been a straight red,” admitted Carver.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle United: John Carver bemoans penalty decision Carver, who continued his protest as the officials left the field at half-time, said: “The game hinged on a huge decision.
  • (8) Carver-Taylor worked steadily, through the fourth graders, then the fifth graders, talking and joking with them.
  • (9) Not long after the break, and shortly after watching Yannick Bolasie dodge Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa before brushing the crossbar with a shot, Carver introduced Ben Arfa at Luuk De Jong's expense.
  • (10) I want to play Champions League football – with Newcastle if possible.” If that delighted Alan Pardew’s successor, the bad news is that Santon’s departure with a view to completing a £3m transfer in May further reduces Carver’s defensive options.
  • (11) A moot point, with speculation swirling that he may replace John Carver at Newcastle United during the summer.
  • (12) I love me some peanuts and George Washington Carver !” Trump didn’t even meet the low bar for the latter, though.
  • (13) She was inspired on her course by a fellow student who asked her if she had ever read any Raymond Carver because Malton's work had echoes of him.
  • (14) This poses a problem for Carver; there are no surviving burial records for the cemetery, and instead names are scattered through thousands of records in the parishes where they lived or died.
  • (15) This article (a) reexamines the evidence relevant to Ingram's proposal that self-awareness is a nonspecific factor involved in virtually all forms of psychopathology and argues that this conclusion is not warranted by the existing evidence; (b) takes issue with his premise that the fact that self-awareness is associated with a variety of psychological dysfunctions poses a conceptual dilemma; (c) corrects several important inaccuracies and mischaracterizations in his presentation of Carver and Scheier's (1981) cybernetic control theory and Pyszczynski and Greenberg's (1987) self-regulatory perseveration theory; and (d) critiques the "self-absorption" model that he proposed as an alternative to extant theories and concludes that this conceptualization does not add to the understanding of either self-awareness processes or psychopathology.
  • (16) In this issue, Peterson and Seligman and Carver and Scheier review an impressive series of studies which together suggest that there may be health risks associated with attributing bad outcomes to internal, stable, and global causes and with failing to maintain a generalized expectancy for good outcomes.
  • (17) Carver believes he will find up to 4,000 more when the main excavation starts next year.
  • (18) It was with her red-and-white Maryland Medicaid card that Carver-Taylor found the dental care she needed, relief from pain, and her future career.
  • (19) We conceded a real poor goal,” acknowledged Carver, although he refused to criticise Krul’s part in it.
  • (20) They are blaming it on the dentists.” One of Harper’s former students, Belinda Carver-Taylor, was at the meeting too.

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