(n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) Causey added: "Last week we were told that English regions will need to cut £27m a year by 2016.
(2) BBC Cornwall managing editor Pauline Causey used the same Q&A to email Thompson with her concerns about the impact of the cuts on local radio .
(3) BBC Cornwall managing editor Pauline Causey said local stations in England were suffering unfairly compared to colleagues on Radio 4 and on the BBC networks in the devolved nations.
(4) Causey's email, sent to Thompson, echoed concerns being privately expressed by several BBC executives that Radio 4 was being safeguarded at the expense of the corporation's local radio output.
(5) "We apparently cost too much, and don't have a high enough reach," said Causey in her email to Thompson.
(6) This filter, based on the work of Graupe (3) and of Graupe and Causey (4), has been incorporated in standard in-the-ear (ITE) and in behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids by several hearing aid manufacturers.
(7) Causey said BBC Radio 4 had gone "untouched" in the cuts announced by Thompson last week.
(8) OS Map: Explorer 138: Dover, Folkestone & Hythe Keswick to Friar's Crag Cumbria Catbells and Causey Pike reflected in the Derwent Water from Friar's Crag, Lake District.
(9) Causey made the comments in a staff question-and-answer session with Thompson and other senior BBC executives on Wednesday.
(10) Surgical stress or cutaneous electrical stimulation causey hexamethonium.
(11) Causey said her station, which has an annual budget of £1.6m, is facing cuts of 14% as part of the director general's Delivering Quality First initiative (DQF).
Cobble
Definition:
(n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.
(n.) A cobblestone.
(n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.
(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
(v. t.) To make clumsily.
(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was able to cobble together a one-off £2.5bn package of support for business by shifting spending around and because the bankers' bonus tax has raised almost four times as much as expected.
(2) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they’ll plea to a ‘lesser included’ is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used.” On January 11 2013, Swartz hanged himself.
(5) While having a coffee in the beautifully preserved, almost Disney-like, cobbled market square, he noticed me staring at a bright pink Trabant car parked up next to us.
(6) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(7) Further back there’s cobbled roads with white farm gates.
(8) The opposition has been cobbled together largely from politicians who have flip-flopped from various parties, including some who jumped ship from the incumbent party.
(9) The hotel has six individually-styled suites, which are cleverly incorporated into a building originally built by the Crusaders on a quiet cobbled lane.
(10) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
(11) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(12) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(13) In later stage a "cobble stone" relief is demonstrable.
(14) We went with the grains of fashion: football became mainstream, cobbled streets were heritage, working class was a lifestyle choice, the north became a mini-break destination.
(15) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(16) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(17) Sinn Féin could try to cobble together a new coalition with a host of independent, mainly leftwing deputies, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the republican party.
(18) It might not look like it from the government May is cobbling together, but I believe equality is going to storm straight to the front of the national agenda.
(19) Now in a state of advanced panic, they’ve cobbled together more devolved powers and sent David Cameron to Edinburgh to plead for the union: the embodiment of Tory rule without a mandate that is the main reason many yes voters will opt for independence.
(20) Families wash clothes and themselves on the side of the road, using water from boreholes, or cook pasta over open fires cobbled together from wooden debris.