(1) It always seems strange that a team so relentlessly consistent in the regular season should have started to build a reputation as chokers in home elimination games, but thankfully for RSL, that reputation is gone, along with the two-time defending champions the Galaxy.
(2) RSL meanwhile have (thus far at least) dealt another blow to their reputation as home field chokers.
(3) High point Claiming the title in Melbourne in January 2006, after being dismissed for many years as a “choker”.
(4) membership callout Trump also did a better job at controlling his emotions when Hillary tried to bait him by calling him a choker and a “puppet”.
(5) Romney was dismissed by Donald Trump, the television personality and real estate magnate, as a “choker” who had had his turn while Bush’s support for the controversial Common Core educational standards was attacked by others.
(6) Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read, Brad Thorn and Richie McCaw do not have the air of chokers about them; behind the scrum Cory Jane gave one of the great aerial catching exhibitions and Israel Dagg again showed himself to be a monumental talent.
(7) Their Plan A isn't working and their Plan B is sitting on the bench ruing another wasted opportunity to show everybody that he's not a complete over-rated choker.
(8) I became his next target, and the incoming attacks have been constant and brutal.” Asked by the Journal about Romney, Trump stayed true to form, saying: “Once a choker, always a choker.
(9) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
(10) Spanish optimism here is tempered only by the knowledge that their record in the World Cup has been so poor, so ignominious at times, they have grown wearily accustomed over the decades to the allegation that sportsmen dislike the most – that of being chokers.
(11) The LeBron-as-choker narrative has two fatal flaws: the pair of NBA titles the 29-year-old has already won.
(12) Hopefully, this will soon happen to the narrative of LeBron as a big-game choker.
(13) Lose it, on the other hand, and they will be damned as chronic chokers and many fans will call for Wenger to be ushered into retirement.
(14) Her mass of black curls swept across her head in a style adopted by Lorde, she's dressed up in a ribbon choker, silver slip dress, goth flatforms and a tatty leather jacket.
(15) I’ve got a store worth more than he is.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump calls Romney a ‘choker’ during a rally with supporters in Anaheim, California.
(16) Manning is not the choker that some make him out to be Peyton Manning still has one more hurdle to clear.
(17) We don’t come to Washington as shooters and chokers,” he shouted.
Upset
Definition:
(v. t.) To set up; to put upright.
(v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
(v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
(v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
(v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
(v. i.) To become upset.
(a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
(n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(3) Treatment is therefore often palliative, and endoscopic modalities cause considerably less general upset to the patient than surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
(4) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
(5) She stayed calm during the upsetting search that led to Cynthia, who turned out to be flaky, chain-smoking and white (played by Brenda Blethyn).
(6) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
(7) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
(8) Al-Jazeera's coverage has also upset the authorities.
(9) Our observations lead us to think that effectively, an event during which an important emotional state is induced, by upsetting the immune equilibrium, could more predispose a child (in this case the first born) to the action of pathogens.
(10) The interview was a friendly, intense discussion about upsetting situations the subject faced.
(11) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
(12) She [Plath] was very worried about it because she thought it was going to upset her mother.
(13) Diagnostic characteristics of RSDS are: spontaneous burning pain, hyperalgesia, vasomotor disturbances, exacerbations by emotional upset, occurrence either spontaneously or after minor injury, occasional spontaneous resolution, extension to other body parts, and relief by sympathetic denervation.
(14) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(15) The territory is actualy reached by deep demographic and social upsettings and chemiotherapy used alone is not enough efficient to obtain a definitive decrease of the endemy or even to avoid, for a long time, a new increase.
(16) The amount he is being paid for three short columns a week would “only get you sandal wearers all upset” if revealed, he says.
(17) The CPS doesn't just have to consider the public interest in prosecuting individual cases, but also the more general public interest in being able to say potentially upsetting things without fear of prosecution.
(18) As with other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most common side effect is gastrointestinal upset, especially nausea.
(19) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
(20) The conclusion from this, the first reported series on adjuvant Tamoxifen therapy for MBC, is that significant improvement in disease-free survival can be achieved with minimal upset to the patients.