(1) It might sound like chump change, but the PTC alone amounts to $1 billion a year, and industry advocates insist that wind would hit the doldrums without these subsidies.
(2) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(3) US District Judge Frederic Block described the fine as "chump change".
(4) Oh hold on, that's suddenly gone off air to be replaced by a piece of cardboard presumably held up by some fashionably-coiffed work experience chump, reading "USA v Algeria coming up".
(5) Sports Illustrated's Peter King, whose transformation into Roger Goodell's Minister of Propaganda is nearly complete, poked his head out on Twitter to dismiss those suggesting that this was any sort of financial victory for the league, tweeting out "I love everyone calling $765m chump change".
(6) Hadley Freeman: it’s time the left faced up to antisemitism Read more Both Johnson and Donald Trump have long been mocked in their own countries as chumps, and both are now closer to leadership than anyone could have ever predicted.
(7) (Deadspin, in maybe the only amusing thing to come out of this news story, responded with a visual aid to show exactly why many experts believe this indeed was "chump change", comparatively speaking.)
(8) In February this year a civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission was settled on the basis of a $1.05m payout from the two, which the judge in charge termed "chump change".
(9) Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, told News International's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, on the phone on Tuesday night: "You will be regarded as a bunch of chumps, we will not lose sleep over this."
(10) BBC's demise is 'tempting prospect', jokes John Whittingdale Read more Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) This chump sums politicians up.
(11) On the periphery of all the wanton lust and questionable puns stands Evie (Antonia Thomas), who’s pretty, sweet and has a camera; the holy trinity for chumps like Dylan.
(12) Read more Amazon is paying £160m for three series of the show, which is being made by a production company set up by the three former Top Gear presenters and long-time producer Andy Wilman called W Chump & Sons.
(13) Each week in Man Up ( Wednesday, 10pm, FOX ) Olivia Lee hopes to explore the nuances of masculinity in the accelerated pace of a shifting culture by nagging one of these chumps.
(14) Last week the Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker called the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, a “chump” for making a joke that abolishing the BBC was a “tempting prospect – and he’s not the only high-profile figure to criticise the way the government is handling the institution.
(15) For major construction projects, $150m is, as the Americans say, chump change,” he said.
(16) Lineker, the former England footballer and BBC Match of the Day host, tweeted that the culture secretary was a “chump” to make such comments about the corporation.
(17) Working families file their tax forms with the nagging feeling that they’re the biggest suckers and chumps in the world,” he said.
(18) "But $17bn a year is not chump change by anyone's accounting," he said.
(19) The BBC deserves better than a chump’s charter Read more Publishing details of the pay packets for major news presenters could also leave them open to unnecessary charges when they try to question government ministers over spending cuts, for example.
(20) When I landed in my chair, on camera, and was introduced to the show's hosts – a typical trident of blonde, brunette and affable chump – it became clear that, in spite of the show's stated left-leaning inclination, the frequency they were actually broadcasting was the shrill, white noise of dumb current affairs.
Crump
Definition:
(a.) Crooked; bent.
(a.) Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crump said the family and its attorneys did not feel it was “appropriate” to get into the substance of Baden’s testimony.
(2) Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing Brown’s family, said in a statement: “The family of Michael Brown Jr will wait for official word from the Justice Department regarding whether or not any charges will be filed against the police officer who shot and killed him.” “The family won’t address speculation from anonymous sources,” he added.
(3) Crump urged authorities to conduct a swift and transparent investigation.
(4) This video shows in crystal-clear HD that the responding officers acted inappropriately and recklessly, both in how they handled the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and the events that immediately followed,” said Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Rice family, who has represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
(5) Between bursts of machine-gun fire and the crump of explosions – unmuffled in crisp mountain air – the starry sky above the Syrian frontier offers ethereal distraction.
(6) To the law enforcement officers who will be patrolling the streets, we would like to thank you in advance for not having a repeat of horrific encounters that took place in August,” said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Brown family.
(7) Then, following more mouth, another short one crumps the handle - they run two - before torso is offered to bouncer, it takes back and earns four.
(8) Crump said that the daughter of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, Dr Bernice King, had sent him a message that read: "Today is a defining moment for the status of my father's dream.
(9) Brown’s family has hired civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, the same lawyer who represented the family of Trayvon Martin.
(10) The multistage model of Armitage and Doll, as extended by Whittemore, Day and Brown, and Crump and Howe, is used to estimate the dose effect on the ordered stages of tumor development.
(11) And George Zimmerman is trying to have us believe that his life is so terrible now," Crump said on ABC's Good Morning America.
(12) John Crump, senior advisor on climate change, GRID-Arendal , Ottawa, Canada John works at Grid Polar Centre, which provides advice to UNEP and also leads a number of climate change projects, including Many Strong Voices.
(13) There is nothing written anywhere in the law that police officers are to be treated any differently from any other citizen … When there is probable cause you don’t have to have a grand jury, you can charge.” “All the witnesses say they didn’t see police officers attempt to perform CPR,” said Crump, adding: “They’re supposed to de-escalate, not escalate a situation, and everything you see in that video escalated the situation.” Tamir Rice is the youngest victim of three recent high-profile deaths at the hands of police in the US, none of which have resulted in disciplinary action.
(14) John Crump, senior advisor on climate change, GRID-Arendal , Ottawa, Canada Realise that we are part of the problem : We need to see ourselves as part of the problem as well as part of the solution.
(15) Kuyt's shoulder crumps right into the full back's coupon, who then falls awkwardly on his back.
(16) Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for the Brown family, described the new video as 'of paramount significance'.
(17) We want justice for our son.” Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said: “No violence, no violence.” The couple was supported by their attorney, Benjamin Crump, who previously represented the parents of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed boy who was shot dead by a neighbourhood watch captain in 2012.
(18) These methods are similar to those proposed earlier by Farrar and Crump (1988, Fundam, Appl.
(19) Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Brown's family, said both workers came forward and told the family their account of the shooting.
(20) Crump himself has gone on to represent the families of Brown and Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot dead by Cleveland police, whose case has also been taken up by the Black Lives Matter movement.