(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.
Incompetent
Definition:
(a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
(a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
(a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(2) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(3) All but one patient had clinical evidence of pulmonary incompetence.
(4) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
(5) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
(6) A differentiation incompetent QM cell derivative was also isolated (QM5DI).
(7) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
(8) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
(9) This implies that degradation of sIgM does not result from the incompetence of 38C cells to polymerize.
(10) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
(11) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
(12) The etiology of acute severe mitral incompetence resulting from rupture of the chordae is presented and is illustrated by four case reports.
(13) Without the addition of the sRNA, the 7-8-8.5-10 particles were incompetent while the 7-8-8.5-10-RNA particles were competent in DNA packaging.
(14) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
(15) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
(16) Incidence of isolated mitral incompetence and combined heart injuries, valve damage mechanics, and frequent causes of blunt chest trauma are discussed.
(17) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
(18) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(19) The device was implanted around 11 completely incompetent and seven partially incompetent valves in 18 veins of 11 sheep.
(20) It is clear that they are either incompetent or corrupt, and I don’t believe that they are incompetent.