(1) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
(2) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(3) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(4) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(5) After it went public, Google bought key chunks of its business, including YouTube and ad firm DoubleClick.
(6) Saakashvili, a studio guest on CNN, said that it would be wrong to underestimate Ukraine’s military strength, adding that its officer corps was of a high calibre and that a “considerable chunk” of Russian officers were ethnically Ukrainian.
(7) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
(8) "That's 30 years in all, a large chunk of any scientist's professional life," says McKay.
(9) The Abu Dhabi royal family is tomorrow expected to lodge the highest bid for a chunk of prime Knightsbridge property.
(10) This article discusses two forms of case presentations--"traditional" and "chunked."
(11) 3.15am BST Heat 49-54 Spurs, :29 remaining, second quarter Oh hey, we actually have a solid chunk of time where there's no scoring.
(12) Google Now can work only if the company behind it manages to bring vast chunks of our existence – from communication to travel to reading – under its corporate umbrella.
(13) The whole point is that if wages rise, spending on tax credits – and other in-work benefits, like a significant chunk of housing benefit expenditure – will automatically fall.
(14) TalkSport showed there was life in AM yet after it took a chunk of the BBC's live Premier League rights and soared to a record audience.
(15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
(16) However, 6Music's average weekday audience, divided into half-hour chunks by official ratings body Rajar, peaks at 40,000 in the second half-hour of Lamb's morning show between 10.30am and 11am.
(17) Male nude mice were inoculated with either SKI or PGER by passage of tumor chunks (3 mm2) to the scapular region.
(18) The early evening chunk of Comic Relief 2009 - Funny for Money pulled in a 43% share of the overall audience over the three hours, peaking at 12.7 million in the quarter hour from 9pm, according to the unofficial overnights.
(19) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
(20) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
Throw
Definition:
(v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
(n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
(n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
(v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
(v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
(v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
(v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
(v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
(v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
(v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
(v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
(v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
(v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
(v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
(v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
(n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
(n.) A stroke; a blow.
(n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
(n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
(n.) An effort; a violent sally.
(n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
(n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
(n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
(n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(3) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
(4) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(5) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(6) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(7) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
(8) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(9) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(10) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(11) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
(12) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
(13) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
(14) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(15) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
(16) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
(17) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(18) Edu was tried out there in practice midweek... 2.18am GMT 6 mins Costa Rica get forward for the first time and have a throw deep in US territory.
(19) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
(20) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.