(1) Children will also be catered for with an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book Stick Man and festive editions of revived TV classics The Clangers and Danger Mouse.
(2) The comments stunned green Tories, with energy and climate change ministers shifting from talk of "world leadership" in the morning to "realism" in the afternoon, and party activists saying Osborne had dropped a clanger.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Clangers come on at the end of the CBeebies day, narrated by the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin.
(4) It’s better to get out before you reach your sell-by date.” Wince Philip: Prince's most famous comments and clangers Read more When was the right time?
(5) Here was the dullest of games with the liveliest of endings, thanks to clangers from each goalkeeper in the last 10 minutes of the match.
(6) When asked last month for her thoughts on another Clinton clanger – claiming that she and her husband, former president Bill, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2000 – Warren reportedly “paused for a full 19 seconds” before saying: “Um, I was surprised.” Asked whether Clinton could plausibly speak on behalf of America’s poorest in a political fight against inequality, Sagrans said: “Obviously Hillary has been out and promoting her book, and promoting her, and doing a lot of these speeches.
(7) The 70s are sometimes referred to as the decade that style forgot, and some of the cliched clangers are present and correct in the final season on Sky Atlantic .
(8) Decision to "go early" may have been on legal advice but more and more looks like a clanger.
(9) The Duke of Edinburgh has shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken comments and clangers.
(10) Louis van Gaal dropped a clanger after Manchester United’s win over CSKA Moscow by getting Chris Smalling’s name wrong … again.
(11) ITV yesterday apologised for a clanger almost as big as England goalkeeper Robert Green's after 1.5 million fans watching the World Cup clash with the USA on the broadcaster's HD channel missed Steven Gerrard's fourth minute goal because of a "transmission error".
(12) Of course, MacMath couldn’t have timed Sunday’s clanger any worse, coming just hours after the official announcement of Howard’s signing.
(13) The pace slows, there are fewer multicoloured dinosaurs, and instead, you have the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin narrating Clangers – about a family of pink, mouse-like creatures who live underground on another planet – followed by the unchanged, vital staple of In the Night Garden.
(14) a) Let sleeping Dallas lie b) I can’t wait for the new Clangers c) I pine for Bagpuss d) I miss gathering round the wireless Results Mostly a) Chill out, Flash Gordon.
(15) It was Ospina, though, who dropped the most nightmarish of clangers and it shone a harsh light on Wenger’s decision to persist with him in this competition at the expense of Cech.
(16) Whatever, he says, he made one of the great clangers in history.
(17) US writer Helen Boyd , author of My Husband Betty, lists 35 classic clangers, including: trans woman putting on makeup (two shots for reverse camera shot into mirror); showing "before" photos; any reference to genital surgery that includes "finally becoming a woman"; and anything with a trans woman sitting in an above-the-knee skirt, "posed so you can see what great gams she has".
(18) Despite Brown dropping a clanger in 2007 by abolishing the 10p tax rate, followed by the 2008 financial tsunami that hit our shores due to the earthquake of US sub-prime debt, it was Brown and Obama who engineered the fiscal stimulus.
(19) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
(20) And there’s the huge spanner that the euro crisis has thrown into the Scottish works – an even bigger clanger come 2017 if you think of Scotland pushing hard to join the EU just as England votes to leave.
Clapper
Definition:
(n.) A person who claps.
(n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) A rabbit burrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(2) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 6.29pm GMT Clapper is back before the House intelligence community, answering questions from chairman Mike Rogers.
(4) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."
(5) At a hearing of the Senate intelligence committee In March this year , Democratic senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
(6) Robert Litt, the general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has written to the New York Times to deny the allegation that James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, lied to Congress about the collection of bulk phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA).
(7) Clapper has since admitted that was the "least untruthful" answer he could have given.
(8) Director of national intelligence James Clapper said the Guardian and Washington Post had failed to adequately convey how much constitutional oversight the programme received.
(9) "In this important report, the PCLOB confirms that Section 702 has shown its value in preventing acts of terrorism at home and abroad, and pursuing other foreign intelligence goals," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a Wednesday statement, adding that he would take the board's privacy concerns "very seriously."
(10) Anyone who is in the intelligence community would understand what Clapper said as there being no wiretap targeting of Trump or his campaign,” Todd Hinnen, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the justice department, said.
(11) 5.44pm GMT "We welcome this opportunity to make the case to the public," Clapper says.
(12) Clapper’s defenders have said that Wyden placed the director in an untenable position by publicly querying him about a secret program, making his options either to lie or to decline to answer publicly, which they say would amount to public confirmation of a secret intelligence activity.
(13) Clapper added: "Iran's willingness to sponsor future attacks in the United States or against our interests abroad probably will be shaped by Tehran's evaluation of the costs it bears for the plot against the ambassador as well as Iranian leaders' perceptions of US threats against the regime."
(14) The White House has consistently defended Clapper against calls for his job.
(15) Clapper: "The conduct of intelligence is premised on the notion that we can do it secretly."
(16) James Clapper , the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Major General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to a former intelligence official.
(17) Clapper's spokesman, Shawn Turner, did not respond to a request for comment on Clapper's continued service as director of national intelligence.
(18) And after months of private entreaties to clarify a public comment made by NSA director Keith Alexander in 2012, Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, if the NSA was collecting data on millions of Americans.
(19) Leahy, joined by ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, criticised director of national intelligence James Clapper for making untruthful statements to Congress in March about the bulk phone records collection on Americans, and NSA director Keith Alexander for overstating the usefulness of that collection for stopping terrorist attacks.
(20) Clapper in particular has claimed to make it a priority.