(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.
Knacker
Definition:
(n.) One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
(n.) One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
(n.) a harness maker.
(n.) One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(3) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
(4) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(5) The broadcaster described feeling like "a sort of knackered version of myself" after the stroke, which left him with mobility issues down his left side.
(6) "And watching the match, Pirlo and most of the Italians looked knackered, even misplacing easy short passes to unmarked colleagues, and either not making runs or making runs that were lazy and easy to catch off-side.
(7) Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe.
(8) 71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.
(9) I lean on Suárez’s shoulder and tell him I’m knackered.
(10) But one staff member said: "It was like a car that looked good from the outside but it was knackered."
(11) ET 1 min: Both teams look knackered, with the exception of Gattuso on the Milan team, who looks like a Tazmanian devil on amphetamines.
(12) It's set in and around Kansas City 2044, but the future looks, frankly, knackered.
(13) 9.26pm GMT Arsenal substitution: Flamini on for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who looks knackered.
(14) It's feeling physically knackered, such as in the knees from years of standing up day after day.
(15) Real Madrid 3-1 Atlético Madrid (Marcelo ET 28) Atlético are knackered.
(16) "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan.
(17) He agreed, saying sitting back and absorbing constant attacks knackers you.
(18) Ministers were knackered and most had already disengaged from their jobs.
(19) Perhaps this is the person she truly wants to be – an ordinary mum, bit knackered, only able to get out of the house because her own mum's doing the babysitting – and was just unlucky to fall in love with Prince William rather than the local butcher.
(20) After all, being sleep deprived makes you miserable, knackered and liable to crash the car.