(1) Cliff's choice of opening a cappella number for the centre court crowds was inspired: Summer Holiday.
(2) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(3) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
(4) Politically speaking, that could generate some powerful questions, as families on the cliff-edge begin to digest politicians' rhetoric about hardworking families and ask themselves: "How did we get here?"
(5) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
(6) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
(7) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(8) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
(9) A search and rescue operation was immediately undertaken however the escapee’s body was later discovered by search and rescue teams on Sunday at the bottom of island cliffs away from the centre.
(10) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(11) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
(12) In the pre-budget report, Darling announced £20bn in tax cuts and increased spending, in an attempt to stop the UK economy falling off a cliff.
(13) Migration from other EU countries has not fallen off a cliff despite the result of last summer’s referendum: according to the Office for National Statistics, the number of non-UK nationals from the EU working in the UK rose by 171,000 to 2.32 million between the first quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.
(14) During the global financial crisis and recession, when demand fell off a cliff, Australia activated stimulus measures to support consumption and to invest in infrastructure to support jobs and growth.
(15) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(16) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
(17) I eventually had to assume the role of boss because if you decide to slide away from the steering wheel, the car could go off the cliff.” We both know what he’s talking about.
(18) "We would like to see the United States lower the level of uncertainty by embracing more specifically the need to avoid the fiscal cliff and deal with the medium-term problems," said Lipton, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama.
(19) What he says “You just find a cliff and jump off, and you keep doing it, and if it works on a small cliff, then you move on to a higher one, and a higher one, and then finally you get to a big audience and you go, ‘Fine, OK, I’m happy with this material’.
(20) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.
Clift
Definition:
(n.) A cliff.
(n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
(n.) The fork of the legs; the crotch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two years later, she insisted that the scarred and drug-addicted Clift be cast with her in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), an adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play.
(2) They were to become close friends and, during the making of Raintree County in 1957, she was the first on the scene of Clift's car crash, pulling a dislodged tooth out of his throat to stop him choking.
(3) The "institution", still in her teens, in ravishing close-ups, was now driving Montgomery Clift to murder his pregnant girlfriend in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun.
(4) Born in Omaha, Nebraska - the state that produced Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda and Fred Astaire - he was only 23 when he brought Stanley Kowalski to life in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947.
(5) Recently in reproducing Matthew Baillie's classic atlas of morbid anatomy using an almost complete set of the original drawings of William Clift an attempt was made to give a modern diagnosis of all the conditions illustrated.
(6) Clift was just one of the adored figures who could not really stay with her.
(7) In 10 patients with arterial hypertension and left heart failure the hemodynamic effect of 14-hydroxy-3-beta-[4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (Ky 18, meproscillarin, Clift) was compared with placebo in a double-blind study.
(8) But thwarted love stories are the best, and at 18 Liz could look at Clift, the camera and us, and convey the magic words that inspired classic American cinema – "If only!"
(9) A study is presented of the main microcirculation values in comparison with systemic hemodynamics in patients with chronic circulatory insufficiency under the effect of complex therapy with dilanacin + corinfar and clift + corinfar.
(10) With a rate of inactivation of about 40% and a bioavailability of about 70% corresponding approximately to that of digoxin 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) is--according to our results--a new therapeutic possibility for cardiac decompensated patients, especially in the presence of renal failure.
(11) After all, to millions she had been the most beautiful woman on screen for a couple of decades, and when she was only 18, in A Place in the Sun, she had entered into one of movie's modest exquisite romantic auras, with her partner in that film, Montgomery Clift.
(12) Sticking with the very enjoyable Misfits analogy (a film eagle-eyed readers might have guessed was recently on TCM), to me, looking at people who have had Botox is an experience somewhat akin to watching Montgomery Clift after he was in the car crash that resulted in him needing heavy reconstructive surgery.
(13) The investigations on the metabolism of 14-Hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) were performed in 5 healthy test persons as well as in 4 patients with biliary fistula, applying a single oral dose of 0.5 mg of 3H-meproscillarin.
(14) Labelling of 14-hydroxy-3beta-[4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) by introduction of dueterium and tritium at the metabolically stable C-19 position is described.
(15) The final telephoto close-ups of her and Clift in their last embrace speak to the entire hope of movie romance.
(16) Starting from toxic concentrations of the new scilla glycoside 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) 5 in vitro hemoperfusions with the hemoperfusion system Haemocol are described.
(17) It was to be investigated whether the elimination rate of 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) is influenced by the renal function after discontinuance of long-term application.
(18) Now, of course, the difference between Clift and the Botox posse is that Clift had to have the surgery because, by all accounts, his entire jaw was in the back of his face, which is a little different than fear of a smile line setting in.
(19) In a multicentre open therapeutic study 64 physicians provided 650 questionnaires of patients who had been treated with the new cardiac glycoside 14-Hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) for more than 3 months; 647 questionnaires had been filled in completely and could be evaluated.
(20) Baillie wrote the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy in the English (or any other) language, and commissioned a book of elegant and accurate illustrations by William Clift (1775-1849).