What's the difference between clough and precipice?
Clough
Definition:
(n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
(n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
(n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
Example Sentences:
(1) They say the footage shows Clough being pushed by police officers and struck on the head with a baton before he was pushed backwards to the ground and arrested.
(2) Later in the evening ITV1's documentary Clough pulled in 2.1 million viewers and a 10% share between 10.35pm and 11.50pm.
(3) The heavily-trailed programme was timed to coincide with the forthcoming Peter Morgan feature film The Damned United and featured exclusive interviews with family and friends of the late Brian Clough, which countered the portrayal of the outspoken football manager in the movie.
(4) Bert Clough Newbury, Berkshire • The first strike in recorded history occurred in ancient Egypt in the 12th century BC, when workers did not receive their rations.
(5) Alan Clough said he was relieved with the outcome of the court case, but had mixed feelings as he "would have liked to prove my innocence in court".
(6) After swatting aside Leeds 3-0 in the first round with goals from Franz Carr, Stuart Pearce and Garry Parker, they beat Aston Villa on penalties in the quarter-final after a 0-0 draw, surprise package Tranmere on penalties in the semi-final after a thrilling 2-2 draw with goals from Carr and Neil Webb, and Sheffield Wednesday, yes on penalties with Webb scoring the decisive spot-kick, after a goalless draw in the final - all this despite the absence of their manager, Brian Clough.
(7) And this yearning was exemplified by the men whose success came to tower over their respective cities: Shankly at Liverpool, Clough at Derby, Revie at Leeds.
(8) We have had one or two discussions, we are awaiting a decision and the owners will make that in good time,” Clough said at his pre-match press conference previewing his side’s League One trip to Bradford on Saturday.
(9) "It almost certainly was, though, at least in part a slight against Hodge, with whom Clough had a protracted battle over a new contract throughout the latter part of the season.
(10) The television presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United, saying: “I don’t believe a convicted rapist should go back to a club that I am patron of and should go back into the community to represent the community.” Nigel Clough said he was consulted over the Evans decision.
(11) The Sheffield United manager Nigel Clough has insisted that allowing the convicted rapist Ched Evans back to train with the club was not a precursor to offering him a deal.
(12) "Perhaps Forest's manager was relaxing his team before the fourth-round visit to Newcastle on February 11," reasoned Russell Thomas in the Guardian's match report but according to Jonathan Wilson's biography of Clough – Nobody Ever Says Thank You – there was more to the decision than that.
(13) Nigel Clough, the club’s manager, said this week it was for the owners – the millionaire businessman Kevin McCabe and Saudi prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – to make the call.
(14) Bert Clough The common practice among FTSE 100 companies of paying CEOs around 140 times the amount paid to the average worker in the company has to be a huge hindrance to improving productivity, especially when workers are denied a share of the profits their efforts bring to the firms.
(15) Clough, though, said the club are yet to decide what to do.
(16) The names Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough were put to the Italian in the context that he may soon be joining their illustrious company, but there has never been a European Cup-winning interim first-team coach.
(17) During a discussion about the possible transfer of the Nottingham Forest striker Teddy Sheringham, Sugar said in court that Venables had informed him that Forest's legendary manager Brian Clough "likes a bung".
(18) Penny and John Clough, parents of murdered Jane: 'The system is very biased towards the defendant.'
(19) Ferguson apart, one can think of only two – Herbert Chapman and Brian Clough – who have achieved more with separate clubs.
(20) Batons are drawn and Clough is punched by an officer in riot gear who is lashing out at demonstrators.
Precipice
Definition:
(n.) A sudden or headlong fall.
(n.) A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(2) In a day of unremitting gloom, and yet more market turbulence, the Greek government also stood on the precipice of collapse, risking an uncontrolled default, as the government of George Papandreou faced a late-night confidence vote in parliament.
(3) They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us."
(4) "We may not be looking over the precipice as we were last autumn, but what we are likely to see is a long, slow reduction in the standard of living in this country.
(5) If parties want to try – and I believe they do want to move to a de-escalation – I think there are sets of choices that are available,” he said, expressing hope that “we can seize this moment and pull back from the precipice”.
(6) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
(7) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
(8) Peg Johnston, the owner, finds herself facing this precipice every year.
(9) However, while a government shutdown is off the table, the spectre of the kind of political brinkmanship that took the US to the precipice of an economic crisis in October has not been entirely averted.
(10) As its population ages, China is racing toward a “demographic precipice,” says Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine.
(11) "But it's at a precipice where it needs to jump to the next level of evolution."
(12) There is a palpable feeling in the country that the ruling junta has run out of ground, teetering on the precipice and threatening to take the country with it.
(13) But by voting, First Nations can return their communities from the precipice.
(14) For Abbott, on the precipice of fulfilling his destiny in politics, it would have seemed like collegiality, not outright soul-selling, to become a man for Peta and for Brian down in party headquarters, a man for the colleagues, a man for the Liberal party base, a man for Rupert and for Alan Jones and for Ray Hadley (when Scott Morrison wasn’t available) – a man who would validate the various irrationalisms of the wireless ranters and the white male columnists in Rupert’s employ – young and older fogeys who cherish past certainties, and who feel just as ambivalent about the future as Abbott himself feels.
(15) IFS inequality chart IFS warns of biggest squeeze on pay for 70 years over Brexit Read more “These troubling forecasts show millions of families across the country are teetering on a precipice, with 400,000 pensioners and over one million more children likely to fall into poverty and suffer the very real and awful consequences that brings if things do not change.
(16) With the NFL’s first openly gay player about to join the workplace environment, the League stands on the precipice of a new era, where a culture of respect won’t just be promoted, but will be strictly enforced.
(17) More generally, relations with the US and Europe spiralled, with the values gap ever bigger and the rhetoric on both sides ever more spiky, while still refraining from going entirely over the precipice.
(18) The prospect of protracted political instability has stoked fears that Greece is not just teetering on a political precipice but also laying the ground, however unwittingly, for its own euro exit.
(19) This time, people saw they were at the edge of a precipice and they reacted.” He said of his absolute majority in parliament elections this week , that cemented the collapse of the decades-old traditional French parties, as well as being seen abroad as holding back populism: “My election, and my majority in parliament are not the end of something: they are a challenging beginning.
(20) Since neither the men nor the animals could be sure of their footing on account of the snow, any who stepped wide of the path or stumbled, overbalanced and fell down the precipices.” At length they reached a spot where the path suddenly seemed impassable, as Livy describes it: “A narrow cliff falling away so sheer that even a light-armed soldier could hardly have got down it by feeling his way and clinging to such bushes and stumps as presented themselves.” “The track was too narrow for the elephants or even the pack animals to pass,” writes Polybius.