(1) The "cash for clunkers" programme will also be markedly smaller than Germany's, which is investing €5bn (£4.49bn) and has boosted sales by 40%.
(2) Verlander pitched poorly in Game 1 but they can't think he will throw two clunkers in a row.
(3) Britain's growth spurt in the spring of this spring also owed a great deal to the last government's attempts to stimulate demand through public sector infrastructure programmes, job placement subsidies, the VAT holiday, cash for clunkers and active policies to prevent businesses going bust and to prevent homes being repossessed.
(4) Seville’s cyclists mainly ride upright old clunkers and wear everyday clothes.
(5) The carmaker, which lost $2.8bn in the same quarter last year, said the better performance was driven by gains in market share, reduced costs and the "cash-for-clunkers" programmes run by a number of governments to stimulate sales of new cars.
(6) Among the debris are two taxes, cash-for-clunkers, pink batts, the green loan disaster, outrageous solar rebates and soaring power prices.
(7) Seville cyclists mainly ride upright old clunkers in everyday clothes When the paths meet a road junction they curve gently on to a controlled crossing where, officially, cyclists are supposed to wait for a green bike symbol.
(8) The stimulus package also includes a car scrappage scheme similar to the "cash for clunkers" programme being debated in the US Congress.
(9) "Do not rule out the possibility that the Republicans will nominate a clunker.
(10) Even the similarly subjective literature prize is rarely too disputed – look down the list of previous winners and you’ll spot few real clunkers, though probably even Winston Churchill himself felt a bit embarrassed collecting the 1953 award .
(11) Whatever the controversy over the EU's success last year there's no obvious, Kissinger-style clunkers.
(12) Cash for clunkers, it is called, and it is a plausible scheme - but a dreadful idea.
(13) Sitting in the glittery Conrad hotel in lower Manhattan, an Elizabeth Peyton hanging on the wall of his suite, he’s the Oscar-winning director of classic films including Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Natural Born Killers, and clunkers such as Alexander (with Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great).
(14) "They have four decent choices – Romney, Pawlenty, [Mitch] Daniels and [Haley] Barbour – and the rest are a bunch of clunkers.
(15) Local leaders voiced anger at the manufacturer, which won the biggest share of the federal government's US$3bn (£1.84bn) "cash-for-clunkers" programme, with the Corolla emerging as the scheme's best-selling model.
(16) Public investment in buildings helped provide the biggest boost to construction output for more than six years, while the "cash for clunkers" scheme led to a pick-up in demand for cars.
(17) And industry-wide monthly US vehicle sales for October were flat year-on-year, a sign of stabilisation even without the "cash-for-clunkers" boost.
(18) The whole GP tax is a clunker, it’s rotten, it’s unfair, it’s a broken promise.” The acting leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, said Tony Abbott should accept that his budget was “dead, buried and cremated” – a line the prime minister had previously used about the Howard government’s WorkChoices policy.
(19) Before that, she was homeless, living in her clunker of a van, until that was hauled away, and then sleeping under bridges and on church pews.
Decrepit
Definition:
(a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1972, he launched a more ambitious plan by buying Hintlesham Hall, a decrepit grade-11 listed building in Suffolk, converting it into a home and three restaurants and taking over the Hintlesham festival held there.
(2) Some of Rio's most impressive architecture can still be found in and around Praça XV, but it has been throttled by modernity, its colonial charm obliterated by a concrete flyover, now black and decrepit, built directly over the top of it.
(3) Caine’s Guardian reader may be decrepit and disillusioned but still oozes wit and discerning taste.
(4) I really want to say thank you for the kind way my decrepit body was washed; how, in the middle of the night when I felt overwhelmed, a nurse stopped what she was doing and held my hand; the cake covered in Smarties the catering staff brought me for my birthday; the smiles and jokes with the staff to pass the long days; and Mr Burbos (one of the handsome consultant surgeons) who has been so generous with his time and care.
(5) One disingenuous objection to fairer taxing of property pleads for cash-poor, asset-rich old folk rattling around in drafty, decrepit mansions.
(6) This is not because it’s a decrepit, leaking ship, as often depicted, but because every modern healthcare system in the world will always need more money, more research and more beds, to give patients the best chance of treatment.
(7) The latest WHO figures underscore Ebola’s asymmetric spread, as it travels through densely populated communities with decrepit health facilities and poor public awareness campaigns.
(8) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
(9) Another avenue is supporting the decrepit political opposition group that exists.
(10) Particularly striking is the fact that Britain will end up spending less as a proportion of its national income than even the US, the international byword for a decrepit public sector.
(11) They have already been biting the community – one of my children's school is a decrepit building, which was built in the 70s, a mass of concrete with rotten windows and broken doors.
(12) This did not happen overnight, and the sorry conduct of the referendum campaign was only the latest indication of the decrepit state of our politics: dominated by shameless appeals to fear, as though hope were a currency barely worth trading in, the British public had no such thing as a better nature, and a brighter future held no appeal.
(13) This fact, which confirms the decrepitation theorem, could explain the explosion inside the tissues observed in surgical application of the Nd:YAG laser.
(14) But the worst are shikumen s, no matter how historically significant or beautiful, that have become so decrepit and grimy from decades of overcrowding, heavy communal usage and minimal infrastructural investment by residents and local authorities.
(15) Many were in decrepit tower-blocks, sky high and matchstick small.
(16) I have known the squalid, damp bedrooms of the decrepit council house; the wait for the child benefit to buy the next meal; the reality of a bag of chips being a cheaper and more comforting alternative to a nutritious meal; the constant linkage of school to failure throughout our family generations; and the inevitable lure of cigarettes and alcohol to ease the pain.
(17) In tears and confusion, thousands of women, children and old men expelled from Srebrenica poured off buses yesterday at the decrepit air base in the town of Tuzla, northern Bosnia, accusing Serb rebels of murder and rape and the United Nations of indifference during the fall of the enclave.
(18) Earlier this month, more than 600 million people lost power when the country's decrepit electricity grid collapsed .
(19) The debt crisis that erupted in 2009 exposed the decrepit state of the country's structures.
(20) She looked forward to a life beyond the decrepit confines of the capital.