(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.
Stinker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
(n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
(2) Instead, it was a stinker, at least for countries in the developed world.
(3) Remember, for example, that everyone was doing excitable discharges about 2006 after the first week, and it turned out to be a stinker.
(4) 9.12am BST Michael Cox gets forensic to explain why last night's match was such a stinker.
(5) Stones is another player whose performances have impressed Hodgson recently but the jittery young Everton defender picked the wrong time to have a stinker.
(6) It was this break with reality that sunk the genre in the nineties, causing big-name stars to turn in a series of stinkers, including Body of Evidence starring Madonna and the plain uncomfortable Bruce Willis vehicle Colour of Night.
(7) Every class has a stinker; mine doesn't believe in deodorant.
(8) Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading."
(9) As Jack Nicholson's con-man brother in The King Of Marvin Gardens , he embodies the self-delusion of the American dream of success and wealth, while his brutish Tom Buchanan in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby is one of the few worthwhile things about that stinker.
(10) And he has lifted them up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: ‘half of Trump’s supporters go into the basket of deplorables’ And so the “basket of deplorables” has found its place alongside other debris in the gaffe sewer of recent elections, including this stinker from a fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.
(11) Walsh has pointed to the financial crisis and downturn that hit Spain harder than many countries in Europe as one reason why BA's deal was starting to look a potential stinker.
(12) There have been some fantastic ones in the CoD lifeline – Crash, Terminal, Crossfire – but also some stinkers that somehow made it though; maps with horrible camping spots and site lines that strafe the whole arena.
(13) And with Giround having such a stinker, they only really threaten when a midfielder runs forward from deep, something that Ramsey is doing with curious infrequency.
(14) Only I had two genuine stinkers, Algeria v Slovenia and Paraguay v Japan, which is a pretty good return, all told.
(15) His chief pleasure, he noted, was "writing stinkers to people who attack me in the press".
(16) In case you missed it, The Sun called Cameron’s deal “a steaming pile of manure” , “a derisory offer” and “a stinker” that’s “an abject defeat on immigration”.
(17) Seriously, there were too many stinkers, but losing 3-1 against Philadelphia was particularly rough, because Chivas went ahead before a terrible refereeing decision torpedoed any hopes of getting a result.