(1) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(2) Not long ago the comeback would have been impossible to imagine.
(3) In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – three countries that toppled three dictators nearly four years ago – 2014 marked something of a comeback for the concept of strongman leadership.
(4) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(5) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
(6) The San Francisco Giants are baseball's new comeback kings and will face the Detroit Tigers in the 2012 World Series.
(7) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
(8) Rarely used in southern Europe these days but surely due for a comeback.
(9) That would usually be the point of the match, having gone in 2-0 down at the interval, when United would be expected to set about trying to add another story to their portfolio of exceptional comebacks.
(10) It's a combination of very fast comeback, catchphrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance".
(11) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
(12) He has remained mostly out of sight since his defeat, but recently, while stopping short of any explicit pledge of a comeback, he and his entourage have dropped heavy hints that he may return to the frontline of French politics to "save" the country.
(13) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
(14) Dusan Tadic was introduced at the break and looked a catalyst for a comeback.
(15) It completed a Carolina comeback from six points down with 1:52 left.
(16) There is a bit of tennis left in this tie, with Australia awaiting in the semi-final following their comeback win against Kazakhstan.
(17) Chosen number one in the 2012 draft as a replacement for Peyton Manning, Luck has already built a reputation as a comeback king, engineering 10 fourth quarter or overtime regular season game winning drives, more than any other quarterback in his first two seasons.
(18) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
(19) Gerrard got on from the bench, but is not deemed ready for an international comeback and Jagielka blemished an otherwise solid shift by conceding the penalty.
(20) Here's what happened the last time these two sides played here in mid-October: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.27am GMT Preamble Hello, and welcome to the Western Conference semi-final second leg between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders , in which Portland try to defend a slim lead and Seattle continue their annual quest to make a second leg playoff comeback actually count.
Zinger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(2) "Trickle down government ... is not the answer for America," is obviously one of the famous Mitt Romney Zingers that we have promised.
(3) Still, Farage poses a few rhetorical questions and, as he seems to seek rational discussion instead of comic zingers, so I am happy to answer them here seriously.
(4) You decided to stay home and that’s OK.” But Clinton had a zinger up her sleeve: “I think Donald just criticised me for preparing for this debate.
(5) Although this zinger owes its origins to the fact that Thatcher's gag-writer, Sir Ronald Millar, happened to be a dramatist of the Fry generation, he could expect that the reference would be understood by a significant proportion of the press and the electorate.
(6) He started telling his own variation on the classic in March 2014, and today he delivered his own zinger: Ta-da!
(7) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
(8) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(9) It’s about a set of principles.” He acknowledged his shortcomings, however, by running through the long list of advice he has received of late: some stylistic, like removing his glasses or changing his tie, and some more strategic: “Nail that zinger.
(10) That latter detail unfortunately undermined some of the hilarity of the Snapchat zinger, since complying with a law enforcement directive about which you really have no choice isn’t really that funny.
(11) He saves a zinger for the planted follow us, accusing the ALP of " inter generational theft " 5.14am BST Abbott's third motion of indulgence to acknowledge the death of Paul Ramsay who is described as the creator of a "mighty business empire, but he never lost his soul".
(12) They had seen him, heard the zingers, taken a picture or two, and now they were heading to the parking lot, to get a head start on the traffic.
(13) You can focus on how things look and how they played and who won the zinger-off rather than on the underlying issues.
(14) Glenn looks pleased until Hollywood hits him with an under-baked zinger.
(15) As the candidates deliver their zingers, you can take their words and create your own debate lines.
(16) Updated at 8.38am GMT 8.32am GMT First set: Djokovic 1-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server) Wawrinka starts with a 217km ace, followed by a zinger that Djokovic connects with but can't control.
(17) Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) Romney walked into that pension zinger.
(18) Obama: While the president generally struggled to get his "zingers" across, over-larding them with too much detail, he did get in a pithy dig about Romney's vague budget proposals which he claimed didn't add up.
(19) Updated at 8.07pm BST 8.00pm BST The Guardian will be live blogging tonight's debate, starting in a few hours, at which point we will subject you to, among others, these shady characters: Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) "Can I use my zinger now?"
(20) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.