(1) Despite pushing the accord hard, America's deputy climate change envoy, Jonathan Pershing, revealed some concerns about it in the meeting with the EU climate action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard.
(2) Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, said: "To put these figures into perspective, these [10] airlines represent less than 3% of total aviation emissions.
(3) Connie Hedegaard, the outgoing European commission climate chief, also at the summit, said: “Some businesses are really doing a lot and I applaud them as much as I can.
(4) Green MEPs have been moved to demand that Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard act now against carbon credits from the Honduran palm oil plantations – which are still available on the ETS.
(5) The use of carbon permits from industrial gas projects in China could be banned because of their "total lack of environmental integrity", the climate change commissioner, Connie Hedegaard , has told the Guardian.
(6) Connie Britton and Jane Fonda in This is Where I leave You.
(7) As the high-level political part of the summit began, its Danish president, Connie Hedegaard, echoed the pessimism of the prime minister: "In these very hours we are balancing between success and failure.
(8) Connie Hedegaard, who will preside over the Copenhagen talks as Denmark's climate and energy minister, and Nicholas Stern, also attended.
(9) The magazine includes a column called Kremlin Expert that relays political news in the voice of Putin's black labrador retriever Connie.
(10) Clark, Connie (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and E. L. Schmidt.
(11) Connie Hedegaard, climate commissioner, said the recession would make it cheaper than expected for the continent to hit its target to reduce carbon pollution 20% by 2020.
(12) 8 | Kate Aldridge’s husband Facebook Twitter Pinterest Connie M’Gadzah, who played Kate’s husband Lucas Madikane.
(13) "The penis is much overvalued," he declared to Connie.
(14) At 11 or 12, no one is quite sure, Joey starts fucking Connie from next door, "a grave and silent little person" who has been fixated with him since infancy.
(15) But the Danish Energy Agency, which runs the registry and climate ministry, previously led by the EU's new climate chief Connie Hedegaard, have been criticised for a slow response which allowed alleged fraudulent trades to continue.
(16) "Today's drought declaration is better late than never," said Connie Conway of Tulare, the assembly minority leader.
(17) As the former EU commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard, has emphasised , negotiators will be sipping their champagne in the last-chance saloon for UN-led action.
(18) In Le Carré-era MI5, there were a lot of Connies [Connie Sachs, the Circus's principal researcher played by Kathy Burke in the film] who never dreamed of developing sources face to face.
(19) The energy efficiency report has been carefully timed – on Tuesday the climate change commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, will unveil her own "roadmap to 2050" showing how the EU can cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80%, in line with the its international commitments.
(20) Connie Hedegaard, the climate change commissioner in Brussels , is concerned at the lobbying, and is determined to maintain Europe's lead in developing renewable energy and clean technology.
Corny
Definition:
(a.) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
(a.) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
(a.) Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
(a.) Tipsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, sounding on about the ethical dimension to public service can sound corny and implausible when you have ministers rubbishing the state and all its works, but you and the vast majority of your civil service colleagues are doing the job because you are idealists.
(2) This is so corny, what I'm saying, but I feel obliged to drone on about it, because before we reach the tipping point, it's time to stop sneering at fat people, being disapproving and bossing them about: walk to work, eat your greens, control yourselves.
(3) As well as political statements and corny clown jokes, Madonna lamented the fact she was “very single” and had not had sex for some time.
(4) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
(5) For 20 dazzling years he was "as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the fourth of July."
(6) It sounds corny, but he just looked so much brighter.” But Forde’s hardships are far from over.
(7) It is directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, veterans of the BBC's distinguished Natural History unit, but instead of the soothing, informative tones of David Attenborough, the narrator here is Tim Allen, aka Buzz Lightyear, who strikes a rather different tone: cosy, child-friendly, often corny, and all but devoid of any scientific explanation.
(8) It is a scene of such potent and telling symbolism that it verges, tremulously, on the corny.
(9) "It sounds corny, but it was a bit like the blitz almost.
(10) "At the risk of sounding corny, it's about the absolute bliss of the grooves," he says.
(11) Fructus Corni (FC) decoction inhibits the increase of peritoneal capillary permeability by ip 0.7% acetic acid in mice, the proliferation of granuloma formed by implanting cotton pellets in rats, the swelling of mouse pinnea with xylene and the edema of hind paw induced by injection of fresh egg white 0.1 ml in rats.
(12) It sounds a bit corny to say, but it was a bit like the blitz almost.
(13) His easy charm lit up rooms and his corny, often-self deprecating jokes made people laugh.
(14) From the excised uterus segments (uterus corni) histological preparations stained with hematoxylin and eosin were made.
(15) They're corny, mawkish – but they're shameless enough to get you to press the button.
(16) The expectation of black female submission to white masculinity is so ingrained in our culture, Garrison Keillor found it corny enough to compose a love ballad called Tom and Sally – between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings – on the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
(17) "This isn't corny ape makeup and leather jumpsuits.
(18) The presence of the parents provokes corny psychology lessons on dysfunctional families, and Helen's originality and ingenuity seem less remarkable when attributed to family trauma.
(19) I don’t want to sound corny but it’s exceeded all my expectations.” She said she mastered “counting to 10” in the camp after admitting it was hard for her to watch other people cooking – a point of contention throughout the competition.
(20) Cornie Huizenga of Slocat , a partnership of UN organisations, development banks and other groups committed to low carbon transport, said the transport strategy was a politically astute way to cut emissions, which can be a sensitive issue in many countries.