(1) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(2) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(3) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(4) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
(5) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
(6) My father was a very important role model in my life and in his own way helped me to set high expectations for myself, to stand on my own two feet and to not take crap.
(7) Star Wars , it turns out, is the most ambitious, enterprising and impressive exercise in the marketing of crap ever conceived by man.
(8) "Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.
(9) Our respondents explained why: "At the employment office, they look at you like you're crap."
(10) Tory rhetoric on the burden of renewable energy to bill payers has been relentless ever since David Cameron infamously referred to the levies as “green crap” .
(11) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
(12) Because people tend to treat social media as conversational,” says internet psychologist Graham Jones , “they get the feeling they are just chatting with their friends, hence many of the apparent online death threats could be nothing more than the non-realistic conversational expressions of anger.” “Crap!” tweeted 28-year-old trainee accountant Paul Chambers in 2010 to his 690 followers.
(13) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
(14) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
(15) November 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Draghi has incentive to make sure he doent have "crap in his hands" after EU bank asset review next year, says #Rehn November 5, 2013 Matthew Dalton (@DJMatthewDalton) The incentive not to have crap on one's hands is universal.
(16) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
(17) Here (at least on the night I watched; the acts vary nightly), the joke is comedians performing crap circus acts.
(18) How do you cleanse the palate after watching a soul-destroyingly crap movie?
(19) The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The prime minister is going round Number 10 saying: 'We have got to get rid of all this green crap'.
(20) He didn't have to give a crap about me but he arranged for me to go on stages.
Cray
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Crayer
Example Sentences:
(1) Habituation, one of the simplest behavioral paradigms for studying memory, has recently been examined on the cellular level in the gill-withdrawal reflex in the mollusc Aplysia and in the escape response in cray-fish.
(2) Two groups of old-age pensioners in St. Paul's Cray were screened for physical illness, social and family connexions, and personal activities.
(3) In fact, the efficiency of this new method allows us to assess structures on the VAX as well as the CRAY.
(4) Timothy Cray, prosecuting, asked the serviceman, who was known only as Soldier Y: "In your unit was there any statement for exception or turning a blind eye to these orders as far as ammunition is concerned?"
(5) The previous media manager at the ABC was Sally Cray, who now works as a senior adviser to the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
(6) The classification is fast (i.e., 0.1 Cray CPU second per sequence), as it only involves a forward-feeding through the networks.
(7) In these systems, near-Cray compute power is combined with ultrahigh-speed 3-dimensional graphics for unparalleled visualization of molecular processes and other complex events.
(8) Timothy Cray, prosecuting, suggested that Nightingale would not have been able to do his job in Afghanistan in 2009 had he been susceptible to memory losses.
(9) The gigabit network would be used to tie the dose calculations done with the Cray Y-MP at the Research Triangle to the graphics engine at the Department of Computer Science (Pixel-Planes 5) and the medical workstation at Radiation Oncology.
(10) You could run that through a Cray computer for hours without working out what it means.
(11) "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to, is above the law," prosecutor Timothy Cray told the court.
(12) Membrane currents in calcium type muscle membrane of the cray-fish Astacus fluviatilis were analysed by a method in which a membrane microarea was isolated by circulating sucrose rings contacting the fibre perpendicular to the fibre surface.2.
(13) 12.50am BST Predictions The Kings played what was one of the most insane 30 minutes of hockey I have ever witnessed on Wednesday, and somehow it wasn't enough - how we are here tonight is just cray cray.
(14) But Cray said Nightingale seemed to be saying that someone else might have put the gun and ammunition in his room.
(15) The prosecution barrister, Tim Cray, said the crown had no reason to counter the accusation that Mahmood lied and did not oppose the judge's decision.
(16) Damian Cray sucked into the engines of a jumbo jet on a tea trolley.
(17) The pharmacology of Avena sativa has been investigated in laboratory animals following a report that tincture of Avena sativa reduced the craying for cigarettes in man.
(18) After a total training time of seven Cray central processing unit (CPU) hours, the system has reached a predictive accuracy of 90%.
(19) gm accepts sequence data, organism-specific consensus matrices and codon asymmetry tables, and a set of parameters as input; it returns a set of models describing the structures of candidate genes in the sequence and a corresponding set of predicted amino acid sequences as output, gm is implemented in C, and has been tested on Sun, VAX, Sequent, MIPS and Cray computers.
(20) Cray asked: "Given the nature of your unit was there any special exemptions in terms of members of the unit having firearms for their own use that had not been issued by the unit?"