(n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Crone spoke to someone in London, who also had no knowledge.
(2) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(3) The News Group Newspapers head of legal, Tom Crone, told the committee in July that he was 20.
(4) It accused Colin Myler, a former editor of the News of the World, and the paper's ex-head of legal, Tom Crone, deliberately withheld crucial information and answered questions falsely.
(5) Relationships deteriorated between Brooks and her team and Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, and the paper's chief lawyer, Tom Crone, both of whom were no longer involved in internal inquiries relating to phone hacking.
(6) The then News of the World editor, Colin Myler, and legal counsel, Tom Crone, are also understood to have seen it.
(7) Tom Crone, legal manager for News Group, told the committee Mulcaire, jailed for six months in January 2007 for hacking into voicemails of royal aides and others, had received a settlement, though it "bore no relation" to the £200,000 suggested by one MP.
(8) Tom Crone, the legal manager for News Group, the News International subsidiary that publishes the News of the World, said Mulcaire had earned rights as a contracted employee with a annual deal with the worth more than £100,000.
(9) Neville Thurlbeck claimed Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the newspaper, had left him "to dangle as a suspect for the next two years" after he first told them in July 2009 that he had "final proof" that phone-hacking at the paper went beyond a single "rogue reporter".
(10) Murdoch, also the chairman and chief executive of News International parent company News Corporation's businesses in Europe and Asia, was told about the Taylor claim, and Crone continued negotiations with the PFA boss until a settlement was agreed last year, Myler told the committee.
(11) In July 2009 the News of the World's editor, Colin Myler, told MPs that he and the paper's top lawyer, Tom Crone, briefed James Murdoch over a proposed £700,000 payment to Gordon Taylor, of the Professional Footballers' Association, to settle a case over alleged hacking of his phone.
(12) Crone responded that Mulcaire apparently did have such rights.
(13) The News International head of legal, Tom Crone, and the News of the World editor, Colin Myler, took the settlement figure to Murdoch for his approval, MPs on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee hearing into privacy, press standards and libel heard.
(14) This feat he proudly recorded: “One cackling young crone claimed loudly that I had no evidence.” As well as limiting access to abortion and excluding women from company boards and any other careers where they might take men’s jobs, Mr Buchanan hopes, with his election campaign, to inflict especial damage on the Labour party, to which end he is standing against Gloria de Piero .
(15) "Every single case against us from breach of privacy, unless information is out there in public domain, results in very strict confidentiality clause," Crone said.
(16) In the brain, the reference molecule was an intravascular marker (Crone's method) whereas inthe salivary gland the reference was an extracellular marker of similar size to the test molecule.
(17) Today, Labour MP Paul Farrelly, a member of the culture select committee, put these comments to Crone and asked how the company could continue to maintain that it had no evidence of wider evidence of phone hacking.
(18) MPs said that Myler and Crone deliberately withheld crucial information and answered falsely questions put by the committee.
(19) Temperature effects on the permeabilities of the structured endothelium and epithelium to antipyrine (AP) have been determined with the indicator dilution technique in isolated rat and dog lungs perfused between 38 and 8 degrees C. Permeability coefficients of the endothelium to AP [Pendo(AP)] from the Crone equation are smaller than values for isolated endothelial cells but close to the permeability coefficient of the interstitial epithelial plasmalemma [Pepi(AP)] obtained from physical and mathematical models.
(20) The committee is due to hear evidence from Colin Myler, the current editor of the News of the World, and Tom Crone, the paper's lawyer, next week.
Krone
Definition:
(n.) A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.
Example Sentences:
(1) The transition temperature has been determined at 38 degrees C for 'Rosa Krone' and at 40 degrees C for the variety 'Golf'.
(2) She took away a total of 200,000 krone (about £21,000), from a £1.25m offshore trust account.
(3) And seen against the municipality's 650m krone annual budget, he points out, 1m krone really wasn't very much to pay for something that "gives us a far, far better chance of raising the money we need for better schools and more nursing care.
(4) The design and use of a divergent obstetrical forceps, which was developed at the Staatliche Frauenklinik und Hebammenschule in Bamberg by Sipli and Krone are presented.
(5) (In any case, he points out, helped by assorted government grants and a lump sum from Norsk Hydro, the municipality needed to find just 1m krone – £100,000 – of the mirror's total 5m krone cost.)
(6) We didn't have much money, so we had a discounted price of less than 700 krone (£78) a month.
(7) It did divest from 52 coal companies last year, but Urgewald says it actually ended up increasing the value of its coal holdings, from 82.2bn krone in 2013 to 85.7bn krone last year.
(8) The transition of the non-binding to the binding status is comparatively sharp and occurs between 36 degrees C and 40 degrees C in the variety 'Rosa Krone'.
(9) The move to set a limit of 1.20 Swiss francs to the euro came at the start of another turbulent day that saw shares under pressure, US and German bond prices rise and the Norwegian krone become the safe haven of choice for currency investors burnt by the Swiss decision to reverse the appreciation of the franc, which lost a record 9% of its value within 15 minutes of the announcement.
(10) The Norwegian krone hit an eight-year high as investors sought a new currency refuge after Switzerland's move to curb the strength of the franc, posing a fresh dilemma for a Norwegian central bank that would like to raise rates to curb inflationary pressure.
(11) Corrinoids, such as aquocobalamin, methylcobalamin, and (cyanoaquo)cobinamide, catalyze the reductive dehalogenation of CCl4 with titanium(III) citrate as the electron donor [Krone et al.
(12) And converted into pounds, the 5.11 trillion krone becomes a mere £100,000 for every man, woman and child.
(13) Last week, the balance hit a million krone for everyone in Norway.
(14) The retailer makes most purchases in dollars but a large chunk of its sales are in euros, and it reports its results in Swedish krone.
(15) Nickel release from Danish one krone coins and metal buttons from jeans has been measured at 20 degrees C in distilled water and at 35 degrees C in distilled water and synthetic sweat.
(16) These British pounds, euros, US dollars, even Danish krone, were for spending at home, or sometimes to buy villas and flats abroad.
(17) In an earlier publication, we reported that corrinoids catalyze the sequential reduction of CCl4 to CHCl3, CH2Cl2, CH3Cl, and CH4 with titanium(III) citrate as electron donor [Krone, U. E., Thauer, R. K., & Hogenkamp, H. P. C. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4908-4914].
(18) It will provide funding to civil society groups working on the neglected areas of the ICPD [ International Conference on Population and Development ] agenda, reaching the most marginalised and vulnerable population groups.” The Danish government has allocated just over €11m (82m Danish krone) to the fund.
(19) The fund has 5.11 trillion Krone (AU$930bn), or twice Norway’s GDP .
(20) "We now pay around 4,000 krone (£446) a month for the two of them.