(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) To non-artists, there may not seem to be anything original or provocative about love, death, loneliness or cheese, either – yet gosh-darned artists keep finding new ways for humanity to look at them.
(3) There were a similar number of sliding hernias in the Shouldice repair (14) and plication darn (20) groups.
(4) NBA.com writer Steve Aschburner notes that this is essentially a no-win situation for him : Physically, Rose faces a darned-if-he-does, darned-if-he-doesn't dilemma.
(5) It’s a darn sight better,” laughed Juris, “than visiting him in jail”.
(6) The British method known as "nylon darn" has shown to be effective in preservation of deep groin anatomy.
(7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
(8) Masuku also rejected the firebrand leftist Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): "I read the EFF manifesto and I found some pretty good darned stuff there but they are so radical and so violent, they actually sound racist.
(9) That was pretty darn special, but only, you'll notice, a three-goal salvage job.
(10) This identified a considerable range in methods of repair, with a Moloney nylon darn being the sole method used by 35% of consultants, and the Shouldice technique, either alone or in combination with other methods, being used by 20%.
(11) Marc Ostwald from Monument Securities says: They haven't quite sold the complete amount but they got pretty darn close … Demand still very much more domestic than anything else.
(12) I got back into a program of recovery and life has been pretty darn good ever since,” she said.
(13) Another, tweaking an obscure bit of the film's dialogue, said: "I'm afraid you're just too darned disorganised."
(14) Darn, I was looking forward to seeing what sort of penalty Ozil would take ... 7.15pm BST Arsenal 2-2 Hull: half-time in extra-time Stay tuned!
(15) But, after days of patient care, one of the craft's wings has been stretched out into an approximation of its original shape, and the holes have been patched up with ovals of metal riveted on to the body work, like a large-scale piece of darning.
(16) He said: "Let's be frank, he [Brown] was a darn sight better than at prime minister's questions."
(17) Her speech is American-accented and peppered with "darn" and "have a nice day".
(18) patient age was 58.3(1.5) (range 20-84) years for Shouldice repair and 57.0(1.2) (range 18-85 years) for plication darn.
(19) The inguinal darn for recurrent inguinal hernias appears to have a lower recurrence rate than the reported 15% to 30% following other techniques.
(20) 'We’re too darned modest about what we do': Radio 3 boss Alan Davey's typical day Read more In that week’s Radio Times, the BBC’s director general, Sir William Haley, had set out the Third’s stall to the nation: “presenting the great classical repertoire in music and drama, and so far as they are broadcastable, in literature and the other arts … it will seek every evening to do something that is culturally satisfying and significant.” It was the year that everything changed for the arts in Britain.
Earned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Earn
Example Sentences:
(1) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(2) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(3) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(4) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(5) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(6) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(7) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(8) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(9) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(10) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(11) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(12) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(13) A woman with a one-year-old and seven-year-old who earns £17,513 after tax will have £120 left if she does pay for childcare, If she does not have to meet childcare costs, she will have £1,118.
(14) But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
(15) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(16) At present, workers in the UK can earn £8,105 a year before they start paying tax – equivalent to £675 a month.
(17) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(19) Trade unions criticised the corporation’s 1% offer, tied to a minimum of just £390, for those staff earning under £50,000, calling it “completely unacceptable” .
(20) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .