(n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
(n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
(v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think I’m just one of those kinds of people.” Selina Dicker, a 38-year-old from London who works in property finance, is a little bit different in that she’s the group’s only woman.
(2) Richard Dicker, head of international justice at Human Rights Watch in New York, said Libya's actions over the two suspects would be the litmus test of its commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
(3) It is a legal avenue open to states with those laws on their books and the political will,” Dicker said.
(4) They have the first bite of the apple,” said Richard Dicker, the director of Human Rights Watch’s international justice programme.
(5) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
(6) It’s because they don’t have the same language skills or cultural understanding or as much experience.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From left, David Hamilton, Jagged Globe’s Everest leader, with clients Dan Fredinburg, Michele Battelli and Selina Dicker.
(7) "Moscow and Beijing can veto a resolution but they can't suppress the desire for justice by the Syrian people and the dozens of governments that stood for their rights," said Richard Dicker, international justice director at Human Rights Watch.
Dickey
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dicky
Example Sentences:
(1) Jay Dickey, a former US House representative from Arkansas, called for the scrapping of his 1996 amendment that banned the federal agency the Centers for Disease Control from engaging in research aimed at reducing gun deaths.
(2) Should Jose Reyes and the rest of the lineup stay intact, and the starters, including the disappointing former Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey , bounce back, there’s a chance the Jays will too - but unfortunately for them, they’re in the wrong division.
(3) 14, 721-735) genes and of a bullfrog cDNA (Didsbury, J. R., Theil, E. C., Kaufman, R. E., and Dickey, L. F. (1986) J. Biol.
(4) Dickey and S.C. Stone attempted an evaluation of progestational potencies of OCs based upon such criteria as subnuclear vacuolization and delay of menses.
(5) The problem right now is they’re hamstrung.” Thompson also released a letter in which the original sponsor of the amendment – Republican Jay Dickey, a former House member – said it was time to reinstate funding for gun violence research.
(6) Therefore, Enterobacter cancerogenus (Urosević, 1966) Dickey and Zumoff, 1968, is a senior subjective synonym for Enterobacter taylorae Farmer et al., 1985.
(7) In 2012, the Republican who wrote the provision, Jay Dickey, urged its removal, writing in an op-ed that, unlike health researchers studying car accidents or infectious disease, “US scientists cannot answer the most basic question: what works to prevent firearm injuries?” Obama made a similar plea on Thursday, saying: “We spend over a trillion dollars and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so.
(8) Dickey and Stone have attempted an evaluation of progestational potencies of oral contraceptives based upon such uterine criteria as subnuclear vacuolization and delay of menses.
(9) Hours after the San Bernardino rampage Dickey wrote in a public letter: “Doing nothing is no longer an acceptable solution.” Having recently expressed his regrets about the legislation he championed, Dickey went further and argued that from now on the CDC should be allowed to conduct research designed to reduce gun violence.
(10) Dickey cited its other important work in investigating how to cut fatalities from car crashes.
(11) Research could have been continued on gun violence without infringing on the rights of gun owners, in the same fashion that the highway industry continued its research without eliminating the automobile,” Dickey said.
(12) Dickey, citing the current opinions of the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, views the physician's behavior as unacceptable by legal, social, and ethical standards.
(13) Dickey and Berger discussed the incidence of post-pill amenorrhea over various time periods and reported an estimated 2-2.6% at 6 months after cessation of OCs.
(14) It's been a struggle from the start, from losing Jose Reyes for most of the season to watching RA Dickey get lit up over and over, recover, and then get lit up again (repeat) – his inconsistency fits in perfectly with the Jays, who showed what was possible in June, only to slide in July.
(15) In two days we were able to watch RA Dickey , David Price , Clayton Kershaw , Matt Cain , Justin Verlander , CC Sabathia , Stephen Strasburg , Félix Hernández , Cole Hamels , Jered Weaver , Johnny Cueto , Adam Wainwright and Chris Sale ( Yu Darvish didn't open up for Texas but he did pretty well , more on that below).
(16) I have recently expressed my regrets that we didn’t continue that research with the provision that nothing shall be done in this project to infringe the rights of gun ownership as guaranteed by the US Constitution in the second amendment,” Dickey wrote.