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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.

Dicky


Definition:

  • (n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
  • (n.) A false shirt front or bosom.
  • (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.38pm GMT A good point, well made from Simon McMahon Maybe if Dynamo could arrange for him and Dickie to stand in Perth tomorrow England might be in with a chance.
  • (2) It came in useful when I auditioned for The Dickie Davies Story, but if the character I’m playing doesn’t have a white streak in his hair I wear scarves or hats on stage, or rely on an understanding director of photography when doing TV and film work to shoot me from a sympathetic angle.
  • (3) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
  • (4) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
  • (5) (The fourth round, in 2015, raised £5m in 20 days, which was what prompted Watt and Dickie to drop those stuffed “fat cats” onto the City.)
  • (6) Growth in 'Dickie' culture and reactivity with 1G10 myeloid antibody suggested coexpression of lymphoid and myeloid characteristics.
  • (7) It is also opening a whisky and vodka distillery on the same site, and building a major new production facility in the US – its biggest export market, where Watt and Dickie are the stars of an extreme-brewing reality show called Brew Dogs, which follows the pair around America as they visit craft breweries and make beer using outlandish ingredients ranging from a lobster to the world’s hottest chilli.
  • (8) The last three steps described in the preceding communication Robern, H., Stavric, S. and Dickie, N. (1975) Biochim.
  • (9) When your mum used to call you in for tea, did she call you Dickie or Harold, your real name?
  • (10) Flavour was everything to Jackson, he was obsessed by it,” Dickie said, reverently.
  • (11) Up in Ellon the following month, Dickie took a different tack.
  • (12) Peter Box, the veteran leader of Wakefield city council, recently told the BBC: “Whatever happens in the coming Scottish independence vote, there will be more devolution … The genie is out of the bottle, we want more power and I actually believe Yorkshire should be independent.” The poet Ian McMillan, the “Barnsley Bard”, has started to think about who should serve in Yorkshire’s cabinet, suggesting Geoffrey Boycott as head of the diplomatic service and Dickie Bird as prime minister – because “he would ensure that nothing was spent”.
  • (13) ‘The characters have gone out of sport’ … Dickie Bird after his last Test match, between England and India at Lord's in 1996.
  • (14) His greatest journalistic coup came in 1977 when he interviewed the disgraced US president Richard Nixon and induced Tricky Dicky to confess in public his guilt over Watergate.
  • (15) A t the end of 2006, Dickie followed Michael Jackson’s advice and quit his day job at the brewery (which also meant moving back in with his parents).
  • (16) What’s good with beer, compared to spirits, is you can try stuff and get an outcome really quickly,” Dickie, in jeans and T-shirt, told me on a dark December afternoon in the BrewDog Taphouse, a warm, shed-like bar conveniently attached to the company’s Ellon brewery, filled with dog walkers, office workers from a nearby business park, guys with tats and caps and girls in woolly hats.
  • (17) Tricking the truth out of Tricky Dicky was, in many ways, the least of his achievements.
  • (18) On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
  • (19) It’s a story that’s repeated in cities across the world, by old men with dodgy backs and dicky knees, still riding because after 20 years, no other job will have them, struggling to earn half of what they did before, warning newcomers like me to get out while the going’s good.
  • (20) His autobiography sold more than a million copies – the bestselling sports book of all time, he tells me proudly; his show, An Evening With Dickie Bird, still tours – he says he got a bigger audience at Leeds Grand Theatre than Shirley Bassey; he has launched a foundation to help disadvantaged teenagers play sport; and his home town of Barnsley erected a statue of him.

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