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Dobbin


Definition:

  • (n.) An old jaded horse.
  • (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
  • (2) Karinda Dobbins : ‘Love will keep me going’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I survived election night because I was on a show in Oakland with four wonderful female comedians and we got to vent on stage and afterwards comfort each other.
  • (3) The seat became vacant on Sunday after backbencher Jim Dobbin died aged 73 .
  • (4) Although Ukip polled just 2.6% in the 2010 general election, which Dobbin won with a 5,971 majority, the party performed well in this May’s local elections.
  • (5) Paul Nuttall, the party’s deputy leader, said he was certain Bickley would have triumphed had Labour waited for the funeral of its former MP, Jim Dobbin, before moving the writ.
  • (6) Speaking first in Pashto, followed by Dari, Ghani said: “We believe that the formula of winner-takes-all will not serve our national unity,” echoing arguments by James Dobbins, the US special representative to Afghanistan.
  • (7) Ambassador James Dobbins, Obama's special representative for Afghanistan, now has thrice-yearly meetings with his Chinese counterpart to discuss future areas of co-operation.
  • (8) Liz McInnes won for Labour with 11,633 votes which was well down on the 18,499 votes (40.1%) the late Jim Dobbin won at the 2010 general election.
  • (9) "We are still in discussion with the Afghan government about the appropriate next steps," said state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who confirmed Dobbins would remain in the US for now.
  • (10) "I don't think [the] state [department] has ever operated on its own, independent of the US military, in an environment that is quite as threatening on such a large scale," James Dobbins, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo and Somalia, told the paper.
  • (11) Brantly arrived in the US at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia, and was driven by ambulance to the hospital, about 15 miles away.
  • (12) It is understood that a senior Labour figure will seek the consent of Dobbin's family before any attempt to begin the process of setting a timetable for a byelection.
  • (13) The election is due to be held on 9 October and Ukip hopes to overturn the 6,000 majority of the late Labour MP Jim Dobbin, who died last week aged 73 .
  • (14) Ambassador James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
  • (15) First, the hypothesis that low SE influences behavior more than does high SE (Wallston, Wallston, Smith & Dobbins, 1987) was evaluated.
  • (16) Broadband providers should act to protect themselves and customers, said Roland Dobbins, Senior ASERT Analyst at Arbor Networks.
  • (17) The average internet user has little recourse other than to ask their provider to scan their systems to see if they have this feature switched on, Dobbins added.

Robert


Definition:

  • (n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (2) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (3) Of course there are some who are stubborn, like Robert Mugabe.
  • (4) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
  • (5) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (6) The age distribution for Caulobacter cells in an exponential population has been calculated (Appendix by Robert Tax) and used to analyze some of the results.
  • (7) The first decades of this Institute were shaped by the assistant of Robert Koch, Friedrich Loeffler (1852-1915), an important microbiologist and one of the founders of virology.
  • (8) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
  • (9) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
  • (10) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
  • (11) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
  • (12) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (13) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
  • (14) Seventy-six students and staff at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology weighed their food for 1 week and the records were used to determine the frequency of consumption of foods and portion sizes, as well as nutrient intakes.
  • (15) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
  • (16) When researching his book, Moore could see from Margaret Roberts's student days onwards that she was conscious of the attention being paid to her.
  • (17) Dominick and Elliot pose looking at the camera, in a photograph taken by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1979.
  • (18) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
  • (19) Roberts described the TGF-betas as providing the cells with cues to their temporal positions in a developmental program, that is, telling the cells "where they were, where they are, and where they're going."
  • (20) He has every confidence with the team now in place, and that team includes Robert Devereux."

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