(n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
(2) Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "The Bank of England will also not be overly worried by the weaker numbers.
(3) Rob Dobson, senior economist at survey compilers Markit commented: "UK manufacturing continued to hit the high notes in November.
(4) If he is not, then I will pursue my claim against Lloyds via the courts.” Dobson worked for Lynden Scourfield, a former HBOS banker who pleaded guilty to charges relating to his role in the fraud and was jailed along with his business associate David Mills.
(5) It took more than 18 years to bring two of his killers – Gary Dobson and David Norris – to justice.
(6) Norris was convicted along with Gary Dobson of the murder, and both were sentenced to life in prison at the Old Bailey in January.
(7) Glyn Dobson, 69, mayor of Ottery I come from Wiltshire and moved to Devon when I got married in 1963.
(8) One key reason witnesses were believed to have been put off was the belief in the area that some police officers were in the pocket of Clifford Norris – the father of David Norris, who was convicted alongside Dobson after forensic evidence tied them to the scene of the 1993 murder.
(9) From Diane Abbott and Frank Dobson on the left to David Davis and Dominic Grieve on the right, democratic politicians came together to say "enough is enough".
(10) Dobson stood with his hands behind his back and stared at the judge as he made his remarks.
(11) The Meteogroup forecaster Matt Dobson said the north-west and Cheshire had already been lashed with rain in the past 24 hours.
(12) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
(13) "Life in the Marcal river has been extinguished," said Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for the unit.
(14) Matt Dobson, senior forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said the southern half of the UK had seen the worst weather, with a gust of 71mph recorded in Mumbles in the Gower peninsula, south Wales, as well of 45 to 55mph winds further inland.
(15) January 19, 2014 7.20pm GMT New England Patriots Inactives The good news here for Patriots fans is that it looks like wide receiver Aaron Dobson will be playing today which could give New England's receiving core a bit of help.
(16) In Dobson's case, three appeal judges ordered a retrial in May 2011.
(17) What advice would Dobson give to a college thinking of merging?
(18) In January 2012 Dobson and Norris, two of the original five suspects, were finally found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life in prison.
(19) Hell hath no fury like a mad techie scorned and, once the bill had passed, attention shifted to listing MPs who had vote no, or not voted at all – particularly those in marginal seats such as Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson.
(20) "The performance of consumer goods producers was especially heartening in May, with output rising for the first time in 14 months," said Markit's Dobson.
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."