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Dodd


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Alt. of Dod

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Dodd at the British Retail Consortium welcomed the cut, which will last for 13 months and cost £12.5bn in a full year, but he warned that getting the price cuts in place by next Monday would be "a difficult task".
  • (2) Search engines bear responsibility for introducing people to infringing content - even people who aren’t actively looking for it”, said Chris Dodd, the chairman of the MPAA who is also a US senator.
  • (3) Lin Hatfield Dodds from Uniting Care said the heavy lifting in the budget was being done by families.
  • (4) Warren is specifically afraid that if it is passed, a future president could use the TPP to change regulations like Dodd-Frank that are meant to safeguard US investors.
  • (5) The Democratic Unionist MP for North Belfast, Nigel Dodds, condemned the murder.
  • (6) "China is building 10 screens a day," MPAA chief Chris Dodd told Deadline .
  • (7) Peter Robinson, the Northern Ireland first minister who lost his East Belfast seat at the last general election, was joined at the Libya meeting by the DUP MPs Nigel Dodds and Jeffrey Donaldson.
  • (8) There was a general consistency between the findings from the SHEU data and the 1983 United Kingdom children dental health survey (Todd & Dodd 1985) with regard to toothbrushing behaviour and dental attendance.
  • (9) Search engines bear responsibility for introducing people to infringing content – even people who aren’t actively looking for it,” the chairman of the MPAA, Chris Dodd, said at the time .
  • (10) This is the biggest single investment in the north of England by a billion miles,” said Barry Dodd, chair of York, North Yorks and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), supporting the proposal at Tuesday’s planning meeting in Whitby.
  • (11) Rosemary Dodds, senior policy advisor of the National Childbirth Trust, said it was important women are not pressurised.
  • (12) Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the DUP, said he had not been approached by the Tories on the issue of voting on boundary reforms and denied that the partial devolution of powers on air passenger duty had been part of any deal.
  • (13) Our understanding of the cochlear mechanism(s) by which frequency selectivity is produced in adult animals has recently been enhanced by a combined anatomy and physiology investigation conducted by Liberman and Dodds, in which clear anatomic foci of cochlear damage were identified in cats with functionally characterized hearing loss.
  • (14) Referring to Foster and O’Neill shaking hands in the church at a requiem mass for McGuinness, Dodds said: “That handshake represented a reaching out but that inclusivity was not then carried into the talks.” The last public political act by McGuinness was to resign as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland in January.
  • (15) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
  • (16) Rosie Dodds, senior policy advisor at the NCT, said another issue is that some women are deterred still from breastfeeding in public, in spite of the Equality Act passed last year which specifically protects their right to feed in cafes and other public places.
  • (17) We will be scrutinising that policy framework carefully when it is produced.” Updated at 5.49pm BST 5.33pm BST More scientific reaction Professor Klaus Dodds , professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway's department of geography, says: "... drilling in the Arctic varies so very greatly depending on where you are talking about e.g.
  • (18) His sudden desire for the nation to listen to the views of the Green party on social housing, or hear Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader, set out his views to a grateful nation on the future of Ukrainian conflict, is inherently absurd.
  • (19) But Dodds said: "That was agreed by George Osborne last year."
  • (20) That John McDonnell attempts even now to justify his words taints his expression of regret and suggests tactical and presentational considerations,” Dodds said.

Dodo


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eventually he just voiced roles, as with the Dodo Bird in the same director's Alice in Wonderland film last year, but always to striking effect.
  • (2) Larry Kestelman, who scooped up around £100m from the sale of his telecoms company, Dodo, in March is aiming for Newsmodo to leverage the growing number of media outlets that need professional content.
  • (3) But, like many other such proposals, it is a dodo, and one that is potentially politically dangerous.
  • (4) Under a blood red sky, a crowd has gathered in black and white ... (to watch a 42 inch flatscreen in HD) Elsewhere on New Year's Day, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive, in which Attenborough spent some screen time with dinosaurs and a dodo, began its 3D voyage with an average of 583,000 viewers, a 2.4% share, between 6.30pm and 8pm on Sky1.
  • (5) He had a short stint in politics as the director of communications for an atheist group called Enlighten the Vote , and he co-authored a well-received book mocking creationism, Flock of Dodos , which the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz compared to works by celebrated authors Thomas Paine and Mark Twain.
  • (6) In particular, the perennial interpretation of past psychotherapy meta-analyses that therapeutic orientation makes no difference to outcome--or as the dodo bird put it: "Everyone has won and all must have prizes"--may be wrong.
  • (7) His critic pleaded for "this whole sorry saga to go the way of the dodo", while other Fry fans beseeched him not pull the plug on his tweets, prompting Fry into a change of heart.
  • (8) Whether this is the result of impenetrable stupidity, dodo-like foresight, monumental incompetence, the cynical realisation that they will be booted out in 2015 anyway so might as well inflict as much damage as possible or a combination of all the above, I have not yet decided.
  • (9) We have already let the dodo die out, we can't and mustn't let this happen to a people and their culture."
  • (10) To me, it’s dead as a dodo.” Mundine, who heads the Indigenous Advisory Council, said some outspoken members of the Coalition were pushing for the changes but the rest of the government was happy to let the matter rest.
  • (11) Everywhere you look, things made from it are going the way of the dodo.

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