(1) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
(2) For what it’s worth, I thought of Sadness and Joy as like Velma and Daphne from Scooby Doo , of equal importance in the long run.
(3) Complex in the details (the fact that many companies have been operating DOO for more than a decade; the technology used; the laws being cited by Southern in the hope of outlawing the strikes) and simple in the principle – scrapping guards on large trains is unsafe for passengers, says Aslef , and puts drivers under extreme pressure.
(4) In 100 of these cases DOOS and creatinine were measured.
(5) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(6) The Orbit is a landmark, an icon, a thing, a doo-dad, a wotsit.
(7) She denied being homophobic or racist, and said she was against taking drugs, insisting that a reference on Twitter to making "hash brownies" was from a Scooby Doo film.
(8) Both unions agreed to oppose any more driver-only operated (DOO) trains , which threaten jobs for conductors and which drivers believe makes passengers, and themselves, less safe.
(9) The nicknames have helped build his "regular guy" image, but Pootie-Poot sounds more like a throwback to the preppy vocabulary of his father, who was famous for such phrases as "I'm in deep doo-doo".
(10) You press a button, and the bookcase opens, like in Scooby-Doo.
(11) (Monday was reserved for that Scooby-Doo road trip which garnered much – and largely favorable – publicity, Chipotle surveillance footage and all .)
(12) Asiana President Yoon Young-doo arrived in San Francisco from South Korea on Tuesday morning, fighting his way through a pack of journalists outside customs.
(13) Age had an effect on DOOS, creatinine and their ratio.
(14) But Pak Doo Ik looked in fine shape as he wandered through Westminster yesterday, stop ping momentarily in front of a portrait of Tony Benn to ask if he had ever been mayor of Middlesbrough.
(15) In hit recordings such as Poison Love , Cryin' Heart Blues and Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, they spiced country music's plain cooking with exotic dashes of Latin American music and black doo‑wop vocalising, yet for a decade they were valued cast members of the conservative Grand Ole Opry.
(16) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(17) In August last year Turner Broadcasting moved to edit out scenes where smoking appeared to be condoned from 1,700 episodes of Hanna Barbera cartoons including Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo, the Jetsons and the Flintstones.
(18) You know, I was Tory darling for a day, whoopi-doo, but that was it.
(19) Photograph: Sam Frost The Marvel character Thor can be spotted at Stonehenge in a story called Day of the Deadly Druid and both Scooby-Doo and Xena: Warrior Princess have also cavorted around cartoon versions of the monument.
(20) A semiautomated method is described for the determination of total 11-deoxy-17-oxo-steroids (11-DOOS: androsterone, etiocholanolone plus dehydroepiandrosterone) in urine.
Woo
Definition:
(v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.
(v. t.) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
(v. i.) To court; to make love.
Example Sentences:
(1) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(2) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
(3) The idea of cutting corporation tax was floated in the Sunday Express last month as a way of wooing banks considering leaving the UK because of an impending Brexit.
(4) Unless those at the bottom of the heap can represent themselves, and the inarticulate will not know how to woo judges, they will be outlaws.
(5) Konstantin Malofeev, a wealthy Russian oligarch, Putin-backer and extreme nationalist who has said Ukraine is an artificial creation, appears to be a central figure in the funding and wooing of Russian support in Europe.
(6) The recorded comments emerged on the eve of a general election in which the Tory party is attempting to woo Liberal voters and gain seats in the south currently held by the Liberal Democrats by proving it will be tougher on discrimination and embrace equality.
(7) Greene King wooed Spirit in an attempt to expand in London and south-east England, where people have more money to spend on drinking and eating out.
(8) A group of ex-miners appear to have been wooed by Osborne when he visited them ahead of a trip to the Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire earlier this month to announce the government would underwrite a fuel-benefit scheme.
(9) Nevertheless Spielberg “is currently trying to woo me to go over there to do films with DreamWorks”.
(10) The dinner was part of efforts to woo the then influential Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who has since quit football in disgrace.
(11) This does not stop further attempts to merge with other Arab nations – Sudan and Egypt decline his wooing as well.
(12) But at least they won it, Kim Jung-woo causing mild havoc in the area with a free kick in from the right, Lugano forced to head behind.
(13) Bearing in mind that the beaus will be queuing round the block to woo Gigi, perhaps she should bite the bullet and think of the dosh.
(14) Using the “golden era” phrase coined by David Cameron and George Osborne in their attempts to woo the Chinese , May said on Thursday: “I am determined that as we leave the European Union, we build a truly global Britain that is open for business.
(15) The court ruled that Woolas's claim, in mocked-up newspapers, that Watkins had "wooed" Islamic extremists and failed to condemn radical groups attacks, was deliberately and knowingly misleading.
(16) Outcry The Business Birmingham team has been wooing politicians and business people at home and has sent international trade delegations to India, France and five cities across the US.
(17) Elwyn Watkins claimed that Woolas knowingly misled voters in Oldham East in a desperate bid to stir up religious tensions in the last days of the election by claiming Watkins had "wooed" Islamic extremists.
(18) Rommey's attempt to woo Hispanic voters was further damaged on Thursday with the emergence of a clip from a video of a Romney fundraiser in which he said that illegal immigrants generally "have no skill or experience".
(19) For Vona is here to woo the estimated 50,000 Hungarian expats living in the UK, more than half of whom live in London and the south-east of England.
(20) On the diplomatic front, Abe is busily wooing his Asian neighbours.