(n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The speech also made a reference to the disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, with Ashdown telling delegates that when he first stood for parliament in Yeovil in the 1970s, the Liberal leader at the time, Jeremy Thorpe, was facing trial at the Old Bailey.
(2) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(3) "The council's fleet of company cars have upper limits on the CO2 they produce," says Thorp.
(4) Revenue from Thorp was expected to provide much of the £70bn conservatively estimated to be needed to decommission Britain's reactors and clean up the environment after 50 years of nuclear power.
(5) Thorpe was a youthful leader of a political party in the days before it was feasible for Richard Curtis to cast Hugh Grant as the PM.
(6) Thorpe’s Liberals had secured more than six million votes, a postwar record for them.
(7) When he led his party into the general election of February 1974, prompted by the miners’ strike, Thorpe thus had some reason to feel optimistic.
(8) We believe that for the THORP, the anchorage applying only two screws in each bone stump as recommended by Raveh et al.
(9) We then detected CML in proteins glycated in vitro, as well as in human lens proteins and collagen in vivo (Ahmed, M. U., Thorpe, S. R., and Baynes, J. W. (1986) J. Biol.
(10) Lundgren, D. L. (University of Utah, Salt Lake City), B. D. Thorpe, and C. D. Haskell.
(11) The death of Jeremy Thorpe reminds me of one of my favourite historical what ifs?
(12) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
(13) His suggestion that the Ian Smith rebellion in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) should be brought to an end by cutting the railway line from South Africa was eminently sensible, but he was ridiculed by the Tories and their press allies as “bomber Thorpe”.
(14) The Thorpe surgical gonioscope was the easiest to handle, and provided a good view with the operating microscope.
(15) What if the Heath-Thorpe negotiation had succeeded?
(16) May 2005 A leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel forces the closure of Sellafield's Thorp reprocessing plant.
(17) Metacomponential functioning among 77 males and 26 females was measured by a confidence test (Echternacht, Boldt, & Sellman, 1971) designed for the general knowledge subtest of the SRA Achievement Battery (Naslund, Thorpe, & Lefever, 1982).
(18) The plug should be pulled on Thorp, preferably for good but at least for four or five years."
(19) Although acquitted of incitement and conspiracy to murder at the Old Bailey in June 1979, Thorpe by the time of his trial had already lost his seat in parliament and been forced to relinquish the leadership of the Liberal party.
(20) Massimo Cellino’s Leeds United: his managerial victims in full Read more The former Rotherham manager Steve Evans, who left that club in unexplained circumstances in September , will replace him, having taken training at Leeds’ Thorp Arch base on Monday.