(n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
(n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
(2) I had a week in New York before going out to Indiana and, as everybody did in those days, I went to Radio City Music Hall, and the movie playing was The Pajama Game , which had one of my favourite stars in it – Doris Day.
(3) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(4) Recent reports from this laboratory indicate that exposure of cholesterol-loaded macrophages to high density lipoprotein 3 (HDL3) stimulates not only cholesterol efflux, but also results in a two- to threefold increase in apoE accumulation in the media (Dory, L., 1989.
(5) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
(6) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
(7) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
(8) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
(9) In Alfred and Emily (2008), Doris imagined different outcomes for them.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
(11) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna, she first came to the UK in 1927 to train as a Montessori teacher.
(12) At the G4G there were talks on how to envisage a Rubik's cube in four dimensions (which drew a huge round of applause), new methods of making shapes fit together, the launch of a puzzle game called Doris, and demonstrations of how laser cutting is changing wooden mechanical puzzles.
(13) Doris Lessing has always been a writer interested in the future, so I doubt this would come as any surprise to her at all.
(14) I never thought that we would end our days like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pippa Clewer, right, at her 92-year-old mother Doris’s bed.
(15) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.
(16) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(17) She is one of the voices in the new Disney Pixar film, Finding Dory , the sequel to Finding Nemo, due for release in 2016.
(18) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
(19) Small angle x-ray diffraction patterns were recorded from isometrically contracting Limulus (horseshoe crab) telson levator muscle using a multiwire proportional-area detector on the storage ring DORIS.
(20) M. scoleciformis was found in the biliary bladder of the John dory, Zeus faber (on 1 from 4 fishes), M. formosus was found in the urinary bladder of the whiting Merlangius merlangus (on 2 from 9 fishes).
Dowry
Definition:
(n.) A gift; endowment.
(n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.
(n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opcapita was also handed a £50m dowry to take over the business.
(2) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(3) The concessions he agreed, and the £9.25m "dowry" paid to the Lebedevs to buy it in the form of guaranteed investment for the next 10 months, are testament to O'Reilly's eagerness to sell.
(4) When the men have paid the dowry and fulfilled the marriage customs they are entitled to have sexual intercourse with their wives.
(5) I wanted to provoke, to make them realise that demanding dowry is no way to respect women.
(6) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(7) Alan Clarke, UK economist at BNP Paribas The odd couple: After an intense five-day engagement, the shotgun wedding between the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats was finally confirmed late last night – albeit with a massive dowry paid up front.
(8) The local branch of humanitarian agency Intersos and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, raised the money to pay back the balance of the dowry – 250,000 ouguiyas (£535) – and applied to a judge for a restraining order against Nafissa’s husband, which was granted.
(9) Though prohibited by law since 1961, dowry is ingrained in Indian culture, she said.
(10) Many poor families in Yemen marry off young daughters to save on the costs of bringing up a child and earn extra money from the dowry given to the girl.
(11) It was owned by Sweden's wealthy Kamprad family, whose patriarch Ingvar founded Ikea , for nearly 20 years, but even their expertise could not revive its fortunes and they paid restructuring firm Hilco a multimillion-pound dowry to take the loss-making business off their hands in December 2009.
(12) However, Koushik Chatterjee, the group executive director of Tata Steel, said the Indian company did not provide a dowry as part of the deal to sell its Scunthorpe steelworks to Greybull , and is selling the rest of the business because it cannot afford the running costs.
(13) The government’s efforts to persuade Indians not to give or accept a dowry – consisting mainly of stodgy sermons – have proved ineffectual.
(14) Recurrent epidemics accounted for 38 per cent of the total mortality experienced by girls enrolled in the Dowry Fund.
(15) If a woman manages to obtain a divorce without her husband's consent, she will lose the sum of money (or dowry) that was agreed to at the time of marriage.
(16) Contrary to the general belief that girls are unwelcome due to the dowry system, in rural areas additional children were desired by a larger proportion of women with 2 sons than of those with 1 son and 1 daughter.
(17) The retailer has been hard hit by the collapse in consumer spending caused by the financial crisis, and French company Kesa paid OpCapita a £50m dowry to take the loss-making chain off its hands just nine months ago.
(18) It is one of two public information videos that take aim at the dowry system.
(19) Epidemics and mortality in 15th and 16th century Florence, Italy, were investigated by use of records of the government-sponsored Dowry Fund.
(20) Based on the real-life story of billionaire Hong Kong shipping tycoon Cecil Chao, who offered a $65m (£40m) dowry to any man who would marry his lesbian daughter, the film is not expected to hit cinemas for several years.