(1) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(2) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(3) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(4) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(5) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(6) The longer the problem drags on, the less likely it is we get off lightly," he told the paper.
(7) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neighbor Olga Ennis: ‘I watched them drag his body out of the house.
(9) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
(10) People were holding on to him, trying to pull themselves up by his belt, but only succeeded in dragging him into the water.
(11) The poor trade data indicate that net trade was an appreciable drag on GDP growth in the third quarter and was a major factor why expansion did not come in as high as 1.0% quarter-on-quarter as had seemed possible at one point.
(12) In PT (a) large extracellular markers are dragged by water flow indicating extracellular solute-water interaction, (b) transepithelial Pos is much higher than transcellular Pos.
(13) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(14) Tractional water resistance (drag, D, N) was also measured in the same range of speeds.
(15) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(16) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
(17) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
(18) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
(19) Interactions among the important constituents of the fibrocartilage matrix cause meniscal tissue to behave as a fiber-reinforced, porous, permeable composite material similar to articular cartilage, in which frictional drag caused by fluid flow governs its response to dynamic loading.
(20) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
Shamble
Definition:
(n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
(n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
(n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
(v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staff had to make paper records of 999 calls in what one ambulance crew member described as “a shambles”.
(2) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(3) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(4) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(5) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(6) Ball's camp, meanwhile, denied that he was seeking a right of veto over the non-executive chairman, describing the process as "a shambles" in which the former BSkyB executive was presented with a fait accompli rather than being properly consulted about who he should work with.
(7) In his piece, Gove criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a "misbegotten shambles".
(8) The government’s overhaul of primary-school assessments has turned into a shambles, according to the teachers who will have to carry them out from next month, with complaints that seven- and 11-year-old pupils find the new standards too hard and too confusing.
(9) As Longford (Channel 4), he seemed to be playing not just the shambling man but his shining soul.
(10) Philip Hammond needs to get a grip and sort this shambles out."
(11) He can build on material we have collected but reaching a fair outline in three months seems impossible – but I don’t think that is his objective anyway.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Pyne says Labor has left the Coalition with a shambles and a $1.2bn shortfall.
(12) One publisher, unwilling to speak on the record, agreed, saying that "the consensus does seem to be that the Booker this year is a bit of a shambles", with the panel "lacking in authority" and "a bit confused about what the prize is for".
(13) Lloyd George, Gladstone, Churchill - he reluctantly resigned at 80 in 1955 after a four-year rearguard action – Thatcher of course, Macmillan too, were shambles.
(14) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Roxanne McMurray, spokesperson for the advocacy group SOS Women’s Services, told Background Briefing that following last year’s reforms, services across the state were in a shambles.
(15) It was on the 37th lap of the 61-lap race that a man was seen shambling along the side of the track on the straight near turn 13.
(16) Related story Dome management was 'shambles' Related special report The Millennium Dome Useful links The full National Audit Office report Executive summary of the report
(17) Dromey called the law "a shambles", benefiting neither candidates nor electors.
(18) My local authority is a shambles, so the sooner control is taken away from local government and administered nationally, the better, but I do worry about how they are going to work it all out.
(19) "Partly because I want to see Will Hughes in the top flight by getting there rather than waving from a Manchester subs bench, partly because they're far less of an expensive shambles than QPR, partly because Redknapps annoy me but mainly so it's really easy for me to watch Everton once a year."
(20) Ministers seem to be working hard to make their new police and crime commissioner elections a shambles – providing too little information, costly elections in cold dark November, the helpline not working , ballot papers reprinted .