(1) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(2) We evaluated the ability of the screening tests to detect drug use disorder (DUD) according to the research diagnostic criteria.
(3) A dud mutant, strain FA660, lacked DNA-binding activity at the 11-kDa protein in BI.
(4) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(5) Sam Tree, 68, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, claimed the dud devices, which he made in his shed, could track down explosives, drugs and people.
(6) We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud.
(7) And he will touch on private training colleges, suggesting “too many institutions have been allowed to chase profits and dud students – at taxpayer expense” in a reference to the VET fee rorts – though the fees system was expanded by the former Labor government and allowed to flourish in the first years of the Abbott government.
(8) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
(9) Normal copulators (Studs) exhibited significantly less WDS than did noncopulators (Duds).
(10) It should be a good series, at least I hope so after yesterday's playoff game duds .
(11) I even got the requisite clench of nostalgia at the new trailer , seeing Harrison Ford in his old duds and the Millenium Falcon jumping to hyper space with new clunky special effects mimicking the old clunky special effects.
(12) That was a great night's football, rounded off by a penalty shoot-out of epically comical proportions, with Sergio Ramos's horrendous effort being the pick of the many duds.
(13) The pilin mRNA sequence changes that accompanied pilus transitions in these nontransformable dud and P- gonococci represent insertion of pilS stretches into their respective pilE, apparently via intragenomic recombination.
(14) The best thing about the age of the DVR and the internet is on Sunday afternoon you could fast forward through the duds (and the seemingly endless commercial breaks) to get to the good stuff or, better yet, wait for the one or two good sketches of the night to be posted on Hulu and let various blogs curate them for you.
(15) Almost as quickly as the lens cap is removed and the cameras roll, everything can change, making a film look like a square dud to it's target teen audience.
(16) Both sides are kitted out in the duds with which they are most readily associated.
(17) IDU was degraded to 2'-deoxyuridine (dUd) in control experiments, but during corneal penetration experiments IDU was degraded to a mixture of dUd and iodouracil (IU).
(18) There’s also a free box of Milk Duds (chocolate caramels) at your table and Route 66 memorabilia on the wall.
(19) A decision to flood the EU’s carbon market with dud credits “was partly because of hurt feelings from having had no proper compensation,” the UN source said.
(20) (1965), an interesting comedy that never lived up to all its starry contributors; How to Steal a Million (1966), a dud with Audrey Hepburn – viewers asked which star was thinner and more wide-eyed; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – as several angels – for John Huston; The Night of the Generals (1967); Great Catherine (1968); Murphy's War (1971); Under Milk Wood (1972) – with Burton and Taylor; Man of La Mancha (1972); Rosebud (1975); Man Friday (1975).
Dug
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Dig
(n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(2) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
(3) However, under conditions of low stringency, the DUG S and M RNA probes hybridised to the respective S and M segments of Ganjam (GAN) virus (another member of the NSD serogroup).
(4) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
(5) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(6) When used in an enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA), the DUG N protein reacted with polyclonal mouse immune ascitic fluids raised against either CCHF or Hazara viruses (both members of the CCHF serogroup of nairoviruses).
(7) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
(8) The DUG S RNA probe also hybridised to the S segments of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus and Hazara (HAZ) virus (members of the CCHF serogroup).
(9) Cloned cDNA derived from the small (S) and medium (M) genomic RNA segments of Dugbe (DUG) virus, isolate ArD44313, a member of the Nairobi sheep disease (NSD) serogroup of nairoviruses (family, Bunyaviridae) was used to prepare 32P-labelled DNA and RNA probes.
(10) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
(11) We are the first generation in human civilization in which bodies are buried and then dug up and scattered,” Masovic said.
(12) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
(13) Later, the group raised €1,000 to have it plumbed into the caravan and a septic tank dug, so the toilet works.
(14) He arrived through Miami international airport on a Monday afternoon and I was so anxious that on my six-hour drive to pick him up, I dug my nails into the steering wheel leaving marks I can still see today.
(15) The freezing New Year rain drove into the dug-outs in such torrential fashion that he initially sheltered in the tunnel but such inclement weather quickly proved the least of his problems.
(16) The 26 miles of tunnel being dug under the heart of the capital – picking a careful way among ancient remains, beneath prime property and past the oldest subterranean railway in the world – is restating Britain's traditional claim to be a world leader in the field.
(17) So this is the hole the US president has dug for himself.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Schlumberger stall at the DUG Eagle Ford Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, US.
(19) These included small test plots of dug-up soil that can still be seen from the bedroom.
(20) Gates was unequivocal in expressing his belief that they had been, telling a gathering of marines at the heavily fortified Sangin base: "Before you arrived here, the Taliban was dug in deep and, as the British before can attest, this district was the most dangerous not only in Afghanistan but maybe the whole world.