(n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
(n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
(n.) An ancient form of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(2) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
(3) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
(4) These formulae apply for arbitrary phenotypic distributions, yet even with multivariate Gaussian distributions of phenotypic effects the formula for correlated selection includes a correction to the standard formula in Falconer (1989).
(5) Photograph: Associated Press According to the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, who led the “Maxi Trial” against the Sicilian Mafia in 1987 and was assassinated by the organisation, “more than one-fifth of Mafia profits come from public investment”.
(6) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.26pm GMT Falcons 20 - Seahawks 0, 0:25 2nd quarter Golden Tate has it in the slot for four yards and a first down.
(7) Labour peer Lord Falconer proposed a bill stating that if someone has a prognosis of less than six months to live, they should be allowed to have an assisted death subject to a number of safeguards and checks.
(8) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(9) The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is expected to be released from federal custody on 20 July but will be on probation for three years.
(10) On Friday, an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket is set to take off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station orbiting Earth.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
(12) An alternative model due to Falconer (1965) is also fitted.
(13) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(14) Stereoscopic depth perception is demonstrated in the falcon, a non-mammalian with binocular vision.
(15) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
(16) Grating acuity, the ability to resolve high-contrast square-wave gratings, was measured in a falcon and in humans under comparable conditions.
(17) On the Colville River in northwestern Alaska, the last young falcons will fledge in 1975 and the remaining adult population will disappear by 1980 unless the present rate of reproductive failure is drastically and quickly reversed.
(18) The flat acuity-luminance function of the falcon results from adaptations which increase the optical sensitivity of the eye compared with the globose eye of strongly diurnal falconiformes.
(19) Given, for example, that over half of them have identified as devout, it is hard to imagine what would have persuaded the 11 peers behind an anti-Falconer paper, An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill , to look kindly upon its provisions, but the document constructs an ostensibly faith-free, "clear-thinking" case against, which is nonetheless replete with routine frighteners and selective misrepresentation.
(20) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
Hawker
Definition:
(n.) One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
(v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.
(n.) A falconer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hawkers say Christmas time, when westerners flock to offload clothes to charity shops, brings in the biggest bales.
(2) Rudd's replacement, according to the veteran Labor campaign strategist Bruce Hawker, saw Labor's vote collapse: "Now, if an election was held tomorrow, Labor would lose 30 seats," he said.
(3) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
(4) Hawker, like Crosby, also has a range of commercial and public sector clients.
(5) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
(6) Hawker and Crosby have been longstanding rivals in Australia and according to one insider "are able to guess what the other guy is going to think before he thinks it".
(7) Compared with control subjects in identical classes, the hawkers were on the average 2 years older in age, were of poorer physique, and had lower hemoglobin values.
(8) No Tesco executives will ever board the jet, as he has put it up for sale – along with the rest of the Tesco fleet, which includes a Hawker 800 and two Cessna Citations.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Further footage has emerged showing the Hawker Hunter jet crashing onto the A27 in Shoreham, West Sussex after it failed to pull out of a loop manoeuvre However, Learmount said that safety at airshows was vigorously controlled and fatalities involving people other than pilots are extremely rare.
(10) People will still travel halfway across the country on their own dime to hear him speak, and hawkers still sell T-shirts at his events.
(11) Perplexed at the sight of hawkers on a highway, I strain to see what they are trying to sell me.
(12) I think it's up to the Labor party to get behind the leader," Bruce Hawker, longtime Labor strategist and the man who ran Rudd's challenge against Gillard last year, told ABC TV.
(13) Speaking on Sky News, Bruce Hawker – the man who orchestrated Kevin Rudd’s last leadership challenge – urged Rudd to stand in the ballot.
(14) Memories of the Conchords’ nearby flat at 41 Hawker Street provided the inspiration.
(15) Chantelle Kanimo, an 18-year-old hawker, said young Kenyans would not fight again.
(16) While footage of the Shoreham crash suggests casualties may have included people watching unofficially from the roadside, the Hawker crashed well away from the show’s crowd.
(17) (Hopefully Bishop can avoid the boilover that happened the last time she sought the job, in 2004 .. when she lost out to the Victorian MP, David Hawker.
(18) In a blogpost , Hawker wrote: "Cameron now lacks authenticity – his early centrist rhetoric bears no resemblance to the austerity drive he has mounted.
(19) Undeterred by the small army of security, several hundred cheery visitors had massed at the cathedral barriers by 6am, some wearing brightly colored shirts labeled by their parish, others lining up to buy Vatican flags from hawkers, and a few giving change to the homeless people who wandered near the edges.
(20) Such is the snail's pace of morning traffic that hawkers patrol the queues selling socks and phone chargers, McVitie's digestives and shaving kits.