(1) Last week we had a very funny conversation about how we both enjoy the term ‘fannying about’.
(2) The two main housing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have been in limbo for four years and are desperately in need of reform that should start this fall, but there is scant attention to the problem.
(3) 21 min: Vittek races down the inside right channel to win a ball he should never have been allowed to win - Criscito was fannying around - and wins a corner.
(4) "The Great Barrier Reef is definitely at a crossroad and decisions that will be taken over the next one, two, three years might potentially be crucial for the long-term conservation [of the reef]," said Fanny Douvere, from Unesco's World Heritage marine programme.
(5) Romney fielded former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and a leading Florida politician, Will Weatherford, to hold a phone-conference with reporters over Gingrich's time with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
(6) The FHFA lawsuit, which follows a subpoena issued to the banks last year, demands that the banks pay compensation to cover some of the $30bn (£18.5bn) Fannie and Freddie lost on mortgage-backed securities.
(7) Mortgage firm sues over Libor US mortgage finance company Fannie Mae sued nine of the world's largest banks yesterday, including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, accusing them of colluding to manipulate interest rates and seeking more than $800m of damages.
(8) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(9) Opposition whip and member for Fannie Bay, Michael Gunner, will run against Lawrie, who he claims has lost credibility after the supreme court found she sought to undermine an inquiry into her controversial granting of a rent-free lease to unions.
(10) In the recent Face the Nation interview, Gingrich was asked about civil charges that had recently been brought by top financial watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission against Fannie and Freddie executives alleging they misinformed people about the risky subprime loans that mortgage giants held when the housing bubble burst.
(11) It began with four nervous girls writing anonymous poetry and has swelled to more than 100 members calling themselves the #FDL – the female or "fanny" defence league – which has made films, a music video and met Gove.
(12) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(13) Since starting [the programme], all women have delivered HIV-negative babies, which has contributed to reducing child mortality in this area,” says Fanny Luwemba, a buddy volunteer in Sandi village.
(14) And I cherish stories of Fannie Lou Hamer singing “This Little Light of Mine ” just as much as I love tales of Harriet Tubman leading slaves home to the north – but tales of black exceptionalism are set in obvious contrast to the stereotypical and still resonant idea of lazy slaves and disenfranchised sharecroppers.
(15) With only three votes out of eight, Lawrie will need about 60% of the membership’s vote to retain power against challenger Michael Gunner, the member for Fannie Bay.
(16) On Thursday, Moody's threatened to downgrade the AAA ratings of government lenders Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Home Loan Banks and Federal Farm Credit Banks, illustrating the vulnerability of the already depressed housing market to a government default.
(17) In an interview with ABC on Monday morning, Gingrich denied he had ever worked as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and had only been an adviser.
(18) 7.54pm GMT 9 min: Colback is in plenty of space down the left, but there's no option for him in the centre, so he checks back and fannies around awhile.
(19) We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some; and we’re Susan B Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth.
(20) From it, Schweinsteiger and Lahm fanny around for ages before the latter finally gets a cross in.
Minge
Definition:
(v. t.) To mingle; to mix.
(n.) A small biting fly; a midge.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Anwar, as leader of a three-party coalition that includes Islamists and an ethnic Chinese party, will have his work cut out, according to Malaysian political analyst Ong Kian Ming.
(2) More recently, Ming Campbell was regularly ridiculed for being too old when leader of the Liberal Democrats, and he was only in his mid-60s.
(3) And up there, looming over it all is Zynga, social gaming's Ming the Merciless.
(4) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(5) This study was based on the data collected through personal interviews by the Yang-Ming Crusade, organized by students of National Yang-Ming Medical College, during the summer vacations in 1983-1985.
(6) Photograph: Alamy We haven't yet seen Apple's iPad 5, of course, but the notable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has been accurate in the past about predicting Apple's moves, claims that the speculation around a 13in iPad is wrong, and that the iPad 6 will simply have a higher resolution screen.
(7) Twenty-seven Kun-Ming white mice were divided randomly into three groups of 9 animals.
(8) "Xu Ming is our old and longtime friend," Gu is seen telling her questioner, who identified herself as someone from the supreme people's procuratorate, the country's top prosecutor's office.
(9) The resulting cultural contact enriched and inspired an artistic golden age.“Ming” is still synonymous with superbly crafted works of staggering beauty.
(10) Authorities' control over the media in Guangdong has ramped up in recent years, according to Zhang Ming, a political science professor at Renmin University in Beijing and one of the letter's signatories.
(11) The others charged are former student protest leaders Eason Chung and Tommy Cheung, and the founders of the Occupy Central movement, Benny Tai, Rev Chu Yiu-ming and Chan Kin-man.
(12) In her memoir, she writes about her grandmother Ming, a terrifying-sounding woman who lived in China and knew Sun Yat-sen (the founder of modern China), and yes, she says archly, it's true that "comparisons have been drawn".
(13) Although rosewood is classified as an endangered species by the International Trade Convention, trade in that wood has risen dramatically, triggered by demand from well-off Chinese households for reproductions of Qing and Ming dynasty furniture.
(14) The Australian government needs to be very mindful that they are returning these people where there is a real risk they may be persecuted,” said Ming Yu, an Amnesty International spokeswoman.
(15) Clinical manifestations and immunogenetic aspects of Behçet's disease were investigated in the Veterans General Hospital of the National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taiwan.
(16) The population based registry of digestive tract tumours of the country of Cote-d'Or was used to assess the epidemiological and prognostic value of Ming classification.
(17) Here, the only change is that Miss Gulliver – Alfie's object of desire – has announced she is having a relationship with a former girl student, a development owing more to the chance it offers for Alfie to explore his "minge binge" lesbian fantasies than credibility.
(18) A community-based preventive medicine project was carried out by the Yang-Ming Crusade, organized by more than 180 students of National Yang-Ming Medical College, in July 1989.
(19) At the microscopic level, they suggest Lauren's classification in intestinal and diffuse forms or Ming's classification in expanding and infiltrating types.
(20) Later one calls one of the women “minging – an absolute one out of 10” as his friends laugh.