(1) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
(2) I have met brave, feisty writers, publishers and translators here in Turkey who will take on this challenge and not be intimidated, but how many others will decide that this is not a risk that they want or are able to take?"
(3) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
(4) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
(5) They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were feisty, they were sexy – and I think it related to the fabric of the city.
(6) In fact, for feisty, you have drink one of those pints with a submerged shot glass.
(7) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
(8) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
(9) A few minutes around the corner is ORSO , a 2014 coffee “laboratory” serving feisty arabica and robusta from around the globe.
(10) And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
(11) When I'd met Zaria, just before her operation, I was struck by the energy of this funny, feisty, beautiful young medical student with a tattoo and bundles of raven hair.
(12) In a wide-ranging interview in Broadcasting House the day after the review was announced, a feisty director general admits that the recommendations, to be delivered early next year, are likely to lead to "narrower services".
(13) It described Gordon as feisty and outspoken but often "highly dependent upon the men in her life".
(14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
(15) A Forsa survey shows that the SPD has gained three points from a week earlier to 29% after the selection of the feisty, plain-speaking 65-year-old.
(16) A feisty and inspiring young head was resolutely tackling the school's problems to give his pupils a better chance.
(17) McCain cracked jokes and gave a feisty performance as he endorsed Romney.
(18) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
(19) And there was this feisty meeting with Brazil in 1970.
(20) He also writes a feisty blog for the Financial Times - a recent example was headed "Confessions of a crass Keynesian".
Stature
Definition:
(n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
(4) The affected family members had normal stature, normal occipitofrontal circumference, and no other medical problems.
(5) The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age.
(6) Although children with constitutional delay of growth are believed to have no medical or endocrine abnormality to explain their short stature, some controversy regarding their growth hormone secretory status has recently surfaced; some authors have reported low growth hormone levels to provocative stimuli and decreased growth hormone secretion during sleep, as well as low somatomedin C values in some children with constitutional delay of growth.
(7) Short stature is an additional feature of this autosomal dominant condition.
(8) We suggest that the finding of short stature in patients with 46,XX pure gonadal dysgenesis should not be attributed to the syndrome, but rather requires investigation for possible growth hormone deficiency.
(9) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
(10) The values found for stature and osseous development were low in the group small for gestational age and for twins.
(11) The distributions of statures at each age, the distributions of ages attaining special characteristics of growth, and the distribution of growth increments after the onset of adolescence have been included.
(12) We measured 695 sera obtained in short stature children (GH deficiency or normal GH secretory) and adults (normal, hypopituitarism or acromegaly).
(13) We measured growth hormone-binding activity in plasma from 20 pygmies and 12 control subjects (7 white Americans and 5 non-Pygmy black Africans of normal stature).
(14) We report on a 7-year-aged girl with severe mental and physical retardation, short stature and malformations of the face and limbs.
(15) The same hypothesis has been suggested previously, but we cannot support the view of short stature as a common condition in AN patients premorbidly.
(16) This article reviews the major clinical and physiologic abnormalities that can occur and places special emphasis on the problems of short stature and gonadal failure.
(17) When comparing different populations independently of ethnic specificities, a number of modifying factors have to be taken into account which significantly influence the birth weight, namely: parity, spacing, age and stature of the mother.
(18) Characteristic coarse facial features and shortness of stature were observed in all cases.
(19) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(20) Three sibs, a boy and two girls, born to Moroccan consanguineous parents, were affected with a syndrome characterized by brittle hair, mental retardation, short stature, ataxia, and gonadal dysfunction.