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Fistfight


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump encouraged his supporters to get into fistfights with protesters , and seems to fantasize about doing the same to CNN .
  • (2) The primary specific causes of these injuries were fistfights (nearly 30%), sports (over 20%), and vehicles (about 15%).
  • (3) Most of his conflicts have been highly personal: during a radio debate while running for the regional Duma in 2006, he got into a fistfight with his opponent, while his conflict with United Russia governor Kuivashev came after Roizman's girlfriend and campaign manager, Aksana Panova, spurned the governor's advances, she told the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
  • (4) After the Labour MP Eric Joyce brawled in a bar at the House of Commons, political bloggers rated the best political fistfights .
  • (5) He was also slightly injured in a New York nightclub brawl and, earlier this year, was accused of being involved in a fistfight with Frank Ocean’s entourage over a parking spot at a West Hollywood recording studio.
  • (6) In a parliament that has long been known for altercations and fistfights, there were fears that the new set of MPs could prove more unruly than ever, especially after the commanders of two volunteer battalions active in the east had promised to solve their personal differences “like men” inside parliament.
  • (7) However, the deal soon fell apart, with fistfights breaking out in the auditing centre where disputed ballots are being assessed and that process being halted numerous times.
  • (8) Fistfights and shouting matches raged on throughout the morning as the two sides fought for control of the microphone.
  • (9) In 1995, Kusturica was involved in a fistfight on the beach in Cannes, after winning his Palme d'Or for Underground .
  • (10) The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine.
  • (11) These fistfights occurred not just when he was a young student but also when he was an "officer" – after he had joined the KGB.
  • (12) Foreigners: please be aware that your sudden awareness of our political fistfights is but a Twitter phenomenon.
  • (13) Plenty of female designers are bucking stereotypes, working, not just on family-friendly Wii titles, but on action adventures, filled with shoot-outs and fistfights.

Start


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To leap; to jump.
  • (v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
  • (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
  • (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
  • (v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
  • (v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
  • (v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
  • (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
  • (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
  • (n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
  • (n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.
  • (v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
  • (v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
  • (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
  • (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (2) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (3) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (4) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
  • (5) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
  • (6) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (7) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (8) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (9) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
  • (10) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (11) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
  • (12) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
  • (13) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
  • (14) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (15) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (16) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
  • (17) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
  • (18) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
  • (19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (20) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.