(1) I've spent a most enjoyable evening with the redoubtable Professor Elemental, who as you know is not averse to a bit of fisticuffs himself .
(2) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
(3) It is unheard of for the Bank to get involved in such verbal fisticuffs.
(4) It was only when he had a bout of fisticuffs with his deputy of 17 years, Adam Helliker, whose coming departure for a column of his own Dempster regarded as a betrayal, and when he faced another drink-driving charge (a previous conviction had been quashed on appeal) that his world began seriously to implode.
(5) Five cases (six eyes) of retinal detachment due to fisticuffs are recorded; at least four eyes went blind.
(6) He did not want to get into fisticuffs with Mitt," he said.
(7) Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation.
(8) While it never amounted to fisticuffs, this lairy threat has been repeated in different forms at regular intervals throughout the past 13 years of Williams's career, depleting slightly in its extremity as each album campaign gets churned out.
(9) 12.19pm BST Verbal fisticuffs between Labour's Chris Bryant and economic secretary Sajid Javid .
(10) We are all used to the sort of annual fisticuffs at press awards, and all the shouting matches, and we all hate each other."
(11) A patient with osteomyelitis of the distal right first metacarpal bone due to Actinomyces israelii following a punch injury during fisticuffs is described.
(12) But no amount of political fisticuffs could have prepared him for breaking up fights, trying to persuade students who "couldn't sit still for more than five minutes" to write essays, or, in one memorable incident, dealing with a teenager who was threatening to climb out of a window, six floors up.
(13) It’s not like this in real life – but how would you know?” Undeterred by protests about his infringement of copyright, Trump uses Jerry Goldsmith’s embattled but rousingly brassy music from the film to underscore his campaign appearances, and when he arrived in Cleveland for the Republican convention in July he was greeted by the fanfares that accompany Ford’s gung-ho bouts of fisticuffs with the hijackers.
(14) After fisticuffs in parliament the Italians have agreed on a package of the economic reforms demanded by EU leaders .
(15) Each one of us must shoulder some of the responsibility for Falkirk MP Eric Joyce's allegedly drunken fisticuffs, because it is we who subsidise the drinks in the Houses of Parliament, and therefore we who must acknowledge our role in the cheap booze culture that MPs have rightly observed is shaming Britain.
(16) But let's not pretend that fisticuffs are a regular feature of the Palace of Westminster.
(17) But these exchanges rarely culminate in fisticuffs.
(18) The catfight didn't stop there, with proper fisticuffs breaking out, giving Charity the opportunity to feign a miscarriage.
Glove
Definition:
(n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
(n.) A boxing glove.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(3) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
(4) The exposures to the finger positions then were repeated with the monitor inside a 0.5 mm lead-equivalent glove.
(5) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(6) Burqas, hijabs, gloves are not mentioned in the Qur'an either.
(7) It was hypothesized that the noted inhibition was a result of contamination with latex gloves.
(8) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(9) We found that thin gloves manufactured from polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride are ineffective barriers while gloves of thin latex are superior but not without failure.
(10) Glove manufacturers were queried to ascertain the occurrence of Lowinox 44S36 and butylhydroxyanisole in different brands of latex and vinyl examination gloves.
(11) In total, 275 pairs of gloves were collected from 100 consecutive operations.
(12) The procedures at a high risk of glove punctures were hip operations (57 per cent) and internal fixation (54 per cent).
(13) The perforation rates for the outer and inner layers were 35.3 and 8.8% respectively, indicating that a second set of gloves substantially improves the likelihood of maintaining an intact barrier between medical staff and patient.
(14) A 30-year-old surgeon developed reactions to latex gloves.
(15) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(16) The experimental model used may permit rapid investigation of other glove systems as barriers to the transfer of infectious agents through gloves by needlestick.
(17) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(18) The air of the wards and operating theatre as well as the hands and gloves of surgeons and assistant nurses apparently did not play any role as a source of S. aureus infection.
(19) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
(20) Dermatologists are now wearing gloves for most procedures.