(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farage ’flattered’ by Trump’s call for him to be US ambassador In another shot at Obama, referring to remarks by the US president before the Brexit vote about the possible trade consequences of Britain leaving Europe, Farage said: “No longer do we have a president who says that we’re at the back of the line.” Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory Read more He also said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent, had “wanted the European Union to be a prototype for a bigger model across the whole world”.
(5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
(6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
(7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
(10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
(11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
(12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
(14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
(15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
(16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
(18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
(19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
(20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.
Glad
Definition:
(superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
(superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(4) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(5) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
(6) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
(8) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
(9) In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E.
(10) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(11) The couple were glad about this, though modest in their ambitions for it.
(12) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
(13) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(14) I spoke to the doctor on the pitch and he said it would be all right to carry on and I am glad I stayed there.
(15) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(16) I'm glad to see that thanks to my calls, the Metropolitan police, the culture, media and sport select committee and the Press Complaints Commission are now investigating these claims.
(17) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(18) We are glad that the whole job [is] completed to mutual satisfaction and thanks to all who participated and helped to realise the biggest transfer in the club’s history.
(19) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
(20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.