(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.
Lickspittle
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "I salute the LSE for its opposition to the BBC lickspittles who want to reveal the heroic comrades of NK as cult psychopaths."
(2) I don’t think lickspittle goes far enough describing what you’ve done.” The deal will ensure Australians gain access to the tax information of about 280 big private companies with revenue of at least $200m, but an estimated 500 to 600 companies will continue to be shielded from disclosure because they fall below the new threshold.
(3) They were "neo-cons" and "Zionists" and a "pro-war lynch mob", he raged, who belonged to a "lickspittle Republican committee" that was engaged in creating "the mother of all smokescreens".
(4) For a start, only two senators were present, sabotaging Mr Galloway's efforts to attack the whole lickspittle lot of them - and one of the two, the Democrat Carl Levin, had spent much of his opening statement attacking the hypocrisy of the US government in allegedly allowing American firms to benefit from Iraqi oil corruption.
(5) And nothing will change, because NFL ownership and their hollow-hammered lickspittle Roger Goodell know that millions more will strike similar, smaller compromises.
(6) When I was political editor of the FT, the establishment lickspittle tendency was rather more to the fore.
(7) His execution by evil King Joffrey's lickspittles after being fitted up for treason was one of season one's shocking moments.
(8) At the weekend, Featherstone – no coalition lickspittle – had announced a consultation on gay marriages, to the delight of the grassroots; Farron and Cable are, in their own ways and from their different vantage points, talked about as future leaders of the party; Ashdown did the job for 11 years.
(9) Once you wind down from the castle to the bottom of Peascod Street, they are not all royalist lickspittles; and as you cross over the junction to St Leonard's Road, you might sniff out closet republicans.
(10) Well a few weeks ago, when City University asked me for the title of this talk, I recklessly supplied the title "addicts, establishment lickspittles and paranoid monomaniacs".