(1) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(2) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
(3) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
(4) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
(5) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
(6) Ibrahimovic won a penalty five minutes before half-time but Peter Jehle flung himself to his right to save the spot-kick.
(7) Nolito played Fàbregas in just after the restart and he was felled by Oleksandr Kucher but Pyatov flung out an arm to send the midfielder’s spot kick over the bar.
(8) To see the doctor, governor, probation officer … cell doors are flung open with regularity.
(9) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(10) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
(11) Rosberg flung it back, without the flicker of a smile.
(12) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
(13) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
(14) Many of the inmates in the far-flung penal colonies in which they were incarcerated were serving time for drug-related crimes.
(15) Butsuch comments remind me of those flung at my father, whose family was killed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
(16) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
(17) Hodgson, his side trailing to Gareth Bale’s long-range, first-half free-kick, had boldly flung on Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at the interval with both strikers scoring as his side kickstarted their campaign by vaulting to the top of the group.
(18) There is chance the words "47%" are not going to be flung at him this time.
(19) The first participants, who must all be aged under 24, are expected to travel to far-flung communities in the developing world to take part in projects in the months before Christmas.
(20) This had been such a grind, a test of patience as much as quality, against admirably resolute opponents who flung down a four-man barrier of centre-halves supplemented by workaholic wingers who plugged the full-back areas whenever they were denied the ball.
Flunk
Definition:
(v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
(v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.
(n.) A failure or backing out
(n.) a total failure in a recitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even now, there is a sense that it could go either way, that we might pass this mammoth test or flunk it.
(2) The watchdog flunked the opportunity to extend the price cap to all those acknowledged to be stuck on over-priced standard variable tariffs and last summer dumped suggestions the big firms should be broken up.
(3) News that the eurozone had flunked its Greek test, again, sent the euro sliding (down half a cent to $1.275).
(4) In the nationwide panic over inheritance tax – David Cameron’s 2007 vote-winning pledge to raise the threshold to £1m is cited as the main reason why Gordon Brown flunked a decision to call an election – the only real winners have been the very well-off.
(5) Photograph: NIESR Updated at 4.27pm BST 4.23pm BST First it was Germany's banks ( 8.07am ) now it's America's car industry which is feeling the love from the ratings agencies... Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) BREAKING: Ford, Ford Motor credit raised to investment grade by S&P September 6, 2013 3.54pm BST Back in Europe, and the Open Europe thinktank has published an interesting theorette today - about how Germany's far left Die Linke party could hold the balance of power after the general elections on 22 September: This is how Merkel could flunk the elections: enter the Far Left It all relies on the fact that parties need to win 5% of the vote to win seats in the Bundestag, and Angela Merkel's coalition partners, the Free Democrats, are hovering close to the cliff-edge.
(6) If the prime minister flunks this energy-saving test, he will confirm the Sun's story, and look like the weak victim of the short-term pressures he once promised to fight.
(7) "The one test he had, he flunked," said a party apparatchik, referring to Johnson's defeat in the 2007 deputy leadership contest.
(8) He flunked the test and this was the turning point in the debate.
(9) Did I tell you I had just been thrown out for flunking four subjects?
(10) The banks that flunked out only need to raise an additional €2.5bn capital, although 16 others passed only by the skin of their teeth and will have to take measures to shore up their financial position.
(11) The manager, Gus Poyet, had suggested that his players were playing for their places in next Sunday's Capital One Cup final against Manchester City; this was an audition flunked.
(12) Mr Brown also accused Mr Cameron of flunking his "Clause 4 moment" over grammar schools, caving into his party instead of supporting his education spokesman.
(13) Well, mostly just the protagonist Chip Baskets (Galifianakis), a clown who flunks out of clown school in Paris – he enrolled without knowing French – and returns home to Bakersfield, California.
(14) He subsequently flunked out of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst after contracting gonorrhoea.
(15) Having come up with the idea and agreed to the targets, the banks then flunked the most important one, on lending to small businesses.
(16) In certain special situations in psychoanalytic treatment there is a need to mobilize ego strength: (1) those patients who are "so infantile" that they need ego strengthening to mature sufficiently to cope with their lives; (2) patients who regress partially during psychoanalysis and cannot progress without analytic intervention to help strengthen their ego; (3) those patients with a strong tendency toward regression whose egos need immediate strengthening in analysis to prevent an immobilizing regression; (4) those patients for whom a stressful reality situation so undermines their confidence that they fall into a severe regression and need to be helped out of this as an emergency to avoid permanent trouble, such as flunking out of school or getting fired from their jobs.
(17) Despite flunking his accountancy exams the first time round, Rake became Britain's best-paid accountant.
(18) The son of an affluent businessman, he flunked his way through school.
(19) In Brighton last week, Gordon Brown flunked it, preferring to stress spending pledges over coming austerity.