(1) Tottenham not interested in topping Arsenal, says Mauricio Pochettino Read more The second half was less frenetic, with the space much tighter and the chances fewer.
(2) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(3) Along the way, he fathered a child at 20 and immediately turned his back on her (they are now reunited), had a brief and unhappy marriage to the broadcaster Carol McGiffin and a series of frenetically unsatisfying relationships.
(4) Rather than experiencing a slowdown in its frenetic building sector, however, Kabul is increasingly overrun with precarious apartment blocks.
(5) The notes division, which she has headed for exactly two years, is less frenetic.
(6) Their opponents, the USA, are playing the third of a rather less frenetically scheduled mini-sequence of five games in team camp (just as they did around this time last year) — though after goal-packed friendlies against Belgium and Germany , this is going to be their first of three World Cup qualifiers, and the only one on the road.
(7) David Fincher was originally slated to direct the project , but Boyle manages to put his own distinct imprint on it: the film has Boyle’s characteristic frenetic energy, and boasts colourful visuals.
(8) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
(9) Right up until Sunday's first-round vote, the frenetic Sarkozy, known as the "president of bling" was apologising for what he called his lack of solemnity at the start of his presidency.
(10) From Ferguson's team selection – the opposite of the changed selection he proposed on Friday – to the home side's frenetic start, the determination to land a decisive victory was evident.
(11) The folding pathway is defined by piecewise B-spline curves and the atoms are initially positioned with respect to the local Frenet trihedra determined by the equations of the curves.
(12) A frenetic pace and high intensity from the visitors had Leeds on the back foot and Walsh opted for goal when the home side were penalised for offside which, in the context of the game, seemed a wise decision.
(13) Louis van Gaal hails Wayne Rooney’s ‘beautiful’ winner against Swansea Read more Rooney has now moved ahead of Denis Law to become the second-highest scorer in United’s history, 11 short of Sir Bobby Charlton’s 249, but his afternoon might still have been spoiled during a late, frenetic spell of pressure from Swansea culminating in Lukasz Fabianski, the visiting keeper, coming forward for a stoppage-time corner, leaping in the manner of a modern-day John Charles and flashing a header just wide of David de Gea’s goal.
(14) After all, his short time as prime minister had been characterised not only by frenetic political activity and legislative change but scandal in the form of the Khemlani Affair and the more literal affair of Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi .
(15) They redefined the frenetic quest for more carbon as immoral behaviour, perpetuated by, as author and activist Bill McKibben put it, “a rogue industry”.
(16) Either mellow or frenetic masking music was played for half the students in each group.
(17) As if to show that this stage is not merely a 100km+ warm-up to a frenetic sprint, a minor kerfuffle in the peloton results in two riders hitting the road.
(18) Fighting fans can look forward to the new Killer Instinct , with shooters also strongly represented by Battlefield 4 playing brilliantly in the 64-person multiplayer mode it supports, while Titanfall , an Xbox exclusive, offered a frenetic but also innovative take on the genre, with players switching between roles as foot soldiers and mech pilots.
(19) As both Claire and I have found, there are alternative relaxation methods that can keep you grounded: reading, carving out more time to spend with friends, and simply knowing when to take a break from the frenetic pace of life.
(20) Brown's trip to the palace will trigger four weeks of frenetic campaigning and comes as a shock Guardian ICM poll suggests Labour is clawing back support from the Tories.
Hectic
Definition:
(a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
(a.) In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
(n.) Hectic fever.
(n.) A hectic flush.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week of hectic activity is the outcome of a determined global programme designed to raise the self-confidence, morale and influence of the social work profession around the world in a decade-long strategy lead by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW).
(2) Pain and loss of motion in the affected joint were prominent, but toxic features of pyogenic infections--hectic fever, chills, sweats, local warmth, or erythema--were conspicuously absent.
(3) A previously healthy 14-year-old girl showed monosymptomatic hectic fever for over 3 weeks with negative clinical findings.
(4) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(5) The hectic pace of office practice can make full assessment of the patient difficult and state-of-the-art management a formidable goal.
(6) I grab a few laps but it’s still a bit hectic so I decide to give up and come back when it’s quieter.
(7) At the end of what has been a hectic summer at St Mary’s Ronald Koeman’s side managed to make two impressive additions as several players left on loan.
(8) It’s been an exciting and hectic period and to have had to choose between so many top clubs doesn’t make it any easier.
(9) Few, if any, will be arriving on anything as common as a bus, with private jets and helicopters pressed into service as many of the world's most powerful people convene to discuss the state of the global economy over four hectic days of meetings, seminars and parties in the exclusive ski resort .
(10) Between fielding calls in another hectic day at the Connaught, Johnson says a change in mentality is needed to bridge the chasm between grand plans hatched in Washington, New York and London and the urgent needs on the ground.
(11) One biographer has noted how "the reports of his sexual liaisons – both factual and fictitious – leaked from the private realm to fuel the hectic debate over his qualities as a public man".
(12) In 1989, following a hectic effort to reduce its size and weight, the $160m satellite was launched into orbit on a small rocket from Californian airbase.
(13) It has been a hectic and stressful week as a result of bureaucratic hurdles and a forecast of rain, which thankfully proved wrong.
(14) A large number of operations are carried out under pressure of time and under hectic conditions, as well as in a confined space in operation theatres which are too warm; these factors increase the susceptibility to infection.
(15) You’ve seen Usain Bolt.” He describes football as his release, a place where he could spend time with his friends and be himself, because he lived in such a hectic household.
(16) Philip Shaw, economist, Investec It has been a hectic week for economic data as well as pre‑General Election political developments.
(17) Of course it was a very emotional and hectic game,” said Hiddink.
(18) At night the towers turn red, hectic, throbbing with a demonic glow that takes my breath away.
(19) There’s a strong sense of injustice.” Leading his members across the UK appears to require a hectic travel schedule – he’s not long back from Llandudno and he’ll soon be in Aberdeen (job cuts are looming in the oil industry).
(20) Far from the hectic campaign trail, Romney's relatives back in Wales dismiss suggestions that she is anything but genuine in her enthusiasm.