(n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).
Example Sentences:
(1) But de Jager said the French plan lets the banks off too lightly, and unless finance ministers impose bigger losses on them, Europe would be "converting private debt into public debt" by lending Greece more money from European taxpayers to pay back bondholders.
(2) The following year, according to Jager, Obama changed and gained a sense of manifest destiny.
(3) The hardline Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees De Jager, signalled that the eurozone would run that risk.
(4) Douglas de Jager, of Spider.io, said the financial motive may be that "owners of websites typically receive 55%-65% of the money spent by advertisers to serve display ads on their respective sites.
(5) Speaking to the media at the start of the two-day Eurogroup meeting in Nicosia, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager said that if Greece's recession is deeper than expected, perhaps it could be given more time to hit its targets.
(6) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was identified retrospectively in a case of amoebic meningoencephalitis, previously reported by Jager and Stamm (Lancet, 2, 1343, 1972).
(7) And it strongly implies that his preference for Michelle, an African American, over Jager, who is half-Dutch and half-Japanese, was politically motivated.
(8) Eurozone finance ministers are sharply divided over how to handle the spiralling Greek debt crisis, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager revealed as he attacked France's plans for a new rescue package.
(9) Its attention-grabbing element is Jager, now a professor of East Asian studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, who declined to be interviewed for this article.
(10) The ‘resolution of his “black” identity was directly linked to his decision to pursue a political career’ and to the crystallization of the ‘drive and desire to become the most powerful person in the world’.” The book claims that even after Obama met Michelle Robinson, a law firm colleague, he continued to see Jager irregularly for a year (“I always felt bad about it,” Jager says).
(11) The other variant would appear to be a new phenotype and has been designated PGI-Jager.
(12) "Substantial private-sector involvement is for the Netherlands and Germany a precondition," said the Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, emphasising that investor participation, whether voluntary or not and whether triggering a Greek default or not, was paramount.
(13) "The contagion risk would be far, far smaller than one and a half years ago," said the Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, of the effect of a Greek exit.
(14) Chris Jager Malmesbury, Wiltshire • One of the most damaging outcomes of the so-called educational reforms of the past 30 years has been the reduction in the curriculum of state schools of learning and experiences that help pupils to differentiate between fact and opinions, and to know how to recognise, challenge and check out biased views.
(15) I always found it ironic that he was using his love letters to me to write his book and then completely omitted me from the entire account.” The author said his researcher got the scoop on Jager in 2009 because, knowing what address Obama had lived at, it was simply a case of going to the University of Chicago library and pulling the student directories for 1986, 1987 and 1988 to see who else was living at the address.
(16) For more detail and debate, see books by, amongst others, Sheila Miyoshi Jager , Andrei Lankov , Charles Armstrong , Bruce Cumings and Shen Zhuiha .
(17) And who more than Michelle Robinson and her family could personify the strong, deep roots of black Chicago?” Jager does not appear in Obama’s bestselling memoir, Dreams from My Father .
(18) Photograph: Tanya Rosen-Jones “I never understood why he wrote it that way,” Jager told Garrow.
(19) As a non-eurozone member, Britain is on the sidelines of talks about a new bailout for Greece , but de Jager said Osborne was "very close to our position".
(20) In particular, it contains extensive interviews with Sheila Miyoshi Jager , a former girlfriend who claims Obama twice proposed marriage.