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Gery


Definition:

  • (a.) Changeable; fickle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new instrument, called the GERI-AIMS, generates both generic and arthritis-specific impairment scores, to control for comorbid conditions that are commonly found in an older population.
  • (2) Then will come speculation that Wade-Gery is too old to be a mother, or that her maternity leave is too short, or that it is too long and the corporate world can’t do without her for that long and that that’s why you shouldn’t have women at the top in business at all.
  • (3) Even Benedict Cumberbatch wasn’t too cool and private to announce his engagement in the Times, although I’m not sure how he feels about that decision now that Geri Halliwell has followed his lead .
  • (4) Wade-Gery, multichannel director of UK retail and online operations, will receive a payoff worth up to £2.4m in cash and shares, although only about £560,000 of that is guaranteed and the rest dependent on the performance of M&S over the next few years.
  • (5) "Continuing from Andrew Fletcher's comforting reassurance that you could be El-Hadji Diouf," writes the elegantly-monickered Leticia L'Amour, "just think: you could also be Paul Burrell, Michael Jackson, One True Voice, Gary Glitter, Glenn Roeder, Geri Halliwell's dog, a Stoke City fan, an estate agent, allergic to cheese, Liam Gallagher's anger management counsellor, Liam Gallagher..." By God, she's right.
  • (6) I wish Steve and all my colleagues and friends every success.” Wade-Gery will step down from M&S’s board with immediate effect and formally leave the company at the end of September.
  • (7) Marks & Spencer has confirmed that Laura Wade-Gery, one of the UK’s few female FTSE 100 board directors, will not be returning from maternity leave and is to exit the company at the end of September.
  • (8) Gery scale transformation improved image quality for the detection of gastric lesions.
  • (9) Having done a spot of Googling, I learn that it was also the year that Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls, arguably a misstep in her career which she may now be considering applying to have concealed.
  • (10) The public announcement of her four-month maternity leave was made by Marks & Spencer , where Wade-Gery has worked for four years and is now a senior director.
  • (11) Geri Halliwell: 'Feminism is bra-burning lesbianism,' she once said.
  • (12) Yes, Next, a beacon of high-street fanciness in the 1980s, which now employs Geri Halliwell as a designer.
  • (13) We wish her all the very best for the future.” Wade-Gery’s exit comes as Rowe tries to slim down M&S’s head office operations and cut costs as he battles to turn things around after the retailer’s biggest fall in clothing sales since the 2008 banking crisis .
  • (14) The effects of IL-1 include augmentation of T and B lymphocyte proliferation (Oppenheim and Gery 1982), but also mitogenic effects on a wide variety of other cells such as fibroblasts (Libby et al.
  • (15) They saw the clips wearing Gerard Deulofeu’s top and Geri could not wait to prepare a little present for him.
  • (16) As a group, and despite Geri's jawdropping cleavage, they were strangely sexless.
  • (17) I found my people, finally.” She cackles at the memories: the times she would drive down the motorway with Geri, both of them topless; the drinking, the clubbing, the fights.
  • (18) If you ever want to measure precisely how little of a toss we give about Africa, just consider that the UN's answer to the crisis in sub-Saharan maternal healthcare is Ms Geri Halliwell.
  • (19) We need an answer now | Joseph Harker Read more The announcement of Wade-Gery’s maternity leave prompted the usual disapproving voices, with their thinly veiled warnings (which are nothing more than criticisms) about career women who “delay” having babies, as though having babies is our written destiny and having a career is a selfish indulgence we have just taken too far – and we’ll be sorry.
  • (20) The News of the World even linked him to former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell in a "whirlwind romance" in 2007.

Gory


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with gore or clotted blood.
  • (a.) Bloody; murderous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Bannon may well get voted off this gory reality show entirely before long (or maybe, given current legal troubles , it will be Kushner).
  • (2) Now, 11 weeks on from the change in the Liberal leadership, it’s becoming the Coalition’s turn to decide whether staging a gory revenge tragedy is more important than being in government.
  • (3) The Georgian authorities said the town of Gori, 40 miles north of Tbilisi, had, in effect, fallen to the Russians, who were also advancing from the breakaway province of Abkhazia in the west into territory previously under Georgian control.
  • (4) Some internet users clearly find the unrelenting goriness of it all captivating – stonings, decapitations, throwing people off tall buildings, sticking severed heads on spikes.
  • (5) At the time, corridistas told their stories in the playful tone of a comic book or action movie, but he revelled in the savage reality of the underworld, peppering his songs with gory details of torture and execution.
  • (6) One of Propeller's most famous productions, its gory 2002 adaptation of the Henry VI plays , came with a tongue-in-cheek title, Rose Rage, and revelled in the works' murderous violence.
  • (7) A remarkable swirl of events at Fiorentina included a dawn police raid on the Florentine mansion of corrupt owner Alessandro Cecchi Gori.
  • (8) In particular the methodology proposed by Gori (1976) and Gori and Lynch (1978) for constant intervals, doses and rate may greatly overestimate the length of the "low-risk" interval for carbon monoxide concentration.
  • (9) "You may find some of these images distressing," the BBC announcer intones each night, before another orgy of gory propaganda to "do something" and not "stand idly by".
  • (10) Russian planes today bombed the Georgian city of Gori, near the South Ossetian border, leaving apartment buildings ruined and ablaze.
  • (11) As if to reinforce the image of "plucky Georgia" fighting against the odds, there have been TV images of the Georgian president, wearing a flak jacket, bundled away by his security guards during a visit to Gori as Russian aircraft buzzed overhead.
  • (12) Tomás lived up to his reputation as a hero to Barcelona bullfight fans with his first bull – being awarded the gory trophy of the bull's ears as cheering fans waved white handkerchiefs to express admiration.
  • (13) Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae victorie.
  • (14) Scared and unhappy, Winterson went to collect her mother's books from the library – including Murder in the Cathedral, which her mother had assumed was "a gory story about nasty monks".
  • (15) The best diagnostic criterion proved to be the normalized increase of LVEF proposed by Goris.
  • (16) A fter the endless ramifications of the Lance Armstrong saga, cycling could happily have done without another insight into the gory details of doping from a few years back, but that is what has been on offer in a Madrid courtroom this week as the Operation Puerto trial – centred on Dr Eufemiano Fuentes, who faces charges of damaging public health by his activities in doping cyclists – has featured some key witnesses.
  • (17) Gori, a close friend of De Falco's, said his colleague was "really tired" after his midnight battle on the phone with Schettino, who is under arrest and accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship by prosecutors.
  • (18) They tweet about their experiences in the field, and publish their own private pictures – sometimes gory images of severed heads, sometimes mundane snaps of food and cats – often to appreciative audiences.
  • (19) Gory US magicians Penn (the tall one) and Teller (the silent one) are back with a new series of Penn & Teller: Fool Us.
  • (20) The Dawn app pumps out news of Isis advances, gory images, or frightening videos like Swords IV – creating the impression of a rampant and unstoppable force.

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