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Gibbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Gib

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fund is a new development for Gib because it raises private money up front for investment in a particular industry instead of investing project by project.
  • (2) Chris Huhne , the energy and climate change secretary, appears to concede the Treasury's concern that the liabilities taken on by the GIB would be added to the government's budget book.
  • (3) To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990.
  • (4) Today's report also appeared to put pressure on Osborne as he works towards this autumn's comprehensive spending review (CSR), by warning that the task of setting up a GIB needs to begin immediately.
  • (5) Kingsbury is particularly proud of the large investments made this year in windfarms such as the £241m Gib put into Westermost Rough off the coast of Yorkshire and the £220m for a 10% stake in Gwynt y Mor, the biggest offshore field under construction in Europe.
  • (6) Extracts of B. malayi adult male worms, female worms, and microfilariae contained Gib 13 monoclonal antibody-reactive antigens of Mr 25-30,000, 57-90,000, and approximately equal to 200,000.
  • (7) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
  • (8) A green investment bank (GIB) is being pushed for to turn the £50-80bn of traditional project capital available into the much higher amounts funding experts say will be needed to pay for the low-carbon technologies the UK is expected to need.
  • (9) Sue Charman, the "one planet finance leader" at WWF-UK, said the GIB had an essential role to play in shifting the UK to a low carbon economy, but giving it no immediate borrowing powers was a critical mistake.
  • (10) Vince Cable, the business secretary, has officially marked the launch of the new green investment bank ( GIB ) by announcing funding of a new waste-to-energy plant and an energy saving scheme.
  • (11) NSAID appear to be a risk factor for GIB from erosive Gastritis and or Duodenitis.
  • (12) I am confident that the sale process will provide GIB with good new owners who will support GIB’s continued growth and leadership role in the global green economy long into the future,” he said.
  • (13) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
  • (14) The Gib 13 monoclonal antibody was raised against eggs of Onchocerca gibsoni and subsequently found to react with a phosphorylcholine epitope designated as the T15 idiotype.
  • (15) Salmond, who has played a prominent role in building up overseas investments in green energy, pointed out instead that £103m of the GIB's start up capital of £3bn came from the money owed to Scotland by the Treasury, which has been sitting on Scotland's share of the fossil fuel levy for some years.
  • (16) The evidence now indicates that only cells in a certain intermitotic state, called GIb, can be thus detached, and that when such cells are not locally available the expanding mitosis is forced into the vertical axis.
  • (17) Detection of circulating antigen in amicrofilaremic subjects with acute symptoms of lymphatic filariasis, and 53% of asymptomatic amicrofilaremic subjects, but not in nonendemic controls, suggests that the Gib 13 IRMA will also be of value in the diagnosis of occult filariasis.
  • (18) Lib Dem minister and energy secretary, Chris Huhne, wants the GIB to operate as a fully fledged bank that is able to issue bonds and underwrite loans, rather than just a fund, which would be more limited and unable to release the required capital.
  • (19) Cable will be in front of the environmental audit committee of MPs to discuss the GIB tomorrow.
  • (20) The report said that the forthcoming spending review on 20 October is a good time to deliver a GIB which is backed by between £4-6bn of capital until 2015.

Gibber


Definition:

  • (n.) A balky horse.
  • (v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
  • (2) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
  • (3) At which point, the righteous rage against big business conveniently diverts towards these moronic corporate wannabes and their tragic, gibbering claims to be “the next Richard Branson”.
  • (4) Journalists write about the wonders of the Chiltern Firehouse like gibbering fanboys, without noting that the vast majority of Londoners will never eat there – and not because the restaurant is full until autumn; without noting that the homeless sit in the streets outside these palaces in greater numbers than before; and without noting that another noble public building – a Victorian gothic fire station, in the case of the Chiltern Firehouse – has been lost to private hands.
  • (5) One of the stranger sights in Britpop documentary Live Forever is that of fans gibberingly clutching copies of Be Here Now as if they were fragments of the Berlin Wall.
  • (6) You might have thought that the Liberals were gibbering paranoids.
  • (7) Cresswell somehow cleared Willian’s attempt from the line in stoppage time, but those missed opportunities merely added to the drama, both managers reduced to gibbering wrecks in their technical areas by the frantic majesty of the contest.
  • (8) We would just gibber on, entertaining ourselves, basically.” Somehow it worked.
  • (9) "Personally," he said, "I find Ed Miliband far easier to listen to … Listening to David Miliband, gibbering on about Iraq and his self-help soundbites, seemed as if we'd been plunged back into 2006."
  • (10) Who will scare the contestants and leave them gibbering with grateful awe now?
  • (11) For example, it reduces normally articulate and sophisticated people to gibbering in the online equivalent of grunts.
  • (12) If Hofstadter were alive today, he would doubtless write about the birther movement, or cast a scornful eye at the gibbering career of Glenn Beck, formerly of Fox News, who has all the traditional anxieties about secret societies and Jews.
  • (13) 2.42pm: Meanwhile Amit, James and Tim are surrounded by gibbering, uncouth, flea-ridden specimens: "Just thought we'd drop you a line to say we've just driven to the southern most point of Africa - Cape Agulhas - and are now driving through the desolate wastelands of rural SA to find a bar to watch the game.
  • (14) The only research worth doing is on why drugs policy reduces British politicians to gibbering wrecks.
  • (15) The distraught king is trapped in a “cage” made of the musicians themselves, and gibbers his agony, sometimes in a cruel parody of a well-known style (Handel’s Comfort Ye is invoked and mocked at one point).
  • (16) It was a physical shock – I was reduced to gibbering and panic – and the striking, persuasive thing was that he didn't care; he had stopped caring what I felt about anything: that was the point.
  • (17) Ranging from standard clown routines (there’s one where they’re competing to wear the same dress) to satirical sketches (an advertising meeting harvesting ideas from a gibbering idiot), Libby Northedge and Nina Smith’s unflinching brand of buffoonery sometimes draws too deeply on our indulgence.
  • (18) The plain-speaking narrator observes how, in his reversed chronology, "the gibbering hippies and spaced-out fatsoes" who go to Vietnam "come back all clean and sane and fine, after a spell in the war".

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