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Goff


Definition:

  • (n.) A silly clown.
  • (n.) A game. See Golf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We can welcome it as the beginning of something, just not necessarily as the end of the conversation.” Phil Goff, a critic and president of the Center for Policing Equity thinktank, was more blunt.
  • (2) That’s not a policy.” Goff said research on policing and crime also did not support the sweeping conclusions Trump drew – particularly when it came to blaming immigrants for an increase in violence.
  • (3) "It's like a personal fundraising thermometer, but at scale and applied to field organising," Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign's digital director told Rolling Stone earlier this year.
  • (4) Unfortunately for the former Helen Lyndon Goff (and I would genuinely apologise if she were standing next to me), I've been working on a documentary, due for broadcast this Saturday, which tells those stories too.
  • (5) The MoMLV integration apparatus carried out integration of the mini-HIV substrates correctly; the terminal nucleotides of the viral substrate were removed, and a 4-base-pair duplication of the target DNA flanked the inserted viral DNA (C. Shoemaker, S. P. Goff, E. Gilboa, M. Paskind, S. W. Mitra, and D. Baltimore, Proc.
  • (6) The Dashboard project is being led by Michael Slaby, one of Obama's digital gurus , along with Joe Rospars and Teddy Goff and Obama's director of field organizing Jeremy Bird.
  • (7) Goff said this during a conversation on the front lawn of his black neighbour and friend, Don Williams.
  • (8) Phillip Atiba Goff, a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity, told the Guardian in April that it would a “reasonable hypothesis” to suggest “the decay in police legitimacy is harming both police morale and community morale”.
  • (9) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.
  • (10) Accurate calculation of water vapor pressure for systems saturated with water vapor can be performed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
  • (11) Such talk baffles many white people, even Ron Goff, 65, a retired mailman who lives just five minutes away amid black neighbours he considers friends.
  • (12) The subunit structure of Neurospora chromatin which contains a full histone complement (Goff, 1976) exhibits both differences and similarities to chromatin of higher eucaryotes.
  • (13) As he prepared to watch the flag come down, a joy came uncoiled in Wiggins; he shot an index finger to the sky and hollered, “WHEEEYEWWW!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Governor Nikki Haley reaches out to hug the Rev Norvel Goff, pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, before the Confederate battle flag is permanently removed from the South Carolina statehouse grounds.
  • (14) The genus Parasecia Loomis, 1966, is redefined, and Parasecia bulbocalcar Goff is described as new from specimens collected off a Yellow-shouldered Bat, Sturnia ludovici Anthony, taken in Morelos, Mexico.
  • (15) Misrepresenting these facts only makes our job harder.” Trump’s answer to the increase in violence in a few cities is the wrong one, said Phillip Atiba Goff , a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity .
  • (16) Methods for demonstrating antibody to wart virus by complement fixation and passive haemagglutination tests are described and compared with the precipitin test of Almeida & Goffe (1965).
  • (17) Here's the FT's Sharlene Goff: Sharlene Goff (@SharleneGoff) John Mann loses it with Andrew Tyrie, CM of TSC..."You're out of order with your questioning and you're out of order with your chairing."
  • (18) In fact, the only time Dornan has been able to stop the tethering in 11 months of relentless filming has been playing Abe Goffe in Peter Flannery's Restoration drama, New Worlds .
  • (19) Precise values for water vapor pressure in saturated systems may be computed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
  • (20) Surprisingly, however, an open reading frame encoded within the approximately 3.6-kb PstI fragment had a sequence identical to that of ELFT, an alpha(1,3)-Fuc-T previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a CHO transfectant (Goelz, S. E., Hession, C., Goff, D., Griffiths, B., Tizard, R., Newman, B., Chi-Rosso, G., and Lobb, R., (1990) Cell 63, 1349-1356).

Toff


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (2) It’s that the British are so fascinated by toffs that we give them a free pass as long as they stay on brand.
  • (3) It has got to stop, this fashion for toffs to pose as ordinary.
  • (4) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs … The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently."
  • (5) There is still a sizeable chunk of the world which sees the English as top-hatted toffs who can be cruel to their urchins, so it remains to be seen what they will think after the British Council's celebrations of Charles Dickens' bicentenary.
  • (6) "You, and George, in particular, have been portrayed as public school toffs.
  • (7) I will leave the public to judge his actions.” Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said it should be no surprise that his black cab members across London were considering “a boycott of the Tory toff David Mellor over his outrageous, pompous and disgraceful tirade against one of their colleagues”.
  • (8) Rex Hunt, fully dressed in his governor's tights and ostrich plumes, was widely seen, not least by toffs in the Foreign Office (FCO), as a slightly Wodehousian figure, the kind more likely to be seen in slacks propping up the golf club bar in a colonial outpost.
  • (9) A decade earlier, the clever grocer's daughter Margaret Thatcher had devastated Tory toffs with a gale-force combination of vicious class resentment and sexy ankles.
  • (10) Champagne socialism in action The Mirror's determination to photograph Tory toffs clutching glasses of champagne did not end with the page one Cameron shot which led to the Tory leader renouncing the stuff ("He's had a good talking to," said Samantha C) for the duration of the class war.
  • (11) Hutchings, a mother-of-four, also declared that she was not a "rich Tory toff" and said she once had to borrow £1.80 to pay for parking from members of a job club she ran because the cash machine would not give her any money.
  • (12) It affects how voters see Tory choices on tax, welfare and public services – toffs and plebs – in the most damaging way possible.
  • (13) Fourteen-year-olds pontificating on this must be making the old field marshal turn in his grave, and this debate also perpetuates the myth that British soldiers were "lions led by donkeys", the idea that the brave ordinary Tommy was let down by the brandy-soaked toffs in charge.
  • (14) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
  • (15) This government has difficulty in managing a non-story about the chancellor upgrading his ticket on a train, or the stupidity of the former chief whip (who is no toff) behaving like a saloon-bar bore.
  • (16) The first thing you learn about him is what a toff he was: born into a banking family, Fleming's father was Conservative MP and friend of Churchill, Valentine Fleming.
  • (17) Jonathan was in constant demand whenever a comic toff or a bumbling cleric was called for on TV.
  • (18) Before Sky, Schuster was head of development at Toff Media, the specialist drama and comedy company founded by Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller.
  • (19) Miliband rejected criticisms of Labour's election broadcast, which portrayed the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, as the "Un-credible Shrinking Man" and Conservative cabinet ministers as out-of-touch "toffs".
  • (20) Your report on Vladimir Putin’s progress from pariah to powerbroker ( Putin has been taken off the menu and returned to the top table , 18 November) reminds me of previous instances where reactionary toffs let their prejudices over Russia cloud their judgment.

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