What's the difference between granger and texas?

Granger


Definition:

  • (n.) A farm steward.
  • (n.) A member of a grange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To this end, we run a Granger causality test (named after Clive Granger, the 2003 Nobel prizewinner in economics) which suggests that Brexit predicts movements in the five-year yield (at the conventional 10% level of statistical significance).
  • (2) In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls played without Derrick Rose, the Celtics didn't have Rajon Rondo and the Pacers were without Danny Granger.
  • (3) Drawing on the "#hellomynameis" blogging-run campaign of Kate Granger, a doctor who is terminally ill, Hunt will say that the move is in part inspired by the "vital courtesy of introducing yourself when meeting a patient for the first time".
  • (4) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
  • (5) The officials facing the committee were Edward Troup, tax assurance commissioner, Jim Harra, director general of business tax, and Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance.
  • (6) The simplest membrane model compatible with these properties is the two-pore model (Grotte 1956), for which there now is massive documentation (Taylor & Granger 1984).
  • (7) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
  • (8) You can imagine therefore how thrilled I was when Katherine Kelly – the former Becky Granger in Corrie, who spent six years wailing mournfully then angrily then mournfully again on the cobbles – turns up here as the stony-faced DI Shackleton.
  • (9) The demonstration of the oxygen free-radical-mediated postischemic reperfusion injury by Granger, Rutili, and McCord in ischemic cat intestine suggested that this mechanism might also be operative following renal ischemia.
  • (10) Jennie Granger, HMRC's director for enforcement and compliance, said: "If you have assets offshore you need to get in touch with us urgently, because we will catch up with you.
  • (11) Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance at HMRC, called on anyone who knew of tax evasion to "tell HMRC via the tax evasion hotline by phone, on 0800 788 887, email or post".
  • (12) It's hard to remember now, but Gerald Green was actually in the starting lineup at the start of the season, replacing the injured Danny Granger.
  • (13) Jennie Granger, the director general for customer compliance at HMRC, which supervises payment of the national living wage, said: “Employers must pay their workers what they’re entitled to and follow the rules.
  • (14) Jenny Granger, HMRC's director general for enforcement and compliance, cautioned that not all the individuals using offshore accounts were seeking to evade tax.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to use the optical Doppler velocimeter of Borders and Granger [(1984), Microvasc.
  • (16) MPs will also want to know why more cannot be done to extract financial penalties from big accountancy firms shown to have marketed tax schemes Granger is expected to maintain that HMRC's efforts to tackle marketed tax avoidance schemes continue to bear fruit, pointing to a win rate of eight out of 10 tax avoidance cases in 2012-13, producing more than £1bn in tax receipts.
  • (17) 2.01pm BST Today on the network, Kate Granger, a doctor who was diagnosed with incurable cancer three years ago, writes about the #hellomynameis social media campaign she set up that encourages healthcare staff to take a few seconds to humanise the experience of being in hospital.
  • (18) Analysis of the eight major national and international inquiries into geoengineering over the past three years shows that Keith and Caldeira, Rasch and Prof Granger Morgan the head of department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University where Keith works, have sat on seven panels, including one set up by the UN.
  • (19) Vilma is a "granger" – a term I coined to describe the "grey anger" of those who won't willingly enter the people farms, who don't want to spend their retirement twiddling thumbs and perennially tapping little white balls into a hole in a patch of cultivated grass.
  • (20) The resounding result was that Geraldine Granger , the Vicar of Dibley, would be most stridently pro-EU, with The Royle Family’s Jim Royle the most enthusiastic Brexiter.

Texas


Definition:

  • (n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
  • (3) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
  • (4) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
  • (5) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
  • (6) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
  • (7) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
  • (8) The Mexican government has said that it “strongly rejects” the scheduled execution in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer .
  • (9) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
  • (10) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (11) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
  • (12) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
  • (13) In this study, the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test was used as part of a health screening interview of patients attending a South Texas family health clinic.
  • (14) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
  • (15) Yet Texas’s big cities are some of the most diverse in the nation, and last year 7,214 refugees were resettled in the state – more than anywhere else in the country .
  • (16) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
  • (17) Seven people have been reported dead in Oklahoma as a result of severe weather that has also badly hit Texas.
  • (18) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
  • (19) Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.
  • (20) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.

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