(a.) A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.
(a.) An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking in the Commons recently, the employment minister, Chris Grayling , said: "We will always look very, very carefully indeed where something like that happens.
(2) Opponents of Grayling's proposals say that cutting legal aid will lead to more miscarriages of justice.
(3) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(4) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(5) 2.35pm BST UK Uncut, the pressure group, says that Chris Grayling's U-turn over legal aid tendering will not stop his proposals undermining justice.
(6) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(7) My last attempt to interview Spurr was blocked after Grayling contacted the Guardian’s then editor, Alan Rusbridger.
(8) Under Mr Grayling’s plans, new franchises would integrate more closely with NR.
(9) So Grayling may well feel less put out than he might otherwise have been at a decision by the high court on Tuesday that he has no power to introduce a residence test for legal aid using delegated legislation.
(10) The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) defended the new rules in the face of a growing protest by novelists and other authors against their introduction by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling .
(11) Grayling proposes to remove client choice, and allocate legal representation from a government agency.
(12) Grayling made clear that he was making a virtue out of the inability of two of the biggest outsourcing companies in criminal justice to bid for £450m of contracts covering the probation service in England and Wales, which are to be put up for competition later this year.
(13) Grayling, the leader of the Commons, also called for ministers to be allowed to campaign on either side from the moment the prime minister concludes the negotiations in Europe , rather than having to wait for the short period of the formal campaign.
(14) If you work with prisoners to help them to change and reduce their risk of offending when they go out, you prevent more victims.” Diplomatically, he says Grayling’s reforms focused on providing better support for short-term prisoners on release, whereas Gove comes with a very clear priority on prisons.
(15) 12.28pm BST Here's the press notice with the full details of the Chris Grayling proposals.
(16) If race discrimination is wrong, why is Grayling saying that homophobic discrimination is right?
(17) One former aide suggested the rise, fall and rise again of Chris Grayling symbolised the party's recent evolution, with a man demoted for homophobic comments now playing such a prominent role with tough talk on criminals.
(18) Read more Suggestions that Heathrow and Gatwick could both be allowed to expand have been played down by ministers, with Grayling saying it would not be “legally straightforward”.
(19) These have happened within living memory, but Chris Grayling either doesn't know this or has forgotten.
(20) Grayling has said that under the new policy a lack of bad behaviour will not be enough to earn privileges.
Umber
Definition:
(n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
(n.) An umbrere.
(n.) See Grayling, 1.
(n.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
(a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
(v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.
Example Sentences:
(1) A statement from the Leeds chairman, Andrew Umbers, said Cellino was optimistic as to the outcome of a Rule K hearing.
(2) A banned person is required not to wield director-level authority at a club, and Leeds, where Andrew Umbers has taken over as chairman, maintain Cellino will not direct any matters during his ban.
(3) Their director, Andrew Umbers, said: "We are delighted to have been involved in this transaction.
(4) After a due process, I have also sold – with a clear harm to my interests – a minority stake in the club, so that in no way I could be prevented from freely acting as an independent citizen and individual before any authority.” A separate statement from Umbers read: “Massimo Cellino is taking this independent action so that LUFC is seen to be fully compliant with the Football League Rules and thus help the club avoid any sanctions.
(5) The week one tan shade is somewhere between Tuscan Sunset and Burnt Umber on my Dulux paint chart.
(6) In the golden afternoon light, the gorge looks a little like part of the Grand Canyon, with layered sedimentary rocks in varying tones of rusty brown and umber.
(7) The opportunity as the umber of detections increases is for amateur astronomers – our citizen scientists – to help here,” he said.
(8) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
(9) Mantle, who is over 1.95 metres (6ft 5in) tall, played Greatjon Umber, a Northern lord, in the first series of Game of Thrones.
(10) Sienna, chocolate, saddle brown, umber (burnt or raw), and mahogany work best with decent-to-good hair and even-to-keen features.
(11) We’re in constant discussions with the Football League and our own board and senior management team, we’re not sure.” Tim Kerr, the independent QC who chaired the professional conduct committee, dismissed the legal arguments made by Cellino’s lawyers, and one from the club director Andrew Umbers that claimed there was “a real likelihood of insolvency” should Cellino be disqualified.