(n.) An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.
(n.) Alt. of Griffon
Example Sentences:
(1) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
(2) Griffin will have to argue his case before an administrative law judge, the NLRB will have to vote on it after that and, if it were approved as expected, opponents would inevitably take it back to court.
(3) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
(4) It is sad that the BBC chose to give Nick Griffin a platform.
(5) Nick Griffin, the BNP leader and MEP for the north west region is also at the conference.
(6) Why doesn't any one concern themselves with why they did this instead of being fixated with shutting Nick Griffin out?
(7) It looks like we are panicking, but we’re not,” said Ian Griffin, 51, a financial asset manager in the crowd at the door.
(8) "There is a prima facie case for charging Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, William Hague and David Cameron with waging aggressive war against Iraq," Griffin said.
(9) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
(10) More than 240 people felt the show was biased against the BNP, while more than 100 of the complaints were about Griffin being allowed to appear on Question Time.
(11) Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, said, in a video posted on the organisation's website : "Years from now, we'll remember this election day as the most historic and the most important in the LGBT community."
(12) The prime minister defended the decision to break with Labour's previous practice of refusing to share a platform with the BNP by allowing Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to debate with Griffin this evening.
(13) A BBC Trust spokesman today confirmed that the corporation's regulatory and governance body had received an appeal from Hain, the Welsh secretary, saying that Griffin should not appear on Question Time because the BNP is not a "lawfully constituted political party".
(14) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
(15) Thus the patte rn was set for what would be Griffin's tactics throughout: say something that appeared to answer the question, spin off quickly to something apparently related but often irrelevant, flatly deny anything which might be compromising, and ascribe any quoted evidence to the contrary to misquotation and "outrageous lies", or, at one point, the "thoroughly unpleasant ultra-leftist" BBC .
(16) "When Griffin announced in September that he would stand, that gave me a real scare," Hodge says.
(17) Of these, 243 were complaints of bias against Griffin.
(18) The BNP confirmed it would consider changes to its rules and membership criteria after the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched county court proceedings against the party's leader, Nick Griffin , and two other party officials: Simon Darby and Tanya Jane Lumby.
(19) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
(20) The molecular weight of the major protein agrees with the molecular weight calculated from the sequence of the sugar-free polypeptide monomer (39,769 Da: Griffin, P.R., Kumar, S., Shabanowitz, J., Charbonneau, H., Namkung, P.C., Walsh, K.A., Hunt, D.F., & Petra, P.H., 1989, J. Biol.
Grip
Definition:
(n.) The griffin.
(n.) A small ditch or furrow.
(v. t.) To trench; to drain.
(v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
(v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.
(v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.
(v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
(v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
(3) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
(4) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(5) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
(6) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
(7) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
(8) Mean grip strength and grip strength per kilogram weight are presented for age 59, ages 60-64 and 65-69.
(9) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(10) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
(11) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(12) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(13) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
(14) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
(15) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(16) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
(17) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
(18) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
(19) The blood flow through the forearm was measured 2 sec after single, brief isometric hand-grip contractions.
(20) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.