(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.
Vulture
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exact number of lawsuits involving vulture funds operating in offshore tax havens is unclear, as many of these funds are highly secretive of their holdings.
(2) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(3) Margaret Lyons of the Vulture blog summed up the US response to MacFarlane's turn when she wrote: It's frustrating enough to know that 77% of Academy voters are male.
(4) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
(5) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(6) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(7) People are rare here, outnumbered by the eagles, vultures and cabra (goats).
(8) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(9) The vultures, led by a US billionaire, are mainly hedge fund investors who snapped up Argentinian bonds at rock-bottom prices following the country's $95bn default on its foreign debt in 2001.
(10) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
(11) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.
(12) UK legislation on vulture funds has already had an impact, when Liberia last year reached agreement to repay just over 3% of the face value of a $43m debt.
(13) The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said many countries had been pursued by vulture funds, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and the DRC.
(14) The sequences are compared with those of the Golden Eagle, and with those of the Andean Condor, a New World vulture.
(15) "To those who say we should negotiate with the vultures, I say the vultures are vultures because they don't negotiate," economy minister Axel Kicillof said defiantly.
(16) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
(17) They buy up the debts of countries in chaos and war, speculating on the fact that when investors finally come back into the country – often encouraged by generous debt writedown schemes and International Monetary Fund programmes – the vultures will get their money back with huge interest on top, benefiting from the fledgling trade and new liquidity.
(18) Last year, the boutique Los Angeles fashion label Wildfox dedicated its entire Spring collection to a recreation of Cher, Dionne and Tai’s unmistakable wardrobes, while Vulture tracked down the bulk of the film’s cast (plus Rollin’ With My Homies hitmaker Coolio) for an oral history of the iconic ‘party in the Valley’ scene .
(19) Instead of a temporal fovea as in eagles and hawks, an afoveate temporal area is present in chimango, condor, and vulture.
(20) Cho revealed, in an interview with the website Vulture , that a kiss was originally part of the scene, but was ultimately removed.