(1) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
(2) He said Indians today were of a new generation and were no longer nervous of such harkings-back to the past which represented no threat.” The diplomat - who went on to be Britain’s ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan - enclosed a press cutting from the Times of India, headlined “Rushdie’s Complaint”.
(3) He harks back to an age when cricket was part of the country's cultural life in a way it no longer is.
(4) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
(5) There are some, particularly younger African American activists, who blame black civil rights leaders for harking back to old traditions, rather than seeking new bridges.
(6) In court Cregan and Wilkinson admitted the attack but denied actively trying to murder the occupant, Sharon Hark, who the prosecution claimed belonged to a family with whom Cregan had a grievance.
(7) The story harked back to the county’s tobacco plantation past – but it was dominated by images of successful African Americans enjoying their yachts, golf courses and gated communities.
(8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
(9) Jermaine Ward, 24, was found guilty of the murder of David Short but cleared of the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
(10) Constâncio also harked back to the 1930s, when German philosopher Edmund Husserl warned that Europe faced an existential crisis that would either destroy it, or see it reborn.
(11) This view is underpinned by a deeper sense of historical purpose, harking back to Margaret Thatcher’s governments.
(12) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
(13) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
(14) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
(15) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
(16) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
(17) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
(18) The heavy-handed 'stop and search' activity outside London tube stations harks back to a period before the Lawrence inquiry and raises questions about racial profiling in immigration control."
(19) He was cleared of one count of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark on the same day and cleared of causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
(20) I think we’re harking back to a world that probably didn’t exist.
Shark
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
(6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
(7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
(8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
(9) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
(11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
(12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
(13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
(16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
(17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
(20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.