(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(3) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
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(5) Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live.
(6) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(7) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(8) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.
(9) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
(10) Last summer, during the clamour for Britain to intervene militarily in Syria, he was one of the loudest hawks.
(11) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(12) A rash of bumper pay deals would support the argument of the hawks, who believe interest rates should be raised to clamp down on inflation.
(13) Rap group Migos were stopped from riding their IO Hawks through a shopping centre when they launched their own clothing line, and Khalifa has used a similar device ( the PhunkeeDuck ) while shopping.
(14) Cyber is portrayed as something you have to be Stephen Hawking to understand “When I go to cyber seminars the vast majority of people who attend are men,” she says.
(15) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(16) US hawks, such as senator Lindsey Graham, had suggested a boycott in retaliation for allowing Snowden to remain in the country.
(17) There are recorded messages from Stephen Hawking, who hopes to be among the first passengers, and the young human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
(18) As Howard Hawks's Monkey Business showed, you could even set a screwball comedy in a vivisection lab.
(19) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(20) US farmers are in the middle of the worst drought they've faced in half a century , and pressure is growing from Democrats, farm lobbies, and deficit hawks for Congress to enact the new law.
Patronymic
Definition:
(a.) Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
(n.) A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tom Jaine writes: Robert Carrier was born Robert Carrier MacMahon, but dropped the patronymic when in France after the war: "It sounds good in French and it looks well visually," he remarked.
(2) Several explanations are offered for this, including polyphyletism of surnames and the presence of Scandinavian patronyms in this population.
(3) The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred – not her real name, but the patronymic she has been given by the new regime in an oppressive parallel America of the future – and her role as a Handmaid.