(a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
(a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.
(a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) That it comes exactly 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Rio Games merely underlines the urgency now that the team has been left in effect headless.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It stands inert as a headless electric toothbrush, but less useful.’ Well?
(3) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
(4) To examine the influence of the head and tail domains on the structure and assembly properties of nuclear lamins, we have engineered "headless," "tailless," and "rod" chicken lamin B2 cDNAs and expressed them in Escherichia coli.
(5) Agencies are headless, leaks are rampant, and aides are congratulated for lying on TV.
(6) This unconditioned response affects the headless cockroaches avoid shocks in the lifting task by escape learning, whereas they avoid shocks in the lowering task by true avoidance learning.
(7) Following induction of long-term potentiation in subfield CA1 of the hippocampal slice from 26-month-old rats, shaft synapse numbers increased by 44% and sessile spine synapses (synapses on stubby, headless spines) by 72%, with the more common mushroom-shaped spine synapses statistically unaltered.
(8) I’m going to be running around like a headless chicken later,” she says, looking at the afternoon’s roster of short appointments.
(9) It is concluded that the headless cockroach is useful for understanding the motor mechanisms underlying righting and walking but is not of value in assessing the functions of proprioceptive feedback.
(10) The site quickly became unavailable, but screenshots circulated online showed the group's trademark headless suit and a message addressed to the Syrian people saying that "the world stands with you against the brutal regime."
(11) Fragments fused soon after isolation formed "headless" regenerates but had normal body proportions.
(12) And when Nick Clegg suggested that the next generation of nuclear power stations may never be built because the recommended higher and more costly safety standards would make them too expensive, Chris Huhne launched an astonishing attack on his party leader , accusing him of behaving like a "headless chicken" on the issue.
(13) Whereas dimers made of the truncated B2 headless and rod lamins had lost their propensity to associate head-to-tail, tailless lamin B2 dimers revealed an enhanced head-to-tail association.
(14) The Conservative housing spokesman, Grant Shapps, said: "We welcome anything that will genuinely keep people in their homes, but ministers are guilty of running around like headless chickens announcing complicated, confusing and often contradictory plans, which later turn out to help far fewer people than the headlines would have you believe."
(15) It was because I was like a headless chicken in the first 10 minutes.” Dier is remembering his baptism as a defensive midfielder and the manager who gave it to him at Sporting Lisbon on 2 March 2013.
(16) Just four years later, Libya is witnessing an explosion in violence, led by al-Qaida and Islamic State (Isis): the gruesome murder of Egyptian Christians , devastating suicide bombings , the kidnapping of western oil workers and the discovery of countless headless soldiers and civil-society activists in Benghazi.
(17) The cover comes from a "headless" gull-shaped, forehead flap.
(18) In each case, skeletal metastases were extensive, but the calvaria was not involved, resulting in a headless appearance.
(19) But Paul Edden, who runs a franchise in Staffordshire, told of rivals who pay the minimum wage and run staff around "like headless chickens".
(20) blog alongside a photo of a headless Labour MP, and the most visible woman anywhere near the government remains Samantha Cameron, who could this week be found baking cupcakes for a royal wedding street party.
Leadership
Definition:
(n.) The office of a leader.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(2) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
(3) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(4) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(5) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(6) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
(7) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(8) If I don’t agree with the leadership of the party, I don’t vote for it.
(9) But he insisted that there had to be “proper succession planning” before he would relinquish the leadership.
(10) These eight countries should show leadership to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” Zerbo said.
(11) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(12) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(13) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(14) In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – three countries that toppled three dictators nearly four years ago – 2014 marked something of a comeback for the concept of strongman leadership.
(15) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
(16) Last night the EDL said in an emailed statement that it was "not aware of any contact between Breivik and EDL leadership … of anyone using the name Sigurd and the forum".
(17) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(18) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(19) He told journalists he was concerned about the risk that government departments were not acting coherently because of a lack of energy and leadership.
(20) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.