(a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
(a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
(a.) Violent; impetuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(2) But the continued uncertainty over those two World Cups adds a heady new dynamic to the mix and makes that ever more unlikely even at this early stage.
(3) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
(4) Primark’s heady pace of expansion has bolstered ABF, which is grappling with lower sugar prices that have reduced profits in its core business.
(5) The cash-strapped firm, which used to be owned by the US private equity group Blackstone, emerged with some 750 homes and 31,000 residents after a period of heady growth over the last decade.
(6) Involves a heady mix of patriotism, folksy childhood memories, at least four moving montage packages and tears.
(7) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(8) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
(9) Whatever the precise facts, a heady cocktail of gender, religion and alleged terrorism feeds into the story of the "white widow", making it likely to provide fodder for tabloid front pages for some time to come.
(10) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
(11) While white Washington experienced a heady construction and property boom, the population of the District fell from over 700,000 to half a million, while the metropolitan area, with its ring of white suburbs, became one of the wealthiest areas in the US.
(12) Even their characteristic aroma - a heady mix of singed rubber, day-old sweat, urine and Gauloise smoke - has a certain appeal.
(13) Cast your mind back to the heady days after the 1997 election.
(14) A mid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.
(15) "Add in ultra-low interest rates, together with the fact that not only is London outside the eurozone but the pound is weak, and you have the perfect ingredients for that heady cocktail – the safe haven investment."
(16) Those heady days may be over (if sentimentally recalled by every retailer in these communities) but cross-border shopping remains a vital source of investment for towns such as Strabane, in the west, where unemployment has historically been among the highest in the UK.
(17) In all the heady talk about changing the constitution to enshrine social rights and find a place for Catalonia, however, it is easy to lose sight of the everyday priorities of many Spaniards.
(18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
(19) The other reaction in South Africa has been one of apathy, partly because all attention is on Mandela, partly because excitement about Obama in Africa has waned since the heady days of 2008.
(20) In 2010 there was nothing much to lighten the hearts of those who had flocked to vote for us in the heady days of 13 years ago.
Hendy
Definition:
(a.) See Hende.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bishop told reporters she was aware Hansen was attending “a drinks night” at the Coalition MP Peter Hendy’s house.
(2) Now, though, the rallying call is financial freedom for cities: Hendy joined counterparts in Manchester last week to herald a report commissioned from economists Volterra to show that devolving more powers would tackle “damaging underinvestment” and bear fruit in economic growth and jobs.
(3) Hendy also denied that problems with high temperatures affecting overhead powerlines had prevented Greater Anglia trains stopping at Stratford .
(4) Maybe Sir Peter Hendy might also be pleased that London is moving in the direction of Mumbai.
(5) At least eight MPs and senators, including Mitch Fifield, Arthur Sinodinos, Mal Brough and Wyatt Roy – who were all promoted after Turnbull took office – engaged in the late-night meeting at MP Peter Hendy’s home in Queanbeyan the night before Abbott was rolled, the book said.
(6) Hendy said he believed the action would have little effect.
(7) The gross chemical composition, protein content and amino acid composition of mango stone kernels of four Egyptian varieties (Ewsi, Hendi, Fonso and Timour) were investigated.
(8) Hendy is openly lampooned on stage, with an empty seat bearing his name.
(9) Former Howard aide Peter Hendy won the seat in 2013 with a margin of just 1,085 votes from moustachioed Labor incumbent Mike Kelly.
(10) One NUJ insider said that legal discussions with two leading QCs, John Hendy and Geoffrey Robertson, were ongoing and that they were examining the possibility of a group legal action against News Corp's management and standards committee.
(11) Peter Hendy, the Transport for London commissioner, said that while he was "sorry that two lines serving the Park went down" the problems proved there was enough "redundancy" in the system to cope.
(12) The previous London transport commissioner Peter Hendy warned for years of the mayhem to be expected at Euston when thousands of HS2 passengers pour into an already overcrowded rail terminus.
(13) Wapping insiders have approached the National Union of Journalists about the challenge and the union is talking to two leading QCs, John Hendy and Geoffrey Robertson, about the possibility of a group legal action.
(14) Cory Bernardi raises prospect of Liberal party split over Malcolm Turnbull win Read more Key Turnbull supporters were rewarded, including Mitch Fifield as communications minister, Simon Birmingham as education minister, Mal Brough as special minister of state, Peter Hendy as assistant minister for productivity, Wyatt Roy as assistant minister for innovation and Ken Wyatt as assistant minister for health.
(15) The rfb gene cluster of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3, responsible for the biosynthesis of the O side chain, was previously cloned, and a Y. enterocolitica O:3 side chain-specific bacteriophage (phi YeO3-12) was isolated (A. Al-Hendy, P. Toivanen, and M. Skurnik, Microb.
(16) Hendy said the problems proved there was enough "redundancy" in the system to cope.
(17) According to London’s transport commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy, such control is integral to creating a successful system and a thriving city, even if the capital “got the powers by accident”.
(18) It’s the job of a member of parliament, especially when you’re drawing a salary paid for by taxpayers, to front up to hear every message the community wants to give you, whether it’s a comfortable or uncomfortable one.” Still, given the hostility on display to the government’s position, it’s perhaps understandable that Hendy didn’t show up.
(19) A few weeks after Brendan Nelson beat him for the dog-days job of leading a demoralised Liberal Party after its 2007 election loss, Malcolm Turnbull called Nelson’s new chief of staff Peter Hendy.
(20) However, the transport secretary, Justine Greening, and the Transport for London commissioner, Peter Hendy, said it proved the resilience of the system.