(n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
(v. t.) To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
(v. i.) To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete amino acid sequence (64 residues) of the AaH IV toxin from the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector was determined by automated Edman degradation and was compared with the sequences of other Androctonus toxins.
(2) And when the international community shouts selectively about human rights it encourages conservatives to feel that they are being hectored again by “ Little Satan ” Britain or “Great Satan” America.
(3) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(4) The tour continued to the excellent Hector Pieterson memorial and museum and the Regina Mundi church, a rallying point during the struggle, now hosting a terrific photography exhibition.
(5) Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants described bonuses as the "lightning rod" of the public's lack of trust in bankers.
(6) You can fill the spaces around clinics with unscientific anti-abortion hectoring of women patients while literally filling space by violating women with a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand.
(7) The City regulator faced further uncertainty this morning as chief executive Hector Sants announced his resignation just months before a general election that could result in the disbandment of the Financial Services Authority.
(8) "The United Kingdom lacks any right at all to pretend to alter the juridical status of these territories even with the disguise of a hypothetical referendum," said Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman.
(9) David Cameron today promised he would raise human rights issues in his two days of talks with the Chinese leadership without hectoring or lecturing, but No 10 declined to go into details of which specific cases would be raised.
(10) Hector Sants, the current boss of the FSA, will take on the role of chief executive of the first overseeing agency, which will be called the Prudential Regulatory Authority.
(11) Here, Michael Holers, Taroh Kinoshita and Hector Molina compare and contrast the mouse and human RCA region products and conclude that the receptor and regulatory roles are conserved despite the structural variation.
(12) The effects of the mammal toxin II isolated from the venom of the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector (AaH II) were studied under current and voltage clamp conditions in frog (semitendinosus) and rat (fast e.d.l.
(13) Darren Fletcher had given the visitors the lead, before Paul McShane and then Michael Hector took turns to convert Oliver Norwood free-kicks with close-range headers that left Ben Foster hopelessly exposed and with little or no chance.
(14) Almost everyone else is fed up with this joyless, hectoring, endless campaign from Berlin.
(15) Radioimmunoassays were also used to detect toxin I of Buthus occitanus tunetanus and toxin II of Androctonus australis Hector and also antigenically homologous toxins in the venoms of several North African scorpions.
(16) He added: "Hector was an old City pro, with vast experience but too slow to spot the dangers of hedge funds and gambling banks.
(17) Two down for Hector Sanchez, and COKE STRIKES OUT THE SIDE!
(18) Ofcom described the interview as "persistently bullying and hectoring".
(19) Two mAb specific for the potent toxin II of the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector have been produced.
(20) In a characteristically hectoring broadcast, Galloway also addressed allegations made by the second woman against Assange, over which he is wanted for questioning.
Rector
Definition:
(n.) A ruler or governor.
(n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
(n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
(n.) The head master of a public school.
(n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
(n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
(2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
(3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
(5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
(6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
(7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
(8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
(9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
(10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
(11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
(12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
(13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
(14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
(15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
(16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
(19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
(20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.