(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.
Trojan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(2) The trust was drawn into the controversy by the "Trojan horse" letter which surfaced in March this year and led to Gove, the education secretary, ordering investigations.
(3) But critics see that happy, hippyish public image as a potential trojan horse for a mega-powerful industry hellbent on pursuing its self-interest.
(4) The shakeup comes after criticism that Ofsted’s current approach is debilitating for school leaders, while its unwieldy organisation has left it unable to spot damaging changes within schools involved in the Trojan horse affair, some of which Ofsted had judged to be outstanding.
(5) Park View academy, the Birmingham secondary school at the centre of the alleged Islamist plot known as Trojan horse, will be told next week that it has failed to adequately warn its pupils about extremism and that staff are intimidated by the school's leadership.
(6) He said Operation Trojan Horse was an invention by anonymous voices looking to drown out legitimate concerns raised by Muslim governors trying to push standards up at schools.
(7) Sony's positioning is more conservative, lacking the complete embrace of the possibilities of the internet, information flow and surveillance, but it continues to represent Trojan horse strategy and is '360-degree commissioning' friendly.
(8) The letter to Morgan also noted that improvements were being seen in schools in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets inspected in the wake of the Trojan Horse allegations of Islamist influence.
(9) A Catholic state school has fallen foul of controversial rules on promoting British values and guarding against extremism and radicalisation, introduced in the wake of Birmingham’s Trojan Horse affair.
(10) For the past few weeks reports have multiplied about an alleged "Islamic plot", code-named Operation Trojan Horse, to take control of 25 state schools in Birmingham and run them on strict religious principles.
(11) It’s a mistake to think of Impress as some jerry-built Trojan horse.
(12) Photograph: Andrew Fox Five years on and despite a major heart surgery, a bitter, public falling-out with the government and the so-called Trojan Horse controversy in Birmingham schools, Wilshaw is proud of his record at Ofsted.
(13) A few years before Lady Thatcher and Mr Letwin became obsessed with the poll tax, the American historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a book about the march of folly in human affairs from the Trojan to the Vietnamese war.
(14) Doctors have been reported as possible “Islamic radicalisers”, as have teachers drawn into the row over the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham, while the charity commission is scrutinising aid convoys to Syria.
(15) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(16) A "Trojan horse" is needed to evade immune surveillance.
(17) Several studies suggest a "Trojan horse" role for HIV-infected macrophages in dissemination of infectious particles.
(18) "BBC Radio should not be the Trojan horse to deliver all your wider household obligations.
(19) The Trojans went from winning 10 games in 2011 to seven in 2012, and Barkley fell from a first-round pick into one who still hasn't been taken at the end of the third.
(20) What has happened to the Trojan treasure since the occupation of Berlin is a question still unanswered.