(1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(2) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(3) She is now suing the French statesman in a civil court, which could result in a hefty damages award.
(4) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
(5) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
(6) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
(7) Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
(8) In a hard-hitting report on the countries facing macroeconomic imbalances, such as overvalued housing markets or hefty government debts, the European commission identified a total of 13 member states – including France, the Netherlands and Belgium – which it said should take urgent action to restore the health of their economies.
(9) Nine months later, the details of the scheme are yet to be agreed and Lloyds is determined to escape paying a hefty premium for the government to insure its toxic assets because it believes its losses have peaked.
(10) Pick it up and it is a surprisingly hefty bit of kit.
(11) A ustralians are routinely being told that hefty mining taxes would hinder the country’s largest exports of coal and iron ore.
(12) 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.
(13) Averaged projections of the complex resemble those found for the purified PSI reaction centre after reconstitution (Ford, R.C, Hefti, A. and Engel, A.
(14) Linguistic trespassers will be prosecuted with a hefty fine.
(15) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
(16) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
(17) It was certainly his best moment for the north London club after he missed a large portion of last season through injury and failed to live up to his hefty transfer fee.
(18) In animals kept on a diet with caseine the proportion of the heterohemagglutinines production and of specific antibodies had a reciprocal character, which manifested itself in a hefty depression of the agglutinines biosynthesis to sheep erythrocytes with an accruing titres of antidiphtherial antibodies.
(19) The organisers said the next generation would be more evenly split as a hefty 70% of the "ones to watch" (with just three to five years experience) were women.
(20) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
Sinewy
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
(a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.
Example Sentences:
(1) This situation was exacerbated by the uniquely sinewy physique she says she inherited from her grandfather.
(2) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
(3) It's all there: the glassy black eyes of your typical Roswellian extraterrestrial, big reptilian dragon claws, fat old sinewy Jabba-the-guts – the whole shebang.
(4) Things took a turn for the ridiculous from the beginning: while the traditional format of the show pairs one man and one woman together for the 21-day challenge, Rogen and Franco were both disappointed to learn that they were not going to spend the better part of a month traipsing through the woods with a naked, sinewy female companion but rather one another.
(5) It’s heavy work but we’re used to it.” Older than his sinewy companions, Gomez says he will earn around $825 for spending four months logging in a camp two days up the Mayuruna river from his home village.
(6) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
(7) But even Kilbourne will tell you: “The extremity of it catches our attention, but this is really not new.” In fact, it’s becoming more of a trend: expect the impossibly slim, the white and the sinewy to dominate chic windows.
(8) He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70.
(9) The inevitable quote came from Don Pettit, the Nasa astronaut charged with capturing the SpaceX Dragon capsule as it floated alongside, with the Space Station's sinewy, articulated robot arm.
(10) Elias was slight yet sinewy, with fingers like sausages.
(11) Up close, almost cheek to cheek, he is handsome, sinewy, and a little rodent-like: his shaggy, sandy-coloured hair is threaded with grey, and there is blond in his eyelashes and eyebrows.
(12) 's closure is not related to the triumph of feminism – any high-end glossy features far more etiolated women, and the Daily Mail's juggernaut "sidebar of shame" is proof that young women will always click on pictures of sinewy celebrities in bikinis, hoping for diet tips.
(13) "Coming up after the break, we'll be slicing my belly open and watching while smooth black eels loll out in a sinewy cascade of demented horror."