(1) The dehumanisation of women by Hooters and Unilad makes it easy for its supporters to threaten us with violence, because they help normalise the view that women are disposable objects.
(2) Hodgson and his players were kept awake on their first night by noise from a nearby Hooters bar and had to enlist the help of the mayor to shut down an open-air area and keep the volume down.
(3) The view is startling: Tower Bridge is slapped across the window like it's perched on your hooter as a pair of novelty specs.
(4) I believe that establishments like Hooters and communities like Unilad are contributing to the normalisation of this degradation, this violent language, this view of women as objects.
(5) It was a natural progression when he took over Juke Box Jury, chairing a celebrity panel as they assessed likely chart hits – hailed with a hotel reception bell – or misses – dismissed with a hooter.
(6) The hooter sounds for the first wave of swimmers, then the second.
(7) Sinfield was handed what would have been a relatively tough conversion anyway but, even with the changing of the lead on the line, he knocked it over – before Watkins’ try on the hooter sealed the farewell Leeds’ iconic trio of departing stars imagined back in February.
(8) Hodgson will be relieved to know that Hooters does not have a bar in Chantilly and officials in the French town have told the Guardian the more pressing concern will be to create a suitable training pitch at the run-down Stade des Bourgognes, a municipal ground that is home to an amateur side.
(9) The last journalist I had in here asked to go to Hooters,” grinned Ratzlaff.
(10) Can you get any loftier in tone or record than this (forgetting for a moment how the Mail's Quentin Letts describes him: "A retired Whitehall eminence who once held the claret jug for Roy Jenkins"; "his hooter is the colour of a lunchtime burgundy"; "tremendously urbane and chortlesome"; "beautifully mannered"; "the rich creaminess of a ripe Stilton")?
(11) Hooters supporters started to leave comments yesterday morning on the Bristol Feminist Network Facebook page , blaming us for its closure.
(12) Additionally, two-thirds of the women surveyed felt excluded from networking opportunities, including lunch meetings at Hooters and on the golf course, because they were women.
(13) However, just over a year later, Hooters announced that it had closed .
(14) There’d be lots of smoke and drink, but that’s where you had to be to participate.” Ryan learned her trade in secret, doing open mics while studying town planning and working at Hooter’s.
(15) Hooters closed not because of pressure from feminists (if that was the case, it would never have opened) but because the managing company went into administration.
(16) Last year the group helped organise a well-attended conference; in 2008, they ran a campaign to stop a branch of US restaurant chain Hooters (where lightly clothed women serve up the burgers) opening in Sheffield.
(17) I am sorry that people lost their jobs and sincerely hope that they find new work soon, but I believe that the closure of Hooters is fundamentally a positive step.
(18) Leeds responded well and after Watkins put Hardaker away for their side’s first points of the evening, Sinfield converted and then slotted over a penalty of his own to make it 8-8 before Walsh showed all his experience by kicking over a drop-goal on the hooter to hand Saints the slenderest of leads at the interval.
(19) Back in 2010, self-styled "breastaurant" Hooters applied for a licence to open in Bristol.
(20) After a strip club was refused a licence earlier in the month, the closure of Hooters represents one less business on the high street that seeks to make money by objectifying women.
Hoover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK's biggest advertiser-funded broadcaster, which hoovers up almost £1 in every £2 spent on free-to-air TV commercials, still derived almost 75% of its £2.2bn in total revenues last year from this source.
(2) The reported rates of protein degradation in a recent paper on the effect of surgical trauma on muscle protein turnover [Hoover-Plow & Clifford (1978) Biochem.
(3) The minutes of the policy convention show DSD representatives insouciant about sharing metadata on Australians – so long as it had been hoovered up “unintentionally” they were happy to store and to disclose it without obtaining a warrant.
(4) Another potential Oscar-hoover is Silver Linings Playbook from David O Russell.
(5) In recent months, the UK Post Office has been hoovering up savers' money with a sustained in-branch campaign.
(6) Are charities alive to the potential threat of these new channels to hoover up their online donors?
(7) Here comes Dusty to get Marshall and replace him with J.J. Hoover, a 25-year-old righty to face Marlon Byrd.
(8) They saw that hoovering up or wrecking precious natural resources to get rich quick today would only leave us poorer tomorrow.
(9) Both Labour and Lib Dems said the wording opens the door into an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency or GCHQ eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham have been circumventing the warrant system approved by parliament by using technologies to hoover up information from communications traffic.
(10) He accepts that Ukip will likely hoover up votes which previously went to the far right British National party.
(11) Each car hoovers up – and processes – nearly one gigabyte of data every second.
(12) At an annual open house on New Year's Day in 1930, Herbert Hoover shook hands with 6,348 people; the experience was so traumatic he promptly vowed never to repeat it.
(13) The ethical and legal questions around 3D printing and firearms are important and complex, but they also tend to hoover up a lot of the mainstream media attention for this area of technology.
(14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(15) When the NSA hoovers up and stores citizens’ data, even incidentally, the worry is not merely “instrumental”.
(16) A muddle-through option could involve the ECB [European central bank] announcing a "shock and awe" amount of QE [quantitative easing] to hoover up a significant part of government issuance.
(17) Whether the FBI would have figured more heavily in Goldfinger if Hoover had not objected so vigorously remains unclear.
(18) With just a mask and plastic tube connected to a compressor to supply them with air, they dive into the water, hoover up the sand with the suction hose, create a ditch to stand in, then turn the hose towards the newly created sea walls.
(19) The investment, which covers the Mirror and Sunday Mirror , is aiming to massively ramp up the newspapers' web presence with an eye to hoovering up readers when Rupert Murdoch's Sun website is put behind a paywall later this summer.
(20) Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, who has closely followed Fiorina’s career since before her 2010 run for Senate in California, said that her current candidacy had been “very long on style” but it was “time to add some substance” in the form of policy prescriptions.