(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.
Hover
Definition:
(n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.
(v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.
(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(3) So it was that Mané broke along the right and turned over a dangerous ball that needed Matteo Darmian’s intervention as Shane Long hovered.
(4) I was sitting in the room, reading all the negativity and death threats, and by now the helium balloons were half-full, hovering like jellyfish.
(5) Even if everyone in the world limited their fish consumption to once a week (I don’t eat other kinds of meat), the oceans would still be hovering on depletion.
(6) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(7) Horses grazing singly or in groups were aggressively defended by hovering males.
(8) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(9) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(10) They all hover around a standard Australian size 8-10, and all have a similar svelte, leggy look.
(11) Bill Clinton hovering just off screen in latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails Read more Platte River took over the device in June 2013, about four months after Clinton left the State Department, and turned it over to the FBI last month, the newspaper reported.
(12) Its growth has slowed in recent days and its size now hovers around 241,000 hectares.
(13) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(14) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(15) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
(16) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
(17) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(18) A much bigger role for the market is not a recipe for a bigger or stronger society, because in practice businesses – especially the big US corporations that are hovering over the NHS – are accountable to no one but their shareholders and much more interested in their financial bottom line than social justice or equality.
(19) This turn may be hampered by drag on the abdomen during fast forward flight and would be most useful at low speeds or during hovering.
(20) Sarkozy, who is hovering in the wings threatening a political comeback, said as much last week.