(1) He acknowledged a charismatic mega fauna, like the dolphin, is probably worth more than a humbler animal, but he declined to offer a dollar figure.
(2) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(3) His decision to abjure the splendour of the apostolic palace in favour of the modest Casa Santa Marta guesthouse has offered proof of his personal commitment to a humbler church, while his tender embracing of Vinicio Riva, a man terribly disfigured by tumours , underlined his hands-on pastoral approach.
(4) But the origins of Warp Records, which celebrates its 20th birthday this year, were much humbler.
(5) Bishop's role as a pest controller started in 2005 in slightly humbler surroundings, when Ken Livingstone decided to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons .
(6) Thomas Keneally photographed in London in 2007 Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Tom Keneally Tolstoy is one of those annoying people of genius who performed in the 19th century the ultimate tricks that the rest of us are now stuck with trying to perform imperfectly and on humbler scale.
(7) The Village in war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, is a humbler affair and has just been attacked by Islamist militants, with a suicide attacker and car bomb killing at least 18 people.
(8) Bold and imaginative when it comes to getting more high-flyers into boardrooms, it has rather less to say to women clinging to humbler jobs by their fingernails (whose childcare subsidy under the Working Tax Credit is being cut).
(9) If you put it back where it should be, in Paris, it would be a more confident statement.” While this is true, the Galliano of 2015 is a humbler creature than the preening peacock of yesteryear who took his bows at Christian Dior shows dressed like a cross between Errol Flynn and Keith Richards.
(10) As the former first lady and secretary of state made her way to Iowa in a Scooby-Doo-inspired van to start her second presidential campaign, the founding members of “Obamadale” had a forceful message for a humbler Clinton: the liberal heartland’s support must still be earned – and even the frontrunner for the most powerful job on Earth can take nothing for granted.
(11) Against this backdrop, it is a moment to savour when any political authority shakes itself awake and demands that supersize companies respect rules resembling those for humbler beings.
(12) Instead he is likely to plump for the humbler, simpler title of Lord Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill.
(13) No other European leader has risen from humbler beginnings – nor had so much stacked against them.
(14) There are campaigns denouncing the ethics of requiring young people already saddled with thousands of pounds of debt from their degree studies to do unpaid work, and debate over the morality of a system that allows those from well-to-do families to exploit their connections and secure opportunities that give them even greater advantage over those from humbler backgrounds.
(15) It’s as if, for some business people, supporting charity is a hobby like gardening or watching their children play sport – something deliberately different in spirit, humbler and gentler from the work they do in the commercial world.
Tumbler
Definition:
(n.) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
(n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
(n.) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
(n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
(n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
(n.) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We pay €5 each and fall into the 7 Estrellas bar (Travesa Alexandre Herculano, opposite the meat market), where small tumblers of excellent wine from the cask are 30 cents a throw.
(2) Don was there first, nuzzling his tumbler, mulling on the quality of his creative.
(3) Now the fantasy becomes near-reality, as a replica of the 'Tumbler' Batmobile used in The Dark Knight movies goes on sale for $1m.
(4) Platelet concentrates made with an initial pH of 7.85 or 6.85 by addition of alkali or acid were stored at 22 degrees C on tumbler or horizontal agitators.
(5) We suggest that the etiology of diabetes has become analogous to the cylinder of a lock containing many tumblers.
(6) Similar to the way "tumblers" allow users to spend bitcoins without being traced, by mixing hundreds of bitcoins together in the same wallet before passing them on to merchants, it is trivial to exchange one bitcoin for another.
(7) 3.02am GMT Fey and Poehler are back, each with a tumbler of what looks like whiskey.
(8) The Weather Service Nuclear Support Office has analyzed the meteorological and radiological data collected for the following atmospheric nuclear tests: TRINITY; EASY of the Tumbler-Snapper series; ANNIE, NANCY, BADGER, SIMON, and HARRY of the Upshot-Knothole series; BEE and ZUCCHINI of the Teapot series; BOLTZMANN and SMOKY of the Plumbbob series; and SMALL BOY of the Dominic II series.
(9) Perhaps now is the time to reach for altogether plainer tableware and glasses, for Kaj Frank bowls at one end of the price range, but more likely to Duralex tumblers at the other as we face a future of, as it were, porridge and tap water rather than the fine wines and dainty dishes it's hard not to associate with Waterford and Wedgwood.
(10) Harding said newspapers had been undervalued for years, pointing out that when the Times was founded in the 18th century it had cost more than double a coffee or a tumblerful of gin.
(11) Lock cylinders of five manufacturers, employing tumblers of several different compositions, were examined.
(12) The hypotheses developing on that are often extremely suggestive and incorrect hypotheses on the first opportunity sometimes reappear like a "cork-tumbler".
(13) Why does a pack of plastic pint tumblers retailing for £2 appear in a promotional bin with economical-looking red-and-yellow labelling when it isn’t discounted at all?
(14) Microscopic examination of the tumblers of pin and disc tumbler lock cylinders may indicate whether an attempt has been made to pick the lock.
(15) With the tumbler rotator, there was no loss of platelets and antibody binding to GP Ib remained normal.
(16) Similar, but less striking changes occurred in acidified platelet concentrates stored on the tumbler rotator.
(17) The parlor tumbler is a breed of domestic pigeon which displays a hereditary movement disorder resulting in backward somersaulting upon attempting to fly.
(18) Each tumbler, e.g., environment, genetics, or cellular interactions, must be aligned before the key can be turned and an understanding of the etiologic process claimed.
(19) This form of purpura was undoubtedly due to self-mutilation by establishing of a vacuum over the skin produced by a tumbler from which the air had been partially aspirated.
(20) And the tumbler of whisky she sometimes slowly drained between 11am and the end of lunch must have helped.