(1) 'Co-operating with the authorities' Stahl, a New Jersey-based attorney who specialises in representing people from the former Soviet Union, stressed that his client had been fully co-operating with the FBI and that he had no inkling that the items removed from Tsasrnaev's dorm room were connected to the bombings.
(2) The very first inkling of what would be dubbed the Bristol sound was the Wild Bunch's spartan treatment of Bacharach and David's classic The Look of Love , released in 1988 on 4th & Broadway.
(3) Samsung's lawyers may have some inkling of the amount, because of a per-handset deal Samsung has made with Microsoft to license patents the software giant claims are infringed by Android.
(4) They might wonder whatever happened to nu-metal, although the rise of emo might have given them an inkling; and they might be bemused by the sheer number of synthesiser-prodding female singer-songwriters, such as Lady Gaga and Little Boots.
(5) We’d had some inkling that she wanted to move to a different city, but I share parental responsibility for Charlie: those sorts of decisions, and changing schools, can’t happen if I don’t agree.” Feeling worried by his ex-wife’s plans, Johnson had applied under his own steam to the family court for a prohibited steps order.
(6) When exhausted European leaders emerged from all-night negotiations in Brussels last month with a "comprehensive" plan to claw the euro back from the abyss, they could have had no inkling that, less than a fortnight later, it would have so comprehensively collapsed.
(7) He probably had an inkling he wasn't going to share a cognac with Kissinger that evening, but it spoke volumes that he tried.
(8) Teachers and pupils at the duchess's old school, where she showed off her hockey skills and then had lunch, said they had "no inkling" of her pregnancy.
(9) Megumi's parents had no inkling of the nature of her disappearance until 1997, when Ahn Myong-jin, a former North Korean spy who defected to the South, talked at length about an abducted Japanese girl matching her description.
(10) "There was another one – Two – who we had an inkling was for intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi, but we haven't heard that one mentioned for a while leading us to believe he has been either killed or escaped into the desert.
(11) Guy Jubb, head of corporate governance at Standard Life, has said: "I don't believe anyone had an inkling that this payment, which is almost the largest figure in the remuneration report, was going to surface."
(12) The wounds from this fight seem fresh even now, probably because, as Dawkins suggests, the assault came from so close to home and without warning: "They did this thing in print without giving him the slightest inkling what was going on," he says.
(13) Last year the justices deadlocked 4-4 when trying to decide the extent of Barack Obama’s authority to shield undocumented people from deportation, and they released no inkling of their arguments.
(14) Portman said that up until that point he had had no inkling that his son was anything other than straight.
(15) From the age of six you have an inkling of your own mortality, and most have a good understanding of what's going on.
(16) Whereas Topolanek's homophobia has forced his resignation there is no inkling that Cameron is willing to take action against Grayling.
(17) He said: "First of all, I think my text to him was saying basically, 'I'm worried this process doesn't look like it's being run fairly,' and his response was saying, 'Well, we've got a solution,' and I think in between me sending a text to him and me getting that response, at official level we had an inkling that No 10 were thinking of transferring the responsibility to me as a way of dealing with the issue."
(18) Parliament passed the Ripa law to allow GCHQ to trawl for information, but it did so 13 years ago with no inkling of the scale on which GCHQ would attempt to exploit the certificates, enabling it to gather and process data regardless of whether it belongs to identified targets.
(19) Emmanuel has an inkling: "I think soap actors are totally underrated on how hard they work: you're prepared to go the extra mile to get the job done.
(20) Sri Lanka’s idyllic palm-fringed beaches with new tourist resorts give no inkling of the country’s grim recent history: a nearly three-decades-long, brutal and bloody conflict that ended almost five years ago with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, known as the Tamil Tigers.
Tinkle
Definition:
(n.) The common guillemot.
(v. i.) To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
(v. i.) To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
(v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
(n.) A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
(3) The short teaser film, accompanied by that familiar tinkling soundtrack, showed no gameplay footage at all.
(4) Nonetheless, this is the first time I think I've seen it framed in such a "female" way and, as we are usually the ones being told not to "leave it too late", I have to admit that I almost cackled (young women have delicate, tinkling laughs, but feminists cackle, obviously).
(5) Cycle alongside Lake Shore Drive in the early morning and you will pass black church groups jogging, Asians playing cricket and the tinkling of masts in the marina.
(6) I knew I had to rethink everything.” Joining the Royal Court in 1957, he made his London directing debut with NF Simpson ’s A Resounding Tinkle, and scored an early success with John Osborne ’s Epitaph for George Dillon, which transferred to Broadway.
(7) His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a Sunday night "without decor" production at the Royal Court.
(8) The muses holding up the balcony tittered and the huge chandelier, only just out of reach of Dodd's enormous tickling stick, tinkled with delight.
(9) But what other institutions could do with the tinkling of shattering glass?
(10) While passengers at Tiburtina, one of Rome’s main train stations and just a 10-minute ride from the Colosseum, tinkled on the station’s piano or stopped off for an ice cream, outside there were more urgent matters at hand.
(11) The tinkle of the flagpoles is about the only sound on the tarmac.
(12) The first few minutes of tense conversations and snow-shrouded Swedish landscapes are accompanied by wintry drones and tinkling bells.
(13) Despite this non-specific lust, he does have a girlfriend of sorts: the grotesque Margaret, whose "tinkle of tiny silver bells" laugh will freeze the heart of any would-be coquette.
(14) Inside, Lea and Alice lean on the desk, Magic FM tinkling on the radio.
(15) The short-form version of A Resounding Tinkle was this time paired with Gladly Otherwise, in which a furniture inspector asks householders about their absence of floor and is told that it's under the carpet ("making full use of it, I hope?").
(16) There are three distinct sounds of broken glass tinkling to the pavement from the shattered window, a small handful of thunks as he falls sideways to the ground, his laboured breathing, the chug of his boot heel finally connecting with the asphalt – even the pads of his fingers as they scrabble along the top of the window.
(17) As he bellowed down the phone to the Guardian today it was hard not to notice lounge music tinkling in the background – the soundtrack aboard Green's yacht off the Italian coast where he is entertaining Naomi Campbell and Leonardo DiCaprio this week.
(18) An extraordinary impact was rounded off in 1959 when Peter Cook – who owed much of his wild-eyed, raincoated monologist EL Wisty to Simpson – appeared at Cambridge in a student revival of the two-act A Resounding Tinkle, directed by John Bird.
(19) Slender cypress trees sway in the warm breeze, as the sound of wind chimes tinkles across the terraces.
(20) If you were growing up in the 70s and 80s, you probably moved without loyalty or much discernment between choc ices and Neapolitan blocks at home and a 99 Flake whenever you were in earshot of the melodious tinkling of Greensleeves.