(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.
Winkle
Definition:
(n.) Any periwinkle.
(n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).
Example Sentences:
(1) Issues raised include the problem of labelling and the Rip Van Winkle situation of unanticipated recovery 14 years after this diagnosis was made.
(2) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
(3) Tate, C. A., Bick, R. J., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W. B., and Entman, M. L. (1985) J. Biol.
(4) Revisiting some of the seats of power after 40 years, I have felt like a Rip Van Winkle waking up after a revolution.
(5) We investigated the reaction mechanism for GTP-dependent Ca2+ uptake by canine cardiac microsomes enriched in fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), because previous studies reported that GTP utilization in cardiac SR occurs via a pathway very different from that for ATP utilization (for a review, see "Entman, M.L., Bick, R., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W.B., & Tate, C.A.
(6) Previous equilibrium binding experiments (S.A. Winkle and T.R.
(7) "There's a story doing the rounds at my local that Blackpool once resorted to using a flamethrower to thaw out their frozen pitch," writes Bill Winkles.
(8) It has previously been reported that the presence of multiple B-Z conformational junctions in constructed DNA oligomers results in unusually enhanced electrophoretic gel mobilities of these oligomers [Winkle, S. A., & Sheardy, R. D. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 6514-6521].
(9) The changes would see "attrition through enforcement" – the state-level clampdown pioneered by Kobach in Arizona, Alabama and several other states – extended across the entire US in an attempt to winkle undocumented workers out of the country.
(10) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
(11) Having failed to winkle Berezovsky out of London, the Kremlin pursued his money – going after his assets in Brazil, France (a stunning seaside villa in Cap D'Antibes), and other jurisdictions.
(12) And naturally the idea that a claimant could use closed material procedure to winkle out information from the intelligence services horrified the spies' lawyers.
(13) Strict guidelines indeed, but Olly Winkles is one of several readers to remember at least one hairy-faced winner.
(14) Rozanne Colchester is 89 and lives in a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle-style cottage in deepest Gloucestershire next to her grandchildren.
(15) Reed and S.A. Winkle, J. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, in press (1992)) have indicated that a small number of locations on the plasmid pBR322 may be high affinity binding sites for the carcinogen N-acetoxy-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (acetoxyAAF).
(16) Such a situation arises near the Sellafield nuclear-reprocessing plant where a high proportion of the radiocaesium (and plutonium) in the winkles collected locally and subsequently cooked is associated with inorganic particulate matter.
(17) Winkles (Littorina littorea) and mussels (Mytilus edulis) collected on the Cumbrian coast contain americium-241 and isotopes of plutonium discharged from the nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
(18) A reduction in number and size of digestive lysosomes in winkles acclimated to 75% of Sea Water evidences the functioning of regulatory mechanism of digestive cell volume.
(19) The restaurant's long beer list – and much-heralded barbecue – cannot be ignored, but the pride is the long list of bourbons, including Colorado brands and the sought-after Pappy Van Winkle, a Kentucky variety so rare a Wall Street Journal article referred to it as "unobtanium" .
(20) Far harder to winkle out illegal entrants and overstayers.