(1) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(2) Governor Jerry Brown has 30 days to sign the bills into law, and his approval seems likely, as he has supported the bills throughout the process.
(3) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(4) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
(5) He is what Jerry Seinfeld would have called a low talker.
(6) Bob Diamond did not believe he received an instruction from Paul Tucker or that he gave an instruction to Jerry del Missier.
(7) The DA's spokesperson Jerry Schmetterer said the policy was adopted to protect the victims' anonymity.
(8) "The extremes are a really noticeable aspect of climate change," said Jerry Meehl, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
(9) Not just for herself, but for another under-used comedian from the show, Larry David , who had teamed up with standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld .
(10) Even Hall of Famer Jerry West, one of the key figures on that Lakers squad, thought that the Heat were capable of bouncing his old team out of the record books .
(11) Like the rest of Katine, the medical staff have to fetch their water in jerry cans from a nearby borehole.
(12) It is being billed as a reunion for the team behind the multi-billion dollar Pirates of the Caribbean film series – star Johnny Depp , producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski.
(13) In Los Angeles, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that will lift the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022.
(14) Beside the road, suitcases are unloaded from trucks overloaded with jerry cans and mattresses.
(15) Led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, they were perhaps the smallest yet most effective bunch of political pranksters to emerge in 1968.
(16) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(17) A huge wildfire raging on the western boundary of Yosemite National Park was gaining strength on Saturday and led California's governor, Jerry Brown, to declare a state of emergency 150 miles away in San Francisco .
(18) This was the first time in 75 years of early-April measurements at the Phillips snow course that no snow was found there,” the California Department of Water Resources said in a statement on Wednesday at the conclusion of a survey attended by the Governor Jerry Brown.
(19) It’s a mistake to think of Impress as some jerry-built Trojan horse.
(20) It was a reference to the fact that Davis is evangelical, not Catholic, and Jerry Falwell, the late founder of the fundamentalist Christian right movement in the US.
Nickname
Definition:
(n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
(v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(4) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
(5) In the original exchange, Scudamore warned Nick West, a City lawyer who works with the Premier League on broadcasting deals, to keep a female colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.
(6) The Tories will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'.
(7) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(8) Nicknamed Mr 10 Percent, Zardari spent several years in prison under previous administrations.
(9) But as Brigitte goes on to explain, Bordeaux laboured for decades under the nickname La Belle Endormie – sleeping beauty.
(10) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(11) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
(12) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
(13) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".
(14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(15) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
(16) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(17) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
(18) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
(19) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
(20) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.