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Kemp


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Kempty

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
  • (2) Richard Kemp, London SE8 I know I'm being tedious, but what are "American" novels?
  • (3) This literature review traces the recognition of child abuse and ends where many texts begin with the publication of Henry Kempe's paper in 1962, where the term, "battered child syndrome," was used for the first time.
  • (4) The endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempi) nests almost exclusively at a single locality in the western Gulf of Mexico, whereas the olive ridley (L. olivacea) nests globally in warm oceans.
  • (5) Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British troops in Helmand, said: "British troops had decades of experience dealing with an enemy that deliberately attacked from the cover of the civilian population in Northern Ireland.
  • (6) The FCC rejected it in favour of one submitted by Paul Burstow, the health minister, and seconded by Richard Kemp, a Liverpool councillor, which did not criticise the bill.
  • (7) All three enzymes overaccum,late in the mutant cells (Kempe, T.D., Swyryd, E.A., Bruist, M., and Stark, G.R.
  • (8) Philippa Tuckman, a specialist lawyer in military negligence at Bolt Burdon Kemp, suggested that if the MoD had been following its own guidelines regarding operating in the heat, possible failings which may have led the deaths could have been avoided.
  • (9) I think, oddly enough, of an afternoon about 15 years ago – myself, Andrew Marr and Arnold Kemp , necking whiskies in the Observer's local, happy and fulfilled.
  • (10) Do the Dodgers have enough offense vs the Atlanta Braves without Matt Kemp in the lineup and Andre Ethier possibly limited to pinch hitting duty?
  • (11) Philippa Tuckman, a specialist lawyer in military negligence at Bolt Burdon Kemp, said: "The MoD has a lot of guidance around climatic injuries and itself states that the majority of deaths caused by the climate could be avoided.
  • (12) Instead, it accepted a proposal by the former head of the party's local government movement, Richard Kemp, that a one-hour general debate be added to the agenda rather than the brief Q&A session previously planned.
  • (13) Matt Kemp was unavailable, Andre Ethier was limited and Hanley Ramirez, the guy who was the real key to the season, was too hurt to be productive.
  • (14) Ellie Kemp, Oxfam policy head in Congo, said she understood there was no community liaison interpreter for the Monusco unit based near Walikale, making it difficult for villagers to convey warnings.
  • (15) Kempe and her three female student friends were taking bags of clothes and toys into the hostel.
  • (16) Twelve adult Limousine rams (five pinealectomized, four sham operated, and three control) were housed under an artificial lighting regime of alternating periods of long (16L:8D) and short (8L:16D) days for 18 months, and long-term variations in kemp follicle growth were recorded along with measurements of the plasma prolactin concentrations.
  • (17) Well, he certainly wasn’t 100% honest that day,” said Kemp.
  • (18) Laidlaw gently pawed her into position, confirming without doubt the date of the lunch, challenging the strength of her memory until she insisted she was absolutely certain and then, like Hannibal Lecter in a horsehair wig, softly and courteously, he cut out her heart: the incident with Kemp had happened six weeks after the lunch.
  • (19) Synthetic peptides corresponding to the active domain of the heat-stable inhibitor protein of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (Cheng, H.-C., Kemp, B. E., Pearson, R. B., Smith, A. J., Misconi, L., Van Patten, S. M., and Walsh, D. A.
  • (20) Their work has been exhibited at the V&A and sold to designers such as Stella McCartney and hotelier Kit Kemp.

Knotty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
  • (superl.) Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
  • (superl.) Difficult; intricate; perplexed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
  • (2) It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects"
  • (3) For example, 1 group, "knotty amacrine cells," has small cell bodies and a profusion of small, varicose, intertwined processes that span up to 30 microns and are essentially monostratified, but each of the 3 types ends in different strata.
  • (4) He has friendly, wide-set eyes, a burst of knotty dreadlocks and a gnarled scar just below his jaw, from when he fell from a low wire as a child and impaled himself on the protruding end of a metal coil.
  • (5) She was a sane voice that could be relied upon to help them make sense of the knotty complications of their personal, sexual lives.
  • (6) Eight cases were reported in order to elucidate the important role of electron microscopy (EM) played in diagnosis of knotty tumors.
  • (7) What do you think they can buy for that?” Kasich also raised the other knotty problem that is causing divisions within the Republican party: preexisting conditions.
  • (8) The A1 cells are small axonless neurons with knotty and dense dendritic trees.
  • (9) This is potentially a knotty problem, but a few points seem to suggest that Wales's concerns are overdone.
  • (10) Bloomberg Associates, as he is calling his private consultancy, will be what the New York Times has called an “urban SWAT team” that will be called in by struggling cities to help solve their knotty problems absolutely free of charge.
  • (11) Updated at 9.37pm BST 8.47pm BST A novel Peace Prize idea This is interesting - European leaders have apparently been considering the knotty problem of who should pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in December.
  • (12) There is a knotty ethical problem underlying such arguments.
  • (13) Subjects ranged from the English civil war in The Staffordshire Rebels (1965) and local railways in The Knotty (1966) to the audience's second world war memories in Hands Up!
  • (14) This knotty and discomforting genealogy that binds Englishness to empire and slavery and their fractious legacies of racism and inequality seems to be too thought-provoking for Gove's deeply conservative vision of English literature.
  • (15) But it would help his cause, the lawyer argued, by addressing several of the knotty issues related to his future.
  • (16) Every time a party has looked at this problem, it’s been too knotty to unpick and it has given up.
  • (17) What distinguishes this recession from those we have seen before is one particularly knotty fact: unemployment has increased a good deal more than employment has fallen.
  • (18) Only a better understanding of their pathogenesis, and of how the glomerulus normally retains plasma protein, will solve this knotty problem.
  • (19) The prospect of Erdoğan unbound suggests a number of other knotty problems may become more intractable.
  • (20) Canary Wharf – modernist, faceless, towering – houses the mighty investment banks; the City – quirky, crowded, knotty, historic – has the brokers, insurers and ancillary services; Mayfair – discreet, stylish, cosmopolitan – is home to the hedge funds and private equity companies.

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