(n.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Buchanan has been the target of criticism because he is the man at the helm, but the reality is that those who have really directed the energy policies of this country – past, present and future – are the landlubbers in Whitehall.
(2) For landlubbers, there's beach-side bicycle hire and crazy golf.
Lubber
Definition:
(n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
(2) Meanwhile the Ceres report, launched by its president Mindy Lubber, highlights not only the widespread environmental and social impact of oil sands development, but also the high production costs and limited market for this fuel, for which companies have committed $200 billion in investments.
(3) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
(4) Cynthia Brzak An American employee of the UN High Commission for Refugees who accused the high commissioner at the time, the former Dutch minister Ruud Lubbers, of sexual harassment in May 2004.
(5) Björn Lubbers: "Karin [12.25pm], you're absolutely right.
(6) Ruud Lubbers, the former Dutch prime minister, is also attending.
(7) Lubbers resigned in 2005 after the report was leaked, showing the investigation upheld Brzak's complaint.
(8) Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, said the action by the banks and the food industry, along with China’s promise to enact a cap-and-trade program to curb climate emissions, are beginning to shift the debate in the US.
(9) Two neuropeptides with adipokinetic activity in Locusta migratoria and hypertrehalosaemic activity in Periplaneta americana were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography from the corpus cardiacum of the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
(10) Mindy Lubber , president of Ceres, a global coalition of investors concerned about climate change, said the secretary general’s decision to attend the march “sent a very important signal” about the importance of the summit.
(11) 10am: "Hi from a German living in the Netherlands," begins Björn Lubbers.
(12) The condition of skin autografts and allografts in rats and rabbits was checked by transcutaneous PO2 measurement according to R. HUCH, D. W. LUBBERS and A. HUCH.
(13) But given the staunch opposition to climate action among Republican party leaders, finding a pathway to congressional action will take time, Lubber acknowledged.
(14) Mindy Lubber is president of Ceres , a nonprofit organization mobilizing business and investor leadership on climate change and other global sustainability threats Read more stories like this: UN Climate Summit must show climate change action is in everyone’s interests World on track to be 4C warmer by 2100 because of missed carbon targets Advertisement Feature : 3 structural changes needed for a sustainable financial sector The finance hub is funded by EY.
(15) An octadecapeptide capable of inducing pigment dispersion in the chromatophores of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator has been isolated from lyophilized heads of the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera.
(16) Who better than Exxon Mobil to start answering the tough questions about the inevitable transition to a low-carbon global economy?” Mindy Lubber, president of the green investor network Ceres, said.