(1) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(2) He has basically fallen at the first hurdle … the best secretary of states for culture media and sport have not been lapdogs.” He added: “In the end, Whittingdale and Osborne are ideological Tories who believe that the scale and scope of the BBC has to be cut down to size.
(3) The euphoric McAllister, sometimes referred to as Merkel's lapdog, threw an arm around her shoulder.
(4) Liberal Democrat leader Clegg, who has been variously branded a "jelly", "condom", "lapdog" and "yellow albatross" by Johnson, suggested the mayor should be clearer about his true intentions.
(5) Abandoning the vast single market across the Channel doesn’t just mean reducing Britain to the status of lapdog to the woman-groping Muslim-bashing demagogue across the Atlantic.
(6) The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
(7) Law and Justice accuses the Civic Platform of allowing Poland to become Germany’s political lapdog in the EU.
(8) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
(9) And ailing on her sofa with a lapdog is how many generations of schoolchildren came to know of her; not that many, probably, got much further.
(10) He's a while on the phone though, so the housekeeper makes me a cup of tea and I sit in the conservatory with a pampered little lapdog for company and admire the view out over his lawns and pergola and ornamental pond.
(11) The Treasury, once a stern judge of such projects, has become their uncritical lapdog.
(12) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
(13) The most recent statistics in France underline a doubly increasing preoccupation: the alarming rise in the frequency of bites by dogs (watchdogs or lapdogs), and the great number of pathogenic bacteria isolated from the bite wounds.
(14) People derided Tony Blair as George W Bush’s poodle, and Nigel’s version of lapdogging is just a different take.
(15) There are voices in London with their Scottish lapdogs – and she knows who they are – who would still seek to replace her with someone they consider "more statesmanlike".
(16) Denis Healey, never florid in praise, called him "Harold's lapdog".
(17) He has given an undertaking to PASC that he will not be the prime minister's lapdog.
(18) I'd hardly go so far as to claim that a certain columnist at the Financial Times is a lapdog for the oligarchic elite.
(19) Tillis has tried to ride on the back of the unpopularity of President Obama in this southern state by portraying Hagan as a lapdog of the White House who has no political willpower of her own.
(20) "I am proud to be Merkel's Mac," he said, referring to the slightly derogatory nickname given to him by Germany's popular press, who have often referred to him as the chancellor's lapdog.
Set
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Set
(v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
(v. t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
(v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
(v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.
(v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
(v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
(v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
(v. t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
(v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
(v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
(v. t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
(v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
(v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
(v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
(v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
(v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
(v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
(v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
(v. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
(v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.
(v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
(v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
(v. t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
(v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
(v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
(v. i.) To fit music to words.
(v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
(v. i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
(v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
(v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
(v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
(v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
(v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
(v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
(v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
(a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
(a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
(a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
(a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
(a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
(n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
(n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed.
(n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
(n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
(n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
(n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
(n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
(n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
(n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
(n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
(n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.
(n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
(n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
(n.) A young oyster when first attached.
(n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
(n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
(n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(5) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(6) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(7) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(9) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(11) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(12) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(13) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(14) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
(16) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(18) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(19) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(20) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.