(1) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
(4) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
(5) It confirms that Fifa, through its internal bodies, is conducting a one-sided, unfair and biased investigation against Michel Platini, repeatedly violating his right to defend himself.” The Fifa appeals committee, chaired by the Bermudan Larry Mussenden, said the appeals had been rejected in full and the decision of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans Joachim-Eckert, confirmed in its entirety.
(6) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
(7) Rahm may still win but it’s going to be much more of a free-for-all at that point.” Larry Bennett, a political scientist at DePaul University in Chicago, said many of Chicago’s problems, such as systemic population loss and crime, went back decades and were never solved by his predecessor, Richard M Daley, who was mayor for six terms.
(8) In Inside Job, the name that keeps cropping up is Larry Summers , a friend of President Bill Clinton and more recently Barack Obama.
(9) But it’s already been cut to €1,000, and if the lenders’ proposals are accepted, it’ll go down to €800.” Tsipras of Athens – a gripping drama entering its final act | Larry Elliott Read more Like many middle-class southern Europeans, however, Koutouraki owns “some houses” and, while rents too have fallen drastically, the extra income she gets allows her to maintain a certain quality of life.
(10) ( see 10.56am ) Osborne's strategy has failed - Larry Elliott.
(11) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(12) Another book, Unequal Democracy , by American political scientist Larry Bartels, goes a step further and shows how policy choices are shaped when the system is dominated by the partisan ideology of the wealthiest.
(13) Not just for herself, but for another under-used comedian from the show, Larry David , who had teamed up with standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld .
(14) Eckert’s statement said any rule breaches by the bidding countries were “of very limited scope”, adding: “In particular, the effects of these occurrences on the bidding process as a whole were far from reaching any threshold that would require returning to the bidding process, let alone reopening it.” A Fifa statement said: “The Fifa appeal committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden, has concluded that the appeal lodged by the chairman of the investigatory chamber, Michael J Garcia, against the statement of the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert, is not admissible.
(15) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(16) Follow the right people At the time of writing, Murdoch follows only four people: @jack (Twitter's executive chairman, Jack Dorsey); @markpinc (co-founder of Zynga, which makes social games such as FarmVille); @plaid_page (an account apparently run for Google's Larry Page); and @Lord_Sugar (the artist formerly known as S'ralan).
(17) It can't hurt, either, that he's kept the faith with a group of friends who, in some cases, go back to his Super 8 days: Cloverfield director Reeves, cinematographer Larry Fong, production partner Bryan Burk.
(18) SJ Closs Edinburgh He is the Daffy Duck of politics – confident and self-satisfied, leading to calamity; then he pops up again, unabashed • As a fellow economist I fully endorse Larry Elliott’s demolition of Tory party assertions that all is well for the UK’s growing economy, and that Britain is paying its way ( The Tories’ ticking economic timebomb , 20 April).
(19) Larry Elliott was there, and reports that George Osborne was in pretty good spirits (so if tomorrow's GDP reading is bad then he's hiding it well).
(20) Sanders, who missed out on taking the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton, has recorded a brief but heartfelt campaign video aimed at voters in Witney, Oxfordshire, that talks up the attributes of his brother, Larry.
Parry
Definition:
(v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
(v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
(v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc.
(n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(2) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
(3) Previous studies indicated that tsS38 was capable of synthesizing low to moderate levels of viral DNA at the nonpermissive temperature (C. T. Chu, D. S. Parris, R. A. F. Dixon, F. E. Farber, and P. A. Schaffer, Virology 98:168-181, 1979); thus, it was not clear whether the UL8 gene product is essential for viral DNA synthesis.
(4) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(5) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
(6) Referring to the retention of three elected members on the board, the IoD's corporate governance adviser, Oliver Parry, said: "Without an entirely independently appointed board, there remain concerns about how much independent oversight the board will be able to exercise."
(7) The non-English parts of the UK are represented by Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the former British ambassador to the United Nations and Foreign Office mandarin who chaired the All Wales convention on the Welsh assembly's lawmaking powers, Professor Charlie Jeffery, of Edinburgh University's academy of government, and Professor Yvonne Galligan, of Queen's University Belfast.
(8) On BBC2, The Best of Top Gear drew 1.9 million viewers and an 8% share from 8pm, while a new series of Bruce Parry's Tribe debuted with 1.5 million viewers and 6% at 9pm.
(9) Gekas saw a shot saved by Navas but the goalkeeper could only parry and Papastathopoulos pounced.
(10) In rapidly growing, highly glycolytic hepatoma cells as much as 65% of the total cell hexokinase is bound to the outer mitochondrial membrane [Parry, D.M., & Pedersen, P.L.
(11) Ins(1,3,4)P3 was dephosphorylated to two InsP2 (inositol bisphosphate) isomers, one of which is Ins(3,4)P2 [Shears, Parry, Tang, Irvine, Michell & Kirk (1987) Biochem.
(12) Bronwyn Bishop, the speaker of the house, and Stephen Parry, the president of the Senate, approved the immediate changes “in light of the increased threat environment”.
(13) Our two cases are evidence in support of a close relationship between saber injury-like scleroderma and the Parry-Romberg syndrome.
(14) Professor Martin Parry, acting director of Rothamsted Research, said: "We are delighted to be in position to carry out the field trial and to further assess the potential of these GM plants to contribute, as one of many solutions, to the important environmental sustainability issue of providing omega-3 fish oils."
(15) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
(16) So the short answer is the Senate president Stephen Parry can only recall the Senate early for a 3 May budget with an absolute majority.
(17) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
(18) Parry Romberg syndrome is a rare disorder characterised by progressive hemifacial atrophy that is usually unilateral, involving the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and subsequently the muscle, cartilage and bone.
(19) But the keeper showed splendid reflexes to parry it.
(20) Kevin Doyle was allowed to find space inside the area to head Duff's corner goalwards and Londak's parry was more of a pat, which failed miserably to get the ball out of the danger zone.