What's the difference between lib and libra?

Lib


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To castrate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (3) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
  • (4) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
  • (5) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (6) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
  • (7) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
  • (8) On the mothers' internet forum Mumsnet, 44% of women who voted in a post-debate survey said they were now thinking of voting Lib Dem, compared with 23% three weeks ago.
  • (9) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
  • (10) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
  • (11) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
  • (12) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
  • (13) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
  • (14) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
  • (15) Rather than challenging the Lib Dem policy on Trident, Miliband chose to criticise Cameron's comments about the renewal of Trident in last Thursday's leadership debate.
  • (16) Labour and, sotto voce, some Lib Dems, counter that Clegg did not need to cede this much ground – there is no clear evidence that the markets will impose higher interest rates if the deficit is not tackled more quickly than Labour planned.
  • (17) You have got the trade unions, Greens, the Lib Dems, Labour, a Conservative government.
  • (18) James, who is an MEP for south-east England, was responsible for one of Ukip’s great near-misses, coming within 2,000 votes of unseating the Lib Dems at the Eastleigh by-election in 2013 in a result that shocked political observers.
  • (19) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
  • (20) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.

Libra


Definition:

  • (n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc.
  • (n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A simple test of the positive connection between renal disease and the sign of Libra was undertaken by studying the birth dates of consecutive nephrology in-patient admissions.
  • (2) The first, Gliese 581d, is among several that circle one of Earth's nearest stars, a cool red dwarf around 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.
  • (3) Luscious Libras Luscious Libras Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is our walkabout performance – we're a Mexican-wrestling thumb-war team.
  • (4) Catton, a Libra, admitted she had not checked her horoscope but there was a significant astrological aspect to her winning, as the last New Zealander to win was 28 years ago, an important astrological number – "it is the time that Saturn takes to orbit around the Earth."
  • (5) He is turning 60 in October (taking advantage of this milestone to release a 25-year retrospective box-set of CDs and DVDs) and so, to break the ice, I ask him if this makes him a Libra, believing that my feigned interest in astrology will doubtless appeal to his "spiritual" side.
  • (6) In Brazil, BG’s assets would give Shell a further foothold in one of the lowest cost basins in the world, and could add potential synergies with Shell’s Libra assets.

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