(1) After being widely condemned for his remarks about the rape allegations facing Julian Assange, George Galloway was under fire again at the weekend after calling someone a "window-licker" (a derogatory term for a disabled person) in a conversation on Twitter .
(2) As he stresses every week at the beginning of The Apprentice: "I don't like liars, I don't like cheats, I don't like bullshitters, I don't like schmoozers and I don't like arse-lickers."
(3) Paul Carter (@Juniorc0) wrote: "@georgegalloway just called someone a window licker.
(4) Galloway did apologise for using the word "window-licker" about a critic on Twitter, claiming that he was unaware that it had become a term of abuse of the disabled since he left Scotland , where it had previously been a synonym for "moron".
(5) I was listening to them all thinking: ‘You arse lickers.
(6) Will decent Rangers fans please substitute this windae-licker … " The tweet was attacked as insensitive by fellow Twitter users and @Skipjack451 wrote: "I wonder what the disabled members of your constituency will make of your use of the slur 'window licker'?
Ticker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hawkish rhetoric by Iranians feeds the rhetoric of hawkish Republicans , and the front page of Kayhan” – a conservative Iranian paper – “reads like the ticker on Fox News,” he added.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Guardian journalists explain the ‘keep it in the ground’ theory Fossil fuel ticker
(3) That includes working to maximise home-grown energy sources rather than relying on imports from volatile markets like Russia and the Middle East, which is why the government continues to work hard to support the future of the North Sea industry.” Fossil fuel ticker
(4) An earlier version referred to a scrolling ticker on Qatari state television’s nightly newscast.
(5) The BBC ticker says Damian Green will be immigration minister, the position he shadowed, and ConservativeHome reports that Greg Clark will be responsible for decentralisation within the Department of Communities and Local Government.
(6) Not that it particularly mattered by the end as the victorious players took turns to give one another the bumps and ticker-tape filled the air.
(7) The trading room tickers and the panicked trilby-topped brokers commemorated in our wallchart today prefigured four years of ubiquitous hardship, enforced idleness and mass displacement.
(8) If they’d stopped to think about it, to try and process how their dreams had just been smashed because they couldn’t hold on for 4.7 seconds, how they had just become the hard-luck losers in surely the greatest climax in National Championship history, perhaps they would have been so physically and emotionally drained by the cruelty of their loss it would have been a struggle to make it off the court, and they’d have had to wait there under the glare of the lights as the thumping music played and the stage was set and the trophy was presented as the ticker-tape fell from this domed stadium’s dark sky.
(9) It was answered moments after the ticker-tape fell from the roof and the gleaming trophy was raised aloft, when Leonard’s name was announced and the crowd had yet another reason to go wild.
(10) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
(11) Fossil fuel ticker Shell’s carbon dioxide emissions have risen in 2014 and are set to increase further as it expands the business through a planned £47bn takeover of rival BG .
(12) Fossil fuel ticker Garanti Bankası Türkiye’deki yeni kömür santrallerine en büyük fon sağlayan kurum.
(13) The sale of shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which will be listed under the ticker BABA, follows a two-week global roadshow which has resulted in frenzied interest from investors eager to buy into the rapid growth of China's internet sector.
(14) Unsubstantiated rumours spread by the breaking news tickers of major news outlets may also have encouraged more rioting, the panel said.
(15) The film – a slightly filthy high school comedy influenced by The Scarlet Letter – didn't get a huge release in the UK but was a sleeper hit in the US (taking $58m from an $8m budget), and produced a ticker-tape of good notices for Stone.
(16) Last year's was an all-white number with ticker tape and bubbly, which made it look as if they were trapped in a 2013 version of The Crystal Maze, but this year their yuletide snap went further and almost broke the internet.
(17) Manage a retreat from the carbon frontiers, especially the Arctic [and] press the accelerator on carbon capture and storage.” Fossil fuel ticker
(18) The future runs through her brain like ticker tape.
(19) When I go to a match, the whole structure shakes underfoot as trumpets blare and thousands of fans jump and dance in a shower of ticker tape.
(20) As demonstrators marched past the headquarters of News Corp, the Fox News ticker read: "May Day, May Day, May Day, police set to deal with Occupy crowd that vows to shut down the city", and "NYPD and big corporations braced for trouble".