(1) Indeed, it's possible to imagine circumstances in which more disclosure serves to inflate pay – for instance, Goldman Sachs's bankers might use revelations within Barclays' annual report to demand even more lolly for themselves.
(2) Touches such as dog biscuits and children's lollies are also intended to make clear to customers that service rather than price is the main proposition.
(3) On a good day, all Layla required was her normal preemie accoutrement: a central line IV that started in between her fingers and ended near her heart, and required her arm to be immobilised by what looked like a splint made of lolly sticks and gauze; a nasal cannula that delivered a steady flow of oxygen, the pressure of which would change depending on how many times she stopped breathing that day; a blood oxygen monitor attached to her foot; four or five wires that measured her heart rate; and the feeding tube inserted through her throat or nose.
(4) While he is talking, someone sneezes, and he gives them a lolly.
(5) Hampstead Heath, as he doesn't mind telling you, was a kind of sylvan sweetshop so far as he was concerned, a Swizzles lolly behind every tree.
(6) I’ll be here from 6.30pm to keep an eye on every fearful Foxtrot and chilling Charleston, so grab the bowl of Trick or Treat leftovers (mostly Cadbury's Fudge bars and Drumstick lollies, in my case) and join me in the comment box.
(7) It also makes a range of Nestlé products, including Fab lollies, and ranges for Ribena, Thorntons and others.
(8) In only one instance – Adam Lawrence and Lolly Adefope’s escapology act – is effort made to astonish with skill, rather than amuse with the lack of it.
(9) Shemmings has brought with him some chocolate lollies to demonstrate a particular concept.
(10) Signorini had tried to suggest his critics in “gelatogate” were leftwing foes that had enjoyed a suggestive video featuring Pascale licking an ice lolly .
(11) For souvenirs that go beyond the usual tat, meanwhile, call +30 210 92 45 064 to book a visit to appointment-only design shop Greece is for Lovers , which sells such tongue-in-cheek mementos as marble ice lollies and Zeus-style lightning bolt paper knives.
(12) Plastic rubbish including sweet and lolly wrappers also rose by 3% in 2012 compared with 2011, the annual count of litter on UK beaches in the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) beachwatch big weekend showed .
(13) There are things you need to fight, and anorexics isn’t one of them.” One of her favourite jokes comes from a lolly stick she read when she was 14.
(14) Sixty-eight per cent of the intakes among the lower social class 12-year-old children was in the form of cheap sugar-containing drinks, ice lollies and sweets which they bought themselves and consumed away from home.
(15) King Phil and his wife, Queen Tina – she’s a businesswoman who conveniently owns a lot of the family’s wealth – come in at No 29 this year, their £3.2bn total was £280m down on the previous year after the sale of exhausted BHS for the price of an ice lolly.
(16) After pieces of plastic, the most commonly found items were crisp, lolly and sweet wrappers, little bits of string and cord, caps and lids, polystyrene pieces and drinks bottles.
(17) Last year the miserable early summer weather and rising prices meant the volume sold in cones, tubs and stick lollies was down 11% compared with 2007, at 333m litres.
(18) Retailers sold £8.2m worth more lollies in the week to 13 July compared with the same week last year, a 293% improvement.
(19) That has helped boost the total value of the market in desserts from the freezer, as lollies are typically 16% more expensive per kilogram than ice-creams.
(20) Although the weather has now cooled a little, Tesco neverthless expects to sell 150% more lollies in the last two weeks of July compared with the same period last year.
Lowly
Definition:
(a.) Not high; not elevated in place; low.
(a.) Low in rank or social importance.
(a.) Not lofty or sublime; humble.
(a.) Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
(adv.) In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
(adv.) In a low condition; meanly.
Example Sentences:
(1) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(2) Chelsea, racism and the Premier League’s role | Letters Read more Mighty Manchester United had just been humbled by lowly Leicester City, battered 5-3.
(3) Pakistan repeated the trick in the 1990s, sending jihadists to stoke insurgency in Indian-held Kashmir and giving massive assistance to the Taliban, the once lowly mullahs’ movement that had seized control of Afghanistan in 1989.
(4) It has exalted the lowly and brought down the mighty from their seats.
(5) But one might have imagined Corbyn would have used the opportunity to send one of the really big power players of the new shadow cabinet – his transport spokeswoman Lilian Greenwood, say, or Nia Griffith, who has the Wales portfolio – rather than his lowly shadow chancellor.
(6) Historically, our masters have always imagined we lowly peasants will digest information more easily if it is written, for example, in a speech bubble coming out of the mouth of an imaginary squirrel pedestrian in yellow loon pants.
(8) One is a guy who has to try and take a lowly band of unknowns up against far better equipped adversaries, while having been tempted to join the other side, and the other one is … oh, hang on" – James Thomson.
(9) Within six years of beginning as a lowly prop assistant, he led the show to national syndication and had an Emmy to show for his efforts.
(10) One dev says: "My biggest bugbear at the moment (on my lowly 3GS) is the number of times app quit due to memory shortages, or because they've taken too long to load.
(11) An evening transformed by Adomah’s second-half liberation from the bench – (the winger created the excellent Stuani’s second) – ended with Boro looking the more convincing promotion candidates, but Brentford had played well enough to suggest their current lowly position is a false one.
(12) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
(13) In "Marching (As Seen from the Left File)", for instance, he describes the men from the perspective of one of them and in "Break of Day in the Trenches" he identifies with the lowly rat against the "haughty athletes".
(14) Basic literacy and numeracy skills are low, meaning that the children who drop out of school are on course for a life in lowly-paid jobs.
(15) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
(16) In a telling Japanese ballet production of Bizet's Carmen a few years ago, Carmen was portrayed as a career woman who stole company secrets to get ahead and then framed her lowly security-guard lover José.
(17) Material released from the highly tumorigenic cells in response to increased cell density was also fucosylated (whereas shed material from lowly tumorigenic cells was not), suggesting a biological role for shed fucosylated antigens in tumor aggression.
(18) The G + C content of the A. nidulans genome is close to 50%, indicating little overall mutational bias, and so the codon usage of lowly expressed genes is as expected in the absence of selection pressure at silent sites.
(19) But my colleagues at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - where I spent the summer of 2000 as a lowly research assistant - questioned such reserve.
(20) There has been a decade-long legal battle by the Guardian involving rulings by 16 different judges, stretching from a lowly information tribunal to the supreme court, the highest in the land.