(1) It’s no longer a big ticket item – it’s cheaper than Uber,” says Nigel McMinn, manager director of Lookers, which runs 153 car dealerships across the UK.
(2) Inverdale provoked outrage when he said that women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova so you have to be scrappy and fight?
(3) Lookers, which sells nearly 120,000 new and used vehicles a year, said pre-tax profits surged 38% to £38m in the six months to June, with sales up 29% to £1.6bn.
(4) The BBC’s John Inverdale took a long time to recover from his clumsy observation during Wimbledon in 2013 that Marion Bartoli, who eventually won the title, was “no looker”.
(5) For right and left lookers, the phenomenon of shorter latency of retrieval on a verbal task when looking toward the right was found when encoding and retrieval points were different, [F(1,35) = 15 16, p less than .001], but not when they were the same [F(1,35) = .36, N.S.].
(6) The BBC has received almost 700 complaints in the hours after the veteran Inverdale said Bartoli "was never going to be a looker" on Radio 5 Live ahead of the game.
(7) The acquaintance of subject and looker as well as the depth of gaze affected male subjects' judgments of a female assistant's looking behavior.
(8) The global task was easier than the featural task, but as the amount of time allotted for infants to solve either type of task was decreased, short lookers' performance was superior to that of long lookers.
(9) "She's not a looker," says Ruby rather sweetly about her effort.
(10) The BBC was forced to apologise after Inverdale, speaking before Bartoli's match against Sabine Lisicki, told listeners of Radio 5 Live: "Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little: 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?"
(11) 4 experiments tested the possibility of whether short lookers' superiority on perceptual-cognitive tasks is attributable to attention to the featural details of visual stimuli, or simply to differences in the speed or efficiency of visual processing.
(12) The details described characterize a medical care system which still nowadays demands the respect of the modern lookers-on.
(13) Logan's comments come at a sensitive time for the corporation in the wake of presenter John Inverdale's remarks about Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, saying she was "never going to be a looker" .
(14) Inverdale told listeners: "Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little: 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?
(15) Illustration: Davies review The companies in the FTSE 350 with all-male boards were named as Allied Minds, Centamin, Deajan Holdings, HellermannTyton Group, Nostrum Oil and Gas, Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust, Telecom Plus, Wizz Air Holdings, Al Noor Hospitals Group, Clarkson, Genus, Lookers, P2P Global Investments, Scottish Investment Trust, and Tritax Big Box Reit.
(16) "Do you think," he mused moronically, "Bartoli's dad told her when she was little, 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a [Maria] Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?"
(17) This might be an awkward moment for John Inverdale as Simon Burnton pointed out in his blog: Sports Personality of the Year: time to applaud the antiheroes of 2013 One thing that's absolutely certain is that the BBC 's John Inverdale , who controversially announced in July that the Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker" , isn't going to be invited to the cool parties.
(18) If that should give any woman reluctant to describe herself as a feminist pause for thought, the naff exchanges between Gray and the reporter Andy Burton about whether the "lino" was "a looker" suggests discrimination in Sky's football department may have spread way beyond two middle-aged dinosaurs.
(19) I mean, she's not much of a looker, but she didn't need to stoop that low.
(20) However, a spokesman said: “We did launch the Range Rover Td6 and Range Rover Sport Td6 in late September as planned and while it is too early to tell what, if any, long-term impact there will be on the US market, we are pleased with the early sales.” In the UK, one major car dealership, Lookers, reported continuing profit growth on Friday, leading the City analysts at Peel Hunt to conclude: “While some suggested that the VW crisis would have a major impact on the motor trade, [this] suggests that its progress remains strong ... the VW nerves are now soothed.” The shareholders VW shares lost around one-third of their value in the first two days of trading after news of the scandal broke, and remain at roughly the same level now.
Looper
Definition:
(n.) An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
(n.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(2) 3.52am BST Tigers 3 - A's 0, top of the 8th Infante hits a looper to the outfield that looks like it could drop, but Crisp gets to it in time for the out.
(3) A sex pheromone produced by male cabbage looper moths, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), has been isolated from the genital scent brushes and identified as 2-phenylethanol.
(4) Photograph: Alan Markfield Johnson has crammed Looper with these subtle touches.
(5) Third instar larvae of the cabbage looper Trichopulsia ni were exposed to conidia of E. apiculata.
(6) Photograph: Alan Markfield If Bruce isn't really Looper's baddie, it's only because black-and-white morality doesn't have a place in Johnson's world.
(7) Rian Johnson, the director of Brick and Looper, is to write and direct the next two Star Wars films, taking the reins from JJ Abrams , according to reports on Friday.
(8) Chris Pratt’s next attempt to cement his action-hero status in Jurassic World sees him in the relatively untested hands of writer and director Colin Trevorrow, known for just one movie – the lo-fi time-travel indie Safety Not Guaranteed; Fox’s latest attempt to reboot The Fantastic Four sees Josh Trank, director of impressive found-footage thriller Chronicle, getting a chance to shine; and Looper’s Rian Johnson has been hired as the director of Star Wars Episode VIII.
(9) This cycle is broken when a Looper called Joe (played by Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt) comes face-to-face with a target who won't just kneel there, whimper and die – himself.
(10) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(11) In Looper, both Young and Old Joe look like heroes, but they're (literally) too self-involved to learn anything from life, until they're forced to.
(12) The medium was preconditioned with the cell line IPL-LdFB, derived from fat body of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, cell line IAL-TND1, derived from imaginal discs of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni, and whole fat body tissue from host Helicoverpa zea.
(13) Instead, Wacha gets ahead of him 0-2, takes a walk, and hits an easily caught looper to the outfield.
(14) Given that Willis's character is a stubborn, ruthless grouch, can we see Looper as a fear of ageing, too?
(15) In the mid-fifth instar larvae of the cabbage looper moth, Trichoplusia ni, the subcellular distribution of total superoxide dismutase was as follows: 3.05 units (70.0%), 0.97 units (22.3%), and 0.33 units (7.6%) mg-1 protein in the mitochondrial, cytosolic and nuclear fractions, respectively.
(16) China has already been courted by Hollywood through various films being at least partly set in the country, including Iron Man 3, The Karate Kid and Looper.
(17) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.
(18) L-3-Cyanoalanine synthase activity is clearly linked to differential cyanide tolerance of two insect species, the southern armyworm (more tolerant) and cabbage looper (less tolerant).
(19) In last year's Looper , Bruce Willis tampered with the past in an effort to save his future wife.
(20) The baculovirus from the lepidopteran host Autographa californica (alfalfa looper) was shown to replicate in a dipteran cell line without the production of characteristic polyhedral inclusion bodies.