(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.
Smasher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
(n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.
(n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(2) The Who's pioneering instrument-smasher could find he's met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
(3) In presentations given to a packed auditorium at the laboratory on Wednesday morning, and webcast around the world, the leaders of two research teams, who worked independently of each other, said they had spotted a new particle amid the microscopic flashes of primordial fire created inside the world's most powerful atom smasher.
(4) Comedy plays are not eligible for the award, but what about a show such as Humphrey Ker's excellent Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher , a character monologue so neatly scripted and performed, with appropriate lighting and sound cues, that it could easily be described as a one-man play?
(5) (1972), Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973), and a book about SF art called Great Balls of Fire (1977).
(6) The world's most powerful atom smasher hunts for signs of new physics by slamming subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light in an 18-mile round tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.