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Macho


Definition:

  • (n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
  • (2) An intensive 6-month schedule of drugs was devised with both systemic and central nervous system activity, known by the acronym 'MACHO', to treat 24 newly and consecutively diagnosed children, 13 with stage IV B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) and 11 with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL).
  • (3) October 17, 2012 2.21am BST Oh, a bit of a to-do between Macho Mitt and Obama, over federal licenses and oil drilling, and Mitt's looking a bit Al Gore 2000 here, wandering around being all aggro and complaining about the rules.
  • (4) It’s the furthest from the male macho look you could get.
  • (5) "I think that Britain's broadband vision needs to be about more people using broadband rather than macho claims about the speed of the technology," she said.
  • (6) Labour now wants to own this mantle of macho, to keep the momentum of cruelty going in the name of responsibility, But lets get real.
  • (7) The wealthier and older clients are provided with sexual services within a setting that might be described as a "macho theater" in which social needs are also allowed expression.
  • (8) One was the anti-colonial instincts of some African churches, where the style of leadership is extremely macho.
  • (9) When I handed in my notice, I was told there was no budget to give me a pay rise, yet the guy who replaced me (and had less experience) was offered £10k more.” Lipstick and lap-dancing Beyond structural gender disparities, many respondents complained of a “macho, misogynist culture”, with bosses organising events at strip clubs, and frequent commentary on women’s bodies the norm.
  • (10) But for the first time in five clásicos there was no red card for Mourinho's macho team.
  • (11) Nonetheless, the feds’ approach is a sea-change from the early 1990s, when a macho paramilitary culture and aggressive rules of engagement approved at the highest levels were ingrained in the FBI and contributed to disasters the bureau is now anxious never to repeat.
  • (12) 'Macho v macho': what to expect from Putin-Trump negotiations Read more A statement from Trump’s transition team said Putin offered congratulations on winning “a historic election”.
  • (13) But we do need to make sure that more women are more involved at a higher level in Greater Manchester politics, without a doubt, and as mayor that’s what I would do, and make sure there was that representation at the highest level, because there can’t be any sense that it’s a macho world or closed world in any way.
  • (14) The humanitarian sector is still a very macho world.
  • (15) Some mentioned a macho, sexist culture, and others said they felt patronised by a cloying paternalism.
  • (16) 'Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion' Reading this on mobile?
  • (17) Putin is known for burnishing his image with macho stunts and this is not the first time the truth has proved less than heroic.
  • (18) I’ve never come across it in sport because you’re a sportsman, it’s a macho thing, so it never enters your head.” If we are going to be generous, they were different times and there were lots of clubs in those days operating with these attitudes.
  • (19) He is masculine but defiantly anti-macho, and his unpanicked air of sexual fluidity has lent itself to a run of gay gangsters: he was Richard Burton's bit of rough in Villain , a carnally carnivorous mob boss in Sexy Beast , and a slinky, elegant hood in 44 Inch Chest .
  • (20) "By making the hero a girl, he took all that macho stuff out of the equation and that gave him the freedom to examine heroism.

Manly


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
  • (adv.) In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (3) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (4) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (5) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (6) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (7) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
  • (8) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
  • (9) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (10) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (11) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (12) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (13) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (14) These results indicate that both racemic and L-baclofen inhibit trigeminal transmission in man, probably because they interfere with excitatory transmission through the interneurons of the lateral reticular formation.
  • (15) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (16) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (17) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
  • (18) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (19) Subcutaneous adipose tissue extracellular glucose was investigated in vivo in man with a microdialysis technique.
  • (20) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.

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