(1) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
(2) Andrew Mackness, the chairman of the Rochester and Strood Conservatives , told the Guardian that the officers of the association had no alternative but to seek the money back from him.
(3) Women are less suited to comedy, suggested Mack , because "when men sit around and talk, they are very competitive.
(4) This so called Filehne illusion has been quantified and explored by Mack and Herman [Q. J.exp.
(5) Farrakhan’s daughter, Fatima, who is also his nurse, described his most recent surgery as like being “hit by a Mack truck”.
(6) But Mack couldn't forgive God and The Great Sadness descended upon him.
(7) The purpose of the study was an evaluation of the effectiveness of the preparation ISO MACK RETARD in capsules of 60 mg and 120 mg in patients with advanced exacerbated ischaemic heart disease.
(8) The wild chanting for the"Wolf" by enraptured staff was reportedly echoed on real-life Wall Street when Morgan Stanley's John Mack returned to the bank in 2005 after a stint at Credit Suisse First Boston.
(9) Their name, National City Lines, sounded innocuous enough, but the list of their investors included General Motors, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and other companies who stood to benefit much more from a future running on gasoline and rubber than on electricity and rails.
(10) "The defence is intent in stopping the trial and denying Guatemalans their right to know the truth," Helen Mack said.
(11) Plagiarism feuds Johnny Cash v Gordon Jenkins: Cash was forced to pay composer Gordon Jenkins $75,000 for using lyrics and melody from Jenkins’ 1953 track Crescent City Blues as the basis for his own 1955 song, Folsom Prison Blues Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams v Marvin Gaye: a jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s family $7.4m in 2015 after he ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied their father’s music to create their hit Blurred Lines George Harrison v Ronnie Mack: George Harrison was found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” of Ronnie Mack’s He’s So Fine for his song My Sweet Lord.
(12) Australian gold medal-winning swimmer Mack Horton has come under sustained fire on social media after his gold medal-winning performance on day one of the Rio Olympics, following comments he made about his rival, Sun Yang.
(13) ISO MACK RETARD in capsules of 60 and 120 mg was well tolerated; in the studied group no side effects were observed.
(14) Photograph: Brian Mackness Cooper is much more comfortable having a go at the Conservatives over their record on women.
(15) When they decided to have children, Broadway-Mack said she couldn’t go to her partner’s doctor appointments.
(16) When Mack was stationed in South Korea, Broadway-Mack went too – teaching English and pretending they were cousins.
(17) The results for one speaker matched those of Mack and Blumstein, while those for the second speaker showed some differences.
(18) Having found by the use of a new method for examining perception without attention that grouping and texture segregation do not seem to occur (see Mack, Tang, Tuma, Kahn, & Rock (1992) Cognitive Psychology, 24, we go on to ask what is perceived without attention using this new method.
(19) When the Senate voted to repeal DADT in December 2010, Broadway-Mack held her infant son and watched the votes come in on TV.
(20) Overall, Broadway-Mack and others said they believe the military community is looking out for their own.
Tack
Definition:
(n.) A stain; a tache.
(n.) A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
(n.) A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
(n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
(v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
(v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
(v. t.) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
(v. t.) Confidence; reliance.
(v. t.) To fasten or attach.
(v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
(v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
(v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(2) But fresh evidence that waiting times are creeping up, despite David Cameron's pledge to keep them low, has forced Lansley to change tack and impose an extra treatment directive on the NHS.
(3) The Department for Culture, Media and Sport also left the door open for a change of tack over the use of the licence fee, saying that if "better options than the government's preferred one emerge in the meantime", it will "consider them".
(4) Two eyes with complex detachments with fixed rolled retinas could not have been repaired without the help of retinal tacks.
(5) The government needs to change tack and admit that its obsession with structural changes to schools has failed.” Ofsted chief criticises independent schools' lack of help for state schools Read more Wilshaw’s letter was based on the results of inspections of the management and operations of seven academy chains running 220 schools across the country: AET, E-Act, Wakefield City Academies, Oasis, CfBT, The Education Fellowship and the most recent, School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA).
(6) "It was done to silence her," Akbulatov says, speaking in Memorial's office, a colour photo of Estemirova tacked to the wall.
(7) On some issues - particularly Europe - Lib Dems in the south have to tack more to the right.
(8) Syrian security forces were reported to have launched another wave of violence against pro-democracy protesters on Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad rejected a Turkish appeal to change tack or meet the fate of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
(9) The prospect of Front National gains has left Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, a broad coalition of centre right and rightwing factions, scrapping over what tack to take to hang on to their seats.
(10) In the face of popular passions about immigration and the European Union, the Labour party has bobbed and tacked without taking a clear line.
(11) Along with some of his fellow Rangers, he walked me through the program – a strong, impressive young man, with an easy manner, sharp as a tack.
(12) An improved retinal tack and applicator can be used to fix the retina to the wall of the eye mechanically.
(13) In monkey eyes, histological examination disclosed a considerable fibrovascular proliferation around the retinal tack canal, including an inflammatory response, formation of collagenous tissue and glial proliferation.
(14) The correlation between the results of all these researches leaves little doubt on the existence of eye-tacking dysfunctions in schizophrenics.
(15) A previous owner tacked on additional rooms seemingly at random, giving the impression of a mad, elongated cottage with an internal maze.
(16) It's a change of tack for the Playboy brand after some troubled decades, and many believe this return to affluent values and women dressed as rabbits is exactly the right move.
(17) When practiced by several surgeons, the flap tacking procedure 1) reduces postmastectomy seromas and 2) reduces the amount of postoperative patient office visits and care.
(18) Those changes have not altered the fundamental structure of the system, but instead have been tacked onto it, and exemplify what may be termed additive reform.
(19) 4.09am GMT Saints 23-24 Eagles, 4:44, 4th quarter The Saints certainly have time here to respond, and in fact they might need so slow things down themselves after moving immediately up to the 48-yard line on a nice Darren Sproles kick return that had an additional 15 yards tacked on the end for a horsecollar tackle.
(20) Tritiated thymidine autoradiography was used to evaluate the proliferation of ocular tissues in response to tack insertion.