(n.) The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
(n.) A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
(n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
(n.) A German coin and money of account. See Mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(2) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
(3) GNM announced in October that Marc Sands, the marketing director, was to leave the company .
(4) Two of Miliband’s inner circle – his director of strategy Tom Baldwin, and speechwriter Marc Stears – had suggested that the party seek out £3 supporters before 7 May in an attempt to engage people with the Labour party.
(5) Coach Marc Wilmots called it a "slight" strain and said Kompany was working on an individual program with the medical staff.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Dutch National Ballet’s production of Coppélia Photograph: Marc Haegeman
(7) It was carnage,” said Marc Coupris, 57, a legal worker.
(8) Then King Henrik is hit on the ensuing play by Dustin Brown, who had been hit by Marc Staal and went tumbling - all are OK.
(9) John Arnold and Marc Leder have both given to Cory Booker, Joe Kennedy, and others.
(10) 02:13:42 (Captain Marc Dubois): "No, no, no … Don't climb … no, no."
(11) But Marc Ostwald at Monument Securities took a more sceptical view and said there were plenty of reasons not to chase the gilt "relief rally".
(12) Marc Lanza has been cooking all morning a Provençal daube, in one of Olney's favourite red-wine reductions, and its rich flavour fills the farmhouse kitchen that has been preserved just as Olney created it.
(13) The Kookaburras were undone by a 7th minute goal from Alex Casasayas, who put away a cross from Marc Salles.
(14) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
(15) Meyler was in unfamiliar territory on the right side of defence and performed brilliantly in the second half but Germany’s next opportunity of note came on the opposite flank when Marc Wilson’s backpass to Forde was left short and the keeper nervously found the stand, despite his initial touch almost reaching Thomas Müller with a clear path to goal.
(16) I think Marc's getting frustrated with the attention he's getting because too many people have been too short-term," Moakes said.
(17) At the break Koller had brought on Marc Janko to play as the focal point, and Alessandro Schöpf, a midfielder, for the defender, Sebastian Prödl.
(18) Marc Bolland has taken over at Marks & Spencer and Dalton Philips at Morrisons.
(19) The president’s chief lawyer in charge of the case is Marc Kasowitz, a civil litigator who has long worked for Trump in business and public relations disputes in New York but has little experience in Washington.
(20) Marc Wilmots reacted to being binned out of the tournament by saying the team that binned them weren't very good .
Refuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
(v. t.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
(v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
(v. t.) To disown.
(v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.
(n.) Refusal.
(n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
(a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
(2) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(3) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(4) There were no deaths but one refused to have ketamine again.
(5) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(6) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
(7) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(8) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(9) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(10) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(11) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(12) Ten patients had been treated by adrenalectomy, one patient by radiotherapy of the hypophysis, and one patient had refused any treatment.
(13) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
(14) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
(15) A small band of shadow cabinet members have lined up to refuse to serve in posts they haven’t even been offered, on the basis of objection to economic policies they clearly haven’t read.
(16) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(17) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(18) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(19) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
(20) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.