(n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
(n.) The martin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
(2) The youth-led Nuit debout movement, which grew out of protests against labour reforms , has been holding night-time sit-ins and debates nationwide since 31 March, earning praise from figures such as William Martinet, leader of the students’ union Unef.
(3) Finally he emphasizes Martinet's qualities of loyalty and intellectual honesty, as well as his role as creator and director of a team (Broca, and later Epee de Bois).
(4) Chris Bryant, the former minister for Europe and chairman of the parliamentary all-party Russia group, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(5) On the basis of Martinet's functional linguistics, Chomsky's generative grammar and Piaget's cognitive psychology, the authors conclude that the psychopathology underlying hebephrenic speech is a disturbance of language rather than of parole and that hebephrenic syntactical distortions are linked to the disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation characteristic of schizophrenic thought processes.
(6) They compare them to the european ones (Nally-Martinet).
(7) The Alps are a unique area for attracting skiers – of whom 30% are foreign – but the expansion in the skiing market is elsewhere, in Russia, China and central Asia.” Enrico Martinet, La Stampa Poland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A walk on the beach after sunset on the Polish Baltic Sea coast near Choczewo.
(8) William Martinet, the leader of the students’ union UNEF , welcomed the proposals as “important measures for the young”.
(9) However, no "modern" retention complex (Nally & Martinet--R.P.I.--R.P.A.--"equipoise"...)
(10) I have seen more than enough of the spirit-sapping martinet stupidity of French management to confirm the confessions of corporate slacker Corinne Maier's Bonjour Paresse (Hello laziness!
(11) Stress is laid on the words of Martinet and Tubiana in 1950 "...treatment of varicose veins is far from being as simple as many believe...".
(12) Martinet, the author, who was his collaborator for more than 25 years, surveys his phlebological work, so diverse and so multiple that it embraces all subjects of the venous pathology of the lower limbs.
(13) A director is not a father, you have to find the part for yourself.” Callow, too, recoiled when the “meditative experimenter” of Joint Stock workshops became a “Toscanini-like martinet”.
(14) Chris Bryant, the chairman of the all-party Russia group in the UK parliament, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(15) The Guardian understands that the Southampton left-back is being bought without the approval of Van Gaal, so to hear how this squares with the martinet manager of repute who needs total control over team matters could be revealing.
(16) Martinet also expressed his support for the Nuit debout action, praising the “thousands of people who are gathering for democratic debates”.
Swift
Definition:
(v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
(v. i.) Of short continuance; passing away quickly.
(adv.) Swiftly.
(n.) The current of a stream.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
(n.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
(n.) The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
(n.) A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
(2) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
(3) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(4) Photograph: Owen Gibson Yet for those who challenge authority through their words or actions, retribution is swift.
(5) It was becoming entertaining too, a match that was swift and direct, the ball moved rapidly and with a sense of urgency.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
(7) The cash would have fed swiftly into demand, with negligible risk of inflation.
(8) Since toxoplasmosis is a potentially treatable opportunistic infection, diagnosis allows the swift institution of anti-Toxoplasma therapy.
(9) The benefit derived from the application of recemic epinephrine with intermittent positive pressure was confirmed 15 and 30 minutes later by means of a double blind study; the improvement was swift and spectacular, but temporary; therefore, such treatment must be given only in hospitals, since relapses may show up two to four hours later, making in dangerous to send the patients home or to apply to ambulatory cases.
(10) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(11) The EU interior ministers issued a joint statement in which they agreed to renew pressure on the major internet companies to step up their efforts to swiftly report and remove material that aims to incite hatred and terror.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(14) And imagine he then found that, far from acting swiftly to capture, arrest and charge him, the Metropolitan police force (who knew something about his activities) initially stood idly by as his list of victims grew and grew.
(15) Even as an 18-year-old at the [NSW] Swifts , I was more worried about it than my team-mates.
(16) Labour respects the result of the referendum and the will of the British people and will not frustrate the process for invoking article 50,” said Jeremy Corbyn in a statement that swiftly closed off any meaningful likelihood of enough MPs opposing the government’s imminent Brexit bill.
(17) "If required, we will act swiftly with further monetary policy easing.
(18) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
(19) They have been through things every bit as stressful and tough as this.” Those on both sides hoping for a swift resolution to the investigation may be disappointed: special counsel investigations can take years before coming to any conclusions.
(20) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.