(1) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(2) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(3) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
(4) The regime of thermal treatment applied to the ice-cream melange produced bactericidal effect on the Enterococcus microflora.
(5) Each chapter is a melange of storylines building to an end of chapter cliffhanger that hooks the reader as firmly as Brookie’s go-to-ad-break jeopardy.
(6) He finds meaning in the melange of largely bad food he was served as a child and revels in his love affair with trains that is now deprived him by his immobile condition.
(7) The truth is that the center of gravity for many international manufacturing companies has long ago scattered from a single base in the US to a global melange of places with cheap labor and lower taxes.
(8) Previous studies have demonstrated that chronic exposure of rats to a melange of ultra-mild stressors causes an antidepressant-reversible decrease in the intake of palatable weak sucrose solutions, as well as other evidence of insensitivity to rewards.
(9) Roman Polanski then made it into a film that, despite being a melange of confused accents (every single actor is speaking in an accent other than their own – and, boy, you don’t forget it), was his most enjoyable movie for years.
(10) They were fine with her Poem For Dzhokhar, too: "Anything that emotionally affects me becomes part of the melange of thoughts, and then art, that I create."
(11) Azonutril 25 was given as nutritive melange, maintaining a calorie-nitrogen ratio of 150 to 200 calories for every added gram of nitrogen.
(12) It may be that the major direct effect of MTX on epidermal cell proliferation is complemented or even mediated by subtle immunoregulatory effects on the melange of cells in the affected skin and the systemic immune response.
(13) A deliriously tragic-comic autobiopic, with startling unmatched editing and a melange of elevating music sources, it became Kuchar's signature movie.
(14) They may be related also to the activity of mycobacterial adjuvant as a vehicle for the induction of delayed hypersensitivity on the basis that this melange activates macrophages to phagocytose and enzymatically degrade macromolecular antigens rapidly.
(15) The landscape stays stunningly harsh all the way across to the Apache Indian homelands of southern Arizona, where the mining camp-cum-artists' community of Bisbee adds another take on this classic American melange.
(16) In just 17 days, the pair recorded the album Let’s Dance, an irresistible melange of funk and pop that became Bowie’s most popular album ever, but saw him abdicate from his decade-long position on rock music’s cutting edge.
(17) Summarized results of five-year microbiologic studies on the production of dried egg products (white of egg, yolk, and melange), are presented.
(18) His quip that no one will find out what he got up to in City Hall because everything incriminating had been shredded; his cheap oil deal with Venezuela; and his failure to deal adequately with the toxic, largely unsubstantiated melange of allegations levelled by the Evening Standard against his then equalities adviser Lee Jasper .
(19) In freezing the ice-cream melange the amount of Enterococcus microflora dropped from 3.2 to 3.3 times.
(20) To accomplish the release of the gas, huge quantities of water are injected at high pressure together with a melange of toxic chemicals that can contaminate water supplies and rivers.
Ragbag
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, for all its recent adoption of the odd leftwing populist policy (its sudden opposition to the bedroom tax, for instance), Ukip is still a ragbag of free-marketeers and continuity Thatcherites who might bond with their voters thanks to their social conservatism and antipathy to immigration – but have little meaningful to say about the economic reality of their lives.
(2) The putative bill has already been dismissed as a "ragbag of retreats" by some of those MPs on select committee responsible for scrutinising the bill, in their view botching the reform of the dual legal and political roles of the attorney general.
(3) The paranoid police have pursued a homosexual witch-hunt on this issue, egged on by media, Labour MPs and a ragbag of internet fantasists.” Scotland Yard declined to comment on Proctor’s press conference, although detectives had previously issued a statement saying officers found Nick’s allegations to be “credible and true”.
(4) With the mainstream meekly united behind that lost cause, it is no surprise if voters hunt around for ragbag alternatives.
(5) ), speech pathology (what is the ragbag called "hypertenseness"?
(6) It was in fact a ragbag of policy reheats and vague aspirations, an acknowledgement of defeat and a sign of panic.
(7) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
(8) A primary school teacher by day, his debut show, Spontaneous Comedian (Pleasance) , is a lovely ragbag of absurd juxtapositions and left-field observations.
(9) The new bill covers a ragbag of anti-crime measures including new rules on the retention of the DNA profiles of the innocent, stronger powers to tackle antisocial behaviour, the scrapping of stop and search forms and the introduction of a licensing regime for private wheelclamping businesses.
(10) I wanted to back-project rigour but start with a ragbag."
(11) They bring a welcome voice of sanity after a disastrous failure of planning intelligence about how to make a coherent place out of this ragbag of parts.
(12) Their departure has left a ragbag of contenders doing battle for the bedsit record player turntable.
(13) The Ladykillers tells the story of a ragbag group of criminals, led by the scheming Professor Marcus, who lodge with Mrs Wilberforce while planning a bank heist.
(14) It seemed an almost comic ambition for a party that was then still – as its leader cheerfully conceded – a ragbag of embarrassing “eccentrics”.
(15) A follower of Gurdjieff , the Russian mystic who introduced the west to a ragbag of eastern mysticism in the first part of the 20th century, Travers was more interested in excavating the archetypes that underpinned esoteric Christianity than dreaming up nursery pap.
(16) The Tories dismiss the ragbag of clauses – from treaty ratification to demos in Parliament Square – as pointless and cynical displacement activity by a dying regime.
(17) Yet somewhere between these performances, the long-ago knowing innocence of Rita and the ragbag of grotesques in which TV has so often cast her, there is another Julie Walters.
(18) The measures have been dismissed as a "ragbag of retreats" by some MPs, botching reform of the role of the attorney general.
(19) A ragbag collection of footsoldiers in the self-proclaimed "People's Army" of Ukip is struggling to keep pace as Roger Helmer strides through the back streets of Bingham, a Nottinghamshire market town once named as the best place in Britain to raise a family.
(20) The current ragbag of foundation trust governors, lay members of CCGs and patient participation groups is inadequate and Stevens really should be requiring a better game on citizen engagement.