(1) I did a quick survey of friends' and neighbours' families and found 11 young people and three men in their 40s and 50s on this merry-go-round.
(2) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
(3) On hearing the Rolf Harris verdicts, I felt vengeful, like many, I expect – condemning this man who led the public a merry dance and enjoyed enormous success while perpetrating abuse.
(4) Steph Merry, head of marine renewables at the Renewable Energy Association, said last year that only the giant barrage made sense.
(5) Interesting that there should be so many applications who are, according to the Merry Hill store, of an “incredibly high” standard, and so soon after graduation.
(6) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(7) Banks stopped lending almost overnight, and the Wilsons' property merry-go-round suddently started looking increasingly shaky.
(8) Merry Go 'Round was praised by Katy Perry and a song that Musgraves co-wrote, Undermine , was played on the TV series Nashville , shown in the UK on Channel 4.
(9) With the private sector now calling the tune on affordable housing, while hiding the score in a locked room, it’s not hard to see why the chief executive of the National Housing Federation, David Orr, recently told his members that developers are “leading local authorities on a merry dance”.
(10) Amid all the schadenfreude, it’s worth remembering that two years ago, Arsène Wenger and his merry men were similarly derided after suffering a comical opening day home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa, before going on to win eight and draw one of their next nine league matches.
(11) Allowing for the odd lapse – such as his terrible musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2006 – he has done much fine work.
(12) Interviewed about the cuts and the economic outlook on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on Sunday , Osborne looked grim and statesmanlike in repose – he has grown fleshier in office – but every time he began to speak his dimpled mouth formed a half-smile and his quick eyes were almost merry.
(13) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(14) We decided we wanted to offer it to a young asylum seeker.” At the Paris parish of Saint Merry to which and her husband, Philippe, belong, Pépin had heard of the Welcome to France project run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).
(15) "And going on that IVF merry-go-round with all the drugs and the stress, given the limited return ..." We also need to confront our illusions about having a genetic child if we are going to put so much faith in medical solutions, he adds.
(16) The last time he quit, two years ago as general election coordinator, he told Miliband: “After nearly 30 years of this, I feel like I’ve seen the merry-go-round turn too many times.” Unite had hijacked the selection process for the candidate for West Falkirk in favour of Watson’s office manager, Karie Murphy.
(17) At 14 she was high jumping 1.80m, she'd broken Katharine Merry's schools record, there was no hiding after that.
(18) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
(19) Given the attackers have only released a slice of the 100 terabytes of information they claim to have, Sony and its workers are set for a not-so-merry Christmas.
(20) Smoke, drink and make merry On the other hand, the British war veteran Henry Allingham had wildly differing advice (though he agrees on the smoking, at least), putting his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women. "
Sportive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the chromosomal rearrangements that occurred during the chromosomal evolution of the sportive lemurs, only those which would generate a pronounced reproductive barrier were considered in relation to the geographic distribution of this genus.
(2) Today more younger patients were operated replacing a destroyed hip joint: the reintegration in professional and sportive activities is a major part of the rehabilitation process.
(3) Of the 149 patients, 130 had been injured in sportive activities and 110 were able to return to some degree of athletics.
(4) They also discuss the problems of muscle atrophy and the time at which sportive activities of varying strains may be taken up again.
(5) It reduces the theoric immobilization time, makes rehabilitation easier as well as the return to sportive and professional activities.
(6) In September 2008 I watched a crowd of no more than a hundred fans of Espérance Sportive Tunis – the major team of the country – take on the riot police in the backstreets around Place de Carthage and Place de Barcelone.
(7) Not only does OLT provide mere survival (among 5 patients with lethal hepatic disease, 4 are alive at 2 years from OLT), it also provides a regained quality of life with a virtually normal (for the price of a daily medication intake) family, professional and sportive life.
(8) Specificity of ultrastructural organization of the skeletal muscle fibers is revealed in connection with sportive specialization.
(9) Schleck is now the favourite for this summer's race and he said: "My goal is to win the Tour de France in a sportive way, being the best of all competitors, not in court.
(10) On account of the fact that the regular wheelchair, above all when "sportively styled", is forcing both legs, i.e.
(11) 5 of those 10 patients were free of complaints during sportive activities 3 years later.
(12) To avoid this and to conserve the sportive ability we recommend the displacement of the tuberositas tibiae to medial and distal.
(13) 10 out of those 11 patients had no complaints during their sportive activities 3 years after this operation.
(14) A retrospective analysis of 29 patients with regard to their sportive activities after operative treatment of osteochondritis dissecans was carried out.
(15) A review of consecutive treatment methods and professional and sportive rehabilitation measures are presented.
(16) On comparison of the West African potto with two other prosimian myoglobins known so far, there were 12 differences between the potto and the galago (East African) and 18 differences between the potto and the sportive lemur (Madagascar).
(17) Graham Little, presenter of ITV4's The Cycle Show I'll be watching stage two at Ballycastle, a beautiful spot and also the start and finish of the Giant's Causeway Coast Sportive that I help organise!
(18) Ergospirometry was performed in 19 children and adolescents operated for tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) to assess their exercise capacity compared to an active non sportive control group.
(19) In 1908, glorifying the sportive energy of combat, the Italian futurist Marinetti called war “the hygiene of the world”.
(20) All patients were able to continue their sportive activity after the excision of the paratenon.