What's the difference between mitch and skive?

Mitch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She expressed her condolences to Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis, who did not attend the inquest, marking the loss of "a talented woman at such a young age".
  • (2) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (3) Earlier this primary season, Tea Party-aligned candidates lost a series of high-profile battles, including in Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky, where there was a failed attempt to overthrow the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.
  • (4) "A couple of years into Obama's first term, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said: our priority, as the Republican party, is to make sure Obama is a one-term president .
  • (5) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch ­McConnell, of Kentucky.
  • (6) Kickstarting what is expected to be a concerted effort to undermine the accord over the next two months, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, accused the White House of “reaching the best deal acceptable to Iran, rather than actually advancing our national goal”.
  • (7) McConnell v Federal Election Commission, 2003 Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell and others challenged the McCain-Feingold legislation in 2003 in the supreme court.
  • (8) Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell worked through the weekend to find a way to raise the debt ceiling and re-open government.
  • (9) Both developments represent a remarkable capitulation for the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who had initially sought to simply extend the Patriot Act provisions, despite overwhelming support in the House of Representatives for the USA Freedom Act.
  • (10) Let’s say Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell strike a deal today ( that’s looking unlikely ).
  • (11) His regular punching bags get patented nicknames: Lindsey Graham is “goober”, John McCain is “John McPain”, and he once called Mitch McConnell “ The Benedict Arnold of the US Senate ”.
  • (12) The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, attempted to reconcile the competing tensions on Wednesday by portraying the bill not so much as one aimed at trying to prevent another Wall Street crisis as opening the way for what he said would be an endless round of the hated bank bailouts.
  • (13) Introducing the bill on Wednesday, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: “This bill will ensure that taxpayer dollars that are supposed to be spent on women’s health are, in fact, spent on women’s health.” Planned Parenthood, which points out that abortions represent only a fraction of the healthcare services it provides to women nationwide, says that of $1.3bn in revenue last year, $528m came from taxpayers, including state funds that help finance Medicaid.
  • (14) "When Fred Perry came to us to ask what we would like to do with the new collection, it was natural to continue," said the singer's father Mitch Winehouse.
  • (15) We could do with a little less drama from the White House,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said.
  • (16) Mitch McConnell, the Republicans’ leader in the Senate ran on a slogan of “Guns, Freedom and Coal”.
  • (17) In a functional party the Republican Speaker, John Boehner, would work out what changes he could make to the bill to give the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a fighting chance of getting the requisite majority to pass legislation they could both take credit for.
  • (18) Mitch Fifield, the assistant minister for social services, told the paper: “It’s important, as the legislated expiry dates of board appointments approach, to make sure we have into the future the best mix of skills and experience from current and new members for a venture of this magnitude and importance.” The ads seek previous corporate experience and work in disability services.
  • (19) Most of the fish are fresh off the boat from round the bay in Brixham, although the crab and lobster comes from Dartmouth and the salmon is home-smoked by Mitch.
  • (20) Updated at 8.23am BST 7.42am BST Default fears get Senate leaders moving Senate majority leader Harry Reid fuelled hopes of a deal last night when he told reporters that he and minority leader Mitch McConnell had made "tremendous progress" towards a deal.

Skive


Definition:

  • (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
  • (v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (2) The play opens with a scene where nosey neighbours spot someone on sickness benefit in the street and assume they must be skiving instead of working.
  • (3) Perhaps the culprit was skiving off the wedding of a despised but vengeful cousin when he posted.
  • (4) Are we salt of the earth yeomen, or skiving thickos milking the system, or drains on the already stretched infrastructure?
  • (5) Are workers seen as a burden, a cost, people who would rather skive and shirk responsibilities, and who have to be supervised rigorously at all times?
  • (6) The medial heel skive technique involves selectively removing small amounts of the medial portion of the plantar heel of the positive cast of the foot to create a unique varus wedging effect within the heel cup of the foot orthosis.
  • (7) I was doing a lot of skiving and was put on report for a while.
  • (8) From the start of his tenure, Wilshaw had a habit of making comments that shocked people: accusing teachers of skiving off at 3pm , saying “bad parents” should be fined.
  • (9) When my mother dropped by her boss's flat to persuade her to come to a rally that had been organised in downtown Reykjavik, she was assuaging her guilt from skiving off work by baking furiously.
  • (10) The leading edge of the bar must be properly skived and tapered to provide an even surface with the forward part of the soles of the shoes.
  • (11) There was anger at Duncan Smith’s mantra that he was ending the “something for nothing culture”, and the subtext that people who tried to claim sickness benefits were skiving.
  • (12) The Kaastrup Plant near Skive was opened in spring 1986.
  • (13) Sure, it was holiday-time: daily matches, skiving from work, the cities aglitter with flags and foreigners.
  • (14) Christopher Millross says: "I'll be skiving but only whilst still in the office as our boss is a power-crazed inadequacy-riddled fool who can't bare to think he's not in control for ninety minutes."
  • (15) 10.45am: So, two questions: 1) Are any office-based readers either a) being allowed to getting out of work to watch the England (or indeed USA) match, or b) planning to skive off this afternoon?
  • (16) Amino acid analysis of the alpha-globins of "Skive" Danish Mus musculus musculus (Hbaw3) establishes that its hemoglobin is comprised of about one-third alpha chain 2 as expected plus a greater amount of a unique alpha chain that has not been described previously.
  • (17) A monologue lets us in on his thoughts – about the joy of skiving school and chasing the sun round the sky.
  • (18) They skive off to the loo for a sneaky fag, and return grinning.

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