(n.) A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
(n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.
(n.) One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.
(n.) A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(2) Torque pulses (of 10 or 100 msec) injected randomly to load or unload the movements stretched or slackened the appropiate prime movers: biceps or triceps.
(3) In addition, prime mover muscle response onset latencies of the upper arm showed a large, significant increase in older adults beyond that due to the slowing of the postural response.
(4) Among males, however, both consistent right- and left-movers performed significantly better than inconsistent movers.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joint chief of staff Nick Timothy, the primer mover in bringing back the 11-plus.
(6) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
(7) Home movers with little equity in their property are being offered a new range of 95% mortgages, provided they commit to making regular savings for at least six months.
(8) By contrast, with backward movements, the prime mover (Er.S.)
(9) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
(10) To examine whether the activity patterns of the upper arm muscles were related to the prime mover or the direction of the movement in space, the forearm was in two postures, supinate and pronate.
(11) For only the second time this year the monthly growth of movers exceeded the growth in first-time buyers.
(12) Administration of MPTP significantly prolonged EMG reaction time in prime mover muscles and arm movement reaction time by 47-225% and 18-129%, respectively, on the six sides of the three animals, compared with control measurements before the lesion.
(13) The state government has thrown its support behind Adani as a “first mover” in an attempt to open up coalmining in the Galilee basin, which it says will deliver 28,000 jobs and $28bn of investment.
(14) These findings highlight migration streams of elderly movers who likely have experienced changed in their life styles or personal resources.
(15) Phil Cliff, director of mortgages at Santander, said the scheme "will play an important role in helping both first-time buyers and home movers looking to buy new-build properties".
(16) And as far as Tate Modern, prime mover in the original bid to build the bridge, is concerned, director Nicholas Serota says: 'It doesn't appear to have deterred visitors from coming, but we were disapppointed that it had to close.
(17) First-time buyers were particularly active, taking out 27,500 loans, 16% higher than in May 2015; for the second month running, new entrants to the market borrowed more than home movers.
(18) Movers with high support at work and high total social support were more likely to report increased physician utilization.
(19) Right-movers (n = 33) were more responsive to verbal cues; left-movers (n = 45) were more responsive to facial cues (p less than .05).
(20) Later, he was a prime mover in halting the US government's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) , which could well have led to widespread censorship of the internet.
Reaper
Definition:
(n.) One who reaps.
(n.) A reaping machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(2) • How the coalition is increasingly using deadly Reaper drones to hunt and kill Taliban targets by remote control from a base in Nevada.
(3) The RAF has not disclosed the number of US-made Reapers deployed in Afghanistan, but say they will double the total over the next two years.
(4) A "light installation" is projecting a shadowy grim reaper.
(5) However, the whispering Grim Reapers are, I think and hope, unduly pessimistic.
(6) The reaper has come for America’s strongest bank.
(7) The government disclosed as part of last year’s defence review that it would double its drone fleet from 10 to 20 and the existing Reapers will give way to an updated version, the Protector, capable of remaining airborne for 40 hours and due to come into service in around 2020.
(8) There may be pictures coming in from another Reaper in the area."
(9) And the Reaper surely attracts the image of the Grim Reaper, harvesting the souls of those damned with its Hellfire missiles .
(10) Reaper drones, which are armed with Hellfire missiles, are controlled remotely from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and a USAF base in Creech, Nevada.
(11) The RAF is also flying small manned twin turboprop Beechcraft King Air planes to complement surveillance missions undertaken by the unmanned Reapers.
(12) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(13) A small number of UK personnel are currently embedded within the US RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) programme, supporting Reaper aircraft in roles which are either engaged only in the launch and recovery phase or in non-operational environments.
(14) The cost of British weapons used against Isis targets by Tornados and Reapers amounts so far to over £13m, and probably significantly more.
(15) In the end, the result was a little memoir, My Year Off, an account of rediscovering life after a serious brush with the grim reaper.
(16) Government sources said that ministers then “agreed an approach” – a strike by an unmanned RAF Reaper drone – and authorised intelligence agents and the RAF to identify the right moment to strike.
(17) The RAF has about 10 armed Reaper reconnaissance drones in Afghanistan, and these could be deployed in Iraq or Jordan if the war against Isis looks as if it may be prolonged.
(18) Reaper “remotely piloted aircraft systems” as the MoD calls them, were first used by British forces in Afghanistan and are controlled via satellite many thousands of miles away in RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
(19) The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers.
(20) The rules governing the firing of the Reapers' missiles "are no different to those used for manned combat aircraft, the weapons are all precision guided and every effort is made to ensure the risk of collateral damage and civilian casualties is minimised", a defence official said.