(1) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
(2) Military officials said one of the mutineers was killed and six were wounded in the fighting, and tanks and armoured vehicles were later deployed around the palace.
(3) And the setting of a spending review for June is bound to provoke months of mutinous muttering from ministers in charge of unprotected departments (see Vince Cable, Theresa May and Philip Hammond ).
(4) As in most mutinous them-and-us industrial confrontations it had been simmering for years and then boiled over for what seemed the most trifling of reasons.
(5) Corbyn also faces a mutinous parliamentary Labour party .
(6) I was put in mind of Ernest Shackleton, stranded on a sheet of ice, his policies crushed to fragments, his men mutinous.
(7) The most serious coup attempt against her, in December 1989, was quashed only when a flyover by US jets deterred mutinous soldiers.
(8) What a Lovely War, The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder, as a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite.
(9) Any record collection ought to contain copies of Mr Bad Example, Mutineer, Life'll Kill Ya or My Ride's Here, this latter featuring Warren's best buddies Hunter S Thompson, novelist Carl Hiaasen and David Letterman.
(10) Town after town has fallen, and now the mutineers almost have the gates of the provincial capital, Goma, within their sights, just as Nkunda did in 2008.
(11) Western governments are wary of dealing with mutinous middle-ranking army officials led by Amadou Sanogo, who maintains a tenuous grip on power and faces a resurgent, decades-old independence movement with links to AQIM.
(12) His article in the Daily Mail last Friday, attacking "leftwing academics all too happy to feed the myths" of Blackadder and The Monocled Mutineer , was clever but unwary journalism.
(13) But the speed with which American commentators, reacting to McChrystal's mutinous behaviour, moved to stress the need to control the generals indicated uneasiness about current trends.
(14) Of course, my mother also knows that and my grandmother knows that.” On Saturday there was applause and oohs and aahs, and no mutinous noises.
(15) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(16) Come on Grahame, name the ‘mutineers’!” he responded on Twitter.
(17) To avoid this catastrophe, Stevens should train his frontline officers, the senior partners in GP practices and hospital consultants, to be leaders, motivated to take the mutinous trolls into a different and better sort of world.
(18) The parliamentary Labour party The mutinous mood of Labour MPs on Monday night was always going to be a bad news story, but it turned into something much worse – a tale of Corbyn somehow losing all control before he’d even assumed it.
(19) What a Lovely War , The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder .
(20) For a while the mutinous crowd teetered on open revolt, only for Hull to surrender the initiative.
Muting
Definition:
(n.) Dung of birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
(2) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(3) But its protests were far more muted than the complaints which saw off plans for drills there earlier this year.
(4) to produce speech for the mute, man-machine communication through speech in industry control, data processing systems and uses in audiological diagnostics.
(5) Ten months on, reactions are likely to be more muted.
(6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
(7) Likewise, his criticism of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill , which proposed the death penalty for same-sex acts, was muted.
(8) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(9) Additional studies revealed that the muted effects of PTHrP occurred via a PTH-independent mechanism.
(10) Winning a majority muted that speculation without eradicating the ambitions that fuelled it.
(11) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
(12) While calling for an end to the violence and democratic reform, western and other Arab countries have mostly muted their criticism of the killings and repression in Syria for fear of destabilising the country, which plays a strategic role across the Middle East.
(13) Another sci-fi film, Mute, which he describes as "my love letter to Blade Runner", is already in development and will be filmed in Berlin.
(14) It appeared, however, that she was muting her resistance to an expanded if limited ECB role, clearing the way for central bank and International Monetary Fund interventions that might take the edge off the immediate emergency and provide a breathing space for a more systemic political response.
(15) Indeed, the language of the ethic of care may give a voice to nurses who previously felt morally mute.
(16) Lysosomal enzyme secretion in response to thrombin treatment was partially reduced in muted platelets and markedly reduced in mocha platelets.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Even in the wake of Newtown, the shift toward gun safety policies has been relatively muted .
(19) Violence, public and domestic, in peace and war, is muted by the modulated tones of civilised life.
(20) If I had been seeing red upon learning the dark projections for my health, my world was returning to its known colors, now muted with that knowledge that comes eventually for everyone: that the body is not the friend you thought was.