(1) "It sounds to me as if Spanish officials have succeeded in nobbling this report."
(2) Last October, I was scared that Robert Francis's report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal was being delayed four months because various individuals or bodies had nobbled him, and he would produce an emasculated whitewash (to mix a metaphor outrageously).
(3) SNP members – three out of seven committee members – were not ‘nobbled’ and we did not even have a pre-meeting to discuss how we would vote prior to committee,” he said.
(4) For all the arcana of the system - waiting around for hours, making sure you're walking the right direction through the right hallway - Thornberry knows this is a great time to nobble ministers.
(5) Confirmation of the cap came after Labour accused ministers of allowing the pension industry to "nobble" the reform plans.
(6) The message I’m trying to get across is that the UK government offer is a very fair offer, it’s a very constructive offer and we’re looking to get a deal.” SNP denies 'nobbling' Fiscal Commission's oversight powers Read more The minister said the UK government had wider concerns about the Scottish government’s approach to the fiscal framework and its decision to tie the hands of an external fiscal body likened to Scotland’s version of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which polices UK government budget decisions.
(7) Scolari thought it was a deliberate attempt to nobble his best player.
(8) William Hague nobbled it with court orders stopping the coroner and family hearing what evidence MI6 possessed.
(9) According to Khan, the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith MP, is a nice chap who has been nobbled by Lynton “Dog Whistle” Crosby , Cameron’s Australian campaign guru and the thinking man’s Jeremy Clarkson.
(10) Looking at the way the OBR hedges every statement about Brexit in its report, some may suspect Chote has been nobbled to say too little.
(11) That same year, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began to investigate Capone's affairs, and in October 1931 – after Capone's efforts to nobble the jury had been defeated – he was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
(12) Ciolos is said by EU diplomats to have been "nobbled" by the French, who oppose radical CAP reform.
(13) He then admitted he had never voted and encouraged others not to, in order to nobble the establishment.
(14) McClymont told the Guardian: "The government's botched consultation has allowed vested interests to nobble the tough action required to deliver for Britain's savers."
(15) They provide for the chairs and members of select committees to be directly elected by a secret ballot of MPs, taking the process out of the hands of the party whips which led to allegations of committees being nobbled by the government.
(16) "I seem to remember Iceland winning after nobbling Zaire's Pelé-like talisman, who played in bare feet.
(17) For all his charm, he finds himself ignored by an unfriendly Kremlin, who recently nobbled his attempts to become mayor in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Noble
Definition:
(superl.) Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
(superl.) Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.
(superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.
(n.) A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.
(n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.
(n.) A European fish; the lyrie.
(v. t.) To make noble; to ennoble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(2) The current literature, for the most part, cites the use of noble alloys as controls for trials of alternative materials.
(3) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(4) The absolute mutant number and the induced mutant frequency quantitated from a treated culture is generally higher in BBL compared to Noble agar.
(5) Colonies plated in BBL agar tend to appear significantly earlier on the plates than those cloned in Noble agar.
(6) Ray Noble, a solar adviser at the UK-based Renewable Energy Association, said that the technology was relatively straightforward but the only reason to build floating farms would be if land was very tight.
(7) The foundation years debate focuses on what seems to be the most promising way of achieving that noble ambition.
(8) The potential was found to shift to a less noble state when the system of the chlorophyll-naphthoquinone electrode was inserted into NAD solution with illumination.
(9) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
(10) Fast migrating properdin (P) represented activated properdin and occured as a result of activation of properdin in the Noble agar medium used for electrophoresis provided sufficient cofactors, including Mg2+, were present.
(11) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
(12) Higher endpoint dilutions were obtained by the use of 1% Noble agar in immunoosmophoresis than with 1% Ionagar no.
(13) It was not just a fantastic sporting occasion but a glimpse of a more noble Britain: a country learning to be at ease with disability, and passionately, generously, committed to a vision of equality of opportunity.
(14) European elections have a noble history of delivering such temporary bloody noses.
(15) What campaigners for euthanasia often fail to realise is that, however noble it is in theory, conferring the right to die always runs the risk of diminishing the right to live.
(16) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(17) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
(18) For centuries, kings and queens had no option but to contract out courts, taxes, roads, prisons, to nobles and business folk.
(19) Stopping the boats” and avoiding people dying at sea is a noble motive if its combined with solutions that place the rights of refugees first.
(20) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.