(n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.
Example Sentences:
(1) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(2) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
(3) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(4) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(5) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(6) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
(7) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
(8) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
(9) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(11) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
(12) Quantitative easing, which nobody had heard of until it started happening, entered the language.
(13) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
(14) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
(15) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
(16) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
(17) Nobody's mobile phone bill should come to £230 in one month.
(18) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(19) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
(20) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.
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Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
(3) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
(4) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(5) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(6) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
(7) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(8) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(9) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
(10) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
(12) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(13) In families with several cases, secondary cases (children infected in the home) had a relative mortality risk of 3.00 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.55-5.80) compared with index cases who caught infection from someone outside the home.
(14) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.
(15) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(16) Because of the high rates of employment of mothers, a large and increasing number of preschool children receive regular care from someone else.
(17) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
(18) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
(19) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
(20) The sense that someone else is running the show – bankers, Europe, multinationals – is no longer the province of the radical left.