(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(3) They head a list of casualties at the top echelons of the financial industry including UBS's ousted chief executive Peter Wuffli and Bear Stearns's former chief operating officer Warren Spector.
(4) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(5) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(6) Though no doubt he reviles Goldsmith’s racism, he doesn’t detest it quite enough to lend a hand to oust him.
(7) Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.
(8) Ian Macfarlane signals frontbench ambition after defecting to Nationals Read more But the deputy leader of the Nationals, Barnaby Joyce, pushed back at the criticism, saying it was not unprecedented for people to move between the Coalition parties and noted it was not as significant as ousting a prime minister.
(9) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(10) Some MPs have been threatening to oust either the prime minister or the chancellor if poor poll ratings have not been reversed by next year.
(11) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(12) A headteacher the dossier claimed the plotters had ousted in fact left 20 years ago.
(13) • The original headline – 'Gun lobby campaign ousts Democrats in Colorado and Connecticut' – was amended on Wednesday September 11 2013.
(14) The jet engine maker, based mostly in Derby and Bristol, a nnounced the fresh job cuts on Tuesday as it ousted Mark Morris, its long-serving finance director .
(15) The campaign director, Dominic Cummings , who recently survived a reported effort to oust him, the chief executive, Matthew Elliott, and the company secretary, Victoria Woodcock, are also stepping down from the board.
(16) Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted by the military in July 2013 after days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive policies.
(17) Islamists in Mali threatened Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens, in a statement following the adoption by the UN Security Council of a plan to oust al-Qaida linked militants from occupied territory.
(18) Unlike a similar tale across Stanley Park recently, when Kevin Mirallas ousted Leighton Baines and missed from the spot, Balotelli coolly sent Cenk Gonen the wrong way and Liverpool were reprieved.
(19) Moreover, the abrupt ousting of Jones, and the way the news was delivered, has struck seasoned Welsh observers as typical and unsatisfactory.
(20) It's been less than a month since Dov Charney was ousted as American Apparel's CEO after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, and now the company has rehired him as a paid "strategic consultant" – and will let him keep his huge salary .
Rustication
Definition:
(n.) The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.
(n.) Rustic work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Camp out, rustic-style, at the Observatorio Astronómico de la Tatacoa, 4km east of Villavieja.
(2) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(3) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(4) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
(5) and steaming up Norris's glasses with plans to turn the Rovers into a rustic-inspired gastropub with cross-generational plate-appeal ("Cumberland sausage is all the rage in Clitheroe …").
(6) There is a bucolic tendency running deep in the national character, expressing itself in a love of rustic poets and painters, and it is this part of us that has turned to fury at the coalition government and its prosaically named Draft National Planning Policy Framework.
(7) But when we get there the restaurant, with its rustic dacha -style Russian decor, leaves us both feeling slightly spooked.
(8) For something typical of the rustic northern countryside, try cabrito asado , a slow-roasted young goat cooked in a wood-burning oven.
(9) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
(10) Anyone looking for simple, rustic, affordable experiences in priceless locations will find they’re in luck.
(11) Hidden gems and locals’ tips Mountain cabins In every highland region in Spain there will be a selection of rustic mountain cabins: refugios de montaña .
(12) This Anglo-Brazilian affair offers the best of both worlds: four rustic bungalows hidden away in rainforest, near a handful of easily accessed beaches.
(13) Cameron’s rustic ruin David Cameron has acquired a faux-rustic shepherd’s hut , in which he is hoping to write.
(14) Outside Kramatorsk's aerodrome, meanwhile, at the end of a rustic rutted alley lined with sycamores and apricots, protesters had set up a new camp.
(15) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(16) As well as rows of semi-automatic weapons of all colours and sizes there are tables with a range of handguns and accessories: Eagle grips in ultra pearl black and ivory polymer, Hornady bullets ("accurate, deadly, dependable") and general appeals to the rustic, manly and patriotic.
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
(19) Winning tip: Casa Guedes, Porto Casa Guedes , in the old centre of Porto (130 Praças Poveiros) serves juicy slabs of roast pork in rustic brown rolls, stuck together with oozing sheep’s cheese.
(20) The fresh, contemporary decor – all cool whites and soft greys – makes a refreshing change from the heavy, rustic look typically found in French gîtes.