(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The physics staff had succeeded in sealing off a vacuum tube for the betatron, and further developments involved field flattening, exposure measurements, collimation, stray electron control, phantom tests, and development of a beam peeler.
(2) In the course of investigation of the relationship between hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the wood industry 45 popple peelers were studied.
(3) Dress makers were mostly affected by nickel, while orange sellers and peelers were positive to orange peel, fragrance mix, balsam of Peru and formaldehyde in varying combinations.
(4) Even now, two years after the expenses scandal first engulfed Parliament, it is this single item that seems to resonate most in the public consciousness as the embodiment of the sense of entitlement that led politicians to make claims for everything from massage chairs to garlic peelers.
(5) The advantages of the potato peeler technic include better immobility of the lesion being curetted, more effective control of bleeding, and greater stability and increased flexibility and movement of the hand holding the curet.
(6) July 6, 2015 Senate Republican leader Harvey Peeler said that he would oppose the bill to remove the flag, saying that his ancestors owned slaves and that taking down the flag cannot change that history.
(7) It is a revealing exercise: two large strawberries, six radishes, one easy peeler (despite the packaging specifying two) each make a portion.
(8) Using a peeler, thinly slice the cucumber until you get down to the seeds, turn the cucumber and repeat the process until all the flesh has been removed.
(9) She keeps a vegetable peeler "like a pencil sharpener" on her desk, along with a bag of carrots, tomatoes and radishes.
(10) The procedure for curettage is discussed and the mechanics of two technics, the pencil technic and the potato peeler technic, are described.
(11) Evidence was previously presented to support the thesis that chronic pain is activated by neuronal elements that make up the multisynaptic short axon core of the reticular system (Andy and Peeler 1985).
(12) Those Smash robots, which used to fall about laughing at potato peelers, must be rusting with chagrin.
(13) Cake forks, coffee spoons, a peeler and a £16.99 clothes airer were among the miscellaneous items Gove reclaimed expenditure on.
Pillage
Definition:
(n.) The act of pillaging; robbery.
(n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
(v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
(v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crowds attacked a police station in Kef yesterday, pillaging documents and equipment and setting it on fire.
(2) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(3) The area was pillaged, women were raped, murders committed.
(4) Makhaya wrote: “These contradictions, Rhodes the pillager and Rhodes the benefactor, are a symbol of our country’s evolution towards a yet to be attained just and inclusive order.
(5) At a press conference on Thursday, the Ivorian state prosecutor Simplice Kouadia Koffi said the couple were accused of "aggravated theft, attacks on the national economy, embezzlement of public funds and pillage".
(6) They were pillaging our shit,” Gates says, speaking of the modernists, who were influenced by deliberately abstracted proportions and forms in African figural carvings, often meant to represent more than one person.
(7) There is a rape culture – a mindset that seems to have infected every aspect of our lives: the raping of the Earth through ecological destruction by the corporate powerful, pillaging resources for their own coffers with no concern for the Earth, or the indigenous peoples, or the notion of reciprocity; the rape of the poor through exploitation, land grabs, neglect; the rape of women's bodies through physical violence and commodification, where a girl can be purchased for less than the cost of a mobile phone.
(8) Based on Robert Edsel's book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes , the film focuses on the ragtag group of Americans, played by Clooney, Damon, Murray, Goodman and Bob Balaban, one Brit (Hugh Bonneville – Heslov is a big fan of Downton Abbey) and one Frenchman (Jean Dujardin, who is sweet in the film, even if he clearly only understood about one English word in every five of his lines) who were formed to try to save some of the great works of European art and architecture from being destroyed and pillaged during the second world war.
(9) In a striking breach of precedence, the Taliban militia did not make use of their unspoken right to pillage and loot.
(10) Will Cragin, the IMC's programme co-ordinator for North Kivu province, said there was no fighting and no deaths, but "lots of pillaging and systematic raping of women".
(11) Government forces have committed gross violations of human rights and the war crimes of torture, hostage-taking, murder, execution without due process, rape, attacking protected objects and pillage.
(12) "We have criminals, and semi-criminals, carrying out killings, robbery, and pillaging," he says.
(13) Others see the removal of boatloads of ancient art by Elgin's agents as an act of pillage.
(14) Photograph: Shawn Carrié Despite his unapologetic endorsement of pillaging, after listening to him talk for hours, I couldn’t shake the impression that looters like Dante couldn’t just be condemned as opportunistic thieves.
(15) Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba denies charges that he unleashed his personal militia to murder, rape and pillage in the Central African Republic in 2002-03.
(16) Nigeria’s army has faced repeated allegations of rights abuses, including summary executions, rape and pillage – charges which authorities deny.
(17) The international criminal court has convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage over a deadly attack on a village in eastern Congo, but acquitted him of rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
(18) Hopes of a deal have been severely tested in recent days by the increasingly bitter war of words, with the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras , accusing the country’s creditors of “pillaging” Greece, while European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, previously seen as sympathetic to Greece’s cause, said the government was misleading the Greek public about the negotiations.
(19) The UN mission has a difficult mandate to support the Congolese army, whose troops often are also accused of raping and pillaging.
(20) It’s also built around the pillaged scores of 15th-century sacred choral music – hence the Guide inviting him back to church for the first time since he was 14.