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Pell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pelt; to knock about.
  • (n.) A skin or hide; a pelt.
  • (n.) A roll of parchment; a parchment record.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
  • (2) "I apologise once again to the victims and their families for the terrible suffering that has been brought to bear by these crimes," Pell told a mass of thanksgiving on Thursday night.
  • (3) Next week, when Pell is giving evidence at the royal commission, I look forward to your comments about Catholicism and what our church needs to do to drag itself into the modern world.
  • (4) Commission chair Justice Peter McClellan says Pell will be required to answer the allegations in a statement.
  • (5) The president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, also congratulated Pell, saying he was well suited to such an important appointment.
  • (6) He went on to point to the opportunities that lie ahead for the likes of James Ward-Prowse, Sam Gallagher, Jack Stephens, Jordan Turnbull, Matt Targett and Sam McQueen next term, with Koean having only recruited Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pelle from Dutch football to date.
  • (7) I would never have condoned or participated in a decision to transfer Ridsdale in the knowledge that he had abused children, and I did not do so.” Pell said he continued to regret the misunderstanding between himself and David Ridsdale and he stood by his previous sworn denial of Ridsdale’s allegations.
  • (8) Cardinal Pell has shown exceptional and high-profile leadership in the Australian Church and will have an important contribution to make to the universal Church in this area of finance.” News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch lauded the announcement on Twitter.
  • (9) Pope Francis has tended to stand by officials if they are publicly under attack and there are no signs that he is backing off from his support of Pell.
  • (10) Father Pell said ‘don’t be ridiculous’ and walked out,” said Green.
  • (11) Pell, who is Archbishop of Sydney is meanwhile described by The Australian as a 20-1 favourite to take over Benedict's job.
  • (12) Claims that Pell ignored or sought to silence allegations of abuse are more than a decade old.
  • (13) There was an internal backlash that had to do with the impression that Pell has accumulated too much power around himself and that he was setting himself up as a tinhorn dictator,” said Allen.
  • (14) Pell has previously apologised to victims of clergy sex abuse for the pain they endured.
  • (15) Pope Francis on Monday revealed Pell would become one of the most powerful men in the Catholic church with his new body having authority over all economic and administrative activities within the Holy See and Vatican.
  • (16) Observers say Pell is not the only man who has been caught in a difficult position.
  • (17) This week Saunders claimed in an interview in Australia that Pell’s allegedly “callous” past treatment of sex abuse victims was “almost sociopathic”.
  • (18) Tony Abbott has declined to say whether Cardinal George Pell should return to Australia from the Vatican to address claims made against him this week at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
  • (19) Vatican official George Pell 'corrects record' after abuse victim's bribery claim Read more “I am committed to complete cooperation with the royal commission,” the statement from Pell said.
  • (20) In a previous publication, Pell et al described the cancer epidemiologic surveillance program that was begun in the Du Pont Company in 1956 and presented standardized cancer incidence and mortality data through 1974 for Du Pont employees compared with such data for the US general population.

Pull


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
  • (v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
  • (v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
  • (v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
  • (v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
  • (v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
  • (v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
  • (v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
  • (n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
  • (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
  • (n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
  • (n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
  • (n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
  • (n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
  • (n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
  • (n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
  • (2) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (3) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
  • (5) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (6) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
  • (7) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
  • (8) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
  • (9) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
  • (10) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
  • (11) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
  • (12) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
  • (13) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
  • (15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (16) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
  • (17) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
  • (18) The second national multiplex was handed to 4 Digital, but was handed back after Channel 4 pulled out.
  • (19) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
  • (20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.

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