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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.

Sell


Definition:

  • (n.) Self.
  • (n.) A sill.
  • (n.) A cell; a house.
  • (n.) A saddle for a horse.
  • (n.) A throne or lofty seat.
  • (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.
  • (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
  • (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
  • (v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
  • (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
  • (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
  • (2) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (3) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (4) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
  • (5) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
  • (6) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (7) The group set aside £3.2bn to cover PPI mis-selling in 2011.
  • (8) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
  • (9) It’s not like there’s a simple answer.” Vassilopoulos said: “The media is all about entertainment.” “I don’t think they sell too many papers or get too many advertisements because of their coverage of income inequality,” said Calvert.
  • (10) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
  • (11) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
  • (12) At the same time, however, he has backed the quality of the technology that the company is developing and resisted pressure to sell off underperforming businesses.
  • (13) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
  • (14) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (15) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (16) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (17) The newspaper is the brainchild of Jaime Villalobos, who saw homeless people selling The Big Issue while he was studying natural resource management in Newcastle.
  • (18) She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them.
  • (19) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
  • (20) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.

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