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Pence


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.
  • (pl. ) of Penny

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p ; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible.
  • (2) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
  • (3) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
  • (4) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
  • (5) In both cases, her coaching seems to have paid off, at least for a time: those GOP lawmakers walked into decidedly fewer self-sabotaging boobytraps in the election cycle following the 2013 retreat at which she spoke, and Pence’s strong performance at the RNC last month was a bright spot in an otherwise blighted convention.
  • (6) If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions,” Pence told Politico in 2011.
  • (7) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
  • (8) On Friday websites reported that when news of the 2005 recording broke, Trump running mate Mike Pence – who was eating a chili dog with his daughter at a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio – abruptly dropped the pool of reporters who were following him, thereby avoiding any questions on the matter.
  • (9) Putin should stay out of this election.” Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, issued a statement saying: “The FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking.
  • (10) But Pence, close observers said, simply advocated such ideas ahead of their time, at a moment when Republican leadership still feared that the “war on women” label would spoil their standing with the public in the 2012 election.
  • (11) BSkyB pounces on 17.9 per cent stake, at 135 pence per share, costing £920m, blocking a potential bid from Virgin.
  • (12) Mike Pence has his own troubles when it comes to this scandal.” Ben Wikler, Washington director of the progressive group MoveOn.org, said: “Mike Pence has been on the Trump train.
  • (13) And I’ve had to walk away from my Baptist church after they were strongly guiding us to vote for Trump and Mike Pence.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
  • (15) Specifically, this price represents a premium of: • 44% over Cadbury's share price of 524 pence on 3 July 2009, prior to recent analyst suggestions regarding potential sector consolidation; • 37% over Cadbury's 90-day average share price of 553 pence in the period up to 27 August 2009, the last business day preceding this letter; and • 31% over Cadbury's share price of 578 pence at close yesterday.
  • (16) The voters would punish them and the result is you’ve got Pence as president and he’s more like Gerry Ford.
  • (17) Pence grounds out for the second out of the longest inning of the game.
  • (18) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
  • (19) Then Peralta flies out to Pence in right field, and just like that, the inning over.
  • (20) Pence met repeatedly with House Republicans but rebels still abounded.

Ponce


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 9634 patients (21-39 years, with at least 1 normal pregnancy) with no previous experience with oral contraceptives or IUDs, seen at clinics in Rio Piedras, Caguas, and Ponce, Puerto Rico from July 1961 to October 1969 to study their changing patterns in cervical cytology were divided randomly into 2 groups, of which 4846 were given oral contraceptive, Enovid, and 4788 provided with a vaginal contraceptive excluding IUDs, and followed for a period of 6 months-8 years.
  • (2) So he’s come here and ponced off us hasn’t he, like all the east Europeans are?
  • (3) Cohen, M. Ponce de Leon, H. Diggelmann, W.C. Lawrence, S.K.
  • (4) Juan Ponce de León, a volunteer with the campaign, said the machine was part of a wider effort to bring in as many donations as possible this year.
  • (5) Ponce notes that more and more young people with more than nine years of schooling are migrating to the US, risking their lives as they cross the border illegally.
  • (6) Ponce de Leon and Mares just exchanged a rather tasty flurry of punches in the second round, with Mares perhaps landing the bigger punches...and he's down at the bell!
  • (7) Even Marcos's defence minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, brutal jailer of the democracy campaigners, was placated by Aquino, eventually finishing up as a senator.
  • (8) So, he comes here, ponces off us and then his son’s in our political system.” North East Hampshire is a safe Tory seat.
  • (9) Other ads focused on the economic consequences: Fernando Ponce, then head of Anprac, the beverage industry association, warned that 10,000 jobs would be lost in the short term, and 20,000 in the medium term.
  • (10) A great big sweaty bespectacled bear of a man, Raymond the Roller would run the heavy roller from one end of the pitch to the other at a fair old lick scattering any subs poncing about and traumatising the kids taking part in the penalty shoot-out.
  • (11) Ponce notes that things will only get worse as a result of the economic recession in the US and Europe, which is compounded by Mexico's low rate of job creation.
  • (12) Carmen Ponce, an economist specialising in gender issues, says 2012 will be a "very challenging" year for Mexico in terms of job creation, as Chinese goods begin flooding the country as a result of the implementation of a trade agreement that opens the door to imports from China.
  • (13) Of 602 specimens obtained from blood donors in Ponce in 1987, 1 (0.2%) was positive; an additional specimen was indeterminate.
  • (14) According to Marvin Ponce, vice-president of the Honduran congress, up to 40% of police have ties to organised crime.
  • (15) Ponce de León said he hoped the machine would generate enough interest to help families at least get through the holiday season.
  • (16) Instead we have the spiky analysis of Paulie Malignaggi ringside, and most pertinently of all (and what you’re all dying to know) the fight will be prefaced by Jimmy Lennon Jr’s rallying cry of “It’s Showtime!” Ponce de Leon inching back into the fight a little in the 4th, but Mares still demonstrably faster.
  • (17) Ponce forecasts that around 100,000 jobs will be lost this year.
  • (18) 4.34am BST Post-fight Ponce de Leon might feel aggrieved, as the incumbent champion, at the speed with which the fight was stopped.
  • (19) For Ponce, these figures reflect "the feminisation of unemployment".
  • (20) 4.28am BST Undercard still going... Ponce de Leon quite happy to let this become as scrappy as it's become in these middle rounds.

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