(1) Pochettino’s men were dominating possession but Partizan were looking dangerous, with their first chance coming after 15 minutes when Petar Grbic impressively cut inside to square for Danko Lazovic, whose shot was quickly blocked.
(2) There’s nothing in the supermarkets because of the buhoneros ,” said Ana Pérez, 60, walking past Rodríguez and the other vendors in Petare.
(3) Bicom's former communications director, Lee Petar, who runs a lobbying firm, Tetra Strategy, put Werritty in touch with the Dubai businessman, Harvey Boulter, whose meeting with Fox triggered the initial furore that led to his his demise.
(4) In Petare, a giant slum overlooking Caracas from the east, hustlers known as buhoneros sell their goods at a busy intersection.
(5) After 10 minutes Petar Grbic – a curiosity of a 6ft 3in right-winger – sprinted past Stambouli and crossed for the centre-forward Petar Skuletic, who should perhaps have scored, to head narrowly wide.
(6) In Caracas (Petare) all were negative, in Valencia, 5 of 150 (3.3%) resulted positive.
(7) That's all good and well, though let's remember the man's speaking in his second language, and I'd like to see some of his critics deliver a word-perfect reading of, say, traditional Serbian xmas poem The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš with a cheesy festive grin plastered across their smug coupon.
(8) We’re helping people get the basics Carmen Rodríguez, street vendor The scenes at Petare’s intersection, 23 de enero’s streets and Catia’s supermarkets are manifestations of an economy in tatters: one in which people buy milk, toilet paper and shampoo at inflated prices because supermarkets, with long queues outside, are near empty; in which engineers and lawyers smuggle pasta and petrol across borders to earn many times more than they would carrying out their profession; and in which surgeons complain that people are dying on the operating table because they cannot import medicines and equipment.
(9) The authors document a public education establishment for deaf-and-dumb children which uses the verbo-tonal method of Yugoslav Professor PETAR GUBERINA.
(10) 1.39pm GMT HALF-TIME FESTIVE SINGALONG (feauring Nick Drake, Val Doonican, Terry Wogan, Miles Davis and Petar II Petrović-Njegoš) City defender Aleksandar Kolarov has taken some flak of late for a rendition of Jingle Bells which makes Nick Drake sound like Val Doonican .
(11) "Interesting to see Rene Higuita in his pomp (12.36), but there was a certain Petar " Radi" Radenkovic, who played for Red Star and OFK Belgrade, later for 1860 Munich and was a legend in the 1960 - he was probably the first goalkeeper to get into the opponents half - and a much better shotstopper than Higuita!
Petard
Definition:
(n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, perhaps with a bit of hindsight, we can see this as JP Morgan being hoisted by its own petard; the complexity of the derivatives it was inventing and selling made them hard to value and rate for risk.
(2) There are respects in which the big stores have been hoist by their own petards.
(3) Mel Some people have been hoist by their own petard.
(4) But ultimately they [the government] don’t want their record of no boats arriving to be spoiled, they want to be able to continue to say no boats have arrived for more than six months – they are hoisted on their own petard.
(5) If Tehran hardliners get their way, Salman will be hoisted by his own petard.
(6) Fifty one eyes (1st group) was burned by thermal or chemical means, mainly by lime; 40 eyes (2d group) sustained chemico-mechanical injuries caused by explosions of petards or miner's detonators.
(7) But ultimately they [the government] don’t want their record of no boats arriving to be spoiled, they want to be able to continue to say no boats have arrived for more than six months – they are hoisted on their own petard.” On Wednesday a spokesman for the Morrison said it was long-standing government practice not to confirm or comment on reports of individual acts of self-harm, but there was no basis to the claims of self-harm or attempted suicide.
(8) Newcastle United are supposed to be counterattacking specialists but they ended up hoist with their own petard as a brilliant late Sunderland break resulted in Adam Johnson ruining Alan Pardew’s Christmas.
(9) Netanyahu’s new problem is that – hoist with his own petard – he has now been obliged to spin both the comments he made on the even of the elections and his wider tactics during the campaign, including his pointed breach of protocol in making a speech to Congress that US president Barack Obama did not want him to make.
(10) Indeed, it now looks as though Germany itself, for so long the main beneficiary of the structure of the eurozone, has been hoist by its own petard.
(11) There is something rather beguiling about a chancellor with strategic pretensions that exceed his abilities being hoist with his own petard.
(12) The Indians, in particular, have become past masters at co-opting the language of equity ("equal rights to the atmosphere") in the service of planetary suicide – and leftish campaigners and commentators are hoist with their own petard.
(13) The irony is that the Conservative councillors who initially decided to get rid of the perceived fat cat have been hoist with their own petard.
(14) Yet there is no guarantee that any English or Welsh shipyard could build them, so the UK could end up hoist by own petard.