(1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(2) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(3) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
(4) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(5) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(6) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
(7) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
(8) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(9) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
(10) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(11) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
(12) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(13) Customers who sign up to the Tesco Mobile Xtras programme will see an extra full-screen ad roughly every third time they unlock their phone.
(14) Source: Mediacells (Or view the map at OpenHeatMap ) At the other end of the scale, a number of countries will see proportionately few new buyers - suggesting that the remaining featurephone owners are declining to upgrade to more powerful phones.
(15) I've spoken to her on the phone and seen her a couple of times, but I've not noticed any change in Georgina.
(16) While there's no indication of whether Zuckerberg's teams will act on Dediu's advice, the rumours that Facebook is working on a phone have surfaced from time to time – most recently in April, when the Taiwanese news site Digitimes suggested it is working with Taiwan's HTC to build a device integrating all the Facebook functions, for release this autumn.
(17) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(18) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(19) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
(20) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.
Phony
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He said that it was the "poor looking for work" who had paid the price for the "phony 50p rate" because it had made the country "uncompetitive".
(2) "It opens the door for teaching a phony controversy," he said.
(3) In March, he called Trump a “phony” and dissed Trump’s business acumen.
(4) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(5) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(6) Over the past eight months, Italian investigators have peeled away layers of false leads, attempted cover-ups, and phony evidence, to build a clearer picture of what happened to Giulio Regeni than at first seemed possible.
(7) Nowhere is this transition better documented than with the phony but ubiquitous rule on when to use "which" and when to use "that".
(8) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
(9) Romney said “it’s not easy to win,” adding that Trump offered a vision that “connected with the American people in a very powerful way.” His comments are a departure from his stance during the campaign, when Romney was sharply critical of Trump, calling him a “phony” and a fraud whose promises were worthless.
(10) But its activists are as likely to be denounced by Islamists at Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) for being “phony” Muslims as they are to be denounced by the Telegraph .
(11) Trump had previously made this argument in a series of tweets on Sunday night, alleging “the people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians.
(12) His story starts at Pencey Prep, a prestigious boarding school filled with "phonies", as Holden likes to call them.
(13) Though he has presented a plan that would cut taxes for the richest Americans, in May he said: “ For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it’s going to go up .” Hillary Clinton “She’s a world-class liar; just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing ... in Bosnia where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton has answered questions about the private email server she used as secretary of state with careful, legalistic language.
(14) Despite his phony credentials as a cleric, Guinness felt strongly that the reality of this trust was important.
(15) It was a system in which phony invoices and receipts thrived next to phantom committees and working groups that never met.
(16) "As fewer and fewer readers are able to find their way, amid all the noise and disappointing books and phony reviews, to the work produced by the new generation of this kind of writer, Amazon is well on its way to making writers into the kind of prospectless workers whom its contractors employ in its warehouses, labouring harder for less and less, with no job security, because the warehouses are situated in places where they're the only business hiring," Franzen writes.
(17) During the campaign, Romney delivered searing criticism of Trump’s business acumen, temperament and personal conduct, calling him at turns a “fraud” and a “phony” who would usher in an era of “trickle-down racism”.
(18) She pointed to the fact that both characters love to use the words "goddam", "phony", "crumby", "lousy", "hell", "bastard", and the phrase "kills me".
(19) In November, MEND’s chief executive, Sufyan Gulam Ismail, announced to a Manchester mosque: “We don’t want the government to fob us off with some phony thing called Tell MAMA, which has got a pro-Zionist pretty much heading it, or in a very senior capacity, and is making all sorts of comments we might not agree with when it comes to homosexuality, to be recording Islamophobia.” Tell MAMA’s offence is to try to be consistently anti-racist.
(20) Asked if the letter was phony, Araud replied: "It's not a false letter, it's a false president."