(1) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
(2) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
(3) Martin O'Neill , however, has taken this as his cue to try to prise James Collins from Villa Park.
(4) But Cech’s status means a big fee will be required to prise him from Stamford Bridge as his contract does not expire until the end of next season.
(5) The book faced a common fate for those who try to separate out finance and industrial capitalism, as if they could be prised apart.
(6) Tough issues like welfare, immigration, counter-terrorism, Europe, tax and the environment would start to prise this coalition apart.
(7) Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan and Reading defender Adrian Mariappa have done medicals with Palace this morning and the south London club are also trying to prise Liam Bridcutt and Leo Ulloa away from Brighton.
(8) It’s important that the spirit of sport wins out too.” Wenger also returned to the case of Anthony Martial, saying that he did not think that the player could be prised from Monaco before Manchester United signed him for a fee that could rise to £58m.
(9) Whether they could meet the fee required to prise Rémy away, however, remains to be seen though the fact Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival with a £43m move for Atlético’s Antoine Griezmann could hasten his departure.
(10) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
(11) Having recently prised the direction of special force night raids from US control, the infiltration of fighters equipped with rocket-propelled grenades, suicide vests and machine guns inside Kabul's equivalent of Baghdad's green zone must count as a major security lapse.
(12) If, through the creation of the Red Cross and later Médecins Sans Frontières, the right to healthcare even in conflict has become the norm for more than a century, then we can achieve the same for education in 2014, and prise open a window of hope amidst the increasing despair.
(13) Meanwhile Alan Pardew, Newcastle's manager, has reached an impasse in his attempts to prise the France right-back Mathieu Debuchy away from Lille, the Brazilian central defender Douglas from FC Twente and Andy Carroll from Liverpool.
(14) Later that night, Lola wailed in the street as the police prised her baby from her arms and led her into custody.
(15) Any interest in the Tunisia centre-half Aymen Abdennour has been dropped after he swapped Monaco for Valencia, while Zenit St Petersburg will resist attempts to prise away the Argentina defender Ezequiel Garay.
(16) They believe they have a good idea about who the core readership is, and one of the ways they prise a reaction from that readership is through shrieked alerts and cautionary tales about The Other.
(17) The striker has long been José Mourinho's principal forward target for the close season, a player Chelsea could not hope to prise away from the Vicente Calderón mid-term, with the London club now prepared to trigger the release clause in Costa's deal.
(18) The 21-year-old Frenchman is being monitored by Louis van Gaal as a potential summer recruitment but his decision to sign a new deal will make it hard for United to prise him away from the San Mamés.
(19) In a tight match they could easily have lost, City stayed patient, trusted in their ability and eventually prised open a Newcastle defence that was becoming increasingly stubborn.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shashi Tharoor: Britain should pay India damages over colonial rule Democracy, in other words, had to be prised from the reluctant grasp of the British by Indian nationalists.
Prize
Definition:
(n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
(n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
(n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
(n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
(n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
(n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
(n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
(v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
(v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
(v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
(n.) Estimation; valuation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(3) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
(4) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(5) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(6) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
(7) The agency notes, too, that the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has form when it comes to announcing peace prize winners early, saying last year the EU had triumphed an hour before the official announcement.
(8) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(9) The launch of M-Farm followed a €10,000 (about £8,500) investment prize.
(10) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(11) How can a prize that is supposed to be for one person be given to an amorphous supranational organisation?
(12) But there was a shock with the Jury prize, which went to Polisse, one of the four films in competition directed by a woman.
(13) For many, free movement is the price that has to be paid for the prize of single market membership.
(14) GNM accepts no responsibility for any costs associated with the prize that are not expressly included in the prize.
(15) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
(16) Peter Vipond, director of regulation and tax at the Association of British Insurers, said: "We are concerned that so far none of the bodies will have a statutory objective to maintain London's competitiveness as a global financial sector – this is too valuable a prize to be thrown away."
(17) Boyle, who on Sunday night received an outstanding contribution prize at the Empire awards, said he was not a fan of stereoscope on film and doubted it would survive.
(18) The possible reasons why Kitasato lost the first Nobel Prize for medicine to von Behring are presented.
(19) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(20) But NS&I has announced that it is cutting the prize fund rate from 1 May, although the chances of winning a prize will remain the same at 30,000-1 as the number of £25 prizes will increase.