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Rand


Definition:

  • (n.) A border; edge; margin.
  • (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
  • (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
  • (v. i.) To rant; to storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (2) Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky Prospective 2016 presidential candidate Paul was asked in April 2014 whether he believed “that climate change exists, and that it’s a manmade problem”.
  • (3) The extent of the challenge facing some was underlined when the rand actually weakened against the dollar following the rate rise, when usually such a move would be expected to prompt a rise.
  • (4) A day later, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton echoed the president in the first major speech of her candidacy, saying: “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.” The Republican candidate Rand Paul immediately jumped in, outlining his own record of calling for criminal justice reform and attacking that of Clinton.
  • (5) Results, examined with the Rand index of cluster comparison, demonstrated that cluster group membership can be so different between alternative clustering methods as to equal chance assignment.
  • (6) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
  • (7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
  • (8) If she does so, the two children she had with the late Mozambican president Samora Machel will receive 3m rand each from Mandela's will, and six children from Samora Machel's previous marriage will inherit 100,000 rand each.
  • (9) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
  • (10) Using data from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment, the effects of cost-sharing plans on the health of the primary teeth in 264 children aged 3 to 5 years were investigated.
  • (11) Kentucky senator Rand Paul and Florida senator Marco Rubio, arguably Cruz’s chief rivals, have also held meetings with faith leaders.
  • (12) An elderly person is typically eligible for a grant of 1,350 rand (£75) per month.
  • (13) You ever hear ’em ask Hillary Clinton, this money she’s getting, whether it influences her decisions?” Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who has been hinting at new Clinton revelations for weeks, told an anti-abortion group on Friday.
  • (14) The Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul walked out of a live interview with the Guardian on Friday, in his third testy exchange with a journalist since launching his campaign for president three days ago.
  • (15) Election 2015: off-year votes put focus on marijuana, LGBT rights – and Airbnb Read more Bevin’s win also had coat tails down ballot as Democratic state auditor Adam Edelen, widely tipped as a potential opponent for Senator Rand Paul in 2016, lost in an upset to his Republican opponent.
  • (16) But her principal outlet is her blog, Atlas Shrugs , named after the philosophical novel by the arch-conservative Russian emigre, Ayn Rand, which promoted "the morality of rational self-interest".
  • (17) Senator Rand Paul, who has resisted Republican calls for more intervention, said the US should steer clear of Syria and Iraq.
  • (18) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
  • (19) Unlike many of his fellow contenders, Rubio has mostly ignored the Trump show – a move that has spared him the sort of public confrontations that have thus far borne little fruit for candidates who’ve tussled with the Republican frontrunner, such as Jeb Bush and Rand Paul.
  • (20) While Paul has collapsed in polls, Texas senator Ted Cruz has surged, successfully appealing to many of the socially conservative libertarians who backed Ron Paul, Rand’s father, in his two presidential bids.

Storm


Definition:

  • (n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
  • (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
  • (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
  • (n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
  • (v. i.) To raise a tempest.
  • (v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
  • (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (2) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
  • (5) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
  • (6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
  • (7) These are all steps we can take and we’re in a much better place to weather this storm because of the action we’ve taken over the last four years.
  • (8) We present a case of a natural death following thyroid storm in which marked thymic hyperplasia was present.
  • (9) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
  • (10) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
  • (11) If the extra heat stored in the oceans is released into the atmosphere, then the severity of storms will inevitably increase.
  • (12) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
  • (14) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (15) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
  • (16) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
  • (17) Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby.
  • (18) Eoin McLennan-Murray, a former president of the PGA, said in February 2014 that staff shortages and increasing numbers of incidents were creating a “perfect storm” that would destabilise prisons .
  • (19) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
  • (20) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.

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