(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
(3) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
(4) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(5) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(6) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(7) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
(8) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(9) Directional responses did not differ from the standard when rattle bursts were repeated at a rate of 20 per second for 1 s (experiment 1).
(10) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(11) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(12) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(13) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(14) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
(15) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
(16) Juventus 1-3 Barcelona | Champions League final match report Read more He redeemed himself soon after with a lunging challenge to break up another attack but Juventus overall looked rattled.
(17) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.
(18) Accusing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of “sabre-rattling”, he said the UK commitment to a new Nato rapid reaction force is to be extended by three years, with 1,000 troops sent next year and 3,000 in 2017.
(19) A telecom engineer who has not been able to find work, he rattled off statistics: unemployment in the province is 42% – the highest in Spain – rising to 69% for those under the age of 30.
(20) Paresh Davdra, co-founder of RationalFX, said the situation was rattling investors and raising parallels with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Spanking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spank
(a.) Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.
(a.) Large; considerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually he lays it back invitingly to Iniesta, 25 yards out, and he spanks it high and wide.
(2) Compared with the control group, both treatment groups of mothers reported significantly fewer child behavior problems, reduced stress levels, and less use of spanking.
(3) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(4) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
(5) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(6) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
(7) Then, after a single, a full toss is offered to Sangakkara, and he spanks it through cover and stalks off for a sarnie.
(8) More disjointedness like that after kick-off and they'll get their hids spanked.
(9) The venue looked good and made Labour's point, a spanking new hospital standing as visual proof of Labour's investment in public services (a point only slightly undermined by the sight of an audience in coats and woolly hats, apparently because the central heating in the building was not yet working).
(10) He had been accused of abusing eight youngsters at Cambridge Hostel in the town by spanking and touching them.
(11) Fresh belief flowed through Arsenal, even more so two minutes later when Ramsey scored with a spanking volley.
(12) Smith was secretary of the Rochdale Hostel for Boys Association, where he was accused of abusing vulnerable youngsters by spanking and touching them.
(13) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(14) DOWN UNDER He has just been given a lucrative new job where progress simply means doing better than David Moyes and last week he led his national team to a momentous spanking of the side reputed to be one of the best in history, but Louis van Gaal is not a happy man.
(15) My mother, out of patience, spanked him, but regretted it later.
(16) "Honey, get into that bath before I spank you," Bond warns.)
(17) And just as Mikey-Michael is reckoning that Eranga has yapped himself out of focus, he hammers down one that's absurdly short and outside leg, so Ali gets right on top of it and spanks a swivel-pull around the corner for four.
(18) However, controlling for positive communication or for a parent-oriented motivation for spanking eliminated the negative effects of spanking, suggesting that the negative effects reflected use of spanking as a replacement for positive communication with the child.
(19) Abusive fathers spanked their children significantly more often than the nonabusive fathers, and abusive mothers had the highest frequency of critical statements directed at their children.
(20) Another opening-day bust came from the arm of the Phillies' Cole Hamels, who marked his entry into the upper echelon of pitching salaries (six years for $144m) by getting spanked by Atlanta down at Turner Field.