(1) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
(2) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(3) I doubt the Daily Telegraph or David Cameron would support openly available "good porn", because I suspect they are just revolted by the whole idea of mixing sex and young people generally.
(4) "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden," Tynan said loftily, in the middle of a discussion about how sex could be represented on stage.
(5) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(6) A statement from the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, late on Tuesday evening capped an extraordinary day of near-revolt on Capitol Hill concerning the secret National Security Agency surveillance programes revealed by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Guardian and Washington Post.
(7) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(8) Ukip is also a very grey revolt, which adds another dark cloud over its long-term prospects – although, of course, generational change takes a long time!
(9) "Public sector workers and their families are utterly shocked by Jeremy Clarkson's revolting comments.
(10) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(11) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
(12) But despite all the institutional obstacles, Fahmy is certain that the size and nature of this year's revolt means there can be no going back to the days when Egyptians were severed from the deliberations and documents of those ruling in their name.
(13) Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival emerging markets bank, last week suffered the biggest revolt on a pay policy so far when 41% of shareholder votes opposed its proposed bonus terms for top executives.
(14) The news comes as James Murdoch faces a shareholder revolt over his continuing presence on the board of BSkyB, where he acts as chairman.
(15) The revolt represents a bittersweet victory for Tsipras, who now has to rely on “pro-European” opposition parties to push policies through parliament.
(16) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
(17) A backbench revolt by Dáil deputies from the main ruling party Fine Gael is only going to amount to up to five of its Teachta Dálas with the protection of life during pregnancy bill likely to be passed on Thursday morning.
(18) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(19) This afternoon, the first man sent out to dismiss the revolt was Tony Lloyd, chairman of the parliamentary Labour party, and the man who would have had to call the unconstitutional secret ballot.
(20) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.
Revolving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolve
(a.) Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Passage" is defined as one revolving trial without a pause over a fixed time (criterion time) and used as a behavioral unit of "stop and go".
(2) How many would have foreseen a national conversation – in public and in private – that revolves around the three Rs: renovation, recipes and resorts?
(3) Recurrent heroin detoxification, or the "revolving-door" process, is the treatment of choice for many addicts.
(4) How can she be so self-avowedly hip (Revolver, reefer) and yet so naive (swinging)?
(5) The current controversies revolving around the fetal treatment of hydrocephalus and obstructive uropathies (posterior urethral valves, prune belly syndrome, hydronephrosis) are compared and contrasted with the remarkably similar controversies that raged when fetal transfusions were first introduced.
(6) Reasons for deciding on vasectomy were varied, but generally revolved around the absolute effectiveness of the procedure and the need to unburden the wife of contraceptive responsibility.
(7) It is also the case that most of the aspects of movie-making – writing, production, direction, and so on – are dominated by men, and so it is not a surprise that the stories we see are those that tend to revolve around men," Amy Bleakley, the study's lead author, said in an email.
(8) Using data from a study of community mental health center inpatient utilization patterns, the authors demonstrate that centers face the problem of becoming revolving doors (for a recidivist population).
(9) Twelve hours ago Catton was a promising young writer, with two mostly well-received novels under her belt (the first, The Rehearsal , revolved around the figures on the periphery of a school sexual scandal).
(10) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
(11) The revolving door population comprised 1,397 patients with an incidence rate of 0.42 males and 0.32 females per 1,000.
(12) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
(13) Before Tuesday, the biggest news revolved around the Minnesota Timberwolves shopping around forward Kevin Love.
(14) From Boko Haram to the instability of the oil-producing Niger Delta, the political fight between incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and the lead opposition candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, revolves around who will ensure peace and stability.
(15) Hackney council's planning department is quick to hand out permission to large developers with ambitious high-rise plans, and rumours circulate among planning consultants and architects about the supposed revolving door between jobs in planning and developers' offices.
(16) At this time, the etiology of this disease process is unknown, but a likely explanation revolves around replacement of damaged epithelium by cells which undergo anaplasia due to repeated trauma.
(17) However, there are still unanswered questions revolving around the administration of the treatment such as optimal timing, treatment duration, specific drugs, and dose intensity.
(18) Could it be a happy coincidence?” Assange spoke of revolving doors and unkept promises.
(19) Best gadget: "Revolving number plates, naturally"; making the Aston Martin valid for Britain, France and Switzerland.
(20) Behind the sedately revolving capsules of the London Eye, plucky local resident George Turner has been holding another gargantuan development machine to account in a David-and-Goliath planning battle that reached the High Court.