(1) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(2) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(3) When I was younger I was up and down like a rollercoaster.
(4) Now that the rollercoaster has dipped many are surveying the scene, and the strongest candidates are a former regime man (Amr Moussa, also ex-head of that club of dictators otherwise known as the Arab League), and a former Muslim Brotherhood man (Abdel-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh , who was kicked out of the movement back in the day when it still maintained that it wouldn't contest the presidency).
(5) HSBC’s shares have been on a rollercoaster ride since Gulliver and departing chairman Douglas Flint took charge six years ago, and are little changed from where they started out.
(6) (“Get your tissues ready: It’s time for an emotional rollercoaster.”) His mum, Figen, he wrote on his feed , had told him she was having a bad day because she had taken a stall at a craft fair and no one had bought any of her knitted creations.
(7) Steel was left with what she called a “complete rollercoaster of emotions” not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
(8) Harman said this morning that Ed Miliband's victory, and the decision by his defeated brother, David, to step down from frontline politics, had resulted in a "real rollercoaster" of an event.
(9) Some fear-stoking simply goes too far: we don't mind being scared (we actually enjoy the experience of a rollercoaster ride) but child abduction, no thanks.
(10) A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries in a rollercoaster crash at Alton Tower has had her leg amputated.
(11) My life has been a bit of a rollercoaster, to say the least, over the last couple of years.
(12) Alton Towers is to open what it claims is the world’s first rollercoaster that combines a physical ride with virtual reality, giving passengers a “customised journey into space” via headsets that use groundbreaking technology.
(13) In 12 to 18 months’ time I believe Alton Towers will be back to where it was.” He offered no update on the future of the Smiler rollercoaster.
(14) Alton Towers to open 'groundbreaking' virtual reality rollercoaster Read more The Staffordshire theme park was beginning its first season since 16 people were injured in the Smiler accident , with its owner hoping to make a fresh start in spite of opposition from some of the victims.
(15) "We cannot permanently ride a rollercoaster on Greece; we have to know where things are going, and the Greeks have to tell us where they would like things to go," he told German ZDF television.
(16) "With the dramatic undersupply of homes making finding a stable place to live increasingly unaffordable, we need to see the government put the brakes on our rollercoaster housing market and commit to building the affordable homes that we desperately need."
(17) That’s not because the numbers might be disappointing (and they probably will be) but because the company is the owner of Alton Towers, the theme park where last month’s horrific rollercoaster accident left four people seriously injured.
(18) In this rollercoaster political world, photographs of the happy occasion were released by North Korean state media on the same day that London Olympic organisers were forced to explain how they allowed the South Korean flag to be pictured on big screens at Glasgow's Hampden Park ahead of the North Korean women's football match against Colombia.
(19) As analysts predicted a weakened Reuters potentially falling prey to a rival, Grigson and Glocer survived several rollercoaster years of plunging stock prices.
(20) It’s like having your own private rollercoaster.” Tesla customers weren’t asking to go faster, he added, but the company wanted to see if they could do it.
Seesaw
Definition:
(n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
(n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
(n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion.
(n.) Same as Crossruff.
(v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
(a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(2) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(3) On the other hand it can "seesaw" with periods of worsening alternating with periods of regression.
(4) A 14-year-old boy with congenital seesaw and horizontal pendular nystagmus associated with decreased visual acuity, high myopia, esotropia, and normal peripheral visual fields is reported.
(5) Closely dependent on the mineral prizes, the economy seesawed.
(6) Elevation and intorsion of one eye and synchronous depression and extorsion of the other eye characterize a half cycle of seesaw nystagmus.
(7) Stoke’s Marko Arnautovic seals late win as Everton pay penalty in seesaw battle Read more They led through Erik Lamela’s 17th-minute effort but were pegged back by Odion Ighalo’s 30th strike of the calendar year; it confirmed him as the highest scorer across all four divisions in the past 12 months.
(8) Four months later, she developed typical seesaw nystagmus and moderate hydrocephalus.
(9) It found that the net effect of a seesawing couple of months showed stability in the support for Labour (up one point to 36%), the Conservatives (unchanged on 25%) and Ukip (unchanged on 20%).
(10) Instead, he built his own, complete with the standard orange and white stripes but topped with wooden boards - and a centrally mounted seesaw.
(11) With the usual echographic technics, the Wirsung duct, when dilated can be only episodically seen: the seesaw motion of the transducer produces some undesirable echoes, which rub out the lumen of the Wirsung duct.
(12) The amplitude of the later components (N49-P58; P58-N76; N76-P117) decreased during standing on the seesaw in comparison to that during standing on the stable ground and on the short support surface.
(13) The documents detail the seesawing relationship between the UK and Muammar Gaddafi's regime and illustrate how the fate of Britons trapped in Libya weighed heavily on ministers' minds.
(14) Deals have been struck with the ITV Player, Channel 4's 4oD, Five's Five on Demand, S4C's Clic and the VoD aggregation service SeeSaw.
(15) A case of the rare seesaw nystagmus is presented and compared as for identity with an another case, reported by this author earlier.
(16) Both the cases of the seesaw nystagmus were found to have the same biochemical disorders: the cystathioninuria and the hypopyridoxalphosphatemie.
(17) Reversal of these movements constitutes the second half cycle, forming the "seesaw"-like movements.
(18) The BBC also announced today that Arqiva, which owns the online TV platform SeeSaw, has become the seventh partner to join the consortium.
(19) The intact inferior olivary nucleus-nodulus connections in seesaw nystagmus would explain the 180 degrees phase difference that distinguishes it from the midline form of oculopalatal myoclonus, where these connections are likely disrupted.
(20) Stoke’s Marko Arnautovic seals late win as Everton pay penalty in seesaw battle Read more