(1) Roper, who was not in her post at the time, told the hearing: “[FCO staff] spent a lot of time talking about the details of the case.
(2) Far better then, for the movie, to give Roper a billionaire’s island in the sun with a palatial Gatsby -style villa at its centre and a sprinkling of cottages for his underlings and protectors.
(3) According to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, women favored the Democratic candidate in 2012 by 11 points, 2008 by 13, 2004 by three, and 2000 by 10 points.
(4) The results of calorie balance studies were compared with the roper data of FS infants in I trimester and II semester of life, which were described in our previous paper.
(5) Does she realise, for instance, that in her film Richard Roper goes down winning ?
(6) I went into the Roper archives to examine races where no incumbent was running for re-election, and only Al Gore, at around 55% in early 1997 for the 2000 run, comes anywhere close.
(7) At moments it almost seems so: as if Roper actually enjoys being a partner in his own destruction, just for the pleasure of pairing with someone as intelligent and ruthless as himself; almost as if he’s a little in love with his own executioner.
(8) I dug through the Roper archives and found three pollsters with favorable ratings taken during the final week of the campaign dating back to at least 1992.
(9) This paper gives an overview of the issues surrounding the development and use of models and presents research data which indicates that one model (Roper, Logan & Tierney's Activities of Living) is problematic in the long-term care of the elderly.
(10) I went back in the Roper archive and plotted the incumbent's approval rating against the favorability gap in the final months since 1980.
(11) Laurie, who won best performance by an actor in a limited TV series for playing arms dealer Richard Roper in The Night Manager, said: “I suppose it’s made more amazing by the fact that I’ll be able to say I won this at the last ever Golden Globes.” “I don’t mean to be gloomy, it’s just that it has the words ‘Hollywood,’ ‘Foreign’ and ‘Press’ in the title.
(12) We compared these data with similar data collected by the Roper Organization in the 1970s and found that smokers today are less likely to smoke inside public places.
(13) He was a gent, I could only mumble some nonsense about smelling the flowers.” Also notable in the picture is the understudy for goalkeeper Ivan Katalinic, George and Mildred Roper’s next door neighbour, Jeffrey Fourmile .
(14) Put another way, are Pine and Roper mutually aware of their purposes from the very start?
(15) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
(16) Hugh Trevor-Roper denounced it as this "meretricious, misleading work".
(17) An avenue of research suggested by Patrick Trevor-Roper's 'inquiry into the influence of defective vision on art and character' provides a possible solution to an art-historical problem.
(18) The only people who would have the authority to murder a high profile prisoner in defiance of the president would be the intelligence service, the mukhabarat.” Galloway added: “I haven’t heard from Damascus since then so I’m definitely off their Christmas card list.” Asked whether he knew that the former leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, was also involved with the Khan family, Galloway said: “I would have been horrified had I been aware.” Earlier, Michael Mansfield QC, for the Khan family, had pressed the head of the Foreign Office’s consular section, Joanna Roper, about whether the department had been sufficiently active in its efforts to secure Dr Khan’s release.
(19) The teaching was supported by appropriate care planning within the Roper et al.
(20) The study is based on the theoretical model presented by Roper et al.
Toper
Definition:
(n.) One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.