(n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
(n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
(v. t.) To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
(v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
(v. i.) To use the oar; as, to row well.
(v. i.) To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
(n.) The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(2) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(3) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(4) However, a new, high-profile business deal, and a public row with her family, mean the multibillionaire's days of privacy are numbered.
(5) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(6) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
(7) In the subsequent report into the row , the BBC concluded there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" over Brand's independent production company.
(8) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(9) It is suggested therefore that the ATPase is not randomly distributed in the plane of the membrane but rather forms ordered clusters (probably rows of monomers or dimers) on the fluorescence time scale (nanoseconds) even in the presence of a large excess of phospholipid.
(11) However, BBC director general Mark Thompson said recently that the row over senior executives not relocating to the corporation's new headquarters in Salford would become a "non-issue" once the move is completed.
(12) Union urges M&S to open talks about pay and pension changes Read more M&S’s shares, which have fallen more than 40% in the past year, have come under pressure as investors assess the impact of Rowe’s plans on its profitability as well as the prospect of a high street downturn following the Brexit vote.
(13) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
(14) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
(15) It leaves 121 people on death row in the state, including two women.
(16) The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.
(17) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
(18) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(19) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
(20) Each forward pack was tested under the following scrummaging combinations: front-row only; front-row plus second-row; full scrum minus side-row, and full scrum.
Wrangle
Definition:
(v. i.) To argue; to debate; to dispute.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
(v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
(n.) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the wrangling over the body continued, police extended their investigations at the Cambridge Tsarnaev family home.
(2) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
(3) Sikorski's comments were, it appears, made before the current wrangling over commission nominations heated up and in the context of a specific disagreement on benefits policy.
(4) "The biggest complaint that business has against this government is that they don't have a long-term strategy for growth, and that they have created huge uncertainty," says shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, who cites the coalition wrangling over the energy bill, finally published last week, as an example of the mixed messages the government has sent out.
(5) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(6) After more wrangling, she managed to get him transferred to a civilian prison, where she could visit him every week.
(7) Even before it hosted the 1884-5 Berlin Conference at which European imperial powers wrangled for control of Africa, Germany had enthusiastically embraced the spirit of colonialism.
(8) Slowly she built up a picture of chimp life in all its domestic detail: the grooming, the food-sharing, the status wrangles, and the fights.
(9) We considered also viral and autoimmunity theory and the possibility that these two hypothesis don't wrangle but complete them.
(10) When the cumulative financial effects of the tax rises and spending cuts for 2013 are variously estimated as a drop in GDP of between 4% and 6%, wrangling over the government debt ceiling is not a good idea.
(11) The decision also comes as Washington wrangles with whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline to transport crude from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
(12) Republican leadership is frantically trying to wrangle support to open debate on repeal.
(13) But a committee is still wrangling over the constitution's makeup and a national vote on its formation is unlikely until late December – prompting concerns about when and how Egypt might return to electoral politics.
(14) I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet.” Chris Christie , meanwhile, was unimpressed by Cruz and Rubio’s wrangling over the intricacies of legislation.
(15) After seven years of legal wrangling, and lobbying by the boys' families, France's highest court on Wednesday overturned a previous ruling saying the case against the police officers should be dropped.
(16) The procedural wrangling was, in fact, a cover for points of serious, substantive disagreement.
(17) Indicators of levels of drug use in Sweden, which has one of the toughest approaches we saw, point to relatively low levels of use, but not markedly lower than countries with different approaches.” Endless coalition wrangling over the contents of the report, which has taken more than eight months to be published, has ensured that it does not include any conclusions.
(18) The decision came after months of political wrangling which came to a head in June when two boats carrying refugees capsized north of Christmas Island within a week of each other, killing at least 90 people.
(19) That sparked more legal wrangling, which led to a court of appeal victory for the Guardian, which was again challenged by the government.
(20) This baseless scaremongering is beneath Lord Owen and the British people deserve better.” Owen’s intervention comes after a week of wrangling between the two sides about the NHS.