What's the difference between rucking and sucking?

Rucking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruck

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
  • (2) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (3) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
  • (4) You see, I have a lot of truck with the sack of ruck.
  • (5) Farrelly's question had concerned the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of Trafigura and Carter-Ruck obtaining the original injunction, which banned any references to the Minton report on the alleged dumping in Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
  • (6) Increased risk of injury was related to the following factors: 98% of injuries occurred in matches and 81% were incurred by adults; 69% of injuries occurred in age-group A team or senior first team players; and 57% of injuries occurred in the tackle situation and 39% in scrums, rucks and mauls.
  • (7) It was on 11 September that Carter-Ruck, the libel specialists employed by the London-based trading company, first went to court to get an emergency super-injunction preventing the Guardian from publishing the Minton report.
  • (8) Proposals being circulated online included plans for a protest outside the offices of Carter-Ruck.
  • (9) The Guardian had been prevented from publishing a parliamentary question from MP Paul Farrelly about the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of a high court injunction obtained by Trafigura and Carter-Ruck "on the publication of the Minton report".
  • (10) It asked about the injunction obtained by "Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton Report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast , commissioned by Trafigura".
  • (11) In view of the seriousness of this, will you accept representations from me over this matter and consider whether Carter-Ruck's behaviour constitutes a potential contempt of parliament?"
  • (12) Peter Bottomley, Tory MP for Worthing West, threatened to report Carter-Ruck to the Law Society.
  • (13) And even if they try, Carter-Ruck can probably issue a gagging order that follows them into the afterlife and kicks their larynx off its hinges.
  • (14) MPs debated how Carter-Ruck had been able to stop the Guardian reporting a parliamentary question tabled by the Labour MP Paul Farrelly relating to an injunction awarded by Trafigura.
  • (15) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
  • (16) This PDF document is the 'super-injunction' which Trafigura and Carter-Ruck used to gag the Guardian (and "persons unknown") on September 11.
  • (17) Cameron Doley, managing partner with Carter-Ruck, denied that his firm had any involvement with Mosley, who he said was not a client.
  • (18) Brown spoke after Conservative Peter Bottomley told MPs he was reporting Carter-Ruck , the law firm that acted on behalf of Trafigura, to the Law Society, saying that no lawyers should be able to inhibit the reporting of parliament.
  • (19) Carter-Ruck agreed to release the Guardian from the injunction on Friday night after the existence of the Minton report into the disaster, commissioned by Trafigura, was revealed in parliament.
  • (20) Privilege was never better used than in the case of the oil-trading firm Trafigura , which hired British lawyers Carter-Ruck to gain a superinjunction against journalists who sought to investigate the firm's behaviour in attempting to cover up a massive dumping of toxic waste off Ivory Coast.

Sucking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck
  • (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
  • (2) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
  • (3) The ratio of the intrapleural pressure shift to magnitude of phasic changes of the blood flow in the posterior v. cava (the pumping coefficient) is suggested for estimation of effect of the chest sucking function upon the venous outflow and for relative estimation of rigidity of the vascular bed's venous portion.
  • (4) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
  • (5) Clinically the word vampirism should be used to name all sexual or agressive acts, whether blood-sucking happens or not, committed on a dead or dying person.
  • (6) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
  • (7) In spite of this fact, it has not been possible in this study to establish a significant correlation between previous dummy-sucking and the development of cross-bite in the permanent dentition.
  • (8) Indications for surgery were haemorrhage from a major systemic or pulmonary vessel or the heart, cardiac tamponade, diaphragmatic penetration, oesophageal and bronchial tears, and sucking chest wounds.
  • (9) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
  • (10) Getting a divorce really sucks,” she says, adding that she still doesn’t view their nine-year marriage as a failure.
  • (11) The present study investigated the way that sucking of a pacifier influences gastric secretory and motor functions in connection with tube feeding.
  • (12) To isolate single spores from adhesive ascospores and the mycelium, the suspension was sucked through a combination of sintered-glass plates with different pore sizes.
  • (13) Additionally Group I received fluoride tablets (FLUDENT) for daily sucking twice a day plus a placebo dentifrice free of fluoride.
  • (14) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
  • (15) Receptors for epidermal growth factor (EGF) were characterized on the intestinal membranes of newborn, sucking and weaned pigs.
  • (16) Charles said the drive to make food cheaper for consumers and to earn companies bigger profits was sucking real value out of the food production system – value that was critical to its sustainability.
  • (17) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
  • (18) The changes are so typical that the manner and even the object of sucking can often be inferred from them with considerable certitude.
  • (19) "He's given the ball away four or five times when there were easier options available and he is arguably at fault for the goal for getting sucked in and failing to track Pedro.
  • (20) UN troops have been sucked into the latest violence, using helicopter gunships against the rebels.

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