(1) There was unconvincing talk of an injury but as journalists waited in the car park for players after the game, we became aware of a ruckus on the Togo team bus.
(2) Dridi and Khalil's bags were stolen in the ruckus but Dridi's was returned by an Egyptian who managed to wrestle it back.
(3) But imagine the ruckus that Duggan would have caused, if you'd held his boy up on the stairs, impeding him from getting to the next boiler on his list, and shortening his plunder opportunities.
(4) After initially appearing to declare that the bill had gone through, lieutenant governor David Dewhurst said at about 3am that it had passed by 19 votes to 10 – but added that the "ruckus and noise going on" had prevented him from completing the formalities required to rubber-stamp it into law.
(5) There was, of course, the magnificent ruckus at the US embassy in Ankara, and the gloriously quotable lecture Pinter gave on torture.
(6) Sano added: “I have to protect my family and staff from persistent attacks and harassment over the ruckus.
(7) If you have a boat letting in water in the middle of a storm, you had better be at the wheel António Horta-Osório He is no doubt hoping that these characteristics will mean a ruckus can be avoided over his £11.5m pay packet - which has to be approved at the bank’s annual meeting on 14 May, just a week after the general election.
(8) Caught between Tony Abbott’s untenable $80bn in cuts to hospitals and schools and his own cabinet’s unwillingness to increase federal spending or taxes, Turnbull found a bit of extra money and then raised an almighty ruckus with a wild plan to solve the rest of the problem.
(9) Describing the event online as a "ruckus street party" organisers said they were rallying against gentrification, racist police murders, outrageous rent prices and "the displacement of all that is queer".
(10) Perhaps the most striking aspect of this particular ruckus was Shakey’s admission that he “used to line up and get my latte every day”.
(11) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, also sought to smooth over the ruckus.
(12) There's a bit of a ruckus as they celebrate and some Uruguayan players express their displeasure with a few of them as well as with the referee.
(13) Recently, there’s been some ruckus about suggestions made by Noel Pearson , which drew on earlier submissions to the committee made by his Cape York Institute.
(14) An enterprising young promoter from a prominent Sydney bar has taken the opportunity to follow the crowd handing out free drink cards, while a confused tourist is trying to pick someone out of the crowd to explain all this ruckus.
(15) Back in the “less is less” session in Canberra, Australia’s prime minister also declined to say anything more than absolutely necessary about what Trump had given Australia by way of undertakings on the refugee resettlement deal – presumably lest Breitbart find out, and start a nasty ruckus.
(16) "Thankfully, it didn't take long for the ruckus to again settle down.
(17) In the end, Republican lawmakers had to admit defeat: "With all the ruckus and noise going on," Mr Dewhurst said, he could not complete administrative duties to make the vote official and sign the bill.
(18) David Dewhurst, the Texas lieutenant governor, told reporters that a 19-10 vote in favour of the bill came within time, but "with all the ruckus and noise going on, I couldn't sign the bill".
(19) Win Pe said shortly after the gun blast there was “a ruckus outside, and I thought, now, now, come in now.
(20) This is the thing that caused the big ruckus when Ben Affleck was here.
Rumpus
Definition:
(n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) His full-time appointment would quell this wearisome rumpus.
(2) She left Rodríguez Lozano to live with Dr Atl in La Merced, causing a public scandal second in rumpus only to the scandal caused by their separation, two years later, which included loud public screaming, buckets of cold water thrown at each other, death threats, and defamatory pamphlets pasted on the doors of the ex-convent.
(3) Miliband's remarks last week triggered a diplomatic rumpus.
(4) Which brings us to the other big rumpus of the week, caused by the new old bore on the block, Nick Kyrgios – old because his antics are also a throwback to the 1970s, to the behaviour that posed a justified threat to institutional sleepiness.
(5) Also responsible for two of the broadcaster’s biggest hits of 2014, The Jump and The Island with Bear Grylls (not without a rumpus of its own), Humphreys can expect another kerfuffle with Sex in Class, in which Belgian sex therapist Goedele Liekens takes her campaign to establish a GCSE in sex education into the homes and schools of Britain.
(6) He was a banker, deeply in the closet, when he stumbled on a rumpus outside the Stonewall Inn 40 years ago.
(7) And she enjoyed the rumpus when her 50,000-word New Yorker article, Raising Kane, reprinted in The Citizen Kane Book (1971), challenged Orson Welles's one-man view of his masterpiece.
(8) It would take the War Room in Dr Strangelove, Goldfinger's rumpus room and the interior of Fort Knox to thrust Adam into the limelight.
(9) Almost a year on from the televised press conference at Rotherham football club that made her name, Jay still can’t believe the rumpus her report caused.
(10) 3 John Terry The captaincy rumpus, the revolt and defensive fraility The mutterings from some within the squad as they departed the Free State Stadium last night were that things were simply not right behind the scenes, with discontent welling up within the set-up.
(11) Paul Evans, the managing director of Rumpus PR, where Martyn worked, said: “We are all distraught at the tragic loss of our much-loved, larger than life, colourful and charismatic colleague, Martyn Hett.
(12) "I was never ever found to have done anything wrong, even in the rumpus over the Soon and Baliunas paper.
(13) There was another call, “telling me off about the rumpus I caused at the conference.
(14) In 2003, he headbutted a policeman in a Paris casino rumpus and was subsequently fined and given a suspended jail term, tactlessly telling the press that to assault a cop was “the dream of every Frenchman”.
(15) There might still have been dry retching, and it might have mainly come from me, but any rumpus would have been nothing to do with their ages.
(16) The atheists were set to create even more rumpus this year after snaffling most booths in a first-come first-served lottery system, prompting the city council to ban all displays.
(17) Martyn loved life, he celebrated it every day and packed it to the brim with his passions,” his employer, the PR company Rumpus, said.
(18) It has also acknowledged the limits of its own research, noting the work of, for example, Roxane Gay, who undertook a similar tally last summer for writers of colour, which she published in The Rumpus .