(1) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
(2) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
(3) Lib Dems are the most hostile to cuts and the keenest on tax – 32% want cuts and 53% tax – suggesting that Clegg's talk of "savage" reductions in spending may go down badly with his party base.
(4) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(5) Vince Cable, the business secretary, who was savagely critical of BAE over bribery allegations whilst in opposition in 2010 , said: "It is a very, very important decision and has major implications for the country, both in terms of employment and national security.
(6) Wendy Savage, from Keep Our NHS Public , said groups from London, Oxford and Manchester would be demonstrating alongside members of the NHS Consultants' Association.
(7) After savaging the childcare support available to poorer working parents through tax credits in 2011, the coalition last year sought to redeem itself with a first draft of the new subsidy scheme, which created some winners up the scale, but left many more vulnerable part-time workers better off not working at all.
(8) We feel that Mrs. Savage and Dr. Francome (Dec. 2, p. 1323) provide important information to be considered in the debate about the provision of abortion services.
(9) Geller's ads, sharply dividing the world into civilized people and savages, are only intended to hurt and tear fragile relationships apart."
(10) A trained economist, and de facto "deputy chancellor" under Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2005, Balls's recent speech at Bloomberg, savaging the "growth deniers" of the Con-Dem coalition and urging a slower pace of fiscal consolidation, was hailed by Martin Wolf ("basically right") and Samuel Brittan ("spot on") of the Financial Times.
(11) Then there’s the shift from disability living allowance to the personal independence payment , which last month the public accounts committee savaged as a “fiasco”, leaving many facing six-months delays – and the dying having to wait for weeks for support.
(12) The 15-year-old was tortured and savagely beaten before he drowned in a bath at his sister’s flat in east London on Christmas Day 2010.
(13) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(14) Their policy decisions, including increases in the cost of living, the sale of TIO [Territory Insurance Office], savage cuts to health and education and general arrogance has burned public trust in their integrity and competence,” said Snowdon, who called the party “a joke” and said nobody could take the territory seriously now.
(15) At last year’s press launch for Savage Beauty’s homecoming leg Martin Roth, the V&A director, told a story about the day, four years ago, when he landed in New York to see the show there.
(16) John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths' Ruth Martin outside the Salford Lads Club, Salford.
(17) Iranians complain that it represents them as savage, murderous and warmongering.
(18) In the wake of the savage killing of Rigby in broad daylight it emerged that Adebolajo and Adebowale were both known to MI5 – and Adebolajo had been approached on his return from Kenya to the UK to act as an informer and help the security services break up extremist Islamist cells.
(19) The FCO's lawyers had already conceded in court that the accounts given by the three Mau Mau veterans – of castration, rape and savage beatings – had been honest accounts, and that senior British and colonial officials had been aware of the ugly truth about daily life in the prison camps of 1950s Kenya.
(20) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .
Truculence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Truculency
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferguson's truculence conceals an even deeper romantic streak.
(2) In this dance to the music of time in Britain, the Tories are sworn to maintain the hegemony of the free market and Labour to ensure that the idiot punters don’t become too truculent.
(3) Western leaders, increasingly exasperated at Iran's nuclear truculence, were little assuaged by Iran's belated admission of the site's existence, which appears to have come after Iran learned that western intelligence services were on to its secret establishment.
(4) Yet Begin made the mistake of alienating Thatcher with his truculent stance over settlement expansion, and their relationship never recovered.
(5) Wreathed in smiles and profuse apologies for delaying Chisora, after he and Andy Gray had chit-chatted with the often truculent boxer on live radio, Keys delivers some cheery advice in the TalkSport studios.
(6) Less publicly, Trump appears tacitly or explicitly to have given the green light to the Saudi royals to go on the offensive against its truculent neighbour.
(7) The business secretary understands perfectly well that the slump is all about a want of demand – and cannot be explained by rightwing fairy stories about truculent workers pricing themselves out of the market.
(8) It was just bonkers," says Alan Postlethwaite, the truculent vicar of Seascale, who was accused of being a crypto-communist for even thinking the plant might be linked to cancers.
(9) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
(10) The Russian foreign ministry released a truculent statement before Tillerson arrived in Moscow, noting that Russian-American relations were going through the “most difficult period since the end of the cold war”.
(11) Her face is truculent; she stares up and away from Oberon, who is apparently being restrained by a sharp-faced Puck.
(12) He took after Rabelais in his humour and certainly also in his truculence, but he was above all himself in his films as in life."
(13) No, the bigger question is this: can Europe handle democracy, however awkward and messy and downright truculent it may be?
(14) Strongly Eurosceptic, with hardline anti-abortion views and hawkish foreign policy, he established himself as a truculent minister who was not afraid to make clear his opposition to coalition policies and Cameron's "compassionate conservatism".
(15) At a later date, speaking on Oprah Winfrey's chatshow, the famously truculent Campbell refused to comment further, saying simply: "I don't want to be involved in this man's case – he has done some terrible things and I don't want to put my family in danger."
(16) Edward VI was originally painted with his legs far apart, echoing a famously truculent image of his father – but it evidently looked too peculiar in a portrait of a young boy, and so the artist changed it to a more natural stance.
(17) All patients met Asher's description for the emergency presentation, the truculence-evasiveness manner, the luxuriance of tales, the eclecticism of the alleged symptoms, the vehement request of dangerous or painful procedures and the apparent senselessness.
(18) Cross-country runs began with a truculent jog until we were out of sight of the teachers, at which point we would repair to the nearest newsagent for sweets and fags.
(19) Nevertheless I went to Old Trafford, in some way heartened by the purity of the truculence, football now having been largely rinsed of its scintillating aggression.
(20) He is one of the most skilled practitioners of the tricky art – much under-rated, sometimes mocked – of keeping the show on the road when the cameras are rolling, dealing with truculent interviewees, sometimes juggling numerous stories and at others filling airtime with informed and engaging commentary when, frankly, there's not much going on.