What's the difference between sawer and sayer?

Sawer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who saws; a sawyer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
  • (2) Yesterday Sir John Sawers, recently retired as head of MI6, called for renewed cooperation between intelligence agencies and internet companies.
  • (3) In fact when Sawers called him, Hogan-Howe had not made any statement, and he apparently declined then to make "a comprehensive statement".
  • (4) Manningham-Buller, who was head of the domestic intelligence service between 2002 and 2007, lined up with her successor, Sir Jonathan Evans, and the former head of MI6 Sir John Sawers in support of remaining in Europe and at odds with another former MI6 chief, Sir Richard Dearlove.
  • (5) In the first public speech by a serving head of MI6 , Sir John Sawers made his purpose quite clear.
  • (6) Rusbridger also questioned the claims of Britain's security chiefs that the Guardian's revelations had undermined national security and – in the words of the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers – left al-Qaida rubbing its hands in glee.
  • (7) Yesterday, Sir John Sawers and Lord Evans, former heads of MI6 and MI5 respectively, wrote in a co-authored Sunday Times article that the nation’s security would be impaired by Brexit .
  • (8) A sketchy agenda was released a few days before the conference began, along with a participant list, from which we can assume that the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, will lead the chat about "How special is the relationship in intelligence sharing?"
  • (9) Sir John Sawer, the head of MI6, for example, pointed out in an unprecedented public speech that the agencies could not afford the luxury of working only with friendly democracies.
  • (10) We all recall what happened to our embassy in Tehran ,” Sawers said.
  • (11) In vitro transcription experiments were used to provide further evidence that the gene encoding pyruvate formate-lyase (EC 2.3.1.54) from Escherichia coli is transcribed from seven promoters which cover a region of 1.2 kilobase pairs of DNA (G. Sawers and A. Böck, J.
  • (12) "There is a reasonable prospect next year they will probably want to do that," he added, pointing to previous speeches by public intelligence chiefs, including Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5 , and Sir John Sawers, head of MI6.
  • (13) Hearing impairment of various degrees was found in 83.7% of motor-sawers examined.
  • (14) Sawers doubted that Russia would let its allies in the Syrian government be attacked.
  • (15) He also disclosed the existence of a department of the Secret Intelligence Service‚ now known as MI6 but then known as section "M.I.i.c" of the War Office.7 Worst of all, Mackenzie revealed that the first head of MI6, the one-legged Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, was referred to as C. It is a moniker that his successors, including the incumbent, Sir John Sawers, maintain.
  • (16) It's full of scenes like this: the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers having a cheery one-to-one with Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP.
  • (17) Vibration disease was observed in 22.6% of motor-sawers, and it was suspected in 6.7%.
  • (18) Sir John Sawers, the former chief of the MI6, and Baroness Cathy Ashton, the former EU commissioner for foreign policy, were both awarded the top order of St Michael and St George.
  • (19) When Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, appeared before the ISC at its first and only public hearing last month, he was asked whether his agency was now "beyond reproach" in such matters.
  • (20) Sawers made an indirect reference to the recent court case involving Binyam Mohamed , a British resident who was held in Guantánamo Bay, in which British judges ordered the government to reveal a summary of classified CIA information showing what MI5 agents knew of his treatment under interrogation.

Sayer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who says; an utterer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What chance do historians have to address histories honestly when even today the questions remain over whose stories shall be told?” In an interview before his departure, Sayers reflects that this politically charged atmosphere had dissipated by the time he began his directorship in 2010.
  • (2) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
  • (3) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
  • (4) Sayer is referring to the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge when irate farmers drop a dead cow from a bridge on the hapless DJ while he's trying to film a crummy commercial for Hamilton's Water Breaks.
  • (5) My cold call was the most painful experience of my life,” confesses Sayers.
  • (6) The nay-sayers argue that it will waste billions of pounds when a straightforward upgrade of the west coast line would do just as good a job without tearing up idyllic parts of Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
  • (7) Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray Oxford • Never was a word so misused as the application of the term “radicalisation” to the mental abduction of young people by doctrinaire and violent adherents of Islam.
  • (8) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.
  • (9) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
  • (10) It had always been her ambition – "in fact, my intention" – to write, and the decision to try her hand at detective fiction, following in the footsteps of her heroes Margery Allingham and Dorothy L Sayers, was straightforward.
  • (11) The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence.
  • (12) Both analogues showed remarkable steroidogenic activity as measured by Sayers test.
  • (13) Their first session, just before Christmas, was judged a success by Sayers, Johnson-Thompson and her coach, Mike Holmes.
  • (14) The ACTH-releasing activity of hypothalamic extract and rat plasma was examined with the dispersed rat pituitary cell technique of Swallow and Sayer (8).
  • (15) For one senior lawyer, the former Law Society chief Robert Sayer, his public designation of one rival as "a dog turd" plainly has no bearing on his current work at Sayer Moore & Co solicitors.
  • (16) QUEEN'S VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL QVRM Sqn Ldr Stuart John Sayer Talton.
  • (17) When it came to choosing a detective, however, she turned her face against the tradition for the talented amateur, from Sherlock Holmes to Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, and plumped for a professional instead.
  • (18) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
  • (19) She is also receiving specialist coaching in her weakest event from Goldie Sayers, the leading British javelin thrower .
  • (20) recalls Larry Sayer, a retired engineer, "and it was obvious: Dorridge residents against Sainsbury's."

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