(1) Philip Van Deusen, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners, said: “They did say they would be cutting jobs, but the magnitude of them is definitely a shocker.” A number of global oil companies such as BP and ConocoPhillips have cut jobs after a fall of nearly 60% in oil prices over the past six months.
(2) The second shocker also showcased the Globes’s more offbeat taste: two big wins (best comedy series, best actor for Donald Glover) for Atlanta, about the city’s rap scene.
(3) Anyway, take it from me, the Arsenal man is having another shocker.
(4) Next came the enfant terrible of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the late-60s comic sensation, dubbed "a wild blue shocker" by Life magazine.
(5) Hardly a week passes without Hodge's committee uncovering some new pay shocker that the Treasury has ignored.
(6) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(7) Marcelo has been caught out of position time and again and Maicon and Dante are both having the mother of all shockers: missing some tackles and lunging carelessly into others.
(8) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(9) ::goes to make coffee:: Oh look, what a shocker, Gonzalez strikes out Adam Wainwright.
(10) Though in evident pain, García was not seriously injured and was able to continue, yet Whelan's unpunished tackle was much more of a shocker than the recent one involving Kompany that hurt no one and led to the Manchester City captain being dismissed.
(11) The Wichita State Shockers , who surprisingly made the Final Four last year, won’t be flying under the radar this time around as the still-undefeated Shockers top the Midwest Region with a shock- er, um, impressive 34-0 record.
(12) Brian Murphy, head of lending at mortgage broker Mortgage Advice Bureau, said: "September's figures are a shocker – down on August, usually the quietest month of the year, down on last September when we were still in the grips of recession, and no sign of the traditional post-summer bounce in mortgage activity, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the year and early 2011."
(13) You can sit down and say, ‘I’ve had a shocker of a day.’ People do want to help.” She spends a lot of her time now visiting schools because – wait for it – she is writing a book about “character education”.
(14) He could not rely on it to go right, and was something of a scatter gun, combining the odd brilliant throw with a series of shockers that threatened anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the infield.
(15) PwC's 2010 study in econometrics also came up with this shocker: "England remain a good bet for reaching the quarter-finals."
(16) The AEC, it must be said, has had a shocker of a year.
(17) Civil servants next: Porritt says working in Whitehall after years in business and non-governmental organisation groups such as Friends of the Earth and Forum for the Future has been a real shocker.
(18) Indeed, last week he brought forth some shockers of his own.
(19) Children's contained fewer shockers than last time , though Match of the Day might be in the relegation zone with a 20% fall.
(20) "Although in the this tournament, one never knows..." He's on three or more goals on this match Richard, he may yet be smiling ... 79 min Arshavin, who has had a shocker tonight, has a rare touch on the ball ... but his cross goes about 10 yards over Pavlyuchenko.
Stocker
Definition:
(n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The basement membrane changes are compatible with those seen in Meesmann, Stocker-Holt, and map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, but the lack of intraepithelial cysts is not characteristic of these dystrophies.
(2) Cystic spaces were only visible in those women with macrocystic disease (Stocker types 1 and 11) whilst increased echogenicity of affected lung tissue and mediastinal deviation were seen in all types.
(3) This time last year, having fibbed my way past a couple of roadblocks and waded past a local campsite where caravans were apparently floating away, I met Geoff and Olwen Stocker, whose home was under three feet of odorous floodwater.
(4) Since 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA), an oxidation product of tryptophan metabolism, is a powerful radical scavenger [Christen, S., Peterhans, E., & Stocker, R. (1990) Proc.
(5) One of the workers participating in the fast is Richard Reynoso, an overnight stocker at the Duarte, California store.
(6) Stocker said he saw the meeting as a chance to broaden the discussion on the future of the IPCC.
(7) But Stocker said scientists must squeeze in the work along other obligations.
(8) Examples applicable to herds of weaner and stocker cattle are presented.
(9) Ultrasound examination permits an evaluation of the three types described by Stocker and may reveal certain lesions associated with poor prognosis, such as anasarca or polyhydramnios.
(10) Fifty fall-weaned heifers with initial weights of 209 kg (yr 1) and 222 kg (yr 2) were used to determine effects of lasalocid on weight gains, forage intake and ruminal fermentation of stocker cattle grazing winter wheat pasture.
(11) These five share certain biochemical properties but are not identical (Gartner, Stocker & Williams, 1980; Gartner & Ogilvie, 1984).
(12) Prof Stocker said: “The actions of the next 30 years are absolutely crucial for putting us on a path that avoids the [worst] outcomes and ensuring, at least in the next 200 years, the impacts are limited and give us time to adapt.” The researchers argue that a new industrial revolution is required to deliver a global energy system that emits no carbon at all.
(13) I don’t know what to do.” Mark Stocker has asked for help in locating his father and stepmother, John and Janet.
(14) Sea-level rise is already baked into the system,” said Prof Stocker, one of the world’s leading climate scientists.
(15) Salmonella typhimurium mutants, called Felix O-resistant (FOR), selected for resistance to phage Felix O (FO) which has its receptor in the core lipopolysaccharide (LPS), retain most of the properties of the smooth parent strain (MacPhee, Krishnapillai, Roantree & Stocker, 1975).
(16) Each pasture replicate contained .8 ha (except System 1, which was 1.6 ha), and the stocking rate was one stocker per .27 ha.
(17) People need to understand that the effects of climate change won’t go away, at least not for thousands of generations.” “The long-term view sends the chilling message of what the real risks and consequences are of the fossil fuel era,” said Prof Thomas Stocker, at the University of Bern, Switzerland and also part of the research team.
(18) Lewis & Stocker's (1971) plateinhibition test for fermentation of m-tartrate, which identifies m-tartrate-negative strains because m-tartrate inhibits their growth on citrate- or glycerol-containing minimal medium, was found to be as reliable as, and easier to read than, the turbidity test.Use of the turbidity test for d- and l-tartrates and the plate-inhibition test for m-tartrate in biotyping 1435 strains of S. typhimurium showed that many strains had previously been mistyped by the lead acetate test and distinguished 16 new biotypes in addition to the 22 biotypes already recognized.
(19) Thomas Stocker, a climate scientist at the University of Bern and a co-chair of the UN climate panel, said he had sought permission to convene a public debate on the future of the IPCC at one of the biggest gatherings on the scientific calendar, the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
(20) "With that input directly bottom-up from the scientists, I can help in this discussion and certainly facilitate that the views of scientists, those individuals and colleague that carry the burden of the assessment and provide their time and intellectual expertise, are heard," Stocker said.