(1) The Evangelist Christian right is at the heart of Harper's Conservative party, and after years of being shushed, it will now demand an end to a number of things, including abortion rights.
(2) So, as it stands, this year's carnival of football thankfully won't be soundtracked by the shushing rattle of thousands of caxirola.
(3) Iran meanwhile has Susa, now the delightfully named Shush, administrative centre of Shush Country, which has an acropolis – a sure sign of ancient city status – that is carbon-dated to around 4,200BC, and evidence of permanent homemaking going back another 800 years.
(4) And they have internet, and they have librarians who are delights, and they have “no-shushing” signs.
(5) While we are being gently and firmly shushed, I break away and stride on to the stage.
(6) Updated at 10.44pm BST 9.59pm BST Women's 100m final - race A few excited cheers break out, which are quickly shushed.
(7) Speaker Bercow shushes them, 'punning' about how in tennis you get new balls after seven games (?)
(8) Savile continued: "If I was going to sue anybody – which I never actually got round to actually suing because they all run away and say 'shush pay him up' – we go not to the local court, we go to the Old Bailey 'cos my people can book time in the Old Bailey so my legal people are ready and waiting.
(9) There will be another period of mourning in which any talk of doing something about just how many guns we have will be shushed by conservatives eager to not politicize the deaths of some new number of innocents .
(10) The Russian journalist was shushed quiet by another reporter in the White House press room when attempting to ask a follow-up question.
(11) The communal exhilaration that had been going for 2,500 years – since the Greeks first honoured Dionysus with noisy songs about goats – was finally and comprehensively shushed.
(12) Everyone goes on about this ‘shush’ cliche, but it’s still true that it’s really nice to go into a place with no music and where people are just quietly sitting.
(13) Much as people like to tell Chewlsay that they ain't got no 'isto-wee, there's plenty of the stuff between them and Liverpool, especially where Jose Mourinho is concerned, be it shushing Liverpool supporters, complaining about ghost goals, conveniently forgetting that Petr Cech would have been sent off if the referee hadn't played an advantage or Robert Huth's False Nine stint.
(14) Finally inside the mausoleum (having been sent back to the top of Red Square) I was respectfully stomping the snow off my shoes when I was violently shushed by a guard.
(15) My five-year-old daughter would shush me and try to hide whenever she saw a soldier.
(16) The striker pressed a finger to his lips, shushing the crowd, but neither they nor their team were in any mood to back down.
(17) 2.30am BST Teams coming out now... Now might be a good time to say your last loving words to the people you'll be shushing aggressively for the next couple of hours.
(18) Mourinho has more history than most with Liverpool – his battles with Rafael Benítez , the shushing of the fans , the continuous chat about the ghost goal – and, having won six and lost just one of his eight previous league meetings with the Merseyside club, he has beaten them more than most.
(19) She accuses him of “regularly treating her in a sexist and condescending way”, and says he once put his hand on her and pulled down her arm “to shush her during a live telecast”.
(20) Once they were all inside, he closed the door softly, then shushed the tourists as they clustered by the wall.
Slush
Definition:
(n.) Soft mud.
(n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
(n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
(n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
(n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
(v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
(v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday that Germany’s bid committee had tapped into a slush fund of €6.7m to buy votes at world football’s governing body Fifa.
(2) The development of postoperative CD was related to topical cooling with slushed ice and lower myocardial temperature of the left ventricle, but not to kinds of diseases, duration of aortic cross-clamp, or the distribution of RC-CBCP evaluated from myocardial temperature at the end of initial infusion of cold cardioplegic solution.
(3) Bárcenas denies any wrongdoing and when allegations about the slush fund first surfaced, in January 2013, he received a text message of support.
(4) Cold air storage appears to provide better lung preservation than hypothermic immersion in ice slush.
(5) Still, as the crisp white stuff beloved of children turns into freezing grey slush, it's worth another laugh at the old British Rail " wrong type of snow " excuse.
(6) The prime minister announced on Monday the establishment of the inquiry to be headed by the former High Court judge John Dyson Heydon with a focus on union slush funds, bribery and improper fundraising.
(7) He said Jackson used $284,000 in the National Health Development Account, a slush fund she set up in 2003, without authorisation.
(8) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(9) This latest saga has left Territorians with questions about the integrity of the Territory’s decision makers,” she told media in Darwin, citing a recent scandal around an alleged Country-Liberal party slush fund as well as the police troubles.
(10) Earlier: The Pentagon’s slush fund is arming a War Zone on Main Street – let’s end the local-cop addiction to backyard battle
(11) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(12) What Bárcenas claims is that the People's party has been running a slush fund for nearly two decades.
(13) Luis Bárcenas, the PP’s former treasurer, is accused of organising a slush fund for senior party members, allegedly raised through the handing out of dodgy public sector contracts.
(14) But the latest scandal has added to longstanding fears that the company is treated as a tool for politicians to reward loyalists and generate slush funds to buy off potential opponents.
(15) One witness who gave evidence to the SFO, Peter Gardiner, a director of a travel agent used to make alleged slush fund payments, said last night: "It's an interesting signal that this gives to industry and the world I am thinking of the hundreds of hours I have wasted and all the personal problems this has caused me."
(16) Coronary artery bypass surgery was performed on a 58-year-old female under cold cardioplegia with topical ice slush cooling.
(17) Spiegel said that both Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the bidding committee, and Wolfgang Niersbach, the current president of the German football federation (DFB), as well as other high-ranking football officials were aware of the slush fund by 2005 at the latest.
(18) There was talk of Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank, taking over, but Ackermann's hopes have been dented somewhat by recent accusations of an involvement in dirty slush funds .
(19) This is a get-out-of-jail card for councils that were using the money as a social care slush-fund.
(20) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.