(1) He had committed to attend the show – and was likely to spruik the agriculture white paper – having said as recently as Sunday morning that he would be there.
(2) To do good medical research you need good chemistry and good physics and good biology and good genetics … it doesn’t make sense to separate one thing out.” Abbott and Dutton were again spruiking the new fund on Monday, but few leading scientists entirely agree with the strategy.
(3) It’s a far cry from the usual desperate pleas for attendance from those emotionally and physically ragged students who march up and down the street spruiking petitions and street press rags.
(4) My only financial benefit was the remuneration I was receiving at KPMG.” Conroy said: “That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for.” Fitzgerald responded: “I'm not spruiking for anybody.” Infrastructure Australia provides advice to the government on infrastructure priorities but it is up to the government to decide whether and where to allocate funding.
(5) Her income is higher than it was before and she can afford someone to come in for four hours a day to help out, but it is nothing like the paid holiday that advocates of do-what-you-love independence spruik.
(6) But Shorten does have the advantage of entering the election fight knowing what he’s selling and why, and not having to spruik a bunch of policies everyone knows he doesn’t believe in.
(7) MinMetals spruiked Robert’s visit on its website by saying the then assistant defence minister was speaking “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence”.
(8) (Christensen and Bernardi say it has resurfaced now because “more information has come to light” which is a neatly circular argument since it is them and their fellow conservative objectors who have been spruiking the new “information”.)
(9) That would be the kind of supporters who are willing to fundraise, doorknock, spruik on social media and take the personal time to convince their friends, relatives and neighbours that Labor have a political vision worth voting for.
(10) After all the venom spruiked about debt, deficit and the so-called “budget emergency”, Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb produced a four-year budget which was only $6bn different from Labor’s.
(11) Fitzgerald replied: "I'm not spruiking for anybody."
(12) This explains why the bulk of the billions of dollars extra the former Labor government was spruiking was due to arrive beyond the four-year budget cycle – and why the Coalition never committed to match funding beyond the first four years.
(13) He said at the time his vote “was not a vote for deregulation” but “to continue discussion”, but as the government embarked on an $8m advertising campaign to spruik the defeated package and a new round of lobbying to secure its passage this year, it was widely assumed it would secure Muir’s support.
(14) During question time on Tuesday, Abbott evaded questions on the cabinet leaks, instead spruiking the government’s credentials on national security.
(15) Conroy said: "That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for."
(16) Crossbench seek sweeteners for supporting revised family benefit cuts Read more While the childcare changes are not scheduled to start until 2017, they would be harder to spruik in the 2016 election year if the government had failed to secure its self-identified funding stream.
Tout
Definition:
(v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
(v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
(n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
(v. i.) To toot a horn.
(n.) The anus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
(2) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(3) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
(4) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
(5) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
(6) The American musician’s unexpected political intervention came in the wake of a much-touted but ultimately disappointing dialogue between government officials and student leaders.
(7) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
(8) Bush marked his 100 days with a barnstorming tour of six states in four days to tout his achievements.
(9) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(10) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
(11) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(12) Indeed, politicians of all stripes love to tout the adversity their parents overcame so that their children could be successful and live comfortably.
(13) At the event on Wednesday, Giuliani touted his record of surveilling mosques after the 1993 World Trade Center attack “I put undercover agents in mosques for the first time in January 1994,” he said.
(14) When Zuley came down, they were able to tout him as ‘Hell yeah, he’s just like you guys, he’s a detective’ and this and that,” Fallon said.
(15) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
(16) Fiber is currently being touted as protection against colon cancer.
(17) Worthy accoucheurs will have planned for this event and will have selected from the numerous procedures touted for its correction that group he or she intuitively feels will be most effective or, at a minimum, most easily remembered.
(18) When blatant falsehoods are presented as truth on critical questions - by a film that touts itself as a journalistic presentation of actual events - insisting on apolitical appreciation of this "art" is indeed a reckless abdication.
(19) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
(20) Three possible candidates touted to become Iran’s next supreme leader: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: The 80-year-old moderate politician was among the founding members of the Islamic republic and its president, from 1989 to 1997.