(1) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(2) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(3) This is someone who once stole a three-bedroom house's worth of furniture from Ikea by bypassing the checkouts but still arranged to have it all delivered by them, personally, to her door.
(4) There's been so much abuse heaped upon these communities, and so much rightful anger at the people who stole their lands.
(5) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
(6) Child’s race was always going to be the main show but the dramatic entrance of young English talent stole several scenes and brought medals galore.
(7) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
(8) Mark Zuckerberg, its 26-year-old co-founder, has had to weather lawsuits from people who claim to have built the site with him; in 2008 Facebook paid $65m (£43m) to end claims that he stole the idea ; another case, from a web designer who claims 84% ownership of the site, awaits a hearing in a US court .
(9) Mr Ibrahim said the British adventurer and writer Gertrude Bell "filled two ships with goods she stole from here".
(10) They also took our children and put them in boarding schools and raped them and cut their hair and stole their language.” His grandmother was beaten for speaking her native language, so she did not pass it on to her children, he said, and youth were threatened with jail if they were caught practicing their religion.
(11) "Their doctrine is not to protect the people but to take revenge on those who attacked them and stole their weapons."
(12) Everything he touched, we assume he took, stole,” Flynn said.
(13) The home manager is extremely unlikely to have been impressed by the ease with which Benteke – who has now scored six goals in seven Premier League games against Sunderland for Liverpool and Aston Villa – stole behind Brown and Coates.
(14) This was supposed to be the start of a new era but Dimitri Payet’s magical display stole the show, leading to his manager, Slaven Bilic, labelling the Frenchman a bargain at £10.7m.
(15) Uggie the Jack Russell, who stole the show in Michel Hazanavicius's Oscar-winning The Artist last year, has officially retired from showbusiness in a ceremony at Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre .
(16) Football also evolves, just as the world, cars, computers do, so you have to keep evolving and immersing yourself in those changes.” It was telling that in April, when thieves broke into his parked car and stole various personal belongings, not only did he lose a contacts book with 20 years’ worth of professional associates, but also an iPad containing a draft of the football book he is working on.
(17) Just as the campaign was beginning to regain some normalcy, another intervention stole the spotlight.
(18) Writing in his blog, Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, said : "The very charges underpinning this years-long process … are completely incoherent: you cannot say that someone stole all of Yukos's oil while at the same time sustaining that they had failed to pay taxes on profits made from selling that same oil."
(19) Tesco Bank cyber-thieves stole £2.5m from 9,000 people Read more Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said the discounters were being hit as they were now up against very strong rates of growth a year ago, while Tesco’s resurgence had made life more difficult.
(20) Behr had to separate the women when they literally went for each other's throat: "You stole my child, you communist bitch!"
Stolid
Definition:
(a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rhythm section is strong: occasionally stolid, always solid and sometimes – in particular on their career highpoint, the extraordinary "damn you, England" rant called "The Queen is Dead" – totally inspired.
(2) The menu is stolidly British – tea and biscuits, fish and chips and club sandwiches are favourites.
(3) As the Ohio State University climatologist Lonnie G Thompson, a world-renowned specialist on glacier melt, explained in 2010 , “Climatologists, like other scientists, tend to be a stolid group.
(4) He saw the new forces of educational selection in postwar Britain as yielding a new "restless elite", a creative minority rising above "the stolid majority".
(5) He arrived in office with the image of a stolid traditionalist, suffered some early wounding setbacks but emerged at the end of it as a pioneering campaigner in partnership with one of the most glamorous film stars on the planet.
(6) Ray (2004) The late Ray Charles is conjured up in all his playful, lustful, anguished glory in this otherwise stolid, respectful biopic of the legendary musician.
(7) To our left sat a stolid middle-aged black couple in the Mad Hatter attire that has become part of the South African football fan's kit.
(8) While Lessing's brother, Harry settled into a life of stolid conformity, she rebelled, graduating from a junior school run by nuns who had been out in the sun too long, to a high school which she left when she was 14.
(9) 58 min: Holland are looking stolid and unimaginative.
(10) 3.36am GMT 56 mins The lack of the overlapping full backs (Scott is no Yedlin) is beginning to make Seattle look a little stolid trying to play through this narrow Portland midfield.
(11) One by one, our equivocal hero seeks out the runaways: worldly-wise Zhora (Joanna Cassidy); stolid Leon (Brion James); the “pleasure-model” Pris ( Daryl Hannah ); and the group’s apparent leader, the ultimate Nietzschean blond beast, Roy Batty (the wonderful Rutger Hauer).
(12) The Guardian Review book club boasts a distinguished history of literary guests, but only Lessing achieved the distinction of a spontaneous standing ovation upon entering the room, a tiny figure dressed entirely in black, stolid as a carved deity.
(13) But Rjukan itself, until then, was stolidly unimpressed.
(14) When he comes back from the effects of a heart attack in his garden, it is with inner sensation – "an audible pop in the ears" – and a kind of self-spectatorship: "a rich consciousness of solitude, and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in".
(15) Led by the passionate Charles Parnell , and then by the stolid John Redmond , the Irish Parliamentary party’s obstructionism and filibusters won many reforms for Ireland.
(16) One kind morning I got myself to a meeting with a marvellous occupational therapist, Nicky deCourcy, who stolidly laid out a few facts, among them the detail that I wouldn't be able to cope for a while with more than two extraneous interventions – quiet TV plus reading, say, or radio plus writing – and that sudden urgent sounds would send me, in the medical terminology, a bit wacko.
(17) Now, Germans practise the stolid virtues of thrift and moderation we once thought our own, while the British, who once abhorred debt, have become a nation of maniacal spendthrifts.
(18) Orwell never explains why the stolid old Anglo-Saxon should be any more "clear" than such newfangled horrors; as "predict" and "extraneous" demonstrate now, words minted from the classical will very rapidly seem entirely normal.
(19) I was convinced that, for all its Thatcherite ugliness and excess, there was something about the UK's gritty liveliness that would leave the stolid Germans behind.
(20) By allowing TV cameras to broadcast the coronation at Westminster Abbey live to millions of her citizens the Queen transformed a stolid state ceremony into a national celebration.