(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(4) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(5) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) It is now apparent that a large amount of confidential Sony Pictures Entertainment data has been stolen by the cyberattackers, including personnel information and business documents,” it said.
(8) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(9) The stolen babies were well cared for and were usually quickly recovered.
(10) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(11) Not only did a Latino actor not play Tony, who clearly in real life looks like a Chicano, but his ethnicity is stolen from the Latino community at a time when Latinos have been demonized.
(12) More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga are being warned that their personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm.
(13) They’d certainly believe that they had stolen this woman’s dignity.
(14) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(15) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(16) The German discount supermarket chain Aldi has stolen a march on rivals in Britain by throwing its weight behind a groundbreaking national initiative to back British farmers.
(17) In a study that took into account the opportunity costs for jail time and the cost of stolen goods, scholars found that crime cost Uruguay about $319m (£209m) a year.
(18) Miller said he had been told by police that they would have more information on the stolen property by Wednesday afternoon.
(19) Nigeria's corruption agency says $300bn-$400bn has been stolen or wasted over the last 50 years and campaigners say the Democratic Republic of the Congo received only $86,000 in mineral rights in 2006, despite an estimated $1bn of mineral exports each year.
(20) Blood can be stolen from almost any vascular bed and redistributed.
Sucker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
(n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
(n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
(n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
(n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.
(n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
(n.) The remora.
(n.) The lumpfish.
(n.) The hagfish, or myxine.
(n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
(n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
(n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.
(n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
(n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
(v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
(v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The papillae on the oral sucker were more abundant than those elsewhere.
(2) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
(3) Lesions associated with Philometroides huronensis in the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) of southern Ontario occurred during the spring (April-June) and were related to the development and release of first-stage larvae from the gravid nematode.
(4) Except for the suckers and excretory pores, the whole body surface of the metacercariae and the juveniles are covered with posteriorly pointing tegumental spines which are relatively denser in the forebody than in the hindbody.
(5) The event proper starts at 20.00, I'm still in the office and so, bearing in mind the traffic, expect this sucker to start moving at 19.30.
(6) For recording ECG in precardial leads sucker electrodes which have a limited application and short service life are employed most often.
(7) Anatomical components of afferent innervation in the rim of the octopus sucker are described.
(8) The new species differs from E. knoepffleri Combes, 1965 by greater sizes of the disc, median and marginal hooks and anterior suckers.
(9) As differentiation continued, rostellar hooks were formed by enlargement of single large (T1) microtriches, and normal spined microtriches were produced on the sucker region.
(10) Therefore, the Mesometridae which always have just a single sucker (monostomatous) have selected a new kind of compensatory adhesive structure.
(11) The number of the small dome-shaped papillae with a pit was about 30 around the oral sucker and that of the small ones with a smooth surface varied from 9 to 13 around the ventral sucker.
(12) To illustrate particular patterns of apical root resorption in primary maxillary central incisors of digital suckers, the radiographs of patients in a private pedodontic practice were evaluated.
(13) Six stages in development are distinguished: the 'lung form' (stage 1), attaining maximum numbers on day 5 post-infection; the 'closed-gut form' (stage 2) on day 14, characterized by the union of the gut caeca behind the ventral sucker; 'organogeny' (stage 3) on day 17, the male possessing one testis and a gynaecophoric canal and the female a narrow uterus; 'gametogeny' (stage 4) on day 26, with pairing, the male having four fully developed testes and the female an ovary; 'egg-shell formation' (stage 5) on day 35; 'oviposition' (stage 6) on day 37, with the female showing uterine eggs.
(14) White suckers, collected from lakes containing elevated levels of copper (12 micrograms liter-1) and zinc (250 micrograms liter-1), were evaluated for reproductive performance, growth and survival of the larvae, and tolerance of the larvae to waterborne copper.
(15) Critics who saw Budapest at the Berlin film festival, where it premiered this month, have called it "vibrant and imaginative" , "nimblefooted, witty" , and as a sucker for Anderson's stuff since his early days, I'd agree.
(16) ‘Nothin’ you can do about it, sucker.’ He didn’t like gettin’ hit with those punches.
(17) It is characterised by possessing spines at the basal margin of oral sucker; testes, postequatorial, subsymmetrical; vitellaria lateral to ovary in middle of hindbody, confluent in postovarian region and reaching to level of testes; ovary flattened; genital pore antero-lateral to acetabulum; seminal vesicle large and ejaculatory duct long.
(18) We are just sort of like suckers.” She goes so far as to lump centrist environmental leaders together with groups such as the Heartland Institute , which denies the existence of climate change.
(19) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
(20) At the interval it remained 1-0 so United needed to convert their chances to kill Palace off or they would be vulnerable to a sucker punch that Pardew’s side had delivered at Arsenal on Sunday .