(1) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(2) Those patients who were re-stung within 2 weeks (anergic period) or over 5 years after a generalized reaction to a sting had significantly improved response.
(3) 62 patients who had been stung by a red scorpion were admitted from January to December 1990: 18 with hypertension, 15 with supraventricular tachycardia, 11 with pulmonary oedema, and 18 with local pain at the site of sting but no systemic involvement.
(4) Stung, Mayweather hits right back with a right hand to remind Guerrero of who he's in with.
(5) Both women reported having been stung by jellyfish a month earlier.
(6) A seven-year-old girl, stung by a scorpion, was hospitalized in a confused state with signs of myocarditis and pulmonary edema.
(7) Our past and present re-sting data reveal that a large percentage of initially sting-sensitive patients have no reaction on being re-stung.
(8) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(9) A previously healthy 38-year-old man was stung multiple times by yellow jackets without any signs of anaphylaxis being observed.
(10) After being stung by reports that some soldiers had refused to fight Boko Haram or had “tactically retreated” from battle, chief of army staff Lt-General Kenneth Minimah ordered that deserters be court-martialled.
(11) The interventions have stung the government, and with good reason.
(12) 34 min: Stung by my criticism, Deco attempts to put me back in my box by scoring from distance.
(13) The chancellor was stung by last week's criticism from the fund.
(14) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(15) Antibodies were raised against CcV protein and used in testing for ovary and in stung eggs.
(16) The pop song's composer, John Ewbank, was so stung by the criticism that he attempted unsuccessfully to have the song withdrawn from the day's festivities.
(17) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
(18) Oh, and they also stung you for £25 last month when you went a few quid over your overdraft limit.
(19) In Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, 40-year-old Sunni government worker Hazim Ali Hamid was stung by Obama's praise to US forces for removing Saddam.
(20) The prime minister is still stung by his embarrassing rebuff in 2013 when he suffered an international diplomatic humiliation by failing to win the support of parliament for a bombing campaign designed to sanction Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people.
Stunt
Definition:
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
(n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
(n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(2) The more frequent causes of a stunted growth were ruled out previously (systemic and chronic diseases, metabolic disorders, genetic alterations, etc.).
(3) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(4) Uptake was also investigated in 17 children with right-to-left cardiac stunts and 18 children with left-to-right shunts undergoing corrective or palliative cardiac surgery.
(5) "No, it's a stunt, a fraud," cry Lib Dems, Clegg's leftie critics included.
(6) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(7) Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children a year, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under the age of five and stunting growth among a further 165 million, according to a set of Lancet reports published last week.
(8) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
(9) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(10) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(11) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(12) Stunted children were randomly assigned to supplementation or not.
(13) The aim of this study is to identify fetal organs and developmental periods sensitive to stunting induced by maternal exposure to dexamethasone (DEX).
(14) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
(15) An editorial in the Saturday edition of the English language Global Times, which is run by the Communist party, said the students’ travel plans were little more than a publicity stunt.
(16) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
(17) A performance art group called the Centre for Political Beauty claimed to have organised the stunt.
(18) A recent multi-country study showed that for every 10% increase in levels of stunting among children, the proportion of children reaching the final grade of school dropped by almost 8%.
(19) It follows a stunt by Spanish police divers who were photographed showing the flag while inspecting the controversial concrete reef.
(20) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.