(v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
(v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
(v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
(v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
(v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
(v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
(v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
(v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
(v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soon after the takeover, PFD creative director Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, left amid reports that the company wasn't big enough for "two alpha females in Chanel".
(2) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(3) Public health officials planned to sue these results to design and target education about the benefits of early initiation of breast feeding.
(4) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(5) Sue Capon, who runs Brokerswood country park, said everyone was still coming to terms with the tragedy.
(6) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
(7) Polonsky is hoping to sue Lebedev for libel and is seeking damages for defamation, his lawyer Andrew Stephenson has said.
(8) The law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Indian Springs, said the measure would make the clinics safer, while clinic operators said it was an attempt to shut them down through a regulation they could not meet.
(9) In 2004 her action reached the US supreme court, which ruled that she could sue the Austrians.
(10) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
(11) Sue We’re the same people we were when we met as teenagers.
(12) He said he decided not to sue News International because he felt the only remedy was justice for the alleged perpetrators, not punishment of the press for the alleged criminal offences of a few.
(13) Sue Tibballs, chief executive of the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) , said she thought the Games could be a "genuine turning point".
(14) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(15) 2010s: In 2012, Sue Ellen is a very different woman.
(16) The landmark case, brought by a small environmental group through the UK courts, will allow people to sue the government for breaching EU pollution laws and will force ministers to prepare plans for many cities to improve air quality.
(17) Acid-base terminology including the sue of SI units is reviewed.
(18) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(19) Findus indicated it was ready to sue as the company announced it would on Monday file a complaint against an unidentified party.
(20) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.
Suet
Definition:
(n.) The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
(2) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(3) Serves 4 For the brisket 2.5kg salted brisket on the bone 2 onions with skin, cleaned 3 litres water 4 bay leaves 6 peppercorns 1 bunch of parsley, with stalks For the dumplings 200g suet 400g self-raising flour 1 bunch of young carrots, peeled 2 sticks celery, cut into 2cm lengths 1 Rinse any excess salt from the beef.
(4) SHRSP on a hypercholesterolemic diet (20% suet, 5% cholesterol, and 2% cholic acid) had ring-like fat deposits in the circle of Willis, which were detected within a few weeks by new techniques for the macroscopical demonstration of fat deposits "as a whole" and were proved to be good quantitative indices for the initiation of atherogenesis.
(5) In the course of 9 experiment weeks the calves of the lard--suet group without lecithin reached an average daily weight gain of 710 g, which was not significantly better than the gains of 689 g of the lard--suet group with lecithin and of 674 g of the bone fat group.
(6) The selectively-bred substrains of spontaneously hypertensive rats with a greater vulnerability to vascular lesions rapidly developed arterial fat deposition within 1 or 2 weeks as well as a greater hypercholesterolemic response when fed on high fat cholesterol diet including 20% of suet, 5% of cholesterol and 2% of cholic acid.
(7) Half an hour until the signature suet challenge is at an end.
(8) (Sue: “You’re studying Wittgenstein!” Ruby: “That’s nothing compared to this.”) The programme makers only gradually learned to set tasks pleasing to the eye: in the first season, one challenge consisted of making three puddings, one with bread, one with suet, and a crumble – brown blobs in Pyrex dishes.
(9) In leftwing circles it is always felt there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings.” He was right too: in no other progressive European tradition do you find a similar reluctance to fly the flag.
(10) 3 Mix the suet and flour with 2 tsp salt and add just enough water to bind.
(11) With the example of suet the general relationship between the fatty acid patterns of the feed and body fats are recognizable, with the fatty acids C 16:0, C 18:2 and C 18:3 having a lower and C 16:1, C 18:0 and C 18:1 having a higher quota in the suet than in the feed fat.
(12) With that in mind, this pudding is a compromise between heart-stoppingly rich suet puddings and the featherweight desserts usually wheeled out during the summer months.
(13) Recipe supplied by Prerna Singh, indiansimmer.com Salted beef brisket with suet dumplings.
(14) There was a packet of beef suet, a tin of golden syrup, a tin of peas and one Oxo cube.
(15) The two main diets compared were beef suet rich in saturated fatty acids and corn oil rich in a linoleic acid, an N-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid.
(16) To top it all off, Verloc’s head looks in colour, texture and squishiness exactly like a suet pudding, which comes with huge risks in Victorian London.
(17) There is a higher quota of linolenic acid in the suet of the calves than in butter fat but a lower quota than in foreign fat.
(18) "Boil it up with suet," said the writer, "to keep the meat as white as possible."
(19) Integrated CCK responses to dietary triglycerides (30 g) also differed significantly according to the degree of saturation--277 (58) pmol.l-1.min after corn oil (predominantly diunsaturated), 143 (14) pmol.l-1.min after olive oil (predominantly monounsaturated), and 44 (12) pmol.l-1.min after suet (predominantly saturated).
(20) Bovine tissues including muscle, liver, heart, kidney, lung, suet, brain, spinal cord and thymus were ground in a buffer of pH 7 and then extracted using ethyl acetate.