(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.
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Definition:
(n.) The parson bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(2) In a statement on Thursday, Team Sky, for whom Froome rides, said: “Applications made by Team Sky for TUEs have all been managed and recorded in line with the processes put in place by the governing bodies.
(3) A Ukad spokesperson confirmed those affected were either on TUEs when they competed at the Rio Olympics or had previously been granted them.
(4) Open Tues-Sat noon-3pm and 7pm-11pm Blind Pig, 4th arr Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Take a large former garage, add a bar, invite different food trucks every week, et voilà !
(5) The team offered the explanation that the substance was part of an asthma treatment but that the team doctor had failed to apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption, or TUE, which is required for legitimate use of a medicine that figures on the banned list.
(6) Open Tues-Sat 10pm-2am Ruca Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gin is not a liquor often found on menus in this pisco-loving country, but it’s the raison d’être for one of the newest bars in Santiago’s rapidly gentrifying Barrio Italia neighbourhood.
(7) • Campeche 106 (in front of the Mercado Medellín), Colonia Roma, open Tues-Sun 9am-6pm Pozole: Pozole Doña Yoli Pozole street food, Mexico City Photograph: Nicholas Gilman Pozole is the ultimate Mexican comfort food.
(8) Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins have defended their use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) following the news overnight that they are among five British athletes whose medical records with the World Anti-Doping Agency have been leaked by computer hackers.
(9) Open Tues, Wed & Fri 10am-5pm; Thurs 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-4pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Photograph: Rueben Paris The home of Scotland's stories has been open since 2006 and features a cafe, the 99-seat Netherbow Theatre and the George Mackay Brown Library, and is attached to the popular tourist focal point of John Knox House.
(10) Wiggins and Froome have defended their use of TUEs, while the Williams sisters’ and Biles’ insistence that they had done nothing wrong has been staunchly backed by Wada and the tennis and gymnastics authorities.
(11) The reason The Fairy Jobmother (Tue, 9pm, Channel 4) infuriates the public so deeply is that there are no neat solutions to the mindset of long-term unemployment.
(12) Separately Ukad also confirmed that in 2015 UK athletes were granted 100 TUEs – with 16 rejected – a slightly higher figure than the 88 athletes who received a TUE in 2014.
(13) Open Tue-Fri 11am-7.30pm, Sat 10am-7.30pm, Sun 10am-4pm.
(14) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
(15) Open Tues-Sun 10am-5.15pm Musée Rodin Le Café du Musée Rodin Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Musée Rodin has long been one of the small jewels of Paris’s museums – where you are rarely disturbed by crowds.
(16) In nine years as a professional I’ve twice required a TUE for exacerbated asthma, the last time was in 2014.” Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins targeted in Wada hacking scandal Read more A statement on behalf of Sir Bradley Wiggins was similarly issued, which stated: “There’s nothing new here.
(17) Most anticipated "showstopper" bake Gingerbread reconstruction of the Sydney Opera House This year's Great British Bake Off final is on Tues, 8pm, BBC2
(18) Thus Lincoln shows up in Ford's great silent breakthrough The Iron Horse, in 1925, and then briefly in 1936's The Prisoner Of Shark Island, a thriller about the aftermath of Lincoln's murder (called Je n'ai pas tue Lincoln for its French release), in which Francis only got to play comic relief.
(19) Wiggins and Froome leaks raise familiar questions for cycling but do little else Read more Five members of the 366-strong British Olympic team in Rio, including the Tour de France winners Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins, have already been named by the cyber-espionage group Fancy Bears as having received TUEs for an illness or medical condition.
(20) The applications for TUEs under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program require a strict process of approval which I have adhered to when serious medical conditions have occurred.” The 36-year-old added she was “one of the strongest supporters of maintaining the highest level of integrity in competitive sport”.