(1) That makes you a "fairy", to use the tamer word Rice used.
(2) Besides, city birds are generally far tamer and easier to see than those in wilder places; a distinct advantage given my current jetlagged state.
(3) "I want the people to know there are army officers who are with them," Major Tamer Samir Badr told the Guardian.
(4) The case's chief prosecutor, Tamer el-Firgani, said Morsi, his aides and senior Brotherhood members had "handed over secrets to foreign countries, among them national defense secrets, and handed over a number of security reports to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in order to destabilize the country's security and stability."
(5) The new work I am watching her laboriously install in Leeds Art Gallery also, on first glance, seems much tamer than her subversive collages.
(6) He was conceived after Tamer's sperm was smuggled out of an Israeli prison, across a stringent military checkpoint into Gaza, and impregnated into an egg harvested from Hana at a fertility clinic in Gaza City.
(7) He is thought to have sold at least one picture – a painting called Lion Tamer by Beckmann – since his flat was first raided by the police.
(8) One gouache, Lion Tamer by Max Beckmann, which had been sold by Gurlitt to a Cologne auction house in 2011, had originally belonged to the Jewish art dealer and collector Alfred Flechtheim.
(9) Tamer Abd el-Raouf, a journalist for the state newspaper, al-Ahram, in Beheira, has been shot and killed at an army checkpoint.
(10) Hana al-Za'anin and her husband, Tamer, have not set eyes on each other, let alone had physical contact, for almost seven years.
(11) Tamer of the Tigers Widely seen as the architect of Sri Lanka's military success against the Tamil Tigers , General Sarath Fonseka is credited with eliminating the separatist group's leadership and ending a war that began in 1983 and killed more than 70,000 people.
(12) "I called Tamer to say I was pregnant, and I could hear cheering.
(13) Caldeira Velha (signposted from Lagao do Fogo, entry €6) offers a tamer dip, but in green jungly beauty so lush as to remind me of Hawaii.
(14) France recently adopted a 75% tax on millionaires ; the Australian Greens are much tamer with their meagre 50% tax.
(15) The passengers listed Princess Beatrice Howard Donald Sam Mendes Jason Orange Charlize Theron Coleen Rooney Matt Lucas Paul Merton Russell Brand Richard E Grant James May and Jeremy Clarkson Debbie Harry Jeremy Kyle Kate Winslet Denise van Outen Michael McIntyre Matt Le Tissier Yasmin Le Bon Lennox Lewis Julia Ormond Lily Cole Rihanna Colin Farrell Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Rupert Grint Anna Friel Daniel Radcliffe Glenn Hoddle Amanda Holden Belinda Carlisle 'Madonna's kids' Madonna Alan Carr Michael Madsen Eva Longoria Len Goodman Nigel Havers Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen Joan Collins Fergie (Black Eyed Peas singer) Taio Cruz Hugh Dancy Jared Leto Mel B Graham Norton Rob Brydon Ross Kemp Trevor and Sharon Eve Jonathan Ross Tamer Hassan Kelly Osbourne Dom Joly Amanda Redman Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) Serena Williams Jack Osbourne Katherine Jackson Neve Campbell Ralph Fiennes
(16) • The article was amended on 15 October 2013 to include details of Tamer's criminal record.
(17) He hoped I could persuade Mechtild Nawiasky, the fiery picture editor who had once been a lion-tamer, to use news photographs as well as the moody, soft-focus pictures she favoured on the front page.
(18) "It is sad that Turkey is still number one in Europe when it comes to work accidents," said Tamer Kücükgencay, the chairman of the regional miners' union.
(19) Michael Oates Palmer, staff writer on The West Wing, applied less reverence when he said: "They're the ringmaster, the elephant tamer and the people who clean the cages."
(20) The PAC is a much tamer affair now that Margaret Hodge has stood down as its chair, but it does still have its own pet rotty in the bullet-headed Stephen Phillips who manages to fit in his work as MP with a £750,000 day job as a QC.
Timer
Definition:
(n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
(2) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
(3) The regulation of these two enzymes was found to be dissociable in the developmental timer mutant, FM-1, which aggregates 4.5 h earlier than wild-type cells due to the absence of the first rate-limiting component of the preaggregative period.
(4) It was wired with a mobile phone, most likely to act as a timer to detonate the device.
(5) We go on holiday ... We all worked together at Conservative Central Office ... all this 'bright young thing' stuff obscures the fact that we are actually old-timers."
(6) Since hydrolytic demidation has been suggested as an important timer of biological events, the effects on hydrolytic deamidation of substances that are normally present in living organisms and are subject to nutritional control are of special relevance.
(7) The data indicate that both first timers and repeaters overwhelmingly reject the premise that abortion is a primary or even a back-up birth control method.
(8) A built-in timer-reset mechanism prevents failure of the system in the absence of a His potential (i.e., 2:1 AV block).
(9) But many first-timers will be spurred into buying by the looming end of the stamp duty holiday .
(10) The number of reserves is due to double over this period, but Hammond and the head of the army, General Sir Peter Wall, acknowledged laws protecting part-timers, and the companies they work for, will have to be revisited.
(11) While the 10 councils have been working together since the mid-1980s the authority has only legally existed for three years – although by the standards of CCGs that makes it an old-timer.
(12) Zeitlin, the only American to win a major prize, explained that nearly all his cast and crew were first-timers too: "We were a lot of inexperienced people running fast into the unknown."
(13) Significance of this mechanism is emphasized not only for the GIT activity but as a "timer" for ultraradian rhythms as well.
(14) It is concluded that the best type of mechanical plethysmography is plethysmography with the use of a mercuric timer; in addition, mechanical plethysmography compares very favourably with impedance one.
(15) Two of my cellmates are first-timers, ordinary young men without an atom of violence in them.
(16) A digital timer is described which generates a number of pulses whose delays with respect to a periodic reference pulse can be independently preset by means of thumbwheel switches.
(17) This method has been used to check and evaluate timers on 10 X-ray examination units of various models.
(18) A fully automated system is described in which a gas chromatograph equipped with a backflush valve is automatically operated under the control of a specially designed timer unit.
(19) Many universities have barely noticed the fall in part-timers because of increased revenue from their mainly full-time student intakes.
(20) Five variables were independently associated with greater than 80% compliance as determined by stepwise multiple logistic regression: patient belief that zidovudine prolongs life (odds ratio [OR] 9.3, [95% confidence interval (CI) 2.4, 36.7]), a diagnosis of AIDS or ARC (OR 5.5, [CI 1.5, 20.4]), use of a medication timer (OR 4.4, [CI 1.0, 19.1]), no history of intravenous drug use (OR 3.7, [CI 1.0, 14.2]), and taking one to three other medications with zidovudine.