(n.) Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
(v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) You need everything.” – Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol on the ‘typical African player’ “The intelligence I wanted to talk about was tactical intelligence.” – Sagnol clears things up “I want to buy your monkey with the square feet.” – What former Marseille president Bernard Tapie reportedly told then Auxerre coach Guy Roux before signing Basile Boli in 1990.
(3) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(4) In the soap opera of French political eccentrics, few are as colourful and controversial as Tapie: a rags-to-riches businessman who began as a failed popstar and wannabe racing driver, hosted TV shows, became a minister under François Mitterrand, owned Olympique de Marseille football club but then served time in jail for match-fixing, and finally reinvented himself as actor and now press baron, recently buying the newspaper La Provence.
(5) Marseille were consumed by scandal after it emerged that the president, Bernard Tapie, had bribed three Valenciennes players to take it easy against his team in a league fixture at the end of the 1992-93 season.
(6) Although she is based in London, where she loves her "little garden", she and her long-time partner, the photographer Gilles Tapie, have been living a privileged nomadic existence for the past 17 years as they've followed the international trajectory of her career.
(7) Ini tidak hanya menyebabkan frekuensi banjir yang lebih sering, tapi juga berpotensi merusak saluran air bersih terpipa maupun sistem pembuangan air kotor.
(8) Tapie is a former Socialist minister and flamboyant business tycoon turned chatshow host who, as head of Olympique de Marseille football team, had served a prison sentence for match fixing.
(9) The then-socialist opposition claimed the arbitration process was rigged to reward Tapie for his support of Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
(10) Although only the Valenciennes match was proved to have been corrupt, Wenger had his suspicions about much of the Tapie era at Marseille and feared that his own players had been approached.
(11) Once Sarkozy was in office, Lagarde moved to stop the court action and instead authorised three judges to decide an out-of-court settlement that meant Tapie was awarded a massive €400m in compensation at the expense of the French taxpayer – over €280m of which he pocketed, after tax and costs.
(12) Lagarde said there was "nothing new under the sun" and she was ready to be heard in the case, involving businessman Bernard Tapie.
(13) Was there something that resonated with the money coming in – albeit legally – that reminded you of your experience in fighting the financial doping of Bernard Tapie’s Marseille when you were with Monaco?
(14) Tapie, a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, won the award in arbitration in 2008 to end a dispute with the government over his company's sale of Adidas.
(15) Tapie affair While Sarkozy was president, a complicated legal case involving businessman Bernard Tapie was sent by his government to arbitration, that eventually awarded Tapie €403 million.
(16) Tapie was later jailed and Marseille were stripped of the title they won that year.
(17) Dapat dimengerti bahwa kita sering kali menggantungkan harapan di pundak para politisi, tapi berharap politik akan dapat mengubah status quo secara mendasar hanyalah khayalan.
(18) The return might also have been significant for his long-standing assistant Boro Primorac, who was the Valenciennes coach in 1993 and who testified at Tapie's trial.
(19) It also attacked Lagarde’s reputation saying it was sullied by criminal allegations of negligence over €400m (£314m) of payments in the Bernard Tapie affair , dating back to when she was French finance minister.
(20) Investigators are examining whether the vast sum was deliberately rigged in favour of Tapie.
Taxis
Definition:
(n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(2) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
(3) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
(4) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
(5) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
(6) Mutants in malF and malK are defective in maltose transport at low concentrations as well as high concentrations, as previously shown, but are essentially normal in maltose taxis.
(7) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
(8) Taxis will still accept customers hailing them from the street.
(9) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
(10) SpaceX is among four firms vying to build space taxis to fly astronauts, tourists and non-Nasa researchers.
(11) Gilbride, now a taxi driver in Stirling, has refused to comment.
(12) A taxi driver in the Dominican Republic, when shown a picture of Brown, said: "I picked him up from a Thomson flight three months ago.
(13) They had been drinking and he persuaded her back to the hotel and said he’d get her a taxi home.
(14) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
(15) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
(16) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
(17) Many are first- or second-generation immigrants from places such as Afghanistan, Poland, Somalia and Nigeria eager to sign up to drive for the US tech company, whose phone-based minicab-hailing app has transformed the taxi industry in 58 countries.
(18) A business trip to New York in November 2006, in which Bennett spent £315.16 staying at the W Hotel in Manhattan, saw her claim £2.49 for a taxi to check in to the hotel following a board meeting and £2.49 for one because she was "carrying bags and confidential paperwork".
(19) Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades before our app existed and with Uber they have more control.
(20) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.