(n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunstein has been friends with Obama since the 1990s, when both were law professors at the University of Chicago, while Thaler met the presidential hopeful when he was in the Illinois race for the senate in 2004.
(2) According to this view, voters are less Mr Spock than Homer Simpson and they could do with a bit of help - what Thaler terms a "nudge" - to save more, eat more healthily and do all the other things that they know they should.
(3) A classification previously proposed by Hinkle and Thaler was used to define the mechanism of cardiac death and the presence of ischemia.
(5) Plans are being made for a weekend retreat in which shadow ministers get together with Thaler and two or three of his associates to come up with policies.
(6) That underrates Hilton's successes, which include the promise of a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and putting fashionable theories – Richard Thaler's "nudge" is one – into a practical context.
(7) What is the big idea of Richard Thaler, the economist quoted by David Cameron and Barack Obama ?
(8) "Economists assume people have brains like supercomputers that can solve anything," says Thaler.
(9) "I just want people to have more useful information," says Thaler.
(10) Cameron's aides name three areas where Thaler may be able to help: how to make it socially unacceptable for the young to carry knives; encouraging people to recycle; and tackling binge drinking and obesity.
(11) By linking themselves with American social scientists such as Richard Thaler and Robert Cialdini , the Tory high command has managed to cast itself as the new home of intellectual energy in British politics – so much livelier than that sleep-deprived lot over in Downing Street.
(12) What does Thaler think of all the political jockeying over his ideas?
(13) But I was just blown away and for the first time in my life wrote a cheque to a politician," says Thaler.
(14) If he follows them through, Cameron may find the ideas of Thaler and Cialdini take him on rather a big detour from the political road the Tories usually take.
(15) Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Thaler's reception in this country is what it tells us about party politics.
(16) The practice spread into Europe and today’s de facto global currency, the US dollar, has its roots in the “thaler”, a silver coin dating back to the mid-15th century.
(17) Martino and White alternated between answering Thaler's prompts and speaking to camera, while in voiceover mode they would pick up and comment on the footage in front of them, before segueing into introducing the local commentary teams for a few moments.
(18) "The mafia is probably pretty immune to nudging," Thaler quips.
(19) One senior policy adviser to George Osborne makes even grander claims for Thaler's influence: "Behavioural economics might be our equivalent of [Gordon] Brown's neo-classical endogenous growth theory."
(20) In the same speech in which he mentioned Thaler's new book, Cameron proposed that households should be told at the bottom of their gas and electricity bills whether they were using more energy than their neighbours or less.
Whaler
Definition:
(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(2) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(3) The whalers began blasting conservationists on one raft with a water cannon, knocking one man off his feet and leaving him with cuts and bruises, Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone.
(4) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(5) The court said there was no research justification for the high kill targets set for Japan's whalers.
(6) Sea Shepherd's founder, Paul Watson, accused the whalers of deliberately ploughing into the front of the boat.
(7) Japan's whalers usually leave for the southern ocean in December and return in April.
(8) Of course you think maybe you are going to risk your life, or there might be an accident, but your beliefs are your engine.” A decade after Greenpeace activist Mark Hardingham was left in intensive care after getting in the way of a Norwegian whaler, Mompo sailed into Bergen to campaign for the protection of Norwegian coral reefs.
(9) Two historic ships are being repaired in dry dock, and a 17th-century whaler is moored near three tempting fish cafes.
(10) Wadaura's whalers will contribute 26 whales to the total, but they would like to be able to hunt many more.
(11) A court in Tokyo has handed a suspended sentence to an environmental activist after finding him guilty of assaulting a Japanese whaler and obstructing the country's whaling fleet.
(12) Glenn Inwood, the institute's spokesman in New Zealand , said the whalers' footage of the incident disproved the activists' account.
(13) Through cutting kill quotas by blocking their lethal operations, we have reduced kill numbers dramatically, saving more than 4,000 whales and costing the whalers their profits.
(14) Japan catches almost 17,000 smaller cetaceans off its coast every year – a tradition that its whalers say stretches back centuries.
(15) Anti-whaling activists today accused Japanese whalers of ramming and sinking one of their boats as international tension over Japan's annual "scientific" culls in Antarctic waters grew.
(16) Radical environmentalists who threw acid and smoke bombs at Japanese whalers were found in contempt of court for continuing their relentless campaign to disrupt the annual whale hunt off the waters of Antarctica.
(17) The ninth US circuit court of appeals on Friday ordered a commissioner to determine how much Paul Watson and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society he founded owe Japanese whalers for lawyer fees, damage to their ships and for violating the court order to stop their dangerous protests.
(18) The fisheries agency blamed the poor catch on bad weather and "sabotage" by Sea Shepherd, which has confronted the whalers every year since 2005.
(19) The Japanese whalers are demanding $2m in addition to their attorney fees and damage and cost to their ships for warding off the protests.
(20) Afterwards, the whalers contacted Greenpeace to apologise.