(n.) An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(2) Far better then, for the movie, to give Roper a billionaire’s island in the sun with a palatial Gatsby -style villa at its centre and a sprinkling of cottages for his underlings and protectors.
(3) I am not going to punish you, I just want you to explain to the people and me how do I show off?” asks Kadyrov, who routinely posts photos to his Instagram account of him beating underlings in mixed martial-arts fights, hosting celebrities and other high-profile visitors, and cavorting with his collection of exotic animals.
(4) David Cameron doesn't seem to be a sweary type; he doesn't blowtorch underlings or kick the copying machines in the style of Gordon Brown – but there will have been ructions on receipt of those latest migration figures from the Office for National Statistics .
(5) The task for Carney is to know when to overrule his underlings.
(6) On-set, male actors can scream abuse at underlings and have it passed off as being “driven”; making Wall Street, an unwitting Young had a sign reading “cunt” stuck to her back by Sheen.
(7) 'When we were at the Post he was a kind of legendary figure and I was a little underling,' remembers Malcolm Gladwell.
(8) Read more Industrial production figures on Friday showed that Greek output fell 4% during May, compared with 0.4% growth in April, underling how far and fast the economy slumped as the debate over a creditor bailout dragged on.
(9) This was corroborated when NSA director Keith Alexander and others, under great pressure to justify their (illegal) “bulk” collection of metadata, pressed underlings to produce 54 examples to prove that “total information awareness” type collection “worked” to identify and stop real terrorism, only to have the proffered NSA examples fall apart under scrutiny, leaving only one flimsy case of a taxi driver in San Diego who had donated a few thousand dollars to al-Shabab-connected Somalians.
(10) I suppose he thinks getting on the airwaves to big up the HMRC list counts as Being Seen To Be Doing Something, as do his underlings in the Revenue themselves.
(11) Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) Irishing around Hampton Court like a bearded love-tank, while trembling underlings hide from lines such as "I love your neck" and "That's my crown".
(12) Instead, he became "the most influential underling in Washington", as Mann writes in his book.
(13) Variability of fusimotor system tonus is probably the neurological mechanism underling these phenomena.
(14) Lower down the scale one could cite the quotidian grumbling in workplaces across the land from underlings hamstrung by their less competent bosses – a tendency observed by Richard Sennett among others, though we can surely all supply examples.
(15) "The man is a hero," whispers an underling as Hardy (Kevin Bacon) points at a map and sighs, maverickly.
(16) The authors present their casuistry about surgical treatment of the herniated lumbar disc, operated during the period from 1979-1983, underling the utility of the operating field without blood, obtainable with particulare prone position of the patient, also called "egg position", with controlled hypotension, which allow a complete vision without wide hemilaminectomie.
(17) Much more often, Heywood’s exact contribution to government policies and decisions is the subject of rumour and counter-rumour, of briefings by underlings and allies and enemies.
(18) We were taken into a room where our bags were rummaged through by underlings, the gravity of the situation underlined by just how scared the rebel fighters themselves appeared to be.
(19) A key part of this is Sundar Pichai.” Married with two children, Pichai projects the image of a passionate nerd, but without any of the sociopathic egotism that plagues Silicon Valley executives (and their underlings).
(20) Pinkston said: “I imagine because of his marriage ties he will probably just get permanent house arrest, but his underlings and confidants and ‘co-conspirators’ may not be so lucky.” Two of Jang’s close aides are believed to have been executed recently.
Underlying
Definition:
(a.) Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(3) Steroids are not recommended because they may compromise defenses against an underlying disease process.
(4) The results obtained further knowledge of the anatomy of the nuclei, specifically the areas used for the prosthesis implantation and the underlying tissue.
(5) The final model has a probability 0.08 of underlying survival time being zero and, given non-zero survival time, takes the form of an exponential distribution with mean of 14.95 months.
(6) Certain underlying factors in several types of retinal degeneration are first discussed, followed by characteristics of diabetic maculopathy and of other types of macular degeneration including that due to aging.
(7) Contributing factors could include advanced age and underlying clinical or subclinical brain disease.
(8) In all cases, the evaluation depends on the continuous observance of the patients, taking into account any underlying primary illness (alcoholism, cerebral vascular disease, conditions following brain surgery or trauma).
(9) Recent rapid developments in molecular biology have started to clarify the underlying pathophysiology of various neurological diseases.
(10) The aim of this study was clarify the physiopathological mechanisms underlying atrial pauses as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of sinoatrial conduction time (SACT) directly measured on SNE and of SACT estimated with the indirect Strauss method with respect to the detection of SSS.
(11) The second has various underlying diseases, such as chronic hypertension or renal disease, etc..
(12) Skeletal muscle mtDNA of three patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, characterized clinically by myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber (MERRF) syndrome, has been sequenced to determine the underlying molecular defect(s).
(13) Alveoli underlying the plasma membrane sometimes contain binding sites, particularly on their outer membranes.
(14) Predictions were comparatively poor for the underlying disorder category (10%).
(15) Both IGF-I and growth hormone have the potential to improve muscle mass and function in patients who are catabolic due to the severity of their underlying disease state.
(16) The mechanisms underlying the three types of Cd effects on the frog skin were discussed in relation to the Na, K-ATPase activity.
(17) The median age of patients with bacteremia of unknown origin was 65 years, and their most common underlying disorders were solid malignancy (28% of patients) and diabetes mellitus (18%).
(18) We postulate that an abnormality in retinal dopaminergic neurons, which are known to reduce light responsiveness of horizontal and ganglion cells, is the underlying pathophysiology of this clinical finding.
(19) The development of renal insufficiency during enalapril therapy may be exacerbated by concomitant diuretic therapy and should raise the suspicion of underlying transplant renal-artery stenosis.
(20) In each case the finding of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) strongly suggested an underlying vasculitic pathology, Wegener's granulomatosis.