(1) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(2) The Kookaburras were undone by a 7th minute goal from Alex Casasayas, who put away a cross from Marc Salles.
(3) Among the issues raised by Blatter in the interview: • An unsubstantiated claim that there was a pre-vote agreement in place that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and the USA would host the 2022 tournament – which was undone when Platini pressed for Qatar following a meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy and the crown prince of Qatar.
(4) Huxley's nightmare, set out in Brave New World, his great dystopian novel, was that we would be undone by the things that delight us.
(5) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
(6) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
(7) The Department for International Development and the Treasury must do more to make sure that their investment in the Horn of Africa is not undone in one fell swoop.
(8) It feels like a moment of good intentions, undone by lack of planning.
(9) More than half of Afghan girls and boys suffer damage to their minds and bodies that cannot be undone because they are poorly nourished in the crucial first two years of life, doctors and other experts say.
(10) What is done cannot be undone Shinzo Abe Abe, a conservative who had hinted he would not repeat previous official apologies, said that Japan had “repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war”.
(11) Indeed, while Renzi sought to portray the reforms as a make or break moment for Italy , the economic reforms of the past five years are not about to be undone.
(12) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(13) I thank them all.” Defeat was agonising for France, who struck the post through Andre-Pierre Gignac in the last minute of normal time only to be undone in the extra period.
(14) Mark Latham also won by a slim margin (he wasn't undone by anyone other than himself).
(15) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(16) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(17) Look closer, though, and you'll see Super Soakers pre-pumped by runners, and Daisy Dukes with their top buttons carefully, carelessly undone.
(18) While some of the Bush administration's decisions can be undone with the stroke of Barack Obama's pen, others cannot.
(19) Noah Greenwald of the Centre for Biological Diversity welcomed the move but warned: "The majority of regulations threatening our environment, health and economy, however, will need to be undone by Congress, the courts or new rule-making."
(20) As our compulsory celebrity reference-point, let us take the case of Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer , a romance undone, it is said, by the fact that while the guitarist could not find time for his lady-love, he could certainly find time to tweet.
Unfinished
Definition:
(a.) Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(2) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(3) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(4) Non-discrimination laws chart Although the decisive manner in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the business community rallied against – and ultimately helped change – the Indiana law marked a major turning point, Talbot conceded that the project itself is unfinished.
(5) The highest degree of microleakage was observed when the cavities prepared with a diamond coated bur (mean particle size 80 microns) were left unfinished.
(6) How the cell regulates these aspects of its growth is a fascinating--and as yet unfinished--story.
(7) I did not say ‘hey, here’s my music, and it’s finished.’ It was theft.” On Saturday, Madonna unexpectedly released six tracks from Rebel Heart on iTunes, following the leak of the unfinished songs earlier in the week: the album itself is not due for release until March.
(8) The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, a memoir and political manual first published by Labour's focus group guru, Philip Gould, in 1998, is a book many Cameroons know well.
(9) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
(10) Both Daydreaming and Safe from Harm were accompanied by atmospheric videos by the young director Baillie Walsh who then directed the now famous video for Unfinished Sympathy in which Nelson walks along West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, singing the song as if oblivious to the odd cast of street characters she encounters, while the group members fall into step behind her in cameo roles.
(11) Indeed, to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta we need to deal with the unfinished business at the core of our democracy – that is, to address corporate irresponsibility by demanding genuine accountability at work too.
(12) Having resigned with unfinished business, he may have ambitions to carry on his mission.
(13) The notoriously suffocating tone of the 50th anniversary in 1966, when veterans of 1916 were still alive and the all-Ireland republic was treated as unfinished business, has been replaced by a more open and inclusive approach today, as the rising recedes into history, though without diminishing its narrative potency.
(14) Everyone’s goal is surely to find a lasting, peaceful resolution to this long unfinished business of land rights in Kenya .” The meeting was the last chance that the Sengwer indigenous people had of being allowed to remain in parts of the Embobut forest in the Cherangani hills, where they have lived for centuries as hunter gatherers.
(15) The house stands near an unfinished building, there is rubbish strewn outside on the red dirt road.
(16) Uber later confirmed to the Guardian that the funding round is unfinished and that it expects additional investments in the coming days and weeks.
(17) Ashker said he had become friends with Denis O'Hearn , a sociology professor and author of Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker who Ignited a Generation.
(18) Resorbable stapler--Polisorb--has a considerable volume and it causes an important tissue reaction which determines a very thick (4.5 x 4.5 mm) and "unfinished" scar within 150 days; really far away for practical use.
(19) The discovery of cytosolic endo-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase active on 'immature complex glycans' (glycopeptides of the oligomannosidic type and of the desialylated N-acetyllactosaminic type) as well as on the glycosyl-dolichol pyrophosphate intermediates allows us to hypothesize that these enzymes belong to a control system of N-glycosylprotein biosynthesis, their role being to destroy unfinished glycans.
(20) Surfaces tested were unfinished plywood, fiberboard, vinyl tile (absorbent surfaces), glass, stainless steel, ceramic tile, and formica (nonabsorbent surfaces).