(a.) Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Example Sentences:
(1) But now they have a bullish and vociferous spokesperson in Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina.
(2) Mourinho has been vociferous in his complaints about the scheduling of key domestic fixtures around European ties this season and reiterated his dissatisfaction after Tuesday's goalless draw in Madrid, claiming to be baffled as to why the match at Anfield could not be played on Friday or Saturday to assist the last English club involved in European competition.
(3) "For us he is persona non grata," said Panos Kammenos, leader of the vociferously anti-austerity Independent Greeks party as the 300-seat house debated the job losses.
(4) The cardinal consistently condemned homosexuality during his reign, vociferously opposing gay adoption and same-sex marriage.
(5) Her husband would also have been "outrageous and vociferous" in resisting it, she said. "
(6) In the three months since the 14 December shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA has been lobbying vociferously against President Obama's attempt to tighten gun controls.
(7) The PLA would be reinforcing recent Chinese foreign ministry warnings against North Korea conducting a fourth nuclear test and “causing turmoil at China’s doorstep” – but in a way that the foreign ministry can still vociferously deny the existence of such documents.
(8) On the ground in Crimea, meanwhile, what is particularly odd is that the most vociferous defenders of Russian bases against supposed fascists appear to hold far-right views themselves.
(9) Thirdly, Pakistan at present has – thanks in part to reforms effected by the previous military dictator Musharraf – an extremely vociferous media.
(10) Tearing up US deal with Iran would be disastrous, says CIA chief Read more Trump’s transition so far has not been encouraging to Tehran: Michael Flynn, named as his national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo, his choice for the head of the CIA, have been vociferous in their opposition to Iran .
(11) So, I hope this doesn’t preside some kind of understanding about preferences in House of Representatives elections between the Coalition and the Greens.” On Tuesday Labor’s leader in the senate, Penny Wong, spoke vociferously against the changes.
(12) The sort of person who, despite having a framed Keep Calm and Carry On poster on their wall, gets vociferously morally outraged by 25 different things over the course of the average morning on Twitter, eg Daily Mail headlines, anything Jeremy Clarkson says, people who post Homeland spoilers, Parcelforce delivery slots, etc.
(13) Twenty-year-old Jasmin Stone of Focus E15, who continues to campaign vociferously on housing issues , is disillusioned by the lot.
(14) The "Holyland affair" forced Olmert to resign as prime minister in 2009, although he vociferously denied any wrongdoing.
(15) Glaring by virtue of its almost complete omission is digital piracy , a topic of vociferous debate during the debate about the digital economy bill just weeks ago – it gets just seven words, to "take further action to tackle online piracy", in Labour's manifesto.
(16) However, you want to describe it, the affair (by which I mean "matter", I've been advised by a lawyer, these words are all filtered and combed before you are allowed to see them) supposed to have caused Murdoch to give his former blood-brother the cold shoulder, hardly surprising after he got Blair elected and supported his unpopular, illegal war so vociferously.
(17) There was a much warmer welcome from John Sauven, executive director of the vociferous anti-coal campaign group Greenpeace: "In the last decade it was coal that posed the great threat to our CO 2 emissions targets.
(18) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(19) Patel, vociferous about his recent treatment by England, in particular bemoaning his exclusion from recent one-day sides, gave a hint of his much debated fitness after every dismissal.
(20) Here is the Daily Mail : "The Guardian continues to be vociferous in its demands for police to pursue tabloid journalists suspected of acting illegally.
Voracious
Definition:
(a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(2) The voracious hunger and profuse perspiration were reduced, the patient's serum lipids became normal, her blood glucose fell, and her sensitivity to exogenous insulin increased.
(3) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
(4) Following two centuries of voracious exploitation of every mineral, metal and biological resource, we will soon be facing what Daly calls an "empty world".
(5) At times the arguments and passion displayed were enough to make the hair on the back of any neutral observer's neck stand up on end - it was impossible not to be inspired by people's voracious belief in their school.
(6) For 30 years he has been a voracious buyer of new art and was instrumental in the success of the Young British Artists movement, buying up the best of the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and exhibiting it at the groundbreaking Sensation show at the Royal Academy in 1997.
(7) Savile had a voracious sexual appetite,” Smith writes.
(8) I was a voracious customer of $10 ebooks, as I confessed in 2011 .
(9) Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
(10) And appetite is voracious for a greater understanding of the constitution and how courts can become an activist’s tool, experts say, particularly among activists resisting Trump.
(11) Jeannette Baxter: You admit to being more of a voracious consumer of visual texts than literary ones.
(12) Natural bee keeping as advocated by naturalbeekeepingtrust.org puts the real producers (ie the bees) first rather than voracious consumers.
(13) TAR rats that ate crickets before a cyclophosphamide injection were thereafter voracious predators as were saline-injected and pseudoconditioning controls of both strains.
(14) No consumer of Mafia culture was more voracious than the Mafia themselves.
(15) "Households in the United States and elsewhere propelled the global economy with their voracious appetite for consumption, soaking up imports from countries that relied heavily on exports to grow.
(16) When the concentration of calcium ions in the cerebral ventricles is elevated, a fully satiated rat eats voraciously.
(17) Everyone knows the story of how Liz MacKean , a reporter for BBC Newsnight and her producer, Meirion Jones , found the evidence that Savile was a voracious paedophile and how the BBC stopped them broadcasting.
(18) Peres wrote 11 books, read poetry voraciously, and could quote from Old Testament prophets, French literature and Chinese philosophy with equal ease.
(19) The warning is being sounded over a voracious species called the New Guinea flatworm.
(20) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?