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Walter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
  • (2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (3) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
  • (4) Walter has been speaking at events around the country, and says the feedback has been phenomenal.
  • (5) The ball struck him, rather than the other way round, but the Dutch official, Bjorn Kuipers, ruled in favour of Ireland and that left Walters placing the ball on the penalty spot and looking up to see his former Stoke colleague Asmir Begovic in the goal.
  • (6) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
  • (7) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
  • (8) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
  • (9) As Broome describes: “Walter reinvented building from first principles and reduced it to its simplest terms which led to the post and beam frame.
  • (10) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
  • (11) Like Walter Mondale in 1984, Iran's mullahs will be the first to cry "Where's the beef?"
  • (12) It does not need outside advice to tell it what to do.” Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said the criticism of Nato had caused concern in the political and military alliance.
  • (13) The trial of the former police officer who shot dead Walter Scott, an unarmed African American , in an incident that was caught on cellphone video and reignited the debate on race and policing in the US, has ended in a mistrial.
  • (14) It is pointed out (yet again) that Sir Walter Ralegh did not bring back the poison to Europe in 1595 and that it was Keymis who first came across the word ourari when exploring the lower reaches of the Orinoco in 1596.
  • (15) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
  • (16) True, they had qualified without difficulty, and had beaten Switzerland 5-3 the previous April, with Walter, at inside-left, scoring two goals.
  • (17) 252, 955-962; Walter, P., and Blobel, G. (1980) Proc.
  • (18) But police described him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when arrested – he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
  • (19) To bail themselves out of the NBA's worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
  • (20) The coupling of ion channels to receptors by G proteins is the subject of this American Physiological Society Walter B. Cannon Memorial "Physiology in Perspective" Lecture.

Welter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
  • (v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
  • (v. i.) To wither; to wilt.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
  • (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
  • (n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A bitter battle between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham for tenancy of the stadium, which originally cost £429m to build, was won by the east London club but the deal was later scrapped due to "legal paralysis" amid a welter of challenges.
  • (2) Photograph: Gordon Welters for the Guardian Sometimes a tour around the Pergamon, which hosts one of the oldest and largest collection of Arab artefacts outside the Arab world, enables a debate that is not easily had inside a crowded refugee shelter.
  • (3) Young caused controversy by saying Britons had "never had it so good" in this "so-called recession", prompting frustration in No 10 and provoking a welter of criticism from Labour.
  • (4) A motion which the union said was backed unanimously read: “For staff to learn about the potential sale of the i through other media was appalling; subjecting them to a welter of speculation and uncertainty until their worst fears were realised.” In a message to the Independent staff, the Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, said she was “really saddened” by the news that the titles were to be printed for the last time next month .
  • (5) Germany's bureaucratic stasis contrasts with a welter of events, official and unofficial, digital, public and private, in the other former belligerent countries.
  • (6) To try to keep up with the welter of environmental claims, test the green spin and spot the green frauds, the Guardian is launching today a regular online column, Greenwash, and calls on readers to submit their examples of the fraudulent, mendacious, confusing, ignorant or just daft claims jostling for our attention.
  • (7) She also added her voice to the welter of criticism over the bickering performance of the BBC's top brass – current and former – in front of the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
  • (8) But it is the Kochs' links to a welter of mass mobilisation campaigns opposing Barack Obama that is making the biggest impact.
  • (9) In the welter of clinical trials, some "commonsense" fundamentals have been lost or submerged, while other ideas seem to have become "modern myths."
  • (10) The postwar period also shows Wodehouse recognising that the tenor of his fictional universe rode uneasily with the contemporary moment, with its "welter of sex" and "demand for gloom and tragedy".
  • (11) Chelsea Manning has posted a handwritten letter on her new Twitter feed explaining how her tweets are communicated from military prison in a move designed to quash a welter of internet conspiracy theories claiming the feed is a fraud.
  • (12) Sands said of last year’s difficulties: “We faced a perfect storm: negative sentiment towards emerging markets, a sharp drop in commodity prices, persistent low interest rates and surplus liquidity, low volatility, and a welter of regulatory challenges.” He navigated the bank through the financial crisis after being promoted from finance director to chief executive in 2006.
  • (13) Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up a welter of talent to his new comedy film Grimsby, including comedian Johnny Vegas, dramatic journeyman Ian McShane, Homeland star David Harewood, and the Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe.
  • (14) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
  • (15) BCCI was finally shut down in 1991, amid a welter of fraud and corruption charges, with outstanding debts of $10bn.
  • (16) Did he believe that trying to manage the news with injudicious leaks was a clever manoeuvre in the face of such a welter of negative information emerging about the company on an hourly basis?
  • (17) The proposal is the most controversial of a welter of ideas that have emerged from the commission, based on the recommendations of its 10 members and more than 300 interviews with stakeholders across the game.
  • (18) The next two years will be marked by a welter of government reviews,,culminating in the renewal of the BBC's royal charter in 2006.
  • (19) Market jitters over Europe's debt crisis returned after weeks of relative calm on Wednesday amid a welter of grim statistics from some of the biggest European economies, mixed signals from bickering eurozone political leaders, and mass protests against austerity in southern Europe .
  • (20) If this remains the truth, it has been somewhat lost in the welter of bad publicity, recrimination and farce that has surrounded the Police Federation of England and Wales over the last year, a period in which Steve Williams , its chairman, has been roundly condemned as a "traitor, a dictator, and an emperor".

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