(1) This week, he wept as he signed an executive order on gun control .
(2) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
(3) My friend had already climbed the same metaphorical mountain that I had just reached the summit of, and when she had reached the top she sat down and wept, much to the surprise of all her British friends.
(4) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
(5) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(6) She wept for another hour before she turned to face me.
(7) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
(8) In the unsaddling area she wept uncontrollably and hugged her mother, boyfriend and her mentor and fellow team member Carl Hester, who came fifth here.
(9) Both Bob and Maureen bowed their heads and wept as a chorus of “guiltys” kept coming from the court clerk.
(10) Mothers appeared and wept for lost sons and daughters.
(11) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
(12) He wept openly while being interviewed pitch-side by the same TV Globo reporter (Tino Marcos) who in 2010 looked embarrassed when the keeper started choking on his own tears when prompted to discuss his fluffed attempt to punch a Wesley Sneijder cross which led to the winning goal.
(13) The day after the ruling, celebrity chef Paula Deen went on the Today show and wept over accusations of racial and sexual harassment that are destroying her empire.
(14) Bhutto's supporters at the hospital wept, smashed the glass doors and started fires around the hospital periphery.
(15) So what if Júlio César wept after flying like a bird and saving two penalties?
(16) Gary Glitter wept in the dock as he blamed a collapsing career, financial troubles and being in a “bad place” for his decision to download images of men sexually abusing young children on to his computer.
(17) "I couldn't stop crying when the final whistle went," wept their centre-half Sam Allardyce.
(18) The inscription at the foot of the cathedral's bell tower reads: "When He beheld the city, He wept over it.
(19) Earlier, during the bail hearing's third day, Pistorous wept as the defence advocate Barry Roux summed up his case.
(20) Some of the senators wept at her story, she said, and then later voted against her.
West
Definition:
(n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
(n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
(n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
(n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
(a.) Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
(adv.) Westward.
(v. i.) To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
(v. i.) To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(2) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(3) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(4) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
(5) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(6) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
(7) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(8) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(9) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(10) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
(11) Many Cornish people believe the far south-west of England is a nation apart from the rest of Britain.
(12) "They couldn't understand until I said 'No, because I'm a big shot now, because I am in Wild Wild West and I have, like, 10 covers coming out, and I want a bigger part.'
(13) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(14) However, the epidemiology and clinical course of AIDS are different in Africa and in the West.
(15) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(16) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(17) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
(18) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(19) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(20) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.