(1) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(2) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
(3) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
(4) Asked if Aamer would talk publicly about his experiences, Crider said: “I think he will make up his own mind about it, and really, woe betide the person who tries to silence Shaker Aamer.” She added that it would be up to him “how much of his story and the terrible things he witnessed that he wants to tell”.
(5) Plummeting oil prices only added to economic woes in a country with the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves.
(6) To add to their woes, the cost of their dollar-denominated debt is rising; the US Federal Reserve said December’s rate hike is just the start of a “gradual” tightening cycle .
(7) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
(8) The aluminium magnate's British-related woes do not stop there: a former business partner, Michael Cherney, is suing him for $4bn in the high court.
(9) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
(10) The woes of British industry were echoed right across Europe in November, as firms slashed production amid plunging demand from consumers in all the world's major markets.
(11) Clinton said her woes over her email server had been a “drip, drip, drip” that was impacting her.
(12) In an otherwise assured performance on Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show , Douglas Alexander – when urged to address Ed Miliband’s woes – resorted to the words of Harold Wilson.
(13) Buhari has presented himself as a born-again democrat who possesses the experience to steer the country through instability, currency woes and rampant corruption.
(14) Creative diplomacy is still much required in the Middle East, where it is hard to see how a dominantly military strategy against Islamic State can in itself, and even over time, bring a solution to the region’s woes.
(15) The unrest over rising petrol prices is only further adding to Nigeria's security woes: Jonathan already declared a state of emergency over the weekend in parts of the country hit by a growing Islamic insurgency that is fuelled in part by widespread poverty.
(16) But that may be the least of Ukip’s woes as it sups the bitter draught of victory.
(17) 7.31pm BST Nick Kyrgios's legs have gone to jelly and his heart is full of woe.
(18) It is not the cause of Spain's economic woes, but think of this: if everybody paid their dues, Spain's deficit would be zero.
(19) The result in some richer countries has been a political movement that blames globalisation for all woes and seeks somehow to wall off the economy from global trends rather than engage cooperatively with foreign nations.
(20) Probably... April 23, 2013 11.42am BST Analysts see little relief for Europe The continuing fall in Eurozone output this month ( see 9.19am ) led by Germany's shrinking private sector seconomy, shows that there's no improvement in Europe's woes.
Woke
Definition:
() of Wake
(imp. & p. p.) Wake.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(2) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
(3) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
(4) This surely represents a new chapter in the European debt crisis, and it could be headlined The Day The Eurozone Finally Woke Up.
(5) Speaking through an interpreter, she said: We woke up from the screams.
(6) After seeing the film, I woke up thinking, I’m just like Daniel.
(7) Dunham, who was on holiday with her parents in Sweden, woke up to 50,000 emails linking to the discussion on the site, where a lively debate was taking place about the size of her thighs and just how shit she was.
(8) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(9) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
(10) Judith woke to see David standing at the far right-hand corner of the bed, his light turned on.
(11) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
(12) I don't think much of what I'm wearing I had a long day at work yesterday so put whatever was around when I woke up!
(13) It woke people up who might have been sleeping," he said.
(14) Sometimes I woke up screaming at night, covered in sweat.” As a Dalit, she always faced humiliation.
(15) Some woke up long before dawn to travel hundreds of miles to be here in an estimated 2,000 buses and 28 trains.
(16) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
(17) Then, one day, I woke up and heard the sad news that she had died.
(18) I woke up lying on my back in the emergency room, looking up at the faces of the doctors and nurses surrounding me.
(19) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(20) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.