(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(5) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(6) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(7) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(8) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(10) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(11) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(12) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
(13) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(14) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
(15) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(17) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(18) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(19) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(20) As cryptographer Matthew Green told the New York Times, 'If we could get $500,000 kicked back to OpenSSL and teams like it, maybe this kind of thing won't happen again."
Wont
Definition:
(a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
(n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
(imp.) of Wont
(p. p.) of Wont
(v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
(v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) Atlético are sitting deep, and Real have no space to release Ronaldo or Bale into, as is their wont.
(3) Tennyson was wont to stride out over the downland, with its dramatic sea views towards the Needles.
(4) Meanwhile, as is apparently his wont, Slutski has allowed a few minutes of a half to go by before making a substitution.
(5) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
(6) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
(7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(8) you just contact us Assange: 2010 03 17 22:57:52 but don't disappear without saying why for an extended period or I'll get worried;) Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:03 i wont Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58:16 you'll know if something's wrong Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:39 ok Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58 57 you can just tell me "all the ships came in" The bank documents Early on in the chat logs, Assange mentions getting hold of data for a major American bank.
(9) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
(10) Many are ill-trained and poorly disciplined, wont to shoot randomly into the sky in frustration at bombing raids, but their courage and dedication is not in doubt.
(11) He wont leave a venue – ignoring my frantic watch pointing and finger across the throat signals — before everyone has had their book signed and their photo taken with him.
(12) Fronting a forum like this and just repeating a tired mantra wont fool anyone – it actually just damages our international credibility.” But she welcomed the federal government’s “commitment to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, which will ensure that many state laws, such as those governing adoption, will be improved over the coming months”.
(13) Turkey's PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet .
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) They put in a number of safety measures: you wont find any manoeuvres over crowds, they’re done at a distance so that if a plane does come down it won’t come down on other people.
(16) Updated at 9.06am GMT 9.02am GMT Roux draws attention to, but then says he wont deal with, a message about Steenkamp's supposed drug use , as it is a "reflection of the deceased not the accused".
(17) Just as South Africa opened their World Cup with a goal that will be remembered forever, so England, as is their wont, contrived to open theirs with a goalkeeping blunder that will never be forgotten.
(18) Skrtel wrote: “After all rumours going around, I want to say the time I will spend on sideline wont be 3 months.
(19) Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
(20) Republican candidates for president are also wont to criticize the Federal Reserve, but for the opposite reasons from Sanders.