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Woodcock
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
(n.) Fig.: A simpleton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Woodcock said: “The way [Miliband] was trying to appeal to people … was nuts.
(2) The condition for listening was varied, i.e., discrimination in condition of quiet and discrimination in condition of noise, through the use of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination.
(3) This article provides descriptive data in the first reported study using the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJTCA) (Woodcock & Johnson, 1977) in an outpatient sample of 39 adults with closed head injury.
(4) The campaign director, Dominic Cummings , who recently survived a reported effort to oust him, the chief executive, Matthew Elliott, and the company secretary, Victoria Woodcock, are also stepping down from the board.
(5) "The more questions that are raised about this murky business the more important it becomes to investigate further, including who outside the CQC was aware, and what they did," Woodcock said.
(6) It is the old right who are saying that they are ready to serve because they cannot bear the idea of letting go of the party machinery.” The resentment growing within the parliamentary party between those who will serve and those who will not has led to John Woodcock MP, chair of the Blairite group, Progress, to warn of the emergence of a new split to replace the Blair-Brown chasm that marked the last two decades of Labour politics.
(7) Are tailored, intensive services always on offer, I ask Woodcock, to help parents have a decent shot at addressing their difficulties well enough to be allowed their children back?
(8) It is thought that around 15 Labour MPs, including Woodcock, are determined to vote for airstrikes and many more may be willing to defy a Labour whip.
(9) | Nedžad Avdić Read more The Labour MP John Woodcock, a long-term advocate of intervention, said: “We’ve said ‘Never again’ so many times, and we mean it when we say it, but then, a few months, a few years later, it comes to nothing.” Commenting on Osborne’s speech, Woodcock said: “He gave the speech that should have been made from our despatch box and he showed a level of understanding about these issues which shows that, which makes me hope very much that he has a future in his party.” He attacked his party’s stance in 2013, saying: “I still feel sick at the idea of the then leader of the opposition going from that vote into the whips’ office and congratulating himself and them on stopping a war, when look what is happening today and look what’s happened over the last three years.
(10) To examine the validity of the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement Brief Form, standard scores were correlated with Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Test standard scores and WISC-R Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs.
(11) The factor loadings, as well as WISC-R IQs, were used as predictor variables, and the Woodcock-Johnson Achievement cluster scores comprised the achievement variables.
(12) John Woodcock, who chairs the backbench defence committee, said: “There certainly has been talk of how we best recognise the strength of feeling and the majority opinion within the PLP.
(13) John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Barrow, asked Thornberry how UK withdrawal of support for the coalition – focused on training Saudis in compliance with international humanitarian law – would create fewer civilian casualties.
(14) John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Barrow and Furness, said: “The government’s tactics about parliament are just putting the cart before the horse.
(15) Smears were prepared from heart blood of 55 woodcock collected in central Maine between spring and fall, 1972 and 1973.
(16) Prop Tony Woodcock and captain Richie McCaw are also expected to bow out after the tournament.
(17) It’s time he left politics altogether.” Woodcock, a former chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, said Livingstone was chair of Labour’s international policy commission, and that his comments suggested he must be “actively seeking suspension and notoriety”.
(18) The Labour MP John Woodcock has asked Jeremy Corbyn to give MPs “the same individual freedom and responsibility he demanded for himself as a backbencher” after comments by the Labour leader from 2013 emerged calling for a free vote on military action in Syria.
(19) New Zealand: Dagg, Jane, Smith, Nonu (SB Williams 75), Kahui; Cruden (Donald, 33), Weepu (Ellis, 48); Woodcock, Mealamu (Hore, 48), O Franks, Thorn, Whitelock (A Williams, 48), Kaino, McCaw (capt), Read.
(20) Then the lock passed the ball down to Woodcock who sauntered straight through the middle.