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Yob


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  • (1) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (2) Hailed by Duncan Smith and rightwing London as the incentive that would propel the unemployed into work, universal credit has become Whitehall's equivalent of a layabout yob: nothing can make it work.
  • (3) Reproductive history, as reported from a validated postal questionnaire, was obtained from 204 women with scleroderma [mean year of birth (yob) 1942] and compared to that reported by 233 women with primary Raynaud's phenomenon (mean yob 1948) and 189 healthy women from a population register (mean yob 1950).
  • (4) I also think Anzacs were racist yobs and Anzac Day is a death cult.
  • (5) The distinctive check, which dates back to the 1920s, had also become uniform of choice for yobs and football hooligans.
  • (6) What happened to such worn-out old tropes as feral youth, yob culture, and the prime minister's own golden oldie, broken Britain?
  • (7) It comes to something when a documentary series featuring yobs, truants, swearing at teachers, swearing by teachers, cyber-bullying and teenage pregnancy makes you believe in the education system again.
  • (8) I hope the FIA are considering the implications of this fully and that events in Bahrain are not seen as they are often sold, as a bunch of yobs throwing Molotov cocktails, because that's a gross simplification.
  • (9) Yob, who guided delegate strategy for Rand Paul’s failed presidential campaign this year and is also the author of Campaign Chaos , a book on a potential contested convention, told the Guardian that one of the key tells for a successful delegate effort was “how effective campaigns are at keeping Sinos from being elected”.
  • (10) Other nations think we are yobs who go over there to drink and fight, but that's only the few who spoil it for the rest.
  • (11) Ed Miliband , the Labour leader, accused the prime minister of "total double standards", during prime minister's questions, saying he would be the first to back police for locking up a "yob" who swore at officers, but is refusing to sack his chief whip for the same conduct.
  • (12) Pointing to Mitchell, who sat near Cameron on the government front bench, Miliband said that if a "yob in a city centre" had abused and ranted at an officer in the way Mitchell had done, "the chances are they would be arrested and placed in the back of a police van — and rightly so.
  • (13) But while it's a night in the cell for the yob, it's a night at the Carlton Club for the chief whip.
  • (14) But the suspicion lurks that, just as McEnroe seems to have been contractually obliged to have an outburst or two on the veterans’ tour, so the youthful Kyrgios could easily be groomed for a perceived yob-shaped hole in the branding market.
  • (15) It's a very modern solution to a very old problem, for in towns and cities up and down the land, yobs have long claimed the right to cause drunken mayhem in shops and restaurants run by visible minorities.
  • (16) When you look back in history, highly contested conventions tended to be a disadvantage to the party that had them,” Yob said – although he noted there were exceptions, the most recent being Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s White House victory after a multi-ballot convention in 1932.
  • (17) Campaigns have to take care to not just make the ballot in every state but to fill their slates of delegates with names and ensure that those delegates pledged to them are actual supporters and not what veteran Republican strategist John Yob calls “supporters in name only”, or Sinos.
  • (18) As Yob noted, delegations such as those from Guam, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands (where he is standing to be a delegate) will play a crucial role as a result.
  • (19) She’d claimed that I was drunk and disorderly and throwing food around like some yob,” Coe recalled.
  • (20) Behind the far-left yobs, who disgrace every good cause in Britain, the protesters who did not riot in Parliament Square on Thursday looked almost pitiable.

Yobo


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  • (1) Marks out of 10: Enyeama 9 ; Odiah 4 , Shittu 6 , Yobo 6 , Taiwo 4 (Uche 74 6 ); Kaita 4 , Lukman 5 , Etuhu 3 , Obasi 5 (Odemwingie 60 6 ); Yakubu 5 , Obinna 3 (Martins 52 6 )
  • (2) The Super Eagles pushed France hard in their last-16 match in Brasilia only for Paul Pogba's late header and a last-gasp own-goal by Yobo to seal a 2-0 win for Les Bleus .
  • (3) In fact, the defence, which included Joseph Yobo at centre-half, were all over the place.
  • (4) France 2-0 Nigeria (Griezmann 90 +1) (Yobo) Nigeria concede possession again needlessly, Omeruo passing the ball back and out for a corner down the right.
  • (5) The toe of Yobo ensures the ball doesn't reach Benzema in a dangerous position on the left-hand edge of the area.
  • (6) If there was an element of good fortune about the way Dean Marney's side-footed shot was deflected by Tim Cahill's block, wrong-footing Howard in the process, Moyes must have been furious about the manner in which Yobo gave Hunt a second chance to make the cross.
  • (7) He fires it low into the six-yard box, where Griezmann gets ahead of Yobo and Enyeama at the right-hand post, and flicks into the empty net.
  • (8) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.53pm BST 90 min +4: That's a Yobo own goal, looking again, I'm afraid.
  • (9) Stephen Keshi has announced he is stepping down as the Nigeria coach following the World Cup defeat to France, while defender Joseph Yobo has retired from international football.
  • (10) Social Media's Peter Odemwingie has been included in Nigeria's preliminary World Cup squad, alongside Mikel John Obi, Joseph Yobo, Victor Moses and Shola Ameobi.
  • (11) The Former Everton defender Yobo is also on his way out.
  • (12) Oh, and Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi and defender Jospeh Yobo stepped down after their team's exit .
  • (13) Subs: Yobo, Uzoenyi, Gabriel, Egwuekwe, Odemwingie, Odunlami, Ejide, Babatunde, Nwofor, Uchebo, Agbim, Ameobi Referee: Carlos Vera (Ecuador) Updated at 7.17pm BST 1.09pm BST Preamble Iran v Nigeria.
  • (14) Antoine Griezmann, Joseph Yobo and Vincent Enyeama look at the ball as it rolls towards the goal.
  • (15) The set piece, aimed towards Yobo at the near post, comes to nothing, but this is a nice open start.
  • (16) Nigeria make one enforced change, with Victor Moses replacing Michael Babatunde, who broke his left wrist against Argentina (or had it broken for him by a shot from the Gigi Riva de nos jours , his own team-mate Ogenyi Onazi): Enyeama, Ambrose, Yobo, Oshaniwa, Omeruo, Musa, Onazi, Mikel, Moses, Odemwingie, Emenike.
  • (17) On comes Joseph Yobo, who's making his 98th appearance for Nigeria.
  • (18) Stephen Hunt's cross from the left, made into a high looping delivery by a deflection off the head of Joseph Yobo, should have been easily dealt with but Sylvain Distin and Leighton Baines got in each other's way and the ball sat up nicely for Jozy Altidore to shoot.
  • (19) The president’s in favour and so is the sporting director.” Moyes talks about watching Joseph Yobo at Marseille, getting Tim Cahill, Andy Johnson and Phil Jagielka from the Championship, writing 24 reports on Joleon Lescott before eventually signing him, endless drives to Molineux.

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