History, it is often said, is written by the winners—but that is only if they can write. If they can’t, then history is written by the losers, crossly
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It is never revealed whether Farroukh double-crossed MI5 or if the cell double-crossed him, but in either case, the terrorist attack was accidentally funded by MI5.
There's no question that a coinage like the New Industrial Revolution sounds magisterial, given the profound impact that the original Industrial Revolution had not just on business but on living standards around the world. And there's also no question that for all the big talk and big forecasts, many things will go on being produced using techniques that were all but perfected long ago.
The funeral was a reminder of what conviction politics looks like. These days, our leaders consult their pollsters, weigh their words, fret about how they are coming across.Margaret Thatcher, as Charles Moore shows in the magisterial first volume of his authorized biography, had a healthy interest in public opinion, but she never lost sight of where she wanted to go. While others drifted with the current, she was like a shark swimming only forward: focused, patriotic, slightly humorless and needing remarkably little sleep.
In many ways, it’s like a ghost town. It’s eerily quiet. Driving around in the middle of the afternoon, in a city that once was among the most productive on the planet, you see very little traffic, minimal commercial activity, hardly any pedestrians.
What you’ll see are endless acres of urban ruin, block after block and mile after mile of empty and rotting office buildings, storefronts, hotels, apartment buildings and private homes. It’s a scene of devastation and disintegration that stuns the mind, a major American city that still is home to 900,0000 people but which looks at times like a cross between postwar Berlin and the ruin of an ancient civilization.
Politics
Opposition SPD 'ready to rule' in Berlin
"We want to govern." That's the message from SPD party leader Sigmar
Gabriel after a three-day party conference in Berlin. The Social Democrats
were aiming to come across as decisive and reliable.
come across
1. Also, come upon; run across. Meet or find by chance, as in I came across your old letters today, or He came upon her looking in the store window. or If I run across it, I'll call you. The first term dates from the 1800s. The first variant was used by Oliver Goldsmith in She Stoops to Conquer (1773): "You are to go sideways till you come upon Crack-Skull Common." The second variant was used by Mark Twain in Tramp Abroad (1880): "If I don't run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London."
2. Also, come across with. Pay or give what is expected or demanded, as in He finally came across with some food, or The landlord wants the rent, so come across. [Colloquial; late 1800s]
3. Make a particular impression, as in He comes across as a very sincere person or Her meaning doesn't really come across; she'll have to revise the speech. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s] Also see get across; put across.
Definition of conviction
noun
a cross between
n.
- An upright post with a transverse piece near the top, on which condemned persons were executed in ancient times.
- often Cross The upright post with a transverse piece upon which Jesus was crucified.
- A crucifix.
- Any of various modifications of the cross design, such as a Latin cross or Maltese cross.
- A medal, emblem, or insignia in the form of a cross.
- The Christian religion; Christianity.
- In Christianity, a sign made by tracing the outline of a cross with the right hand upon the forehead and chest as a devotional act.
- A trial, affliction, or frustration. See synonyms at burden1.
- A mark or pattern formed by the intersection of two lines, especially such a mark (X) used as a signature.
- A movement from one place to another, as on a stage; a crossing.
- A pipe fitting with four branches in upright and transverse form, used as a junction for intersecting pipes.
- Biology.
- A plant or animal produced by crossbreeding; a hybrid.
- The process of crossbreeding; hybridization.
- One that combines the qualities of two other things: a novel that is a cross between romance and satire.
- Sports. A hook thrown over an opponent's punch in boxing.
- Law. An act or instance of cross-examining; a cross-examination.
- The Southern Cross.
- Slang. A contest whose outcome has been dishonestly prearranged.
v., crossed, cross·ing, cross·es. v.tr.
- To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: crossed the room to greet us; a bridge that crosses the bay.
- To carry or conduct across something: crossed the horses at the ford.
- To extend or pass through or over; intersect: Elm Street crosses Oak Street.
- To delete or eliminate by or as if by drawing a line through: crossed tasks off her list as she did them.
- To make or put a line across: Cross your t's.
- To place crosswise one over the other: cross one's legs.
- To make the sign of the cross upon or over as a sign of devotion.
- To encounter in passing: His path crossed mine.
- To combine the qualities of two things: a movie that crosses horror with humor.
- Informal. To interfere with; thwart or obstruct: Don't cross me.
- To betray or deceive; double-cross. Often used with up.
- Biology. To crossbreed or cross-fertilize (plants or animals).
- To lie or pass across each other; intersect.
- To move or extend from one side to another: crossed through Canada en route to Alaska.
- To make a crossing: crossed into Germany from Switzerland.
- To meet in passing; come into conjunction: Their paths crossed at the health club.
- To move or be conveyed in opposite directions at the same time: Our letters must have crossed in the mail.
- Biology. To crossbreed or cross-fertilize.
- Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting: a cross street.
- Contrary or counter; opposing.
- Showing ill humor; annoyed.
- Involving interchange; reciprocal.
- Crossbred; hybrid.
Crosswise.
prep.
Across.
phrasal verbs:
cross over
- To change from one condition or loyalty to another.
- Genetics. To exchange genetic material. Used of homologous chromosomes.
- To ruin completely: Their lack of cooperation crossed up the whole project.
cross (one's) mind
- To come to know; realize: It crossed my mind that you might want to leave early.
- To pay, tip, or bribe.
- To quarrel or fight.
[Middle English cros, from Old English, probably from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux.]
crosser cross'er n.crossly cross'ly adv.
crossness cross'ness n.
crossly とは【意味】横に,斜めに... 【例文】she looked at her husband crossly
crossly
adverb
"He's so unreliable!" she said crossly.
Definition of double-cross i
n English:
VERB
Deceive or betray (a person with whom one issupposedly cooperating):he was blackmailed into double-crossing his own government
in·sig·ni·a (ĭn-sĭg'nē-ə)
also in·sig·ne (-nē)
n., pl., insignia, or -ni·as.
- A badge of office, rank, membership, or nationality; an emblem.
- A distinguishing sign.
[Latin īnsignia, pl. of īnsigne, badge of office, mark, from neuter of īnsignis, distinguished, marked : in-, in; see in-2 + signum, sign.]
USAGE NOTE Insignia in Latin is the plural form of insigne, but it has long been used in English as both a singular and a plural form: The insignia was visible on the wingtip. There are five insignia on various parts of the plane. From the singular use of insignia comes the plural insignias, which is also acceptable. The Latin singular insigne is rare and may strike some readers as pedantic.
━━ n. （pl. 〜(s)） 記章, 勲章.magisterial
Pronunciation: /ˌmadʒɪˈstɪərɪəl/
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