benchmark, unmistakable emblem, corral, corralling, Rodeo, "corral and seclude"

Many Asian nations share characteristics that experts say may have helped them fare relatively well, including a tendency to react more quickly.

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Asia’s Lesson for Corralling Coronavirus? ‘Act Fast’

A deeper awareness of pandemic risks, informed by past experiences, is 

Unmistakable message: You've probably never seen Beethoven's Fidelio like this... #BTHVN2020

usic by Beethoven as the soundtrack to street protests, torture and bloodshed? In the first staging of his opera "Fidelio" in the New Year, the Bonn Opera takes a radical course.

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Fidelio in Turkey: A new production of Beethoven's opera in Bonn | DW | 02.01.2020

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It's About the Work, Not the Office

By JENNIFER GLASS

Corralling workers in one place doesn't necessarily lead to productivity or innovation.

Proxy Showdown at the AOL Corral
AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong faces a referendum on his turnaround strategy for the aging Internet icon this week.

Another Twist for G.O.P. as Santorum Fares Well
By JIM RUTENBERG

Rick Santorum won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday, raising fresh questions about Mitt Romney’s ability to corral conservative support.

The French are treating it like a national celebration. President Nicolas Sarkozy contributed a note to the catalog extolling this “unmistakable emblem of the international influence of French culture.” The exhibition would have been a box office smash even if it had corralled fewer of Monet’s benchmarks.

In a perfect example of Brian Seed's eye for quirk, a boy corrals a pig, Ireland, 1963. See more: http://ti.me/1IpQ0VD

(Photo: Brian Seed)

2009年3月26日 星期四

Rodeo, "corral and seclude"

Obama, heading overseas for the first time as president next week, aims to use a combination of summit protocol and campaign flash to corral support for his programs.


Malaysian MPs sent overseas amid opposition takeover bid 5 hours ago

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Dozens of lawmakers from the ruling coalition left Monday for Taiwan on an educational tour, in an apparent bid to prevent them from joining an opposition push to topple the government.

The opposition led by Anwar Ibrahim, who has vowed to unseat the coalition by September 16, said the trip was an attempt to "corral and seclude" parliamentarians amid the high-stakes negotiations.

seclude

(sĭ-klūd')

tr.v., -clud·ed, -clud·ing, -cludes.

1. To set or keep apart, as from social contact with others. See synonyms at isolate.
2. To screen from view; make private.

[Middle English secluden, to shut off, from Latin sēclūdere : sē-, apart + claudere, to shut.]

RODEO
n., pl. -os.

1. A public competition or exhibition in which skills such as riding broncos or roping calves are displayed.
2. A cattle roundup.
3. An enclosure for keeping cattle that have been rounded up.

[Spanish, corral, rodeo, from rodear, to surround, from rueda, wheel, from Latin rota.]

n. - 為打烙印而驅集牧牛, 牧人套馬表演會, 馬術競賽會
v. intr. - 參加競技
Wikipedia article "Rodeo".

Playboat

Playboating is a discipline of kayaking or canoeing where the paddler performs various technical moves in one place (a playspot), as opposed to whitewater canoeing or kayaking where the objective is to travel the length of a section of river (although whitewater canoeists will often stop and play en-route). Specialised canoes or kayaks (boats) known as playboats are often used, but any boat can be used for playing.

Playboating is also known as Rodeo, or Freestyle Kayaking.

With the help of its singer/Dionysian bard, Shane McGowan — who still has a morbid streak, dresses like a rodeo clown and performs like a dervish — they’ll lead you in a singalong or three.

corral Show phonetics
noun [C]
an area surrounded by a fence for keeping horses or cattle in, especially in North America

corral Show phonetics
verb [T] -ll-
1 to guide horses or cattle into a corral

2 to gather a group of people together and keep them in one place, especially in order to control them:
Police corralled most of the demonstrators in a small area near the station.

corral

(kə-răl')
n.

1. An enclosure for confining livestock.
2. An enclosure formed by a circle of wagons for defense against attack during an encampment.

tr.v., -ralled, -ral·ling, -rals.

1. To drive into and hold in a corral.
2. To arrange (wagons) in a corral.
3. To take control or possession of.
4. To gather; garner: "difficult for congressional leadership to corral a majority of votes" (Don J. Pease).

[Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *currāle, enclosure for carts, from Latin currus, cart, from currere, to run.]

corralling

To those within them—the youngsters—schools appear to be concerned far more with the corralling or gaoling function.

Hansard archive

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The failure of the little man in regard to lobster corralling is that he cannot bring the sea to the land without the aid of electric power.

benchmark

n.

1. A standard by which something can be measured or judged: "Inflation . . . is a great distorter of seemingly fixed economic ideas and benchmarks" (Benjamin M. Friedman). See synonyms at standard.
2. often bench mark A surveyor's mark made on a stationary object of previously determined position and elevation and used as a reference point in tidal observations and surveys.

tr.v., -marked, -mark·ing, -marks.
To measure (a rival's product) according to specified standards in order to compare it with and improve one's own product.

[From the use of the mark as a place to insert an angle iron that serves as a support for a leveling rod.]