If the manager's nicknames for his Dodgers are any indication of his talents, you can kiss this season goodbye. |
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They have a good time discussing their nicknames, and those of the necessary shepherdesses. |
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From the start, we had to be in agreement, for example, on the translation of street names, proper names, nicknames. |
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Hometowns are often used by sports writers in creating alliterative nicknames. |
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Ruth himself used to hand out nicknames to teammates, mainly because he was terrible at remembering people's real names. |
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And the Armagh back line indulged Spillane by donning the nicknames he had christened them with. |
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My mom uses baby talk with her, calling her new-found names and nicknames on the spur of the moment. |
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Finally, I have to regret the use of first names and nicknames for women, while men are given surnames, honorifics and initials. |
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In some places the victims even learn the names or nicknames of those who abused them. |
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They were using familiar nicknames for each other since the child was very close to his mentor and defender. |
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However, the names or the nicknames of the authors, unlike print encyclopaedias, do not appear at the bottom of the articles. |
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It was clearly ruled that members should be referred to by their correct names, not by nicknames. |
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He said that people were known by their nicknames rather than their real names, so he would not have known him as Fred. |
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Australians love ironic nicknames and may call you Bluey because of your red hair. |
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My understanding has always been that bluesmen earn their nicknames, either by genetic defect or tragedy of misadventure. |
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That was all it took to give the product, which already had some other nicknames, a new moniker. |
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The use of diminutives and nicknames were quite apparent in her teachertalk as well. |
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His nicknames for me were annoying and I could tell that he thought of me as a preppy goody-goody. |
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Where it used to be that nicknames were used by friends and family, and proper names by everyone else, these days it's very much the opposite. |
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You also get the birthdates and the correct pronunciation and nicknames for players. |
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Long taunted for his embonpoint, polite French for tubbiness, the affable pol used to garner dessert-inspired nicknames. |
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And references to Trogdor the Burninator, are everywhere from sports nicknames to buffy the Vampire slayer comics. |
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Family crests and nicknames are stitched into headrests, colors are specified for seat stitching, veneers are chosen for the dash. |
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Opponents saw her as a Trojan Horse for the ousted president, dubbing her Xiomel, a conflation of the couple's nicknames. |
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He is also known as El H, but of all his nicknames El Elegante is the most salient. |
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I know because I saw him sit down at the typewriter and begin banging it out in his inimitable style, which included forced nicknames and chatty familiarity. |
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We're going to bat around some of the nicknames we've come up with so far. |
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Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
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The traders and their compatriots had hilarious, awful, misspelled nicknames for each other. |
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If Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks keep winning, the tabloids are going to run out of nicknames for the phenom from Harvard. |
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Will had given their proper names, instead of their shortened nicknames. |
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The four-times World Cup champions are the only major sporting country in which athletes are most commonly known by their first names or nicknames. |
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There are a lot of different kinds of railway cars, their names and nicknames familiar to most people, but there are only a few that bear the name of their inventor. |
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It was his first name, but we always went by nicknames or first names. |
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Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press. |
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In northern Portugal, nicknames are extremely important as terms of reference that connote moral equivalence in otherwise socially stratified rural communities. |
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The graduation of nicknames within armies is a subculture in itself. |
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It seems that identity is the crucial point of nicknames as it gives clubs an individual character which words such as Wanderers, United and City do not. |
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There are many stories of caddies that enthral and captivate but one of my favourites concerns the application of suitable nicknames by caddies to their peers. |
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He chortled slightly, and Halle could almost picture his face flushing with pleasure at someone actually saying his name properly, not butchering it with insipid nicknames. |
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Based on nicknames for her parents and grandfather that she remembered, a pedicab driver brought her to her grandfather's home. |
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During the Super League era, the participating teams have adopted mascots and nicknames usually in alliteration with the name of their home town. |
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New series in which celebrities reminisce about their schoolday antics, recalling games, chants and nicknames from the playground. |
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The nicknames of the commentators are sometimes first names, but others are ethnonyms or phrases expressing political statements. |
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The box, in Stockton, Teesside, in honour of rower Kath Copeland, was vandalised with nicknames scratched into the surface. |
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Babies of that era were generally given a few common names, with children using nicknames to distinguish the various people with the same name. |
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The five rams they rode were supposed to have turned into stones upon their departure and gave the city several of its nicknames. |
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The Web sites allow pet owners to create profiles of their pets, replete with photos, nicknames and pet peeves. |
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One of Ipswich Town's nicknames is The Blues, stemming from their traditional kit, which is predominantly blue. |
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By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. |
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After the lunch, Loraine and his editorial staff decided to devise nicknames for each member of the group based on their personalities. |
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This marketing of each member's individuality was reinforced by the distinctive nicknames adopted by each member of the group. |
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The Variations have amused me because I've labelled them with the nicknames of my particular friends. |
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Sykes and Oppenheimer have each given nicknames to various haplogroups to allow easier recognition, including the principal ones in the isles. |
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Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil Capital of the World or the Energy Capital of the World. |
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It has nothing to do with sweet Alison, as some people call it, and plenty with another of its nicknames, madwort. |
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There are several less formal traditions including service nicknames and Naval slang. |
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But lawyers and marketers also need to be mindful of the state ethics issues involved with firm names, trade names and nicknames. |
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Alcuin soon found himself on intimate terms with Charlemagne and the other men at court, where pupils and masters were known by affectionate and jesting nicknames. |
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From 1261 onward, the names 'Robinhood', 'Robehod' or 'Robbehod' occur in the rolls of several English Justices as nicknames or descriptions of malefactors. |
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Very few dart players had their own nicknames until the Professional Darts Corporation circuit made it almost customary for every player to acquire a nickname. |
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Using their nicknames I Mother Nature, Chef Assassin, Mr Whittier, Lady Baglady and Saint Gut Free, among others I they spout tales of horror and disgust. |
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Crewmen gave it a host of nicknames, among them the 'Flying Duck,' the 'Flying Boxcar' and the 'Constipated Lumberer,' a play on Consolidated Liberator. |
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Now fallen into disuse, some English counties had nicknames for those raised there such as a 'tyke' from Yorkshire, or a 'yellowbelly' from Lincolnshire. |
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This is how the club got its two nicknames of The Saints or Jimmies. |
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