Sentence examples for Aye from inspiring English sources

I have seen whips pushing people through the aye and no lobbies.

Here he touched on another tension that becomes evident in discussion with residents – between a younger, freshly aware, generation wanting to discuss politics in the open and older folk who would rather things remained as they've "aye been".

"I have seen whips literally pushing people through the aye lobby and the no lobby, even if they are remonstrating and saying, 'I don't want to vote this way.' They are pushed over, and once you go over the entrance way, you can't come out again.

Yet one displayed, on a placard attached to his bicycle, a new slogan: "Glasgow said aye".

I meant to vote aye, and had it immediately corrected in the official record".

He was expected to appeal.An aye for an ayeA rare bipartisan bill that would have improved energy efficiency in buildings went down in flames in America's Senate.

In the broad sense, the term lemur applies not only to the typical lemurs (family Lemuridae) but also to the avahis, sifakas, indri, and aye-aye of Madagascar, in addition to the lorises, potto, and bush babies of Southeast Asia and Africa.

Nocturnal, solitary, and arboreal, most aye-ayes live in rainforests, but some have been discovered more recently in the dry forests of western Madagascar.

All lemurs are characterized by a reflective layer (tapetum) behind the retina in the eye, but no fovea or macula lutea; a hairless, moist tip to the muzzle; a noninvasive (epitheliochorial) placenta; comblike forward-directed lower front teeth (with the exception of the aye-aye); and a claw ("toilet claw") on the second toe of the foot.

The aye-aye constructs a large ball-like nest of leaves in forked tree branches and feeds mainly on insects and fruit.

The aye-aye is critically endangered and protected by law.