Sentence examples for beaters from inspiring English sources

For four months after the "glorious twelfth" of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters' sights.

If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.

Where, the fans and commentators will ask, have Australia's world beaters gone?

Much of the shoot's revenue went into the Dales economy: Mawle bought his food at the local shop, serviced his farm vehicles locally and employed local people: the 30 beaters required to drive the birds towards the guns were paid £50 a day.

Such talent has quickly transformed many dynamic young American companies into world beaters.

The trade of the basin beaters continued to flourish in Nürnberg down to about 1550, when a decline set in, culminating in its eventual collapse just before the Thirty Years' War in 1618.

"The irony [of Peterson saying] that this is how he was raised, well … many people who are wife-beaters were raised in abusive families.

Germany became world-beaters with a goal created by one substitute and finished by another.

Here in their element they look like world-beaters, yet a few hours earlier they were too shy to ask a former footballer to pose for a picture – that's the contradictory nature of Foals right there in a nutshell.

His characters are not saints; they are wife-beaters, cheats, weed-smokers, skirt-chasers.

In a report with John Hagel, of Deloitte, a consultancy, Mr Seely Brown argues that the activity of private entrepreneurs means "China is rapidly emerging as the global centre of management innovation, pioneering management techniques that most US companies are struggling to understand".The emergence of Asian world-beaters exemplifies the two forces driving innovation.