Sentence examples for booby from inspiring English sources

The EU may be getting the booby prize for peace because it sure hasn't created prosperity.

Sure enough, in 2014 Silicon titans have found themselves under growing attack for everything from dodging corporate taxes to scooping up vast amounts of people's personal data.The booby prize, on the other hand, goes to our prediction for the fastest-growing economy of 2014.

It is politically stable, without the ethnic tensions that have riven other Caribbean nations.In this section On your marks, get set…oh Knock, knock Booby traps ReprintsJamaica has reasons for its plodding growth of late.

Little wonder that the best developers clamoured for jobs at Apple and Google, while those that ended up at Microsoft felt like they had won the booby prize.

Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" says that "English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner…Imagine being a foreigner and having to learn that in English one tells a lie but the truth".Such books are usually harmless, if slightly fact-challenged.

The Netherlands wins the booby prize.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Economic forecasts Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Stockmarket turnover Reprints.

The guerrillas blew up electricity and telephone lines, and left booby-trapped buses on roads as they melted into the surrounding countryside, which they have controlled for decades.In this section A call to arms The beauty and the beast Dateline Winnipeg The déjà vu vote ReprintsThe FARC hastily abandoned their training camps.

FEW political issues are more booby-trapped than family policy.

By March 27th, however, seven days after the fighting began, the invasion forces had captured Iraq's southernmost port of Umm Qasr, secured Iraq's booby-trapped oilfields, invested Basra, the country's second city, and moved a powerful tank army to within 50 miles of Baghdad, the seat of the regime.

And the CNE, whose board has a pro-government majority, began placing booby-traps in the opposition's path.First, it broke a hard-won agreement that the referendum should be held on August 8th.

In a battle lasting a week, 23 soldiers were killed, including 14 in a single Palestinian ambush involving a booby-trapped house, a suicide bomber and a hail of gunfire.