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dirk
verb
To stab with a dirk.
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What makes him rampant, and do rampant heterosexuals exist as well?DIRK EVENSON BerlinLeft to our own devicesSIR – How can you expect to be taken seriously?
Twisting the dirk, Congress's manifesto includes a rejection of "the policy of blind privatisation followed by the BJP-led…government".Congress's attack on the BJP's national-security credentials was more sophisticated.
Of course, in full Highland rig as he was, he had his trusty skean dhu, his little dirk, tucked in his right sock.
Even when they think they know the word, they can get it wrong: death-penalty jurors have confused "mitigation" with "aggravation".Even good English-speakers might find it odd that jury instructions talk about extra penalties for defendants using a "dirk", simply because that word for knife appears in the statute.
According to one 2006 study**, by Dirk Krueger of the University of Pennsylvania and Fabrizio Perri of New York University, consumption inequality has barely budged for several decades, despite a sharp upswing in income inequality.But consumption numbers, too, conceal as much as they illuminate.
Evidence and Theory" by Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri.
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Production costs in America and Brazil, the world's biggest producers, which between them provide two-thirds of chicken exports, are 30% below those in Europe and China, according to Nan-Dirk Mulder of Rabobank.Trading chicken is far more complicated than merely plucking, freezing and dispatching the birds.
"If we stick with national supervision we will end up with national banks," says Dirk Schoenmaker of the Duisenberg school of finance.The other major regulatory proposal to have come out of Europe recently inspires even less confidence.
"We are concentrating on goal-line technology, but the system is able to detect offside and penalties," says Dirk Broichhausen, GoalControl's boss.Hawk-Eye, a British company owned by Sony which has developed decision aids for tennis and cricket, is behind the goal-line technology now being used in the English Premier League.
"We should have explored the possibilities more," says Dirk Niebel, general secretary of the FDP.
On the other hand, Dirk van Eck, who lost his wife and two children to an ANC landmine in 1985, and AfriForum, a civil-rights group affiliated to the predominantly white Solidarity trade union, would prefer all such prosecutions to stop at once.
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