Sentence examples for dummy as a from inspiring English sources

He also starred in British independent drama Dummy, as a budding DJ caring for his kid brother after their mother's death.

Verratti played the ball in from the corner flag, Pirlo stepped over it, not so much a dummy as a nonchalant little waggle of the eyebrow that took Daniel Sturridge with him and almost out of the stadium and round the corner to the opera house, thereby giving Claudio Marchisio the room to shoot low into the corner from 25 yards.

Their hero was, of course, a battered Eli Manning, although he was as much a tackling dummy as a quarterback, and the little-known special teams player Jaquian Williams, who George Willis writes in The Post was ever-so close to giving up on football entirely in college.

Each subject was asked to perform four child restraint installations in the right-rear passenger seat of a 2006 Pontiac G6 sedan using a crash dummy as a child surrogate.

However, Marco Caceres, senior space analyst at the Teal Group, said it's more likely that the reused rocket will see a test launch with a test dummy as a payload.

iii A full set of region dummies, as well as a rural/urban dummy, were used to control for spatial factors, such as the availability of health facilities and other unobserved time-invariant local factors that may influence the health of the local population.

If West had ruffed, there would have been a long trump in the dummy as an entry after dummy's spades had been established.

More precisely, we employ age dummies as a qualitative control representing the first three quartiles of sample firms ranked by age, with the fourth quartile chosen as the reference category.

Phillip Goldstein, a shareholder activist and money manager with the Pleasantville, N.Y.-based hedge fund Opportunity Partners, calls closed end funds "investments for dummies," as an investor merely needs to know the NAV and the market price.

It transpired that when the other dummy variable 'Change in position from SHO' was included, the former dummy emerged as a significant predictor.

A WHERE ABE THEY NOW? about Ajeeb, a dummy, billed as a chess-and-checker player.