Sentence examples for term hangs from inspiring English sources

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But Item Club chief economic adviser Peter Spencer said: "Consumers may be propping up a weak recovery this year but the move towards more balanced growth over the medium term hangs critically upon a recovery in world markets.

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Still, he is a lion in winter, passing the torch he inherited from Elgin Baylor - the generally accepted inspiration for the term, "hang time" - on to basketball's next generation of skydancers like Dominique Wilkins, Michael Jordan and James Worthy.

/ To be very hot; to seethe with anger or indignation, e.g., "He sizzled like a black car seat in Tucson when he didn't get his upgrade"./ n. / an umbrella term hung over from the dot-com era, used to describe all things from shallow flashiness to intellectual rigor, as in: "I prefer my vacations to have more steak than sizzle, which is why I love the adda cafes in Calcutta.

"The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term" (PSIM, in SPR:1; in ISR: 369).

If philosophy is the attempt "to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term", as Sellars (1962) put it, philosophy should not ignore technology.

Moore was arrested again and, scared of a long prison term, hanged himself in jail.

As a player, he gave new meaning to the term "hang time". Elgin Baylor fairly floated toward the basket as a forward for 14 years with the Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers.

After I confirmed he was not using the term "hang out" as some sort of euphemism for sex, we met up at a public space and had a few drinks.

As a result, while the European Union may grow more powerful in the immediate future, its long-term success hangs in jeopardy without a solid moral code in which it can root itself.

The uncertainty of costs and retail pricing for the near-term future hangs heavy, not just over Macy's, but overall general merchandise retailers.

The threat of a lengthy jail term has hung over him since German prosecutors charged him in the spring with bribery and embezzlement in the deal that swung control of the sport to CVC from a group of European banks that acquired them in a German media company's bankruptcy.

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