Sentences with phrase «by the nickname of»

A recent poll suggests 90 percent of Native Americans are not offended by the nickname of Washington's NFL franchise, but that's not going to change my opinion on this hot - button, societal issue

Not only was I irritated by the nicknames of the characters, their personalities were irritating as well.

A hacker that goes by the nickname of Cipher0007 has hacked the Sanctuary Dark Web marketplace.

usually goes by the nickname of Fannie.

Not exact matches

Nicknaming is just one example of how The Pink Ceiling's culture is defined by «a healthy irreverence,» as Whitehead puts it.

To her teammates, some of whom she has known for over a decade, she is merely «Sincy,» a nickname affectionately spoken by players and managers alike.

Also known by his nickname Mattress Mack, McIngvale has already welcomed hundreds of refugees from the storm, shrugging off the tens of thousands of dollars of lost revenue as an acceptable price for the chance to help his community.

Known by the nickname «Mi Sangre» (My Blood), Lopez Londono was the head of the Los Urabenos drug cartel, one of the most feared in Colombia.

He still made major contributions to the founding of the country, as indicated by his nickname: «Penman of the Revolution.»

Named after the former US senator John Warner — but nicknamed the «Sledgehammer of Freedom» by the crew — the Warner can perform a variety of missions for the US Navy, including surveillance, reconnaissance, and search and rescue, as well as launch land - attack missiles, torpedoes, and mines.

Nicknamed «Moo U» by the locals, the University of Guelph has deep roots in the agricultural and food industry, and its MBA program reflects that.

It's unclear whether Buffett, who is nicknamed the Oracle of Omaha, was bothered by the scandals surrounding Fox before he sold the stock.

There were concerns at the time that Sun News was some kind of nefarious attempt by Péladeau to push Canadian political opinion farther to the right, especially because of Teneycke's involvement, which earned the channel the nickname Fox News North.

His company — dubbed Tony Maroni's Pizza in honor of his childhood nickname — started as a pizza - by - the - slice shop in Kirkland, Wash., and grew into a franchise operation with 17 outlets in Washington and Southern California.

Big Ron Montana earned the nickname «The Hustler» as he is by far the biggest hustler of the crew.

Generation Z shoppers — those now aged between 14 and 19 and sometimes nicknamed «centennials» because they were born around the turn of the centurey — are more pragmatic than their elders generations, according to «Redefining loyalty for retail,» a report published in June by Ernst and Young.

let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor def - ame nor be sar - cas - tic to each other, nor call each other by (off - ensive) nicknames: Ill - seeming is a name connoting wic - ked - ness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: And those who do not des - ist are (Indeed) doing wrong.

let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor de-fame nor be sa - rca - stic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: Ill - seeming is a name connoting wi - cke - dness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: And those who do not de-si-st are (Indeed) doing wrong.

Indeed, the figure of the emperor was not necessarily treated with respect by the general population (piss pots used by fullers in Rome were nicknamed Vespasiani after the emperor who introduced an unpopular tax upon them).

President Wild's statement was made in the context of a firestorm generated by the offer of a seven - figure gift if the university would revert to a nickname formerly used for its athletic teams.

Wild responded to the crisis generated by the aficionados of the former nickname by stating that the university was not for sale, by teaching about the true idea of a Catholic university as transcending athletics and nicknames, and by opening the door to a reconsideration of nicknames as long as the nickname did not violate Catholic teaching.

The Apostle James the Greater, son of Zebedee, brother of John, deserved the nickname given him by Our Lord.

Patient nicknamed «Julia» Psychiatrist - Dr Richard E Gallagher at New York Medical College, documented the case of a patient who he said was possessed by demons rather than mentally ill.

This remarkable family, descendants of one Hasmon and therefore called Hasmoneans, is more popularly known by the name Maccabee, originally a nickname, probably meaning «hammerer,» for the oldest son, Judas.

Ramsey suggests that the logic of nicknames is akin to the use of such a term as «Son of man» by Jesus.

The name Peter is a translation of the Aramaic nickname Kepha, meaning «rock,» which according to Matthew was bestowed on Simon by Jesus on this occasion.

On the other hand there seem to have been Christians at this period, nicknamed «Alogi» (= anti-» Word» men, also — anti-Reason men) by their opponents, who rejected the Johannine authorship of the gospel and the Apocalypse, but were not generally regarded as heretics.

Further, the section of the Jews who took the lead in promoting the belief in the future resurrection of the dead were called the Pharisees, and one of the theories about the origin of this name traces it to the Aramaic form of «Persians», and suggests that it was a nickname applied by the Sadducees to those Jews who showed a willingness to introduce Persian doctrines into Judaism.

Could it be that it was a nickname, indicating the recognition by those who knew him of his devotion to God?

You won't believe this, but I'm writing a novel and one of my characters goes by the nickname Zee!

Nicknamed Oz by those who love it, Australia is the home of a new food movement I call «Oz Mex.»

The hot pods are nicknamed «Víagra of the poor», and there's even a salsa by that name (above).

My children smelled of coconuts when they were infants (because they were always rubbed with coconut oil or eating coconut butter) and were nicknamed coconut babies by my friends and family.

In fact, the city is famously intersected by a vast network of canals, measuring 165 miles in total, lending credence to the city's nickname of the «American Venice.»

In fact, his frequent presence backstage at shows, along with the names of his chocolates and his psychedelic - influenced packaging — designed by Shepherd himself — have earned Shepherd the nickname, «Rock - and - Roll Chocolatier.»

Nicknamed King by some mischievous con artist, Roman fell down then and, unnecessarily, two more times before being counted out at two minutes of the first round.

Mayweather, who goes by the nickname «Money», was pictured in bed on his gold - plated mobile phone with huge wads of cash piled up alongside him.

The Dutchman was pleased to receive a tweet from Wayne Rooney congratulating him for his powerful strike against Australia — referring to him by his club nickname of Batman, in a play on words around his first name — and said he would root for his Man Utd club colleague for the Three Lions in their vital Group D clash.

In 2010 Sebastian Vettel won the championship, but he also cost his team a potential win in Turkey by colliding with his own teammate, and at Spa he speared into the side of Jenson Button whilst trying to overtake him, and earned the nickname «crash kid».

His injury was the major spur behind Policy's off - season signing of fullback Tommy Vardell, a former Stanford star who scored four TDs in an upset of Notre Dame and carried the nickname Touchdown Tommy when he was selected in the first round of the 1992 draft by the Cleveland Browns.

At 6» 2», 167 pounds, Cosenza, who played just one season in high school, was nicknamed BC's Rudy by one of the investigators, a reference to the Notre Dame walk - on immortalized in a movie.

An association forged by six Cup Series championships with that number on the side of his car and a swashbuckling driving stylish that earned him nicknames like «The Man in Black» and «The Intimidator.»

Against the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 27, when the song The Power blared through the Louisiana Superdome speakers during a timeout, Jiggle Joints — one of several nicknames Watters has been given by his teammates — began to dance in the huddle.

He earned the nickname Mr. Ten Percent by skimming roughly that much off the top from many of CONCACAF's successful business deals and operations.

One thing I've noticed on this site, there are men who are up to 40 yrs of age or even more, but they go by funny nicknames that will ordinarily make u think they are just teenagers or some guys in their early twenties.

The nickname stuck and that was what I was called by my circle of friends.

Kvyat hasn't exactly had the best time in F1 since being «demoted» from Red Bull to Toro Rosso last year, living up to the «torpedo» nickname given to him by Sebastian Vettel with a series of unfortunate on - track clashes.

Her toughest competition should come from Sonya Thomas, who is also known by her first - rate nicknames including «The Black Widow» and «The Leader of the Four Horsemen of the Esophagus.»

Before he was known as Megatron, Calvin Johnson was nicknamed Neo by his Georgia Tech teammates, who likened his gravity - defying contortions to those of Keanu Reeves's character in The Matrix.

«Doggie,» he said, addressing Perez by the nickname that has tagged along with him for years, «next year, you'll be one of us.»