Word: dented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Better Class of CriminalGotham has a new white knight: a fearless district attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who's determined to nab malefactors through the law with the same gusto that Batman, the dark knight, applies using his gadgets and charisma. The Mob (led by Eric Roberts) they can handle, with the help of stalwart police lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman). But the Joker - this guy is nuts. He does deals with the Mob, then crosses them up. He makes a point with his pencil by ramming it into a gangster's head. "This town," he says, "deserves a better...
...beginning, at least, Washington's program will be microscopic compared with Paris'. Officials are starting with 120 bikes and 10 stations to work out any kinks but hope it will grow to many times that. "We need to get bigger if we want to make a dent in congestion and pollution," says Jim Sebastian, planner for the district's department of transportation. And just like Paris, Washington is using bus-shelter ad space to pay for the program. Clear Channel's outdoor-advertising unit paid for the exclusive right to sell shelter ads and is pouring a percentage of that...
...said Cruddas. The Labour leadership now hopes for time to regroup. They are crossing fingers that inquiries into possible breaches of rules on expenses by a few prominent Conservatives will dent the Tories' substantial lead in the polls. But fresh challenges are piling up thick and fast for Labour's hapless leader, including industrial action this weekend by tanker-truck drivers that could cause fuel shortages. Even as Brown breathed a sigh of relief over his narrow escape in the Commons, civil servants were briefing him about an embarrassing security breach in which secret government documents about al-Qaeda were...
...convincing. He wants to extend the Bush tax cuts that he once opposed - and add a few more of his own, saying he'll make up the difference by cutting "wasteful spending." But even eliminating the pork-barrel congressional earmarks that McCain has long criticized would make only a dent in the deficit...
...prize, the Palme d'Or, used to be guaranteed a healthy run in American art houses. But the franchise auteurs whose films are in this year's main competition - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne from Belgium, Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Turkey, Jia Zhangke from China - have made hardly a dent in the States, on either moviegoers or young moviemakers. They are leaders without followers...