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nod

1. informal A nomination for an award. I'm really glad to see her get the nod for Best Director. Even if she doesn't win, the fact that she is in the running is important.

2. informal An appointment to something, such as a position or promotion. I'm glad Tom got the nod for the regional manager position. He'll do a great job.

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Fig. someone's choice for a position or task. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) The manager is going to pick the new sales manager. I think Ann will get the nod. I had the nod for captain of the team, but I decided not to do it.

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Nodder: (Smiles and nods and writes it word for word, even though he thinks "bandwidth" is just a word the IT department uses when they don't want to do something.) Fantastic.

What kind of communicator are you? With workforces shrinking, the kind of role you play could determine whether you have any role to play

When the beauty decides to stay with Nodder and humanize him, it is the memory of her own reanimation that guides her: "she resigned herself to her fate without complaint; taking pride in the art of love and suffering [iskusstvo liubvi i stradaniia], which the sage of the East had given to her, she swore to devote her life to raising up and reviving this rude, degraded creature, who had fallen to her lot, and thus to fulfill the noble purpose of woman on this earth." (46)

Between thought and feeling: Odoevsky, Pushkin, and dialectical doubt in 1833

Jacob Hazel's effort flew into the side netting and Nodder cracked a 20-yarder against the cross-bar just before half-time and then Keranovic came to the rescue ten minutes into the second period.

HALESOWEN FRAIL AGAIN AT THE BACK; NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE

+ Scombridae Acanthocybium solandri + (Cuvier, 1831) Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810) + Auxis thazard (Lacepede, 1800) + + + Euthynnus affinis + (Cantor, 1849) Katsuwonus pelamis + + + (Linnaeus, 1758) Thunnus alalunga + + (Bonnaterre, 1788) Thunnus albacares + + + (Bonnaterre, 1788) Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) + + + Istiophoridae Istiophorus platypterus + (Shaw & Nodder, 1792) Makaira indica (Cuvier, 1832) + + M.

Bycatch in the tuna purse-seine fisheries of the western Indian Ocean

A Pliocene sailfish Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw and Nodder, 1791) from southern California.

A Fossil Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans Lacepede) from the Middle Fades of the Trinidad Formation (Upper Miocene to Upper Pliocene), San Jose del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Wrights chief Mark Nodder said: "The imminent closure of the JTI facility has presented us with an opportunity to secure a substantial site."

JTI factory is Wright move for bus firm

PARSONS JOHN (SONNY) (NODDER) December 8, 2011 Peacefully in hospital, surrounded by his loving Family, aged 82 years.

Deaths

Diet of the eastern shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata (Shaw e Nodder, 1794), from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

Feeding habits of the shortnose guitarfish, Zapteryx brevirostris (Muller and Henle, 1841) (Elasmobranchii, Rhinobatidae) in southeastern Brazil/Habito alimentar da raia-viola-de-focinho-curto, Zapteryx brevirostris (Muller e Henle, 1841) (Elasmobranchii, Rhinobatidae) no sudeste do Brasil

"I had some good fun times with him and I have had Classic Blue - the only horse I own with Pete Nodder at the moment - for three or four years and we are hoping there are more magical days to come."

Match-day win streak for Bennett

Caroline Nodder, editor of The Publican, said: "The event built on the success of the Pub Food Awards over the last few years, to recognise the achievements of a much wider range of pubs.

Another feather in the cap for popular pub

Members of Friends of the War Memorial Park (above, from left) Rene Whitlock, Lesley Hawkins, Ron Herdman, Gwen Nodder and Sheila Adams and (below) an artist's impression of how the visitors' centre could look.

Plans for pounds 4m park revamp go on display; EVENT: Volunteers needed for future community projects

Editor Caroline Nodder said: "Drunkenness is not something that can be measured on a scale.

HOW TO SPOT A XMAS DRUNK; OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES TO POLICE 'Look out for swaying and falling over'

The Publican editor Caroline Nodder said some pubs had attracted more customers, sold more soft drinks and more food because of the smoking ban.

We wouldn't overturn smoking ban, say most pub licensees

Editor Caroline Nodder said: 'We have received countless communications from readers who are worried sick about bans and seeing all their hard work building up thriving local pubs disappearing overnight.'