Word Finder - manning

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To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

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The ship was manned with a small crew.

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To take up position in order to operate (something).

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Man the machine guns!

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(possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)

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To wait on, attend to or escort.

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To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

I don't see you out on the street manning the barricades.

It would seem that the system by which he maintained them was that he assigned to each a region of which the inhabitants were responsible for its manning and its sustentation.

As soon as I started firing, the guy manning the laser stopped firing and aimed somewhere else.

Through the eyes of your character, Tommy Conlin, you forcibly attempt to make your way up from the ocean, manning a gunship in the process as you take down enemies from all directions.

Peyton Manning plays like this every game.

They work directly with the customers, stocking products, assisting patrons, working the checkout lane, manning the service desk, and keeping the store clean.

She maintains a regular website, as well as a blog on her show's official homepage, to help keep fans both up to date on her character (Starr Manning) as well as the motivation and message behind her varying plot lines.

When Roger Howarth played Todd Manning he refused to participate in passionate love scenes out of sensitivity to the fans of the show that met Manning when he led the gang rape of Marty Saybrook.

Trevor St John took over the role of Todd Manning from the enormously popular Roger Howarth.

St. John delivers a more mature Todd Manning without losing the inner demons that have driven the character for more than 15 years.

Kristen Alderson began her role as Starr Manning in 1998 at the age of 7.

The young actress charmed viewers as the troubled daughter of Blair Cramer and Todd Manning.

Kassie was paired with Max Holden and Todd Manning.

She charged Todd Manning with leading the assault, but also implicated Kevin Buchanan (Viki Lord Buchanan's son).

Todd Manning (played deliciously by Roger Howarth) showed little to no remorse for his actions and persecuted Marty, her attorneys and anyone associated with her for bringing him to trial.

Will Todd Manning go to jail (this time)?

Marty's rape in the college dorm room put Kevin Buchanan in the hot seat and Todd Manning's reign of terror led to powerful leading man status.

In addition to the Llanview Banner, Llanview is home to The Sun, a tabloid newspaper run by Viki's half-brother Todd Manning.

She sold the Intruder to Todd Manning in 1995 who then renamed the paper The Sun in an attempt to escape The Intruder's negative reputation.

Kyle became involved in the search for Cole Thornhart and Starr Manning's baby, eventually piecing together the evidence that Jessica's baby is the one that died and she was actually raising Starr's baby.

Kyle began to blackmail Jared and Natalie and went to the Manning house to blackmail Todd, but Oliver intercepted him and arrested him.

Chappell gained notice as Dr. Carly Manning on Days of Our Lives before moving to GL.

The devastating storyline introduced viewers to future anti-hero Todd Manning.

They had considered showing Jeffrey Byrne's picture to some of the bike tour workers, especially those volunteers manning the frequent rest stops where every biker would pass sooner or later.

Taking them from north to south, the principal rivers are the Richmond, Clarence, Macleay, Hastings, Manning, Hunter, Hawkesbury and Shoalhaven.

Manning, and small numbers of British and Boer mounted infantry, Indian and African troops were employed, while an Abyssinian force held the line of the Webi Shebeli.

Manning advanced from Obbia in February 1903, and in March got in touch with the northern column, the line of communication stretching over 500 m.

After these events the Obbia line of communication was closed up, and Manning's force concentrated at Bohotle.

Another campaign being deemed necessary, reinforcements bringing the fighting force up to 7000 men were sent out, and Major-General Sir C. C. Egerton assumed supreme command, Manning retaining command of the first column.

After the Greek revolution the system of manning the navy from the Christian natives of the archipelago and the Mediterranean littoral was abandoned, and recruits for the navy are now selected under the ordinary law.

Birdwood decided, in consultation with Godley and Byng, that the front trenches should be held up to the very last moment on the night of final evacuation, the troops manning them then hastening to the beaches, everything removable, whether animate or inanimate, having already left.

Previously to their holding office, Daniel Manning (1831-1887), secretary of the treasury in President Cleveland's cabinet, was president of the Argus company, and Daniel Scott Lamont (1851-1905), secretary of war during President Cleveland's second administration, was managing editor of the newspaper.

Manning, afterwards cardinal archbishop. The State in its Relations with the Church was his practical contribution to a controversy in which his deepest convictions were involved.

Manning's boyhood was mainly spent at Coombe Bank, Sundridge, Kent, where he had for companions Charles and Christopher Wordsworth, afterwards bishops of St Andrews and of Lincoln.

At this date he was ambitious of a political career, but his father had sustained severe losses in business, and in these circumstances Manning, having graduated with first-class honours in 1830, obtained the year following, through Viscount Goderich, a post as supernumerary clerk in the colonial office.

Manning's married life was of brief duration.

This sermon had much annoyed Newman and his more advanced disciples, but it was a proof that at that date Manning was loyal to the Church of England as Protestant.

Newman's secession in 1845 placed Manning in a position of greater responsibility, as one of the High Church leaders, along with Pusey and Keble and Marriott; but it was with Gladstone and James Hope (afterwards Hope-Scott) that he was at this time most closely associated.

Manning made it clear that he regarded the matter as vital, though he did not act on this conviction until no hope remained of the decision being set aside or practically annulled by joint action of the bishops.

Manning thereupon proceeded to Rome to pursue his theological studies, residing at the college known as the "Academy for Noble Ecclesiastics," and attending lectures by Perrone and Passaglia among others.

The community was thus of the greatest service to Cardinal Wiseman, whose right-hand man Manning thenceforward became.

Such a consummation not being desired by the Westminster chapter, they submitted to the pope three names, and Manning's was not one of them.

Great efforts were made to secure the succession for the titular archbishop Errington, who at one time had been Wiseman's coadjutor with that right reserved to him, but who had been ousted from that position by the pope acting under Manning's influence.

With him, however, Manning found less sympathy than with his predecessor, though Manning's advocacy of the claims of labour attracted Leo's attention, and influenced the encyclical which he issued on the subject.

That he was such he denied more than once (Lemire, Le Cardinal Manning et son action sociale, Paris, 1893, p. 210), nor was he ever a Socialist in principle; but he favoured some of the methods of Socialism, because they alone seemed to him practically to meet the case of that pressing poverty which appealed to his heart.

Whatever may have been the value of Manning's services to the Roman Catholic Church in England in bringing it, as he did, up to a high level of what in earlier years was commonly denounced as Ultramontanism, it is certain that by his social action, as well as by the earnestness and holiness of his life, he greatly advanced, in the minds of his countrymen generally, their estimate of the character and value of Catholicism.

The publication in 1896 of Manning's Life, by Purcell, was the occasion for some controversy on the ethics of biography.

Edward Purcell was an obscure Catholic journalist, to whom Manning, late in life, had entrusted, rather by way of charitable bequest, his private diaries and other confidential papers.

And certainly Manning does betray in these autobiographical fragments an unheroic sensitiveness to the verdict of posterity on his career.

Manning, Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons.