How To Use Craven In A Sentence

Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly. Rodney stone
Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
Hollywood, which once made her look hip and powerful, now makes her look craven and silly - and like a dumbo for not getting that it's so over with.
Paige Craven, a sophomore at Souhegan, found out about the program via the intercom, and the idea piqued her interest. CabinetPress.com | Web Feeds
Their cravenness on immigration is deeply disturbing.

She is being made an honorary canon in recognition of her hospital work and will take over as rural dean of South Craven in February.
'Resdved, That the commissioners for coqapoundiog be Im - powered and required to seise and sequester all the estate, real and personal, of the said Lord Craven, and to receive the rents, Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
It basically makes him look like a weak, indecisive, craven leader.
For far too long, it has been weak and craven, seeking consensus where none was forthcoming. Times, Sunday Times
But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt.
It calls for ‘responsibility,’ then shirks it with surreal cravenness.
It comes as no surprise that he and his craven right-wing thugs would attempt to humiliate and heap further indignities upon the former hostages by mulcting them of $6000 + for Japan's ‘out of pocket expenses’.
And when the parties collude in such a craven course, it becomes conspiracy as well.
Craven District Council has played a leading role as main sponsor of the project.
Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
Reserve placing in the native breeds went to Mule Wether lamb entries from Andrew Fisher of Pateley Bridge, a fieldsman for Craven Cattle Marts.
Will he take us deeper into the lives of some craven misfits?
I used to read the Craven Herald when I lived over here and always pick it up when back in the area.
Residents in Sutton-in-Craven, near Skipton, woke up to torrential rain and fast-flowing water outside their front doors yesterday.
Then we returned to basics with a craven Headingley surrender. The Sun
A liberal Democrat, Charles Schumer, kiboshed this craven act. Sam Greenfield: On This Memorial Day, I Ask ...
At times like this the back row inclined to craven panic.
There is no reason for this other than craven cowardice in the face of power.
Mrs Craven, 61, said she had not been unreasonable in refusing access so far.
Misguided craven cowards have debased the nobleness of mankind.
Then maybe we would have a chance at eradicating poverty, universal health care, protection of women’s and minority rights … as it is, the Dem “leadership” is a close second in craven corporate selfishness to the Republicans. Think Progress » You Go Into A Disaster With The FEMA You Have
Then we returned to basics with a craven Headingley surrender. The Sun
Oxenhope Recreation sealed a historic Craven Premier League and Cup double last Thursday night at Cross Hills FC.
Their joint submission, hammered out in meetings between leaders of the council, would see Craven merge with Harrogate and other districts combine to create larger districts able to take on a unitary role.
As well as swimming, ten pin bowling and football, Simon is a keen actor with the Mind the Gap drama group and attends Craven College in Skipton.
To actively seek nothingness is worse than defeat; why, Kudra, it is surrender; craven, chickenhearted, dishonorable surrender. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
a craven proposal to raise the white flag
On reflection whilst I stand by the thrust of that comment I would like to apologise for the intemperate use of words such as codswallop and and craven. Ben Stewart: An Apology
a spineless craven fellow
It operates with all the cravenness of the fabled Mexican jail. Stephen Herrington: Goldman Sachs Robbed the EU By Way of Greece
Parents are being invited to public meetings in the Ripon and Craven areas to discuss changes to the selection procedure for senior schools.
The considered teaching of churchmen and philosophers still holds incarnate beauty to be, at best, the unintended consequence of accident or design and, at worst, plain old craven idolatry.
Gargrave were crowned Craven Football League champions after a thrilling match against their nearest rivals, Embsay.
No, what I like about this plan is it's complete cravenness.
And that means, even allowing for the craven submissiveness of the general media, one more chance for the administration to be exposed for the cruel and psychopathic clods that they are.
We have nearly worn a hole in the road attending the last named venue in light of the continuing absence in Craven of athletics facilities and now residents from Craven are going in droves to the swimming pools at Colne and Barnoldswick.
I had no doubt that the craven fellow would be only too pleased to back out.
Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature? Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
All of the apologizers are craven, but my favorite is a young woman holding up a sign that says: ‘I tried!’
And the not-so-good people (to their credit, Taylor and Molony are careful to make no characters unrepentantly evil) are conniving, craven and corruptible.
A recruit: " He is not craven, he is the driver of this plane.
Gargrave have made it six wins from seven starts in the Craven Football League to stay at the head of the table.
Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
Craven district councillor Richard Welch, speaking as a local resident, said there had been no objections from consultees other than the national park authority.
Dixon-Cravens is also a fan of elderberry, which is the active ingredient in GNC's new ViraBloc lozenges. The News Tribune Blogs
Straw should have the word dhimmi tattoed to his forehead, but perhaps this is not necessary as nothing can conceal his craven folly. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Sure, they can whine about negative depictions, but much of that is caused by their own lack of character and craven pandering.
After 18 months of complaining to various authorities and writing to the Craven Herald, the town hall entrance is still filthy and sordid.
A hero risks his life to help others; a craven runs from the scene.
Craven District Council made its garage available so that vehicles could be thoroughly checked, as the council and the local taxi owners are keen to see that all taxis are safe.
I hope for all of us that Obama proves him wrong and uses his prodigious oratorial skills to make the progressive case and win the American people over to real universal health care e.g. single-payer Medicare for all, a non-predatory foreign policy, and generally, an approach to the challenges of 2008 that are not cravenly corporatist in orientation. Nader Defends Obama Slur - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
This kind of meaningless rhetoric vitiates Craven's discussion of the issue.
Harr was craven, had always been, and the little courage he'd summoned up to come out here and try to take her down was deserting him fast.
She is being made an honorary canon in recognition of her hospital work and will take over as rural dean of South Craven in February.
Here in one terrible incident we see the price Britain is paying for craven surrender to the mob. The Sun
Why did people behave as they did - whether with cruelty or kindness, cravenness or courage?
This answer, amazingly, wasn't craven enough.
He's a series of contradictory characteristics - valor/cowardice, nobility/cravenness, promiscuity / uxoriousness, selfishness/camaraderie, and every one of them is genuine, as the situation demands.
The look on the empurpled face of the director as he expostulated on this ‘craven surrender’ for Channel Four news was such a laugh.
Way to go Warner, you've gone from potentially being remembered as a statesman to being forever known as a gutless craven weasel. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Breaking: Warner Introducing Non-Binding Version Of Webb Amendement -- But Didn't Even Tell Webb First
In my books there are healthy, happy people, and craven, covetous, miserable people.
Barely turned three, she seemed more akin to her craven, attention-seeking mother than to her newborn brother.
It might have felt like a craven surrender to Philistinism; instead I persuaded myself that the girls might one day recall Karnak's ancient thickets of stone columns, with their lotus-flower capitals, and realise that their parents had a point. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Plans to subdivide the vicarage to create two houses and to build one detached and two semi-detached homes in the grounds were approved by Craven District Council's planning committee on Monday.
Please check your facts before you accuse us of being craven.
The decision means National Grid can now go on to Mrs Craven's land and begin constructing the pylons.
But Mr Robinson said the scheme could not work for every property and will serve 15,000 homes in the most densely populated areas - Skipton, Settle and South Craven.
Swiftly, conscious of only one motive -- refusal to see this man called craven by his enemies -- she rose, and with blundering fingers buckled the belt round his waist where it belonged. Riders of the Purple Sage
Ignoring the situation or simply hoping that it will disappear of its own accord is craven, misguided and, most importantly, dangerous.
This idiot move of Huckabee's -- probably the best he can come up with given the craven indefensibility of his actions in the Dumond case -- simply highlights what his "compassion" caused: the needless brutal murder of one and perhaps two women. Huckabee Mounts Counterattack Against Romney Over Paroled Rapist Story
Three days after seeing his father, Mr Craven received a call that he had been admitted to Airedale Hospital with pneumonia.
The world has got to stop this craven, cloying, tacit support for a religious group, based on the obscenities of the past, regularly regurgitated as justification for 21st century human butchery.
Over the last ten years in the Craven District Council area, permission was granted for 188 conversions and 188 new buildings.
And who should know better than he that it is craven to belittle a man's service because it didn't extend over some arbitrary stretch of time?
Cunningham also interjects a few times, though compared to Craven he's far less chatty.
Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
Craven carl is scared and that is why he is flinging mud at the left, plane and simple. Think Progress » Karl Rove attacks the blogosphere.
I am deeply ashamed of my own university for this craven stonewalling. Times, Sunday Times
Orthodox art history tends to see Effie as a malign influence, eagerly propelling her docile husband down the path to mass acceptance, marchionesses' daughters and giving the public what it wanted—a long, craven process of "selling out" symbolized by the baronetcy that came his way in 1885. A Far From Model Marriage
There are a lot of wealthy people who work in Leeds and Bradford and live in Craven and we are calling on them to help.
Our sin makes us feeble and craven, and we long to flee from the liberty of the sons of God; but where now can we go?
It also pays well and makes them look less craven.
But, for God's sake, don't let my cravenness stop you! Ben H. Winters: How to Combat Distracted Walking
Joshua, who lives at Carleton-in-Craven, has been a member of the Beavers for 18 months and will now move on to the Cubs.
The issue has remained confined to Craven so far with Bradford Council saying it would look into the legalities of the issue if roads involved were classified as part of the highway.
So at about 12.30 pm we rang the number listed under ‘Sewerage’ in Craven District Council's handy services booklet.
He took up with a girl who, as well as carnal favours, supplied him with rationed beer and contraband Craven As.
Get you a kib, gentleman?" said a soft cockney voice in Craven's ear. December Love
He made a good start to the season with four second places in the Peter Craven Memorial meeting at Kirkmanshulme Lane last Monday.
Mr. Craven won 't permit you to wander or go poking about the house.
If they tend to "craven fear and trembling" in any regard, it is in the worry that by daring to, say, present a character like Gaeta as openly homosexual on mainstream television, they will potentially alienate a conservative audience who still abjects gays and desires them absented from the media (and ultimately reality). Archive 2009-08-01
I see a balance between a very few sensible people and a crowd of craven cretins.
It is this kind of cravenness and moral inversion that makes people despair of mainstream politicians and sends them towards the BNP. The clash of uncivilisations
the craven fellow turned and ran
His critics represented this modest reform as a craven surrender to republicanism. Times, Sunday Times
I had no doubt that the craven fellow would be only too pleased to back out.
Under the whole was that which tongue refuseth to explain, whereat was confounded the brain and whose love would embrave the craven’s strain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Craven District Council's reaction to this, it seems, is to appoint an enforcer.
A hero risks his life to help others; a craven runs from the scene.
I got the name "Liza Normal" because Liza is an amplification of all my most craven, fame-seeking impulses.
There is no reason for this other than craven cowardice in the face of power.
Contrast that with the cravenness of so many of today's conservatives, whose first rhetorical instinct is to seize the mantle of victimhood. Conservatives and the Cult of Victimhood
In West Yorkshire and Craven last year more than 6,000 complaints were investigated with 82 prosecutions for animal abuse and neglect.
His critics represented this modest reform as a craven surrender to republicanism. Times, Sunday Times
It would be better to say that the Boy Scouts prevailed with a good constitutional argument, supported by weak evidence, craven apprehensions and unthinking hostility.
April 1st, 2009 at 12: 45 pm insurancedriving factorymutualsystem com acura says: insurancedriving factorymutualsystem com acura … equation craven? intestines abolition eightfold czar! Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
A National Grid spokesman said today that the company did not wish to cause any distress or financial hardship to Mrs Craven.
But the first wave of his assault had been thrown back, and now these two craven warriors stood before him, stam - mering their pathetic excuses. Flint, the King
But it smacks of cravenness and hardly serves the interests of truth-telling, much less any hopes of reconciliation between Ankara and Jerusalem. Cameron Joins the Gaza Flotilla
It basically makes him look like a weak, indecisive, craven leader.
Charles Lane, who recently praised Evan Bayh for having the courage to be base, selfish, and craven, is on the rise. Matthew Yglesias » Lane on Bayh
Since he is prepared to do this, there is nothing that he cannot do: his ranks of craven, sycophantic backbenchers will not cavil at anything he says.
If you want it reduced to a bunch of craven lickspittles, then you seem to be following the correct procedure.
What is most frightening, of course, is the obscene philosophy of machtpolitik -- the craven kowtowing to the demands of brute force -- that is embodied in Judge Brown's chilling words: "War is a challenge to law, and the law must adjust. The Lie of Law: Courts Bow to State's Raw Power
This cravenness represents one of American journalism's darkest hours -- as dark as the depth of the McCarthy era. Naomi Wolf: WikiLeaks, Revolution, and the Lost Cojones of American Journalism
It is a craven, disingenuous, and destructive canard, antithetical to interracial harmony and black excellence - and racist besides.
Just as David Lynch has in the past identified a sense of evil in effeminacy (BLUE VELVET) and ethnicity (WILD AT HEART), Wes Craven particularizes in LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT his perception of pure evil with a distinctly Hebraic flavor. There will be blood libel
The diary column recalled the days of ‘sparrow shoots’ which were particularly popular in north Craven.
And most are simply too craven to steal.
In 2002 they led a spectacular parade through Skipton when Craven District Council conferred honorary citizenship of the district upon the regiment.
According to Craven and the critics, the film also owes some success to Halloween which was quite influential in spawning the line of slasher films. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1108
For decades, its craven instinct for appeasement and its insane preoccupation with ecumenism has undermined the Church it is charged to defend.
It seemed only a matter of time before the ‘grim’ disease of myxomatosis struck Craven.
They are now reaping the whirlwind of a craven misjudgment. Times, Sunday Times
What a contrast to the weedy, desperate, clinging on to the parental coat-tails displayed by G4 in their email – the craven faux-ironic desperation to impress, with achievements that were nothing to do with them. Time for these boy-men to cut the apron strings | Barbara Ellen
But it wasn't that the nation saw that politicians were all a bunch of craven opportunists.
Call the Wahh-mbulance -- Jack Kelly of The Blade proves once again that he's both a craven hypocrite and a thin-skinned whiner. Short Takes
For Sorabji his financial gain was the continuation of his municipal salary, so that he could keep his school open, rather than a craven payment for services rendered to the Christian authorities; he did not betray his friends; he did not betray philosophy, since he merely preferred the teaching of Porphyry in the matter of divine names and theurgy to that of Iamblichus and Proclus. The Garbage House
After this dull, airless misfire, which is a failure on almost every level, it's no wonder that Craven again journeyed back into the Weinstein pit see or don't: Cursed for Scream 4. Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: The 'Worst' Films of the Year
In the meantime Thomas Mugridge, like a drowned rat, was being dragged out from under the forecastle head where he had cravenly ensconced himself. Chapter 17
Some outbreaks had been reported in Yorkshire and so virulent was the disease that its arrival in Craven was seen as inevitable.
The outbreak of myxomatosis was in full swing after arriving in Craven.
National Grid was urged today to ‘do the decent thing’ and waive its claim for massive costs from widow Rosalind Craven.
While certain classically trained actors view time spent in Hollywood as some combination of craven, shameful and selling-out, Mr. Stewart — whose baritone is, as ever, like dark jam — refuses any part of that script. Spacecraft to Stage Craft
But every once in a while, an elected representative elevates himself above “teh stoopid” and cravenness that makes our eyes glaze over, and really fights the good fight in a way that leads his waffling brethren to do the right damn thing. Archive 2008-01-01
With the scene of the denial, for which we are thus prepared, the dramatic movement becomes exceedingly rapid, and the rendering of the events in the high-priest's hall -- Peter's bass recitative alternating its craven protestations with the clamorous agitato chorus of the servants -- is stirring in the extreme. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
The first two are so terrified of their circulation numbers that they'll do any chaotic, craven thing to boost them (other than print challenging pieces, of course).
This bad system has survived due to congressional cravenness in the face of multinational corporations arguing that competitiveness depends on not paying taxes. Transfer Pricing As Tax Avoidance
It was the speech of a politician par excellence - that is, a craven, bootlicking ode to Unoffensiveness. UVa Apologizes to WVU for Pep Band at cvillenews.com
On the whole, the Law School has been somewhat less craven than the average administration, and its faculty includes more vigorous defenders of free speech than is usually the case.
Nearly 25,000 fans of Brazil and Ghana converged on Craven Cottage to watch a football match but, most of all it seemed, to chant, gyrate and revel. Brazil 1-0 Ghana | International friendly match report
There will be a charge of £1 for members of Craven Conservation Group and £2 for non-members.
West Craven is a rural area, which does not receive as much funding as urban areas.
Regrettably, though, there seem to be at least a few examples of the cheapest, most craven opportunism.
The more these changes take place in public opinion, the more reckless, really, the Israeli government has become, and it's all the more surprising, therefore, that Canada should have a government so absolutely ... well, I don't want to use the word craven because that would suggest submissiveness. Rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
So if you had any doubt about who owns the Republicans and their nether regions, this latest exercise in craven sycophancy should pretty much put that to rest. Steele's Re-education
The name of the place is Vendale; and if you want to see it for yourself, you must go up into the High Craven, and search from Bolland Forest north by Ingleborough, to the Nine The Water Babies
The narrow Craven Park pitch is notoriously boggy and Simms knows Salford could be in for a stamina-sapping slog.
There are three archdeaconries: those of Richmond, Ripon, and Craven. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
Harriette gives the honour of her introduction into the mysteries of Cytherea to the Earl of Craven; but it is well known that a certain dashing solicitor's clerk then living in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, and near her amiable mamma's residence, first engrossed, her attention, and by whom she exhibited increasing symptoms of affection, which being properly engrafted on the person of the fair stockinger, in due time required a release from a practitioner of another profession; an innocent affair that now lies buried deep in an odd corner at the old churchyard at Chelsea, without a monumental stone or epitaph to point out the early virtues of the fair Cytherean. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
Hal is a fascist as statements like "defend our way of life in craven terror, bigotry and paranoia," "order him to read from Homer," and "dearly like to bash your fucking head in" clearly demonstrate .... Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
Even Cicero became a groveling, craven bootlicker in the end. Matthew Yglesias » The Missing Faction
Under the whole was that which tongue refuseth to explain, whereat was confounded the brain and whose love would embrave the craven's strain. Arabian nights. English
I have changed my mind," he said, one evening, with that smiling positiveness which is so aggravating: "I am very much inclined to believe that Ben Craven did kill Clough. The Hallam Succession
In an interview with the Herald, he said there was nothing in Australia to compare with the limestone scenery around Craven.
I can but assume that the gutless, snivelling, bottler, the craven coward, the spineless wanker, the same spineless cunny who appointed the wanker Andy Finlay and squillions like him and who holds the office of PM hid under his desk until the nasty man had gone away. Archive 2008-06-01
Now the police are keen to extend the scheme to the whole of Craven and will write to landlords and licensees explaining how it works.
Over the years our Dales Folk articles have highlighted a veritable regiment of people who, for one reason or another, have played an important part in Craven society.
One was a scathing demolition of James Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow by Richard Poirier, who described it as a 'censorious' and 'condescending' work, fueled by 'craven hostility' toward its subject. Tracking the Untrackable
` ` This craven, '' he thought, ` ` will lose the day in pure faintness and cowardice of heart, which he calls tender conscience. The Talisman
Business interests are represented by documents relating to calamine mining on Malham Moor and the collection includes particularly rich archives for Craven area townships.
For far too long, it has been weak and craven, seeking consensus where none was forthcoming. Times, Sunday Times
Then they had talked about the passion for adventure, and Craven had spoken of his love, not yet lost, for Browning's poem, "Waring"; how he had read it when quite a boy and been fascinated by it as by few other poems. December Love
If you want your questions to be taken seriously then you would do well to start by asking them without the arrant nonsense of paranoid fantasies in which the SyFy Channel has "recoiled in craven fear and trembling" before the intimidatory might of GLAAD's "homosex activists" (aka the Elders of Sodom, Media Division.) Archive 2009-08-01
That Carol Shea-Porter's statement to the mis-guided (and craven) loud-mouth is appropriate; and, that it is un-assailable as an 'ad hominem' attack is clear to anyone. Quote Of The Day
By the late 1980s, Wes Craven had carved out a niche for himself as guru favorite in the horror and splatter genre.
If he had remained with his trunks he would have seen that the cabman was the same one who had brought them and him from Craven Street, and he would have given any other address in London than the one he did. The Lost House
A member of Craven's dog control panel, Coun Polly English said: ‘If anyone sees a dog messing and they know the owner let me know and I will pass it on.’
One TV critic even claimed we were doing it as a ‘craven ratings stunt for sweeps.’
There's something simultaneously craven and arrogant about the manner in which senior Catholic politicians use their positions to wrangle papal audiences, often at taxpayers' expense.
You could not be blamed for the craven cowardliness of your opponent, could you?
Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
That's one of the main drivers to get this system extended throughout the whole of Craven.
The landlord and landlady of The Craven justly feel they are equally the victims concerning an alleged offence they know nothing about.
It is also relevant to note that if research centres get driven abroad to less scrupulous and less craven countries, more animal suffering will undoubtedly result. Times, Sunday Times
Craven undoubtedly overpraised these painters.
There was also severe flooding in the Craven area with rainfall breaking a ten year record.
A hero risks his life to help others; a craven runs from the scene.
Far from being the craven cowards they have often been depicted as, they are capable, at times, of driving lions from their kill.
Craven District Council has long been looking to centralise its functions on one site - 10 years ago it attempted to buy the old Raikeswood Hospital.
Craven District Council has mooted the idea of creating a one-stop shop for council services as part of the Renaissance Town project.
And so, by a strangely avenging justice, the magnificent Gonzaga sank dead on the very spot on which he had so cravenly and dastardly poniarded Aventano. Love-at-Arms
The Hunt report was thus seen on the Shankill as a craven cave-in to Fenian rioters.
Paddock is a craven Hyena to frightened to approach the Leonine beast except by cowardly yips from a safe distance. Dirty Paddick
A man of honor, a man of undeniable courage has been depicted as a craven coward by these memos.
Here in one terrible incident we see the price Britain is paying for craven surrender to the mob. The Sun
Craven waved and smiled happily at Ms Markovich, but he refused to acknowledge his mother, who also sat in the public gallery.
One has looked in vain every week in the Craven Herald for some sign that the district council was seized of the need for more parking provision.
Or, if dialect poetry must be concerned only with rustic life, was the Craven dalesman to have no voice in the matter? Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
Why did people behave as they did - whether with cruelty or kindness, cravenness or courage?
I had no doubt that the craven fellow would be only too pleased to back out.
I could tell you what time Ms. Craven had her tea, and when the boys would get restless and want to go home.
There will be a charge of £1 for members of Craven Conservation Group and £2 for non-members.

How To Use Craven In A Sentence

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