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CANBERRA Cheap Hector Bellerin Jersey , Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- ""Shirtfront"" has been named Australia's 2014 word of the year, the Australian National University announced on Wednesday on behalf of the Australian National Dictionary Center.


The center, based at the university, selected shirtfront after the word rose to prominence after Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised to ""shirtfront"" Russian President Vladimir Putin over the down of the Malaysian airline MH17 over Ukraine.


According to the center, shirtfront is a verb chiefly used in Australian rules football Cheap Granit Xhaka Jersey , meaning to deliver an aggressive front- on bump to an opponent, or a verb figuratively used to mean to challenge or confront (a person).


It was chosen from a shortlist including the terms, ""Team Australia,"" ""man-bun,"" ""Ned Kelly beard Cheap Gabriel Jersey ,"" and ""coward punch.""


""'Shirtfront' was little known outside of its sporting context, as a type of hip and shoulder bump of an opponent in Australian rules football, and in Rugby where it refers to grabbing an opponent's jersey,"" Australian National Dictionary Center Director Dr Amanda Laugesen said.


The figurative use has been around for some years, however. Abbott's threat to shirtfront Putin Cheap Francis Coquelin Jersey , and the word itself, was widely discussed and satirized in the Australian and international media.


""After the G20 summit in Brisbane, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both used the term in jest in their speeches to the Australian Parliament,"" she said.


""Whether the figurative use of the term remains in popular use will be interesting to see.""


Laugesen said the Abbott government also contributed ""Team Australia"" to the lexicon as well as a number of other terms that didn't make the shortlist, including ""budget emergency"" and "" lifters and leaners.""


Social and cultural trends over 2014 saw the development of the ""man-bun Cheap Emiliano Martinez Jersey ,"" a hairstyle worn by a man where hair is drawn into a coil at the back of the head.


""The style became popular among young urban men and hipsters and celebrities such as Chris Hemsworth and Harry Styles,"" she said.


The ""Ned Kelly beard,"" a full beard sported by many young men is a beard reminiscent of that worn by bushranger Ned Kelly.


""Coward punch,"" a knockout punch or blow delivered from behind, had significant prominence early in the year after a series of tragic incidents.


""There was a campaign to replace the Australian English term king-hit with a term considered to better suggest the cowardly nature of the attack Cheap David Ospina Jersey ,"" Laugesen said.


""Whether 'coward punch' successfully replaces king-hit in Australian English remains to be seen.""


Laugesen said this year was unusual in that people did not see many new technology or social media words rise to significant prominence in Australia, although terms such as ""metadata"" and "" data retention"" increased in exposure and public debate.

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WASHINGTON, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Puerto Rico will close 184 public schools and relocate some 27,000 students elsewhere starting the next school year, it announced Friday Cheap Danny Welbeck Jersey , two days after requesting unprecedented bankruptcy protection due to huge debt crisis.


The move is expected to save more than 7 million dollars to the island located in northeast Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico Education Department spokeswoman Yolanda Rosaly said.


""We have a fiscal crisis and few resources and we've spent 10 years handing out nearly 3 billion dollars in a system that hardly has any books,"" Education Secretary Julia Keleher told local media, ""We cannot keep doing what we're doing because we don't have the resources.""


School enrolment has dropped 42 percent in the island in past three decades, while an additional 22 percent drop is expected in upcoming years Cheap Chuba Akpom Jersey , according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group.


Puerto Rico currently has a total of 1,292 public schools that serve 365,000 students. Nearly 450,000 people over the last decade have already left for mainland of the United States to flee the worsening economic crisis.


Also on Friday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain from Southern District of New York was designated as the presiding judge in Puerto Rico's case.


It is the first time for the U.S. judicial system runs a debt-cutting legal process known as Title III of a 2016 law dubbed the Puerto Rico Oversight Cheap Carl Jenkinson Jersey , Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), according to a USA Today report.


Puerto Rico sought what is essentially bankruptcy relief in federal court on Wednesday, the first time in history that an American state or territory had taken the extraordinary measure, attempting to dig out of some 73 billion dollars in debt and 49 billion dollars in pension promises.


Though the ripple effects remain in uncertainty, Puerto Rico's crisis is poised to bludgeon investors Cheap Calum Chambers Jersey , threaten the livelihood of American citizens who planned their retirement on the island's promises, and undermine state governments.


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