(n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
(2) Documents obtained under freedom of information reveal huge uncertainty over the investment needed to maintain water quality following dredging to expand the Abbot Point port, north of Bowen in Queensland.
(3) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(4) "They have now stalled by another three months a decision on whether or not they will approve the important expansion plans for Abbot Point.
(5) In 1988 Abbot could prove that among men, those afflicted by gout as compared to those without gout experienced a 60% excess of coronary heart disease.
(6) The Australian and Queensland governments have granted approval for dumping as part of the expansion of the Abbot Point coal port, which lies on the fringes of the reef.
(7) Energy World Corporation (EWC), the company behind the plan, wants to build a 1,000km pipeline from south-west Queensland to transport the gas to Abbot Point, near Bowen.
(8) The site, called Reef Facts , addresses the contentious decision to allow the dredging and dumping of 5m tonnes of seabed sediment within the Great Barrier Reef marine park in order to expand the Abbot Point port.
(9) Located in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, 400km inland from the reef, it will require a major rail line, which is yet to receive final approval, to transport the coal, which must then be loaded on to ships at the ports of Hay Point and Abbot Point, near Gladstone on the Queensland coast, adjacent to the southern section of the reef.
(10) Critics claim proposed expansion of coal and gas export terminals, such as at Townsville, and new major new export developments, such as Abbot Point, will hurt coral, turtles, dugongs and other wildlife through increased shipping and waste from dredging.
(11) In every annual report since, Adani Ports has referred to Abbot Point only in a note recording the completion of the sale, saying: “The company has all the approvals except in respect of approval from one of the lenders who has given a specific line of credit.” Tim Buckley, of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said it was “bizarre that three years after Adani announced the transfer of ownership of one of Australia’s major ports from a reputable public listed company in India to a private family company, the transaction has still not been finalised”.
(12) Alternatives, such as building an extended ship loading trestle, were rejected as unsafe and too expensive by the mining industry, which will use Abbot Point to export millions of extra tonnes of coal once it is expanded.
(13) Bacteriocines were detected in 103 of 206 strains (by Abbot and Shennon's method).
(14) The Mumbai-listed Adani Ports is registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as the ultimate holding company of the Adani Abbot Point coal terminal, known as T1, in north Queensland .
(15) Planned expansion of ports, or the creation of new ones, at sites including Gladstone, the Fitzroy Delta, Abbot Point and Townsville, would involve dredging 149m tonnes of seabed to allow large ships to access ports.
(16) As well as being a natural marvel, the reef plays a vital role in the north Queensland economy, generating significant business and tourism.” Hunt’s decision, which was twice deferred, is likely to be welcomed by both the Queensland government and mining industry, which have hailed the Abbot Point and Curtis Island LNG projects for their job-creating potential.
(17) An enzyme immunoassay (Abbot Laboratories) has been developed that detects chlamydial antigen directly in the urogenital specimens of patients.
(18) Queensland’s government has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Galilee basin mining projects; it has also approved the Carmichael mine and doled out A$2bn ($1bn) in subsidies to fund expansion of the Abbot Point coal port.
(19) A 300km railway line would transport the coal to an expanded port at Abbot Point on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – a plan that has alarmed Unesco and could lead to the reef being added to its list of world heritage sites in danger .
(20) Instead, he chose to run a defamatory half-page advertisement in the local newspaper in Airlie beach that insinuated I was ‘on the take’ for pushing for the Abbot Point expansion,” Christensen wrote.
Friar
Definition:
(n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
(n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
(n.) An American fish; the silversides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cotton had 36 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and two steals for the Friars and it all ended up being for naught as No.
(2) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
(3) Leicester city and Leicestershire county council are hoping for a Plantaganet tourism bonanza once the new visitor centre opens on 26 July, 100 yards from the cathedral and overlooking the site of his original resting place, the site of the demolished Grey Friars church.
(4) Why it's special For the painter John Ruskin, Keswick was almost too beautiful to live in; while the view from Friar's Crag was one of the three loveliest in Europe.
(5) Founder Shane Long, who set up shop here in 1998, boasts that the range of beers brewed on site, including a clove and banana-imbued German wheat beer called Friar Weisse, are entirely free of preservatives.
(6) "The Friars Club roasts used to be closed to women," Essman explains, "until Phyllis Diller broke in 20 years ago.
(7) In his book A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Native Americans by the Spanish Missions, Castillo doesn’t mince words when he describes the missions as “death camps run by friars where thousands of California’s Indians perished.” In letters, Serra wrote that he considered the indigenous population to be “barbarous pagans,” and that only Catholicism could save them from evil.
(8) Americans have been quick to back the nuns with protest vigils outside churches and a 50,000-strong petition, while seven groups of US Franciscan friars denounced the Vatican crackdown as "excessive".
(9) Friar's Crag will have a special significance for fans of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.
(10) Grey Friars car park, Leicester, where the remains of King Richard III were found.
(11) Roasts began in the 1920s at the Friars Club in New York – a Broadway haven for performers, publicists and reviewers that held tribute dinners to celebrate members' careers.
(12) But the Friars fought for me, Larry saw me and said, 'Yes.
(13) This time the team is applying to the Home Office for an exhumation licence for a lead-lined stone sarcophagus, which they believe holds the undisturbed remains of Sir William Moton, believed to have been buried at Grey Friars in 1362.
(14) Notably, one friar has publicly expressed his concern about how the issue has been handled over recent months and another has stressed that Maltese law must see to the needs of all its citizens, Catholic or otherwise.
(15) The mechanical digger was still chewing the tarmac off the council car park, identified by years of research by local historians and the Richard III Society as the probable site of the lost church of Grey Friars, whose priests bravely claimed the body of the king and buried him in a hastily dug grave, probably still naked, but in a position of honour near the high altar of their church.
(16) At Oxford, I'd been the film critic on the university newspaper; when I met him, Ken was this innocent Friar Tuck character who had seen every film ever made.
(17) "The Sheriff is more precarious and unpredictable than ever with new threats looming over him and there's the much-anticipated arrival of Friar Tuck, who joins the gang and becomes one of Robin's closest allies," the BBC added.
(18) The food heritage which Americans enjoy today owes its great diversity to the influences of many ethnic groups--the native Indians, Franciscan friars in California, Mexican-Americans, the British, the French, the Creoles, and later, northern Europeans and those of Mediterranean stock.
(19) We present three cases of trichotillomania demonstrating the "tonsure pattern" or "Friar Tuck sign" and onychophagia (nail-biting), which we describe as clinical identifying features of this syndrome.
(20) • North Mall, franciscanwellbrewery.com , Friar Weisse €4.80 a pint Oslo Bar, Galway Locals Jason O'Connell and Niall Walsh already owned three Galway boozers before opening the town's only microbrewery in 2009.