(n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
(adv.) From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
(adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
(2) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(4) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(6) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(7) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(8) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(9) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(10) The relative rates of reduction of several spin-labeled molecules that partition differently across the hy-drophobic-interface of inner membranes from rat liver mitochondria were investigated.
(11) Exposure to nanomolar concentrations of saralasin, an Ang II agonist, attenuated the passage of the fluorophores across the monolayers by 50-75%.
(12) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(13) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(14) Serum and pituitary gonadotropins, hypothalamic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH), and the profile of FSH forms across the isoelectric focusing gel were determined by radioimmunoassay.
(15) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
(16) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(17) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(18) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(19) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(20) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
Travers
Definition:
(a.) Across; athwart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(2) Streep made her comments during an awards presentation to Emma Thompson, who starred in Saving Mr Banks, the story of how Walt Disney persuaded PL Travers to let him adapt her book Mary Poppins into a film.
(3) In fact, after the film was released, Travers never tired of telling people she "couldn't bear" it.
(4) It is proposed that these heads bind ATP loosely without hydrolysis, as found with S1 [Tesi, C., N. Bachouchi, N., Barman, T., & Travers, F. (1989) Biochimie 71, 363-372].
(5) "We put the figure slightly higher, at around 25,000 lions, but whether you use these figures, the LionAid report or the Duke study, there is common agreement among everyone involved in conservation of African lions that the situation is extremely serious," said Will Travers, director of the Born Free foundation.
(6) "When friends have babies, I take ice cream to their houses," says Kitty Travers, who runs La Grotta Ices, a hole-in-the-wall in Bermondsey, south London.
(7) This work is a continuation of our study on Ca(2+)-activated myofibrils [Houadjeto, M., Travers, F., & Barman, T. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 1564-1569].
(8) Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, said: "Rather like old and new Labour, it shows there will be a tension [if the Conservatives win the general election] between the radical Conservatives we could call the new Thatcherites and the more moderate Conservatives ."
(9) It tells the story of PL Travers, author of the six Mary Poppins novels that most people haven't read, and her battle with Walt Disney over the film that everyone's seen.
(10) Being given a copy of Mary Poppins by PL Travers for my eighth birthday was both a thrill and, as it turned out, one of the greatest disappointments of my young life.
(11) Admittedly, most writers are a bit like that, but Travers is at the extreme end of the spectrum.
(12) The extent of the reduction in Vo by ethylene glycol was much larger than that in the actomyosin ATPase activity reported by Travers and Hillaire (Eur.
(13) On the first page Travers tells us that No 17 Cherry Tree Lane is the smallest and shabbiest house in the street because Mr Banks has given Mrs Banks the choice between a large family or "a nice, clean, comfortable house".
(14) Views from local government on George Osborne's spending review Read more Prof Tony Travers from the London School of Economics said Osborne’s changes were radical because they meant councils will only be able to increase revenues in the future by attracting more businesses to benefit from the changes to rates.
(15) Daniel Hart (@KingDingDan) "Ed Miliband says Labour will lower the voting age in the UK to 16.” GOOD April 13, 2015 Robbie Travers (@RobbieTravers) If you are deemed old enough to have sex with your elected MP, you should have the ability to elect them.
(16) Anyway, as Travers's text makes clear, Mary Poppins is no beauty.
(17) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
(18) Will Travers, president of the Born Free Foundation , said that elephants across Africa were being killed by poachers in the tens of thousands so that illegal ivory could be laundered by criminal syndicates through legitimate markets.
(19) Which is exactly the way of looking at it that would have made Travers, if not Mary Poppins herself, break into one of her very rare smiles.
(20) PL Travers had a complex nature, but I think what fascinated me most, while working on the documentary, was this issue of control.