(n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
(n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.
(n.) The place of business of am agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(4) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(5) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(6) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(7) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(8) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(9) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(10) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(11) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
(12) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(13) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(14) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
(15) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(16) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(17) And all agencies must also now implement the wider recommendations made in the Inspectors' report.
(18) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
(19) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(20) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
Dangle
Definition:
(v. i.) To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
(v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumbbells were formed by the association of two hairpins with self-complementary dangling 5'-ends.
(2) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
(3) This paper describes a new method of reconstructing acquired complete and incomplete cleft earlobes which are elongated and have lost their normal bulk due to the wearing of heavy, dangling earrings.
(4) In contrast, d(GGGGTTTCCCCTTTGGGG) and the three corresponding 18-mers containing one G and two C tracts each forms a single hairpin duplex with a dangling single strand.
(5) In the first image , his brother looks like a cool New Yorker in a leather jacket, cigarette dangling from his mouth.
(6) A cigarette dangled from my lips as I rasped away at the audience.
(7) (2) For both core duplexes, 5' dangling T residues induce a greater increase in the optical tm's than 3' dangling T residues.
(8) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(9) Upon an increase in the temperature, two cooperative transitions were observed: formation of a double-stranded structure with a dangling x-(dT)12 extremity, then formation of a single-stranded coil structure.
(10) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
(11) Changing the conditions allows the same oligonucleotide in a duplex form with a (dT)12 dangling arm.
(12) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
(13) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(14) It's the second world war and your targets are the Nazis, so these are Nazi testicles housing billions of Nazi sperm: ovoid-shaped mass-produced bastard factories dangling in a funny pink skin sack with nut hairs all over it.
(15) The hierarchy of the hairpin transition temperatures is dictated by the identity of the first base of the dangling end adjoining the duplex in the order: purine greater than T greater than C. Calculated melting curves of every hairpin were fit to experimental curves by adjustment of a single parameter in the numerically exact theoretical algorithm.
(16) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
(18) With his little legs dangling and a look of intense concentration as he slowly writes new words for a homework exercise, it is a scene to inspire hope that the last UN millennium development goal (MDG) is making progress.
(19) • Calle de la Palma 76, no website Sala de Despiece Sala de Despiece The ceiling is a jigsaw of polystyrene fish crates; meat hooks dangle above your head; the bartenders dress as butchers and the menu is a delivery slip.
(20) Neville Thurlbeck claimed Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the newspaper, had left him "to dangle as a suspect for the next two years" after he first told them in July 2009 that he had "final proof" that phone-hacking at the paper went beyond a single "rogue reporter".