(n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Howard Archer of consultancy IHS Global Insight said: "Given the dominant role of the services sector in the economy, the steady growth in May reported by the purchasing managers is welcome news and supports hopes that it can avoid further contraction in the second quarter."
(2) 10.34pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 8, bottom of the 6th David Ortiz leads off the inning against Chris Archer, still in the game, he grounds into the Maddon shift.
(3) Archer said he was sticking to his view that house prices would see "solid but limited increases" in 2013, but admitted "there is a growing possibility that … house prices could surprise on the upside over the second half of in 2013".
(4) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(5) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(6) "It is premature to call the all-clear on the jobs front, despite recently improved economic activity and the overall resilience of the labour market through the economy's travails," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
(7) Two right-handed archers presented with posterior instability of the shoulder.
(8) Large-scale demonstrations of low-carbon vehicles, smart energy grids and green buildings received £25m of the money, with £13m going to a high-performance computing facility called Archer.
(9) Howard Archer, UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said the construction sector is exhibiting "marked sustainable improvement following extended, deep weakness".
(10) "Pressure for accelerated fiscal tightening in the UK is being maintained by countries across the eurozone stepping up their austerity measures in reaction to the region's sovereign debt crisis," Archer added.
(11) Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: "While the further pick-up in UK car sales in October was clearly driven primarily by the scrappage scheme and a desire to beat January's VAT hike, it may also be a sign that a significant number of consumers have greater scope and willingness to step up their discretionary spending.
(12) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(13) Continued harsh lending criteria means many would-be buyers are finding it difficult to secure a mortgage unless they have a large deposit, said Archer.
(14) 7 | John Archer’s death Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam Barriscale as John Archer in 1990.
(15) Their second album slumped in the charts, guitarist Gem Archer fractured his skull , and Liam Gallagher split with his wife, Nicole Appleton.
(16) "Latest mortgage data and survey evidence suggest that housing market activity has – at least temporarily – lost momentum recently," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
(17) Archer also said China had its eye on the global EV market, as well as on cutting its own air pollution crisis.
(18) These results are very similar to those reported by Pancoast and Archer (1989) who found remarkable stability in the MMPI scale scores of normal adult samples across 40 years.
(19) Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: “The strong suspicion is that housing market activity will be pressurised in the immediate term by a combination of weakened interest from the buy-to-let and second home sectors as well as heightened concerns and uncertainties over the UK economic outlook, particularly in the run-up to June’s referendum on EU membership.
(20) She's also a fan of the BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers.
Bowstring
Definition:
(n.) The string of a bow.
(n.) A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
(v. t.) To strangle with a bowstring.
Example Sentences:
(1) They produce a magnified image, but it is an image that suffers from significant dioptric blur, diminished somewhat by use of a peep sight in the bowstring which functions as an aperture stop.
(2) Acute injuries included arrow laceration of a digital nerve and artery, contusion of forearm skin and subcutaneous tissue, and compression neuropathy of digital nerves from the bowstring.
(3) Essential measures for archery safety include use of archery protective gear, use of a light-weight bow, conditioning of the forearm flexor muscles, and modifications in drawing the bowstring.
(4) Reduction of the amount of straight leg-raising by 50 per cent or more, with or without pain in the ipsilateral hip when the asymptomatic limb was lifted (cross-over pain) and with or without pain radiating up or down the lower limb when the tibial nerve was pressed in the popliteal fossa (bowstring discomfort), was considered evidence of tension on or irritation of the nerve root and was present in all patients.
(5) Straight leg raising, Lasègue's, and bowstring tests were all positive.
(6) The plica is a synovial fold inside the knee joint that may become symptomatic if for any reason the fold is converted into a bowstring.
(7) Whether it be the banality of analysts stalking ex-lovers, the inhumanity of careerist prosecutors hounding hacktivists under vague computer laws or using impossibly broad laws like the " material support " statue to pressure innocents to become informers, the crooked timber of humanity – armed with the power of the state and restrained only by the seven fresh bowstrings of superficial legality – will bring failure for constitutional freedoms, predictably, inevitably, tragically.
(8) This procedure allows the flexor pollicis longus tendon to bowstring and substitute for thumb opposition.