(n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.
Example Sentences:
(1) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(2) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(3) 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.
(4) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(6) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(7) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
(8) If you get a fit Diaby back, it will be a major asset for our team.
(9) Unfortunately, it probably won’t happen with many countries … But if we can have a great relationship with Russia, and China, and all countries, I’m all for that, that would be a tremendous asset.
(10) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
(11) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(12) But the full detail of the report and the scale of their assets is striking.
(13) Above all, Addis could help close tax loopholes that allow multinational companies to report profits in tax havens – rather than where their workforces, assets or sales are.
(14) The Ministry of Defence has said it is “planning for a seamless transition of assets”.
(15) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
(16) Declarations are not public and the New York Times said four-fifths of the assets it found were held by relatives not covered by party rules, including his mother and various in-laws.
(17) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
(18) A trained economist, Klatten is Germany's richest woman with assets worth $14.3bn (and 58th richest in the world).
(19) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(20) Whether divorce interrupts the savings process or destroys assets, it is unlikely that most individuals will be able to save enough in later life to overcome the loss.
Basset
Definition:
(n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
(a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
(n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
(v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.
Example Sentences:
(1) The association of this infection in Basset Hounds suggests an inherited immunologic defect.
(2) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
(3) The mother presented a unilateral racket thumb-nail (localized brachyonychia "en raquette" of Basset).
(4) Afghanistan might now look tolerably stable, if only all the resources squandered in Iraq been spent there – with no bodies mourned on the streets of Wootton Basset.
(5) An adult Basset Hound was examined because of acute vomiting, signs of depression, dehydration, and signs of abdominal pain.
(6) Because of a thrombasthenia-like platelet aggregation defect, platelets from dogs affected with Basset Hound Hereditary Thrombopathy were compared to normal control dog platelets by three different techniques in order to assess platelet membrane glycoprotein content.
(7) A progressive, hereditary disease has been observed in Basset Hounds, which appears clinically and neuromorphologically as myoclonus epilepsy (ME) and is similar to Lafora-Glueck disease in humans.
(8) First, the identification of a partial trisomy of the 5q11-q13 region (Basset et al., 1988) led Sherrington et al.
(9) More recently he had been at the centre of controversy again when he was accused of being one of the key players behind the scenes pushing for the Scottish courts to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.
(10) Libya accepted responsibility for the atrocity, for which intelligence agent Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi was convicted.
(11) Aspirin dosages calculated from published pharmacokinetic data were tested in 3 male and 3 female Basset Hounds.
(12) In the Netherlands primary glaucoma is seen especially in the American Cocker Spaniel, Bouvier and Basset breeds.
(13) A 3-year-old female Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen is presented with tenesmus alvi caused by a 15 cm long chronic regional cicatrising eosinophilic coloproctitis with bacterial masses surrounded by clubs, resembling actinomycosis.
(14) Related affections are discussed with reference to these cases; the trichrome vitiligo described by Lerner and Fitzpatrick, and the primary leukomelanodermas described in black patients by Basset and by Sarrat and Nouhouayi.
(15) CIE and NR-R gels detected no differences between affected Basset Hound and control dog platelets.
(16) Naturally-occurring neosporosis with multiple organ involvement was identified in a 10-year-old neutered male Basset hound dog.
(17) A review of canine tuberculosis revealed a similar diagnosis in a Basset Hound.
(18) His point is that it is human nature to respond warmly and positively to animals – providing a possible explanation for the popularity of trademark Buzzfeed posts such as " 60 Basset Hounds In Costumes " and " 31 Cats Who Have Seen Things You Wouldn't Believe ".
(19) Basset Hound Hereditary Thrombopathy (BHT) is an autosomally inherited disorder of platelet function characterized by a thrombasthenia-like defect in aggregation but normal clot retraction.
(20) In 2 Basset Hounds, the condyloid processes of the mandible became subluxated when the mouth was opened widely, resulting in repeated episodes of locking of the coronoid process lateral to the zygomatic arch.