(1) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(2) Carved into the cliffs behind Bamiyan town centre in Afghanistan's central highlands, massive holes scar the homeland of the Hazara people, a Shia minority who live between the Hindu Kush and Koh-i-Baba mountain ranges.
(3) Baba said viewing Google's images brought back fond memories of festivals and other communal events in a tightly knit town, whose residents are scattered across Fukushima prefecture and other parts of Japan .
(4) Neither she nor Baba Ram can read or write, so they had never heard of the revolution that had taken place in fertility science since they first started trying for a baby.
(5) Chelsea may be forced to set transfer record to buy Everton’s John Stones Read more Filipe Luís’s departure, having made just 15 appearances last season, is no surprise and means Mourinho will mount a firm push for the services of the highly-rated Augsburg wing-back Abdul Baba Rahman, who is valued at around £17m.
(6) After all who wants democracy when you could have the perfect rum baba?
(7) Resigned to their fate, Baba Ram and his two wives put aside their hopes and concentrated instead on building a shared life together.
(8) Baba Karim, 26, has been working in Bertoua as a motorcycle taxi rider for the past three weeks.
(9) Finally, in despair, Baba Ram returned to his in-laws' house and demanded something be done.
(10) Baba said that Pistorius tearfully told him “everything is fine” after neighbours reported hearing gunshots fired in Pistorius’s house.
(11) The one who is most ready is Ruben.” Mourinho, who had received public backing from Terry over the weekend, retains doubts over the £17m left-back Baba Rahman’s readiness to feature in the Premier League and has stressed his decision to substitute Matic, introduced at half-time on Saturday only to be replaced 28 minutes later, was not designed to humiliate the Serbia international.
(12) Baba Rahman, the 21-year-old from Augsburg in Germany, is the prime target, with his agent confirming that the Premier League champions have submitted a bid of €25m (£17.5m) .
(13) When I play Azpilicueta on the right and Baba on the left, I have only three.
(14) Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal are among a stellar list of clubs to have registered an interest in signing Baba Rahman from the German side Augsburg, but they have been told the Ghana defender could cost up to €20m (£14m).
(15) So I just really hope they take action as well.” Her campaign is supported by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, prominent Muslim cleric and activist Imam Baba Leigh , US congressman Joe Crowley and the Guardian.
(16) The sale of shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which will be listed under the ticker BABA, follows a two-week global roadshow which has resulted in frenzied interest from investors eager to buy into the rapid growth of China's internet sector.
(17) Goldman Sachs global economics analyst Norihiko Baba said in a report that a decline of 4% to 5% had been expected, since spending in March 2010 was especially robust due to tax breaks and discounts available at the time on energy-saving cars and appliances.
(18) Their deaths came on a day in which, according to activists, more than 80 people were killed in the besieged district of Baba Amr in Homs, which has been under daily attack by the Syrian army for three weeks.
(19) It is not a good thing in the village," says Baba Ram.
(20) In professor Baba's lecture, the perinatal medical care was explained under the theme of "The progress of new-born medicine and the prevention from the occurrence of mental and physical disorder in children".
Blanket
Definition:
(a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
(a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
(a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
(v. t.) To cover with a blanket.
(v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
(v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(2) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
(3) The clinical structure of the revealed neuropsychic disturbances has been studied on the materials of blanket examination of several thousands of employees at a large industrial enterprise.
(4) No differences were detected in gastrointestinal transit, gastric, and small intestinal luminal pH, or in duodenal mucus blanket acidic glycoprotein between animals in the high- and the low-fiber diet groups at the time of cyst inoculation.
(5) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(6) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
(7) The unexpected admission breaks Pakistan's policy of blanket denial of involvement.
(8) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(9) Where am I?’” “She said, ‘You’re at the Wilson’s accommodation,’ and I like, ‘My God, how did I end up here?’” The woman covered Sarah with a blanket and the pair sat together in the room, while other staff went for help.
(10) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
(11) Some aid is getting through: a local FSA commander, Abu Ibrahim, dropped by with a couple of blankets for the women.
(12) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.
(13) You can see the stitching in Igglepiggle's blanket; you sense (you'd be right) that the jerky Pontipines are manipulated by magnets, like the players in an old-fashioned toy theatre.
(14) I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.
(15) Workers have begun delivering tarpaulins to survivors in Kathmandu and baby packs in the Bhaktapur district, which include children’s clothes, blankets and soap.
(16) Overnight, someone had taken it upon themselves to carve an additional ‘S’ and ‘A’ out of the snow that had blanketed the stadium, spelling out the linebacker’s name.
(17) A centralized fund has been created by the Soviet Health Ministry, earmarked for concrete scientific projects instead of blanket financing of medical institutions, who, in addition, by 1989 will start being financially self-supporting.
(18) In southern Africa, informal traders deal mostly in crop products such as maize, rice and beans or clothes and blankets, many avoiding checkpoints and border posts where they are subject to "facilitation payments".
(19) This work was done to evaluate the transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) in ischaemic legs introducing two variables: O2 breathed at 40% and heating with an electric blanket (HEB).
(20) The in vivo rabbit ileum was used to study the relationship of cholera enterotoxin-induced water and electrolyte secretion and mucus secretion and to determine whether the enterotoxin influenced the intestinal mucus blanket.