(1) Babione said Smith's legal team was encouraged by hard questions posed by the 10th circuit judges last week, saying they seemed tailored to the argument that a state's residents have the right to define marriage how they see fit.
(2) Alliance Defending Freedom, which also had a representative at the Utah oral arguments, left the court encouraged, Babione said.
(3) Jeff Babione, the F-35’s general manager, said Lockheed-Martin “understand the importance of affordability and that’s what the F-35 has been about” in an emailed statement.
(4) "Essentially, [the cases] are not that different," said Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Byron Babione, who is representing Tulsa County clerk Sally Howe Smith.
(5) Whoever has it will have the most advanced air force in the world, and that’s why we’re building the F-35,” Babione wrote.
Gabion
Definition:
(n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
(n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heselden, a former miner, used his redundancy money to make a fortune from manufacturing gabions, portable metal cages filled with sand or soil for blast protection at military bases and flood defence.
(2) "He protected the armies and peace-keeping forces of the world with his greatest invention, the Bastion Concertainer," said Chris Robinson, senior manager of the Hesco company whose modernised version of Roman defensive gabions - baskets filled with stones and crammed together to create makeshift walls - are used everywhere from Afghanistan to the flood levees of New Orleans.
(3) Updating the medieval defence system of gabions - baskets filled with stones and crammed together to create makeshift walls - he patented the Bastion, which proved an immediate bestseller for his Hesco firm.
(4) In front of each house are gabion walls, gabion being the form of construction used in road embankments, where loose stones are placed in wire cages.
(5) He invented a new version of the medieval gabion – baskets filled with stone or rubble which have been adapted in modern times to line riverbanks and road cuttings.
(6) Like the building, the car park is raised up on a defensive berm, surrounded by gabion walls and hedgerows, reinforcing the feeling that this alien spaceship is cut off from the surrounding streets.