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Bail


Definition:

  • (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
  • (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
  • (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
  • (v./t.) To deliver; to release.
  • (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
  • (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
  • (n.) Custody; keeping.
  • (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
  • (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
  • (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
  • (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
  • (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
  • (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
  • (n.) A certain limit within a forest.
  • (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.
  • (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (2) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (3) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
  • (4) The force issued a warning when Jefferies was released on police bail.
  • (5) Cole said there were a number of reasons why the rate cut may not be passed on, including the need for building societies to fund the cost of the bail-out of the Bradford & Bingley and Icelandic banks, the need to maintain profits, the need to keep savings rates high and competition in the martgage market.
  • (6) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
  • (7) The governor told business leaders in Edinburgh that Westminster would need to agree that the UK Treasury would help to bail out Scotland in any future financial crisis and act as a guarantor for Scotland's banks.
  • (8) Bail-out situations were successfully managed in 16 patients.
  • (9) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
  • (10) The Guardian view on Chinese women’s rights: free the feminists | Editorial Read more “Their release is not a victory – they are still on bail and still are suspects,” said Liang, who represents Wu.
  • (11) The recently bailed-out Belgian-French bank Dexia had a capital ratio well above regulatory limits but a leverage ratio more than 60 times its equity base.
  • (12) In the good old days the judges looked the other way when radicals were shafted, shocking bail conditions imposed and foreigners unceremoniously thrown out.
  • (13) His stringent bail conditions prohibited him from visiting the family home, and even Saltdean itself.
  • (14) Updated at 1.43pm BST 1.10pm BST Portugal's 10-year sovereign bonds ended last month at their strongest level since the country was bailed out in May 2011, a sign that investors may be a little more confident about its prospects.
  • (15) It is now a little more than five years since Alistair Darling bailed out RBS.
  • (16) Tsipras meets Merkel amid talk of compromise - live updates Read more After bailing out Europe’s banks, the European establishment handed the job of punishing Greece to the European Commission, central bank and IMF.
  • (17) The decision on whether to oppose bail will be made by the Swedish authorities, with Britain's CPS merely representing their interests at tomorrow's hearing.
  • (18) This will include extending the use of police-led prosecutions to cut the time the police spend waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service, overhauling the police complaints and disciplinary systems and making changes to the oversight of pre-charge bail.
  • (19) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
  • (20) We are now out of the bailout power that the last government put us into so we are not at risk in the way that we were of being called on to bail out other countries of Europe .

Kan


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To know; to ken.
  • (n.) See Khan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Opposition parties were quick to exploit Maehara's departure, and vowed to step up pressure on Kan to resign or call an early general election.
  • (2) Following the recent announcement from Naoto Kan, the prime minister, that Japan would "start from scratch" with regard to future nuclear power expansion, we can be sure that there is plenty of paddling in Tokyo.
  • (3) After Hatoyama's resignation, just eight months after taking office, the Democrats are hoping that Kan's arrival will herald a period of stability and boost their flagging fortunes in time for the upper house elections.
  • (4) The Mycotrim Triphasic flask system (Irvine Scientific, Irvine, Calif.) was compared with a system composed of Mycotrim GU broth (Irvine Scientific) and A7 or A8 agar (Remel, Lenexa, Kans.)
  • (5) On Friday Kan apologised for dithering over the tests, which will be modelled on those being conducted on reactors in European Union member states.
  • (6) Of the leading candidates, Maehara is closest to Kan on energy policy, saying Japan should phase out nuclear power over the next 20 years.
  • (7) Measurable amounts of choline acetyltransferase were also detected in SMS-KAN and SMS-KANR.
  • (8) In fact, 30% of the oxine complex and possibly more KAN-322 appears to partition in the intracellular parasite itself.
  • (9) The positions of neo-2, nea-1, and kan-2 are uncertain, although they are located in this region to the right of cysA14.
  • (10) KAN concentrations in perilymph were unaffected by treatment with EA.
  • (11) In May, the then prime minister, Naoto Kan, ordered the killing of livestock by lethal injection after radiation made them commercially worthless.
  • (12) Although he survived the motion, Kan faces a difficult few months, during which he is expected to struggle to reach deals on emergency budgets in a deeply divided parliament, and to introduce a controversial tax rise.
  • (13) The delta fol::kan mutation is stable in E. coli K549 [thyA polA12 (Ts)] and can be successfully transduced to other E. coli strains providing they have mutations in their thymidylate synthetase (thyA) genes.
  • (14) For the final 5 y, a new pattern (AmpKanStrSulTetTm [Kan = kanamycin]) was spread throughout the country by two trimethoprim-resistant clones.
  • (15) Thus, the largest ORF was likely to represent the kan gene.
  • (16) The current parliamentary session is due to end on 22 June, but the Kan administration is pushing to extend it in the hope of passing the compensation package, as well as an emergency budget to fund post-tsunami reconstruction.
  • (17) The sisA gene was compared to the previously reported Micromonospora purpurea Kan-Gen (kanamycin-gentamicin)-resistance gene.
  • (18) The panel was also critical of Naoto Kan, the prime minister at the time of the accident, whose "direct intervention" in the early days of the crisis had caused confusion in the chain of command and wasted valuable time.
  • (19) One stx::Tn-mini-kan transposon mutation was transferred by P1 transduction from this E. coli Stx- mutant to an E. coli K-12 Hfr strain and in turn transferred by conjugation to the original S. dysenteriae 1 strain plus two others.
  • (20) According to the Nikkei poll, voters would prefer Kan's Democratic party of Japan (DPJ) administration to co-operate with the LDP to address the myriad economic and social issues confronting Japan .

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