(1) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
(2) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(3) Four of the eight arms were baited on all trials of a given session.
(4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(5) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
(6) Direct cultivation of the clinical material in Czapek liquid culture medium without carbon source and containing a paraffin rod (pariffin-bait technic), as well as the routin T.B.
(7) Specific methods, utilizing thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography, were developed for determining the compound in stomach contents and corn bait.
(8) Fungi were isolated from the samples by the method of hair baiting (To-Ka-Va).
(9) Presence, absence, color and perforations of plastic bags did not alter bait acceptance.
(10) The toxicities of Raid Max Roach Bait (sulfluramid) and COMBAT Roach Control System (hydramethylnon) to susceptible and field-collected German cockroaches were examined.
(11) When battery operated CDC miniature incandescent and black light traps (with and without light bulbs) were operated with and without CO2, the rank of trap effectiveness for total numbers of female Culicoides variipennis caught was: black light plus CO2; CO2-baited trap without light bulb; black light without CO2; incandescent light plus CO2 and incandescent light without CO2.
(12) Diurnal human bait catches yielded 1,427 female mosquitoes in 27 species.
(13) And as a large number of schools did not take the bait, the government now says it will require all schools to become academies, regardless of the wishes of parents and communities.
(14) One of the chickens in the traps was positive for microfilariae of Cardiofilaria four weeks after exposure as bait.
(15) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(16) During 70 all night bait collections from January to December 1989, a total of 2290 An.
(17) By contrast, ticks were attracted to CO2 baits during daytime only between May and mid-December.
(18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(19) Fluoroacetic acid from tissue (1 g) and bait (10 g) extracts was first partitioned into ethyl acetate and then into 0.5 M benzyldimethylphenylammonium hydroxide.
(20) After a 1-week dispersal period 69 baited blow-fly traps were placed in different habitat types and at varying distances around the release point.
Torment
Definition:
(n.) An engine for casting stones.
(n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
(n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
(v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
(v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.
(v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
(v. t.) To put into great agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(3) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(4) Yet the removal of two in-form goalscorers who were tormenting West Ham – first Aaron Lennon and then Lukaku – afforded the visitors the initiative.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
(8) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(9) In a torment of frustration, Mohammed stood outside the governor's and threw a can of petrol over himself.
(10) More than a quarter of hospital beds are occupied by people with dementia (no surprise to anyone who has been in hospital recently, where wards are full of men and women in great anxiety and torment) and they tend to stay for longer-than-average periods of time.
(11) Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose bipartisan bill will ensure a three-month extension of the federal benefits program, told the Guardian the measure would stimulate the economy and alleviate what he called the “mental torment” suffered by those long-term unemployed who now feel abandoned.
(12) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(13) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(14) Arsenal had no riposte to the blue and white striped waves that tormented them all evening.
(15) Father Michael, so brilliantly played by Sean Bean , was tormented by one such moment: his decision not to answer the phone to Helen Oyenusi (Muna Otaru) when she called to ask that he calm down her son.
(16) Suárez played as through affronted by the suggestion he might have fitness issues, tormenting England’s defence on a night that finished as a personal ordeal for Steven Gerrard.
(17) So often did John torment his elder brother – because, grouchy alcoholic prick that he was, he hated to acknowledge a debt – one has to wonder if he cast Francis in a minor part in Young Mr Lincoln simply to let him witness, day after day, his own signature role being forever obliterated by Henry Fonda's entrancing new reading.
(18) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(19) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(20) Adding to the torment for Rodgers was a 120-minute performance before hosting Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday at noon.