(n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
Example Sentences:
(1) The experimental satire programme broke new ground by positioning its performers on balsa ladders in a smoke-filled Bat Cave, while they delivered belligerent journalistic monologues to camera, the stylistic integrity of which I and the comedian Richard Herring were encouraged to compromise with jokes.
(2) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
(3) All the pitches are abandoned," said one young boy on the road between Balsa Nova and Lapa.
(4) Locals blame oil for the demise of balsa trees and water-skier insects from the banks of the trunk rivers.
(5) In Operation Fortitude, one of the most successful military deceptions of the war, the allies built balsa wood aeroplanes and army buildings at Dover, placed false marriage and death certificates in the local press and faked waves of radio traffic.
(6) "Bits of leather have broken off and if you look closely you can see it has been repaired with balsa wood."
(7) The chondriome of all three cells was traced and superimposed on acetate paper and a three-dimensional model using balsa wood was constructed of one cell.
(8) Pieces of intestine pinned on balsa were incubated in oxygenated Krebs solution at 37 degrees C for 90-120 min and then fixed for 1 hr at room temperature in 4% formaldehyde, 0.05% glutaraldehyde, and 0.2% picric acid in 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4.
(9) In the Balsas region of North Brazil (85% prevalence of goiter), 1876 goitrous subjects (1663 with goiter grade I and II and 103 with grade III multinodular goiter) were treated with 1 ml of iodized oil im (l-oil).
(10) A balsa wood model was made on the basis of the 6 A electron density map.
(11) He has shown that party modernisation of the sort that Blair championed for 13 years is as brittle as balsa.
(12) The method calls for insertion of several coils, and balsa tents may also be placed in the cervical canal.
(13) On different floors of the same building you can find Eduqativo , an institute created to develop new ways of collective education; Líquen, a space for designers finding balance through digital and manual work; Fluxo , a journalism staffroom, dedicated to raw news covered across different platforms; and Balsa, a place for hanging out that has a lovely view from the terrace.
(14) The Plastiki - its name inspired by the balsa raft Kon-Tiki that was built and sailed across the Pacific in 1947 by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl - is now undergoing trials in San Francisco harbour.
(15) Delayed onset of symptoms was consistently related to the application of the glue to balsa wood.
Bassa
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Bassaw
Example Sentences:
(1) So far more than 60 crew have been suspended and at least 14 have been sacked, including senior figures at Bassa.
(2) Walsh spoke as BA's biggest cabin crew union, Bassa, indicated that a new peace deal could be brokered with the firm in a long-running industrial dispute.
(3) 1967; Yamamoto et al., 1974; Shanson et al., 1977; Bassa et al., 1989).
(4) Bassa was noncommittal about the offer, adding that it was still considering a "formal response", but said the proposals would be considered by shop stewards and ultimately by members.
(5) Serum samples from 119 healthy individuals and 106 epilepsy patients inhabiting Grand Bassa County, Liberia, were tested for antibodies to hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFV) by indirect immunofluorescence.
(6) Unite's main cabin crew branch, Bassa, told members that the offer contained changes to a previous peace deal that was rejected in a ballot during the summer.
(7) BA has asked that Unite and its main cabin crew branch, Bassa, recommend the offer as a precondition for tabling it to Unite members.
(8) With the possible exception of Bassa women, the findings are more congruent with the alternative assimilationist hypothesis which argues that when sociodemographic differences between majority and minority groups are controlled, their fertility should converge.
(9) In an ambivalent statement Bassa said it would, technically, recommend the offer but would still leave the final decision to the discretion of individual members: "Contained in the offer from [BA chief executive Willie Walsh], you will notice his insistence that your union recommends the offer or it will not be made available for you to vote on, denying you your democratic vote.
(10) Using a subsample of women from the 1974 Liberian census, the study examines interethnic variations in fertility by comparing 5 ethnic minorities--Bassa, Vai, Grebo, Kru, Kpelle--with the majority group, Americo-Liberian.
(11) Athens wants nothing else back – including that other pillaged masterpiece, the Bassae frieze, which in high relief depicts the Greeks fighting the Amazons and is also on display at the British Museum, but on account of staff shortages rarely available for viewing.
(12) Bassa has threatened to stage walkouts over the Christmas period but BA has insisted it will run 100% of its long-haul services during a strike, including all long-haul and short-haul flights from Gatwick and City airports.
(13) Unite and Bassa declined to comment on the pay rises, although Bassa emailed its 10,000 members a wire report detailing the increases.
(14) However, sources state that BA is planning to take strenuous measures for any fresh round of strikes .Willie Walsh, BA chief executive, said last week that he expected to operate 100% of BA's long-haul schedule during any next wave of strike action and effectively lock out Unite and its two cabin crew branches: Bassa and Cabin Crew 89.
(15) "We do now have details of the offer and also a reasonable understanding of its detail; as you would expect, it contains both good and bad," said Bassa in an email to members.
(16) According to Unite's main cabin crew branch, Bassa, the talks have resulted in the outlines of a new peace offer.
(17) Among a population of 4.436 Bassa, Kpelle and Mano people in the Gbawein and Wroughbarh Clan region of Grand Bassa Country, Liberia, 123 cases of epilepsy could be documented.
(18) Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of Bassa's parent union, Unite, held talks with Walsh last week.
(19) In 1971 Jack Straw – who went on to be home and foreign secretary in Tony Blair’s government – was giving his farewell speech as president of the National Union of Students when he was interrupted halfway through for an important announcement: Barclays Bank had stopped financing the Cahora Bassa dam project in Mozambique .
(20) Using a subsample of women from the 1974 Liberian census, the study examines interethnic variations in fertility by comparing five ethnic minorities--Bassa, Vai, Grebo, Kru, Kpelle--with the majority group, Americo-Liberian.