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Bane


Definition:

  • (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
  • (n.) Destruction; death.
  • (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
  • (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
  • (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They want government to listen to their message, but ignore counter arguments coming from campaigners, such as environmentalists, who have long been the bane of commercial lobbyists.
  • (2) 1-26 August, 1.30pm, Assembly Rooms, £10 Jane Bom-Bane Musical mechanical hat woman.
  • (3) By the end of the 1960s he had a considerable reputation as a novelist (his first, Charade, drawing on his Crown Film Unit experience, and unrelated to the movie, appeared in 1947) and playwright, and had played an important role in the abolition of the death penalty and the passage of the Theatres Act, which saw off that bane of the British stage, the Lord Chamberlain's power of censorship – not that his own work had ever been in danger from this quarter.
  • (4) They argue that an elected mayor is chosen by everyone, not just the councillors from the largest political group (37 Tories in Banes’s case).
  • (5) On 10 March the citizens of Bath and north-east Somerset (Banes) will get to vote in a referendum on whether they should be given the chance to elect their equivalent of London’s mayor, Boris Johnson.
  • (6) The ruling Tory party in Banes, along with the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Greens, have all united against.
  • (7) Predictably perhaps, Steve Jobs was ahead of the game when he said in 2010 at the launch of the iPad: “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” It is also reasonable to conclude that performing arts will no longer be the bane of parents who have traditionally told their artistic kids to “get a proper job”.
  • (8) Airbnb is a website that's fast becoming the bane of the hotel industry.
  • (9) Microbial infection of a corneal transplant is a complication that is a bane to all corneal surgeons, the sequelae of which can be devastating.
  • (10) As well as Forrest Bondurant in Lawless , the 34-year-old has played a number of men not to be messed with: the eponymous scourge of the British prison system in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2008 film Bronson ; a martial arts fighter in last year's Warrior ; and most recently the bull-necked villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises .
  • (11) Then there's the problem of English-speaking actors doing German accents, the bane of movies about the world wars since time immemorial.
  • (12) Two years later, a New York Times article noted: "Get-rich-quick and gambling was the bane of our life before the smash"; they were also what caused the "smash" itself in 1929.
  • (13) Reduction of P(p) temporarily arrested venous outflow since P(ve) < P(vne) < P(bane) for 30 sec.
  • (14) These data suggest that the cardioplegic baneful effect on cardiac function might be lost in the first 24 hours after surgery.
  • (15) They say the role would not work in a place like Banes, which is part-urban but also very rural.
  • (16) You overlook this and other absurdities because Bane is an entertaining villain.
  • (17) MTC has been shown to bind reversibly to the colchicine binding site of tubulin and to inhibit microtubule assembly in vitro (Andreu et al: Biochemistry 23:1742-1752, 1984; Bane et al: J. Biol.
  • (18) There's a great bit where they imagine a studio lackey asking Tom Hardy to make his Bane voice clearer on the set of The Dark Knight Rises ("Tom?
  • (19) Bane Case for : The Batman super-villain has been known to cause chaos at football games.
  • (20) Analysis of the early post-operative mortality causes and of the various post-operative myocardic complications did not reveal any baneful influence of this myocardic protection method.

Bank


Definition:

  • (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
  • (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
  • (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
  • (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
  • (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
  • (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  • (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  • (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
  • (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  • (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
  • (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.
  • (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  • (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
  • (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
  • (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
  • (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  • (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
  • (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
  • (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  • (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
  • (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  • (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
  • (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
  • (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (4) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (5) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (6) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (7) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (8) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (9) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
  • (10) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
  • (11) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
  • (12) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
  • (13) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (14) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (15) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
  • (16) The central part of the system is the patient-orientated data bank.
  • (17) Compared to the data produced by the Lipid Research Clinics (USA), coronary risk appeared higher for all the surveyed factors in the Italian general population, and particularly in bank employees.
  • (18) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
  • (19) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
  • (20) A DNA sequencing of 139 bp at the 3' end of these clones and a search of the data bank revealed that the sequence was identical to the parallel domain in the human H19 gene.

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