What's the difference between barbiers and malabar?
Barbiers
Definition:
(n.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
Example Sentences:
(1) A major underlying rationale for imposing a substantial fine in a case like this is its deterrent value.” BP will fight hard to minimise that bill, arguing it has already paid $42bn in oil spill costs – other penalties are another one of the eight factors Barbier will assess.
(2) But the London-based oil company’s shares rose 4% after it said in a statement: “BP believes that considering all the statutory penalty factors together weighs in favour of a penalty at the lower end of the statutory range.” Judge Carl Barbier ruled late on Thursday in a New Orleans federal court that the Deepwater Horizon spill was 3.2m barrels, greater than the 2.4m barrels argued by BP but less than the 4.2m claimed by the US government.
(3) The case has been tried under maritime law, which meant that Barbier did not have to call a jury and could set his own schedule.
(4) Barbier’s finding – a figure roughly midway between the government’s and BP’s estimates – came more than a year after a trial during which the judge found that BP acted with “gross negligence” in the 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig.
(5) After Barbier's preliminary approval in May, thousands of people opted out of the settlement to pursue their cases individually.
(6) Judge Carl Barbier started hearing a case that many thought would never come to trial after settlement talks appeared to collapse.
(7) The proposed settlement, which includes economic and medical claims, must be approved by US district judge Carl Barbier.
(8) US district judge Carl Barbier, who gave his preliminary approval in May, made it final on Friday in a 125-page ruling released Friday evening.
(9) Barbier has criticised BP for going back on the terms of previous agreements to compensate victims of the spill.
(10) "I suspect that one reason some governments, including European ones, are reluctant to adopt green stimulus initiatives is they are still stuck in the 'old school' thinking that we have to revive the economy first before thinking about long-term low-carbon strategies," said Barbier.
(11) Barbier said BP’s response to the disaster was not grossly negligent, but stuck to an earlier judgement that the company was grossly negligent in the period leading up to the blowout of the Macondo well.
(12) Barbier marshals the courtroom with amused authority.
(13) US district court judge Carl Barbier concluded a two-part hearing on the spill last year and is assessing evidence about the number of barrels spilt and whether the company was “grossly negligent”.
(14) US district judge Carl Barbier ruled that 3.19m barrels – just under 134m gallons – were discharged into the Gulf after a rig explosion at BP’s Macondo well.
(15) District judge Carl Barbier, who is hearing the case in New Orleans, accepted the agreement on Tuesday night.
(16) In a 47-page ruling recapping BPs efforts to control the spill and the conflicting evidence of how much was lost, Barbier said about 168m gallons of oil was released from the well’s reservoir but the figure was reduced to about 134m gallons after recovery efforts.
(17) Barbier had set the stage for the settlement with an earlier ruling that BP had been “grossly negligent” in the offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused a 134m-gallon spill.
(18) There is still a lot of litigation left, including a trial to identify the causes of BP's blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies involved, Barbier wrote.
(19) The discharge figure Barbier settled on Thursday means maximum penalties could reach about $13.7bn – but he has not yet decided how much per barrel BP must pay.
(20) Judge Carl Barbier has presided over the complex case brought by the US government against the well’s operators and this week will start assessing the final fine BP , the oil company held most responsible for the disaster, will pay.
Malabar
Definition:
(n.) A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.