(1) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
(2) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
(3) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
(4) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(5) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
(6) Penicillin therapy may fail in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes or belated treatment with complications.
(7) Belatedly there is a recognition in Washington of the strains inside the EU caused by the migration crisis.
(8) As of late Tuesday, the White House and the intelligence agencies, all belated supporters of the USA Freedom Act, did not respond to questions about whether they will seek legislation in the next Congress to divest the NSA of its domestic phone records database.
(9) The occasion will be a belated recognition of World Autism Week (which ended on 8 April).
(10) It joined belatedly, and purely for economic reasons.
(11) News International's internal investigating group, the management and standards committee, belatedly turned over the emails to a parliamentary committee of which Watson was a member.
(12) Israel itself was brought into being partly as a belated and guilty attempt by the world community to help compensate for its complicity in, or at least its inability to prevent, the catastrophic crime of the Holocaust.
(13) Explaining the belated discovery of the FCO-witheld files, Foreign Office minister Lord Howell told parliament his department had "decided to regularise the position of some 2,000 boxes of files it currently holds, mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, which were created by former British administrations overseas.
(14) It's a belated recognition of this verdict that has spurred a new debate on the centre-right, with pragmatists from influential skills minister Matthew Hancock to key players at the Daily Telegraph moving beyond grudging acceptance of the existence of the minimum wage to making a more full-throated case for strengthening it.
(15) Bournemouth 0-1 Aston Villa | Premier League match report Read more More chances were created in the second half and ultimately the final scoreline was only as close as it was because Sunderland showed some belated fight and the hosts switched off defensively.
(16) Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has belatedly awakened the general surgical community to the concept of closed abdominal surgery.
(17) Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.
(18) And then some suicidal defending almost allows Portland an opening goal, as a ricochet into the box is greeted by Hurtado and Gspurning both leaving it for each other before the keeper belatedly dives for it.
(19) Arab regional governments – and even Iran – have belatedly seen their own storm clouds of extremism, but there is tremendous work required to undo what has been done.
(20) A belated convert to the English captaincy cult, Capello decided to put the matter to bed after watching the Denmark game and forming the conclusion that England needed strong leadership during games.
Benight
Definition:
(v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
(v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
(v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Round at the benighted NHS, the Mid-Staffs hospital whistleblower, Julie Bailey, has had to move home after being insulted, threatened and attacked by local Labour activists as a liar.
(2) That's because at the root of this pro-censorship case is self-flattery: the idea that one is so intrinsically Good and Noble and Elevated that one is incapable of hatred: only those warped people over there, those benighted souls, are plagued with such poison.
(3) The leak of a letter he wrote to Boris Johnson, the then Conservative London mayor, three years ago expressing his opposition to handing over more of London’s suburban rail services to a future Labour mayor, demonstrates that political considerations – rather than a desire to improve the lot of benighted commuters – appear to dominate Grayling’s decision-making process.
(4) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(5) However, those poor benighted souls had other ideas: between 1945 and 1965, the number of people living under British colonial rule shrank from 700 million to five million as the empire melted away.
(6) He won an Oscar nomination and a César for Cyrano de Bergerac and is best-known in Britain for his role as the benighted and hunchback tax-collector turned farmer in Jean de Florette .
(7) He has achieved more than most ministers in that benighted department.
(8) The archbishop and the imam have been touring European capitals, seeking support for their benighted country.
(9) Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a brutal televised tournament where randomly selected teens, referred to as "tributes", are whisked away to battle to the death for the enjoyment of their oppressors.
(10) Ironically, it is not Damascus but Aleppo, poor, benighted Aleppo, which is actually Syria’s largest city and was once a mighty rival to Cairo and Constantinople, that has a far stronger case for being the world’s oldest city.
(11) (b) The values of delta H (approximately 9 kcal mol-1) and delta S (approximately 27 cal K-1 mol-1) of the G in equilibrium G* equilibrium are close to those associated with single base pair opening [Wartell, R.M., & Benight, A.S. (1982) Biopolymers 21, 2069].
(12) And in onshore detention, healthcare failures , hunger-strikes and deaths continue to plague a broken, benighted system.
(13) 1-13), of small hairpins (Paner et al., 1990; M. J. Doktycz, T. M. Paner, M. Amaratunga and A. S. Benight, 1990, Biopolymers, Vol.
(14) 829-845) and another dumbbell (A. S. Benight, J. M. Schurr, P. F. Flynn, B. R. Reid, and D. E. Wemmer, 1988) Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol.
(15) Soon, though, they might all be transported back to the benighted country of Weah's birth and the most uncertain of futures.
(16) Self-reflection is obviously required on occasion, but only as a function of self-interest: to enable the elimination of mistakes that are preventing the benighted from realising your primacy.
(17) They send the message that Australia’s benighted isolation on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea must be terminated.
(18) This state of affairs is undemocratic, unnecessary and – in the long run – intolerable.” Since Ripa is the benighted statute that has provided the justification for the claims that everything British spies do is “lawful”, to hear this kind of talk from an independent insider seems almost magical.
(19) A decade after Powell’s infamous speech, Margaret Thatcher also reached out to the corners of benighted Britain with a reference to fears that the country would be “swamped by people with a different culture” .
(20) But that is not the good fortune of the luckless children of that benighted city.