(v. t.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
(v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
Example Sentences:
(1) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(2) Girmay Belay, 40, its project coordinator, says: “Thirty years ago the people did not have access to food.
(3) Since these fragments cannot form alpha-helises, it is unlikely that upon binding of tachikinins to their receptors, their N-terminal fragments could overcome the hydrophobic barrier of the cell membrane's lipid belayer.
(4) "At a time when the African continent is struggling to ensure that there is accountability for serious human rights violations and abuses, it is impossible to justify this decision, which undermines the integrity of the African court of justice and human rights, even before it becomes operational," said the organisation's Africa director, Netsanet Belay.
(5) "I thought if I fell off on the last moves, … if the belayer [the person holding the rope at the bottom] sprinted away, that I might be all right.
(6) Amnesty International’s Africa research and advocacy director, Netsanet Belay, said “the true horror” of what had happened in Zaria over two days in December was only now coming to light.
(7) With extreme rope friction at the rock and running belays the forces can increase up to 6.5 kN.
(8) The abduction and brutalisation of young women and girls seems to be part of the modus operandi of Boko Haram,” said Netsanet Belay, Africa director at Amnesty International.
(9) These forces depend on the method of belay and the situation of the fall and are mostly independent from the weight of the climber.
(10) "The fact that Nigerian security forces knew about Boko Haram's impending raid, but failed to take the immediate action needed to stop it, will only amplify the national and international outcry at this horrific crime," said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International's Africa director.
(11) Million Belay, the head of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , said the initiative could spell disaster for small farmers in Africa.
(12) Not only is justice a right of victims, accountability could serve as a powerful deterrent to those who think they can kill, rape and pillage with no consequence,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty’s Africa director for research and advocacy.
(13) The trauma suffered by the (abducted) women and girls is truly horrific,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa director for research and advocacy.
(14) Photographs and transparencies of the techniques used in belaying, combined with information gained from discussions amongst experienced climbers, provided evidence of the potential injury mechanisms which may be subjected to the belayer in having to arrest a falling climber, whilst moving towards the belayer.
Cancel
Definition:
(v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
(v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
(v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
(v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
(v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
(v. i.) The part thus suppressed.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(3) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
(4) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(5) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
(6) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
(7) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
(8) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
(9) The same figures say that 55% had to cancel between three and seven weeks of fixtures and 33% between seven and 11.
(10) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
(11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(12) We arrange the meetings on the North Korea-China border and give the USB sticks which then will move into North Korea.” North Korea to face the music after cancelling Moranbong shows Read more Stratton says she also hopes it will change the way some Americans think of North Koreans.
(13) Then, the c-wave was cancelled out in appearance on the recordings.
(14) Any process which weakens the cartilaginous endplate or the subchondral cancellous bone may predispose to the development of Schmorl's nodes.
(15) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(16) Because of a reduction in cancelled cycles, patients might reduce their total costs in time and gonadotrophin used, however this treatment is not a panacea for the true low order responder.
(17) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(18) Russia has warned the Kiev government against using force against the protesters in the east and has threatened to cancel in international diplomatic conference on the Ukrainian conflict scheduled for later this week.
(19) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(20) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.