(n.) A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
(n.) Hence: A leader.
Example Sentences:
(1) Click here to view the video In a way, Youssef's fate is a bellwether for the state of free speech in post-2011 Egypt.
(2) They see the trial as a bellwether for his administration's line on dissent – 18 group members have been arrested since March in a protracted crackdown , and many are still awaiting trial.
(3) Those responsible and accountable for the delivery of medical education locally must take the appropriate steps to ensure the training of doctors remains protected, particularly as medical training is so often a bellwether for the quality and safety of patient care, and because patients are directly at risk if the support and supervision of doctors in training is inadequate,” he wrote in the letter.
(4) The price of gyudon has become an unofficial bellwether for the health of the world’s third biggest economy, which has been beleaguered by more than two “lost decades” of stagnation as consumers have resolutely refused to start spending and lift their economy out of trouble.
(5) Nonetheless, with more stimulus in the pipeline, we still believe the economy will look stronger soon.” Corporations considered bellwethers of the global economy have also warned of a sharp slowdown.
(6) Morecambe and Lunesdale is a bellwether seat currently held by a Tory former hairdresser called David Morris – who, curiously, used to be a member of Rick Astley’s backing band – on an 866 majority and, like all down-at-heel seaside towns, is of interest to Ukip.
(7) But decisions made by voters in several cities and states could be an important bellwether of sentiment ahead of next year’s presidential elections.
(8) State of the state: Democrats are scrambling to hold on to their one US Senate seat for this New England bellwether state and to protect Shaheen, a former New Hampshire governor, one of 20 women in the upper chamber and a member of America’s only all-female congressional delegation.
(9) Womens’ rights, including the high-profile issue of driving, are another signifcant bellwether.
(10) But as well as the number of seats won or lost, Corbyn’s critics in parliament will also be closely watching the party’s performance in bellwether councils such as Crawley, where it currently has 19 seats against the Tories’ 18.
(11) But the improvement at Ford, a bellwether name in American industry, was of special significance, indicating that the business might finally have turned the corner.
(12) September is a critical month for determining the mood of advertisers rebounding from the quiet summer period, and analysts expected a modest single-digit decline at ITV1, which is considered a bellwether for the health of the commercial TV industry.
(13) A League-backed candidate from Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia won the bellwether race in Liguria, and the League even won 20% of the vote in the leftwing bastion of Tuscany in regional elections on 31 May, much to the dismay of Renzi, who was the mayor of Florence before he became prime minister.
(14) Twigg could be described as a bellwether candidate.
(15) Both companies are seen as bellwethers of the wider economy and analysts are predicting both firms to report a decline in earnings.
(16) Though Germany’s second-least populous state, state elections in the Saarland region are being treated as an important bellwether ahead of federal elections in September, with some commentators predicting the region could become the first in the old west of the country to be governed by a coalition between the centre-left and the left parties.
(17) But Watford has elected MPs from all three main parties over the past century and is a classic bellwether seat, one which changes hands when the governing party changes: it did in 1906, 1945, 1964, 1979 and again in 1997.
(18) Had we just relied on the old idea that Missouri was the ultimate bellwether , as it once was, we would have thought that John McCain was in good position in 2008.
(19) Michigan , the first major industrial state to vote, is considered a bellwether for the November election.
(20) Gardner only just edged Udall in Jefferson County , a bellwether for Colorado.
Sheep
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
(n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
(n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(3) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(5) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(6) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(7) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(8) The plasma, urine, and tissue sulfathiazole concentrations were determined at various times following intravenous administration to 12 sheep.
(9) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(10) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(11) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(12) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(13) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(14) Periods of spontaneously occurring hypoxia have been observed in fetal sheep.
(15) The efficacy of other anthelmintics which have been used against paramphistomes in sheep is reviewed.
(16) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
(17) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
(18) In this ewe, and in 4 of 7 other sheep diagnosed as having abomasal emptying defects, aspartate transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities were high, and histopathologic evidence of hepatic congestion and ischemia was found.
(19) Also, Gs failed to hemolyze sheep erythrocytes when there was hemolysis by virions or an amino-terminal peptide of the VSV glycoprotein.
(20) It contained approximately 1% HP+cells and approximately 3% of all lymphocytes forming rosettes which sheep erythrocytes (E+ cells) present before fractionation.