(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.
Wether
Definition:
(n.) A castrated ram.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estimates for the biological half-lives of the antibodies ranged from 18 to 24 days in neonatal lambs and 12 to 17 days in adult wethers.
(2) In trial with adult wethers and weaned lambs the effect of enzymatic preparation Pektofoetidin G3x (mostly pectinase and cellulase) on rumen fermentation was studied.
(3) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
(4) In an experiment with wethers we investigated the effect of complete pelleted feed ration on the concentration of volatile fatty acids in the rumen and intestinal tract.
(5) Four crossbred wether lambs (38 kg) with permanent ruminal and abomasal cannulae were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square arrangement of treatments to determine the effect of feeding frequency (FF) on forage fiber and N utilization.
(6) Eight crossbred wethers were fed two levels of Ca, designated high Ca (.82%) or normal Ca (.48%), with four treatment each, three of which differed in dietary cation-anion balance.
(7) Neither rate of testosterone infusion had any effect on the raised gonadotrophin levels in wethers.
(8) The experiments performed on two wethers provided with simple rumen cannulas and reentrant cannulas, inserted into the proximal duodenum and ileum, showed a passage of 15N from labelled urea, injected intravenously, from the blood to the digestive tract.
(9) Eight variants of recipes for mixtures of straw and concentrated feed with 10 to 60 per cent straw more or less finely ground (86 to 314 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) and fattening feed for lambs (50 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) were checked concerning the digestibility of crude nutrients for fullgrown wethers and 60 to 80-, 80 to 100-and 100 to 120-day-old lambs which had been ablactated at an age of 60 days.
(10) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(11) Experiments were conducted with two wether sheep which were fitted with rumen cannulae and chronically implanted intravascular thermocouples.
(12) Wethers received one of two dietary treatments for 30 d before determination of tissue blood flow: 1) a low-endophyte diet (less than .05 ppm ergovaline) or 2) a high-endophyte (1.18 ppm ergovaline) diet.
(13) The experiments were performed with inocula from wethers receiving two rations, with two pH regimes and using as inocula either whole rumen contents or the corresponding rumen fluid.
(14) Maintenance of adipose tissue from wethers (castrated male sheep) in tissue culture for 24 or 48 h with insulin resulted in an increased proportion of acetyl-CoA carboxylase being present in the active state; this effect was enhanced by dexamethasone and was antagonized by growth hormone.
(15) Several benign and malignant tumors of bone and cartilage were examined by means of type-specific collagen antibodies in connection with indirect immunofluorescence technique in order to determine wether there is a positive correlation between cell morphology and gene expression as refered to the synthesis of tissue- or cell-specific collagen.
(16) Higher faecal egg counts, larger worm burdens and heavier worms were recorded in immunosuppressed wethers.
(17) This study was undertaken to determine wether serum C3 and C4 values can help distinguish SLE activity from pre-eclampsia.
(18) Apparent digestibility and nutrient utilization were studied in a digestion and balance trial with 30 wether lambs (BW 32 kg).
(19) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
(20) Wethers were studied for the effect of the complete pelleted feed ration on the intake of water and concentration of pH and ammonia in the rumen.