(1) For Tóibín, it is the third time on the Booker shortlist following The Blackwater Lightship in 1999 and The Master in 2004.
(2) Founded by the former US Navy Seal Erik Prince, Blackwater seized on the burgeoning private security contracts that emerged after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
(4) Blackwater community school said in its report to the federal government that dropout rates on the reservation, ranging from 34% to 42% depending on the school, are about four times the Arizona state average of 9%.
(5) Tensions between private security companies and the Baghdad government had increased in Iraq following the decision by the US courts in December 2009 not to prosecute anyone for the Blackwater killings of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad in September 2007.
(6) She was one of the women working at a centre in Blackwater that provides free lunches for elderly people.
(7) The Blackwater Worldwide website says: "Blackwater was founded in 1997 to support the training needs of the United States military and law enforcement communities.
(8) "When the work of this committee ends," Khalaf said, private security companies "will be under the authority of the Iraqi government, and those companies that don't have licences, such as Blackwater, should leave Iraq immediately."
(9) In half the patients various bacterial and viral infections (especially typhoid) could be incriminated as causing this blackwater fever syndrome.
(10) Confirmation that he worked for Xe could prove even more problematic than working for the CIA , given the extent of hatred towards Blackwater, whose staff have gained a reputation in Pakistan as trigger-happy.
(11) The interior ministry revoked Blackwater's licence after the shooting, and threatened to expel its employees, but the US ignored the order and renewed the company's contract the following April.
(12) There was some of that LSD but that was back in the 60s.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chuck Morgan outside his house in Blackwater.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blackwater Baptist church sign in Blackwater.
(14) For years the press has been filled with conspiracy-laden speculation about Blackwater – now known as Xe – the American military contractor with a reputation for violent ruthlessness, in their country.
(15) The sea battle of the Blackwater that dominated season two appeared to have cemented the Lannister claim, though only a fool would plot the looming third series without challenging that supposition.
(16) In his time he’s been a logger in California, fought in Vietnam and sought release in drugs and alcohol, before being drawn back to the small town of Blackwater on the sprawling Gila River Indian reservation in southern Arizona – “the res”, as it’s known to those who live there.
(17) For Pakistanis the word "Blackwater" has become a byword for covert American operations targeting the country's nuclear capability.
(18) He was diagnosed as having blackwater fever (BWF) on clinical grounds.
(19) Among the best bits are the chance to sit on the Iron Throne, to examine Dany's dragons in model form, and to take part in your very own stimulated Battle of Blackwater.
(20) Casino revenues have paid for a well-equipped gym in Blackwater, and there’s an indoor basketball court next door that would be the envy of many American high schools.
Sewage
Definition:
(n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
(n.) Sewerage, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(2) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(3) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(4) Also purple sulfur bacteria lowered BOD levels as demonstrated by the growth of T. floridana in sterilized sewage.
(5) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(6) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(7) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
(8) This procedure has demonstrated that the routine methods for sewage collection, specimen treatment, and virus isolation permit virus detection when 5--10% of this virus excretors are available.
(9) Neither the stock cultures nor the aquatic strains were capable of growth in autoclaved river water taken above the sewage outfall at the three temperatures tested.
(10) It got a D in Sewage treatment, an F in air pollution and provided no information on water treatment.
(11) And it is a perfect testimony to the fact that a highly evolved economic area such as ours can produce equally high environmental standards.” The EEA noted a “marked improvement” over recent decades in measurements of two bacteria, E coli and intestinal enterococci, which indicate faecal contamination of swimming waters by sewage and animals.
(12) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
(13) Using zoospore capture technique, 361 colonies of aquatic freshwater fungi were recovered from sewage effluents, out of which 341 reached sexual maturity.
(14) At present it is not possible to quantify the effects attributed to acid rain only; account must be also be taken of cadmium added to, e.g., soil by use of sewage sludge and other fertilizers.
(15) The El Tor vibrios survived for 12 to 24 days in experimentally contaminated sewage water, and for up to 10 days in sewage-contaminated soil.
(16) The book lets you know how sewage gets around under the city streets and how aluminium is made (you have to get bauxite from Jamaica, then ship it to a place with lots of electricity, like the Pacific north west).
(17) One strain showing high optimum range of sulfide tolerance (up to 9 mM) produced more hydrogen in 80% sewage while the less sulfide tolerating strain (up to 6 mM) showed hydrogen photoproduction in 60% sewage.
(18) Most pollution of drinking water is caused by inadequacy of the uptake and distribution systems, by insufficient upkeep of the sewage system and by defects or breaks in the disinfection processes.
(19) In the study area, Cu and Zn emanate from sewage and boat slips (antifouling paints), while Zn probably also originates from coolant water from an electricity power generating station and iron ore exporting facilities.
(20) The transformation and toxicity of trichlorophenols (TCPs) were studied with a methanogenic enrichment culture derived from sewage sludge.