(1) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
(2) Prompt recognition and treatment of blowout fractures exhibiting diplopia is usually successful.
(3) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(4) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(5) The Edinburgh-based company had two drilling units in place so one could go to the assistance of the other in the event of a "blowout" or other problem.
(6) The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , has no one to blame but himself for the cost blowout of the national broadband network (NBN), Labor’s communications spokesman, Jason Clare, has said.
(7) In summary, after a series of setbacks in the court, this is a positive outcome for BP.” The Macondo well blowout spread oil over the beaches of southern states in America, but also spread a cloud over the finances and reputation of the group.
(8) He is confident that all is being done to ensure that there can be no recurrence of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in freezing waters where oil would break down much more slowly than in the warm currents off Louisiana.
(9) Two patients with an extensive blowout injury to the duodenum and one with a crush injury to the pancreas underwent a pyloric exclusion and gastrojejunostomy.
(10) Nine patients had bypass for intestinal ischemia (five acute, four chronic), and one patient each had bypass for arcuate ligament syndrome, thoracoabdominal aneurysm, and an infected aortic stump "blowout."
(11) It was a rough break for the Golden State Warriors, particularly head coach Mark Jackson whose job probably won't survive the first round exit, as it looked like they were given new life in this series as the Clippers, reacting to the racist rants of their own Donald Sterling, played Game 4 under protest, which unsurprisingly lead to a blowout Warriors win.
(12) Coverage of the vein graft by a myocutaneous flap appears to protect against carotid artery blowout.
(13) Indiana doesn't come out with a big third quarter and this one has a blowout written all over it.
(14) The external carotid-external carotid crossover anastomosis may have application in the management of squamous cell carcinoma involving the common carotid or in the treatment of carotid artery blowout.
(15) Certainly he must be hoping that the Thunder's blowout win over the Heat on Wednesday was a fluke and not a sign of games to come .
(16) Engineers are also looking at a "top kill", installing a new stack of valves on top of the blowout preventer whose failure in the wake of the 20 April explosion gave way to the disaster.
(17) Halliburton noted the well had been left without a cap or blowout preventer for five months before the explosion.
(18) Ben Ayliffe, a Greenpeace International campaigner on board the Esperanza, said: "Our team stopped this rig from drilling for four days, which was four days in which a Deepwater Horizon-style blowout couldn't happen and this beautiful fragile environment was safe.
(19) After the most tightly contested round one in NBA playoffs history, of course its final game was the postseason's biggest blowout, a laugher where, for the first time in the series, it looked like this was a battle between a top-seeded team and an eighth-seeded one.
(20) Given its dual role, it's little wonder that the MMS was so keen to pass a BP drilling plan that failed to discuss how to prevent a deepwater blowout and which, bizarrely, listed walruses as a Gulf of Mexico marine mammal.
Cost
Definition:
(n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
(n.) See Cottise.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cost
(v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
(v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
(v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
(v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
(v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(6) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(7) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
(8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(10) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(12) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(14) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(15) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(16) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(18) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(19) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(20) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.