(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.
Unexpected
Definition:
(a.) Not expected; coming without warning; sudden.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(2) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(3) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(4) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(5) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
(6) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(7) These results thus reveal an unexpected role of N-linked glycosylation in T-cell activation.
(8) Inoculated cell dose and neoplasia percent incidence have been noticed to be closely related, but unexpectedly two doses exist for each tumour, a comparatively small one and a definitely larger one, which cause nearly the same percent incidence.
(9) A hypothesis that the unexpected similarity of infection in the two strains was related to differences in rates of contact with the peat trays was not supported by preliminary data on mouse behaviour that revealed equal frequency of contact with peat trays between strains.
(10) Unexpectedly long retention times were noted for the chlorinated solvents, particularly for chloroforn, which showed a specific long-term retention in the cerebellum, meninges and spinal nerves, indicating interactions with specific nervous tissue receptors.
(11) Proceeding from the observation that organic anions bound to albumin have hepatic extraction fractions that are unexpectedly high, we have studied a distributed model that accounts for this phenomenon by invoking sites on the cell surface that catalyze the dissociation of albumin-anion complexes.
(12) The identification of the different alpha-subunit isoforms of the Na,K-ATPase has added an unexpected complexity to the understanding of the function and regulation of this important transport protein.
(13) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(14) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
(15) 2) Surgery is often difficult, long full of unexpected findings and risks.
(16) Considering the density of helices along the RNA, it is not unexpected to find that all these sites lie in helical regions.
(17) An unexpected observation is that the termination region functions bidirectionally.
(18) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(19) During CEHT, when the chair was suddenly and unexpectedly stopped, the eye promptly began to move in the orbit to track the moving target.
(20) In conclusion, management of unexpected SDT during OPU include the following therapeutic goals: (1) complete eradication of the tumor to eliminate the remote possibility of malignancy and recurrence; (2) performance of adequate peritoneal lavage to prevent chemical peritonitis; (3) conservation of the maximum amount of functional ovarian tissue; and (4) exclusion of the possibility of dermoid cyst in the contralateral ovary.