(n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MoD replied on 24 June: "Dr Fox met with Mr Boulter to discuss an entirely different matter.
(2) Boulter said he was "frustrated and upset that Fox issued a statement that said we didn't discuss Acolyte because it made me look like a liar to the world".
(3) Both have an N-acetylated ;tail' of eight amino acids and two in-N-trimethyl-lysine residues, as also reported for wheat germ (Delange, Glazer & Smith, 1969) and mung-bean cytochrome c (Thompson, Laycock, Ramshaw & Boulter, 1970).
(4) Boulter's email said: "David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George's [George Buckley, 3M's chief executive] knighthood".
(5) Werritty seemed to be acting like a full-blown ministerial adviser and Boulter confided in him as if he were, on the assumption that he must have robust security clearance.
(6) Speaking about the scandal more generally, Boulter saves his toughest criticism for Fox's best man rather than the minister.
(7) The Guardian has revealed Werritty: • Involved Fox in discussions with Boulter that have left Fox facing the prospect of being called to give evidence in a "blackmail" trial in the US.
(8) Fox admits he was made aware of 3M's legal dispute with Boulter.
(9) 19.8.11 Neate reveals Fox's friend Adam Werritty advised him on a meeting with Boulter in Dubai , and that Werritty carries a card describing himself as an "adviser to Rt Hon Liam Fox MP".
(10) After the meeting, Boulter emailed a lawyer from 3M, a firm with which he had been involved in a business dispute, to warn of a "rather embarrassing situation" over the recent knighthood for the 3M head, George Buckley.
(11) Boulter says that the call encryption technology he discussed with Fox in Dubai was sensitive and that he would not have done so if he had known Werritty did not have security clearance.
(12) While Fox and Werritty went out partying that night to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of Fox's official adviser Luke Coffey, Boulter jumped on a plane to Milan.
(13) Defence businesses that claim they were misled by Werritty, including Dubai-based private equity boss Harvey Boulter, are understood to be pressing the police to launch a full-scale investigation.
(14) Boulter had expected the email to remain confidential as part of the settlement negotiations with 3M.
(15) Waiting for them was Boulter, 41, chief executive of Porton Capital, and two executives from Cellcrypt, a Porton company that creates state-of-the-art encryption software.
(16) Sipping jasmine tea in the spectacular atrium of Dubai's five-star Shangri-La hotel, British businessman Harvey Boulter reflected on just how convincing Adam Werritty was in the role of Liam Fox's gatekeeper.
(17) But the first he heard of the lawsuit was when the Guardian called on the afternoon of the following Monday to seek comment after 3M dropped the legal papers with this paper before telling Boulter.
(18) Fox admitted that it was wrong of him to have attended the meeting with Boulter without an official present.
(19) • ibis.com Liz Boulter Z hotel at Gloucester Place, Marylebone Facebook Twitter Pinterest Location, location ... plus minimalist design What’s it like?
(20) Bicom's former communications director, Lee Petar, who runs a lobbying firm, Tetra Strategy, put Werritty in touch with the Dubai businessman, Harvey Boulter, whose meeting with Fox triggered the initial furore that led to his his demise.
Hook
Definition:
(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
(n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
(n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
(n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
(n.) A snare; a trap.
(n.) A field sown two years in succession.
(n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
(v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
(v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
(v. t.) To steal.
(v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
(2) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
(3) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(4) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
(5) I had told Chris that I would need an electric hook-up and told him about my predicament.
(6) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(7) It’s the young Brazilian’s last heavy touch of the evening: he’s hooked for Sterling.
(8) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
(9) Within the enamel department, workers who handled conveyer hooks used to suspend range tops as they passed through the oven were at greatest risk (rate ratio (RR) = 12.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.90-53.35).
(10) As committee member Tom Watson observed once the protester was arrested and normal service was resumed: "Mr Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook."
(11) Rhinonastes n. gen. is proposed for species possessing a dextroventral genital pore, a bilobed testis, a ventral C-shaped ovary lying between the 2 testicular lobes, and a disc-shaped haptor armed with a ventral anchor-bar complex and 14 hooks.
(12) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(13) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
(14) Once established, an excision of the hook is usually necessary to resolve the discomfort.
(15) This species can easily be separated from other Trichocephaloidis by the structure of bifid rostellum and the length of Hooks (70-77 mu).
(16) Hook protein and flagellin, which occupy virtually identical helical lattices, did not resemble each other strongly but showed some limited similarities near their termini.
(17) She thought it was going out but it landed in - she hooked it back and Sharapova netted an easy forehand!
(18) In a joint report , seven anti-tobacco organisations said PMI is trying to recruit a new generation of youngsters, many of whom risk becoming hooked on tobacco for life.
(19) In these mutants, hooks and filaments are occasionally assembled onto these incomplete basal bodies.
(20) Canelo throws a huge right hook, but it only connects with the ropes as Mayweather dances away.