(n.) A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bourne has produced statistical evidence to show that family docotrs are astonishingly reluctant to know or remember anything about the patient who has had a stillbirth.
(2) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
(3) The new school opened nine years later with £2m from the sponsor – the late Sir Clive Bourne, a local self-made man who prospered from freight shipping – new premises designed by an award-winning architect, new pupils and teachers, nearly all young enough to be able and willing to work, albeit for enhanced pay, the punishing hours that Wilshaw demands.
(4) The Iowa PK Press is more versatile than the Bourne Press in terms of the potential range of diameter of corneal buttons that can be created.
(5) David Olley, a hospital chef who has lived his whole life in nearby Bourne, reported seeing St Peter's Pool running dry for the first time he can remember.
(6) Additional and more sensitive diagnostic procedures are evaluated like computer tomography, the simple Bourne-test and a radioisotopic test.
(7) Nevertheless, the opening of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bourne-mouth in 1965 has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of chiropractors in Britain.
(8) Although Bourne says he is “confident that the programme will save money for the taxpayer” a separate evaluation concludes that it was impossible to prove that any reductions in spending on services for targeted families were attributable to the programme or other factors.
(9) "I just don't know anyone who is really informed who thinks this is a good idea," said Professor John Bourne, who led the decade-long trial.
(10) These results suggest that GTP enhances pregnenolone synthesis by promoting the movement of cholesterol to the steroidogenic pool, consistent with a recently proposed general role for GTP in some vectorial transport processes (Bourne, H. R. (1988) Cell 53, 669-671).
(11) (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire) Michael Gordon Williamson.
(12) Second, UV mutagenesis of E. coli chromosomal glyU was found to be recF independent while UV mutagenesis of M13-bourne glyU was recF dependent.
(13) "That's why I take my hat off to Matt, you know, going from John Bourne to this.
(14) Richard Bourne Senior research fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
(15) Watch here This leaves the McBusted lineup slightly lopsided, with Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Harry Judd repping for McFly, and only Matt Willis and James Bourne around to inject some of Busted's inimitable aesthetic.
(16) With increase in airway pressure from combined changes in compliance and resistance, the internal compliance of the Bournes was lowest and the internal compliance of the Emerson was highest.
(17) The actor will be seen next on the big screen in sci-fi outings Oblivion , for Tron's Joseph Kosinski, and All You Need Is Kill , for The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman.
(18) That is true in the case of the beak, in relation with the swimming system which had been already observed by Marshall and Bourne (1964).
(19) The contamination of semiclosed disposable circuits of Healthdyne and Bourns ventilators was studied in a newborn intensive care unit over a 2-year period.
(20) This has its dangers: film-maker Paul Greengrass, who directed two of the Bourne spy movies, accused Bond of being “a misogynist, an old-fashioned imperialist” – a view that has wide currency, and one that the Bond franchise itself has tried to redress by reconfiguring the Craig-era 007 as a damaged, emotionally troubled individual.
Bourse
Definition:
(n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is established in new born chickens that the lymphocytes of the bourse of Fabricius are richer in PCG than these of the thymus.
(2) The biggest falls on European bourses were in Milan, where the FTSE MIB slid 549 points to 13,114 and in Madrid, where the Ibex shed 252 points to 6624.
(3) Bourses across Europe fell, with the FTSE 100 in London finishing down 122.7 at 6271.2.
(4) In the 12 months to the end of July, only 10 bourses stayed in positive territory, all of them in emerging markets.
(5) There were signs of this yesterday, with a big sell-off in shares on all the European bourses and a fall in the euro against the dollar to its lowest level in more than two years.
(6) Islam is for peace, it is kindness, sharing, that is Islam, it is not what happened, it is not what is on the TV.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chalk messages of support at the Place de la Bourse.
(7) But with the Milan bourse, hammered by weeks of growing anxiety, dropping another 5%, and the yield on government bonds leaping beyond 7%, panic overspilled from the markets into the streets of Rome's historic centre, where Italy's big political decisions are taken.
(8) Eight reasons why China’s currency crisis matters to us all Read more The drops on both sides of the Atlantic mirrored stock markets across Asia-Pacific markets early on Friday after they went into “panic mode” when further signs of a weakening Chinese economy compounded overnight losses on Wall Street and European bourses .
(9) Since Juventus and Lazio are quoted companies, yesterday's verdicts were held until after the closure of the Milan bourse.
(10) The rally on the Athens market was mirrored at other European bourses, with shares in Germany, France and Spain all up by almost 4%.
(11) Other European bourses were affected by the gloomy mood.
(12) "He offered stones to one or two of our members," says Harry Levy, vice-president of the London Diamond Bourse, the city's most exclusive commodity exchange.
(13) It was only in the last week of July 1914 – once Austria-Hungary had delivered its ultimatum to Serbia – that bourses woke up to the fact that the assassination in Sarajevo had the potential to lead to a war involving all the great European powers.
(14) It is the same heart that is hurt, the same sadness.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women stick plastic butterfly decorations near peace messages at the memorial on Place de la Bourse.
(15) The Milan bourse opened fractionally higher, consolidating its position as the best-performing leading stock market in Europe so far this year.
(16) On top of the regulators' measures failing to achieve their aim of halting the collapse in indices, the embargoes were viewed by experts as actually increasing volatility in the markets – which only intensified the tension and apprehension in global bourses.
(17) Since the crash, without anyone in the real world noticing, they have found success in a new role: as the places where the capital’s new class of plutocrats like to do business; the unofficial bourses of London’s transformation into the richest city in the world.
(18) Bourses in Frankfurt and Paris had even worse days, both closing down more than 3%.
(19) Spain's 10-year bond yield: down 0.321 percentage points at 6.13% Italian 10-year bond yield: down 0.147 percentage points at 5.396% Updated at 3.25pm BST 2.54pm BST Italian stock market gyrates You could have made (or lost) a small fortune on the Milan bourse in the half-hour or so between 2.30 and 3.30 local time.
(20) A steady stream of people came to the Bourse, no longer used as a stock exchange, some bearing flowers.