(n.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.
(a.) Steep.
(a.) Steep; high.
(a.) Smooth; unwrinkled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brantly said he was first tested for malaria, but to his dismay, the results came back negative.
(2) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(3) At the hospital, one person in protective clothing guided another, believed to be Brantly, towards a building.
(4) Brantly said the virus was not on the radar when he and his family moved to west Africa two years ago, but he noticed a steady increase in Ebola patients in June and July.
(5) On Tuesday, Brantly and his wife, Amber, sat down with NBC News' Matt Lauer to speak for the first time about his experience fighting the deadly disease.
(6) That’s his heart,” said Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the non-profit medical mission group Samaritan’s Purse, which Brantly was working for in Liberia.
(7) Today is a miraculous day,” Brantly said at a press conference at Emory hospital on Thursday to announce his discharge from care.
(8) His wife and children returned to the US on 20 July, but Brantly stayed on to continue his work.
(9) Aid workers Dr Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol were the first Ebola patients to be treated in the US.
(10) Robin Brant (@robindbrant) in spite of description of responsibilities under his name on .gov.uk i am told that mark francois is the new min for armed forces.
(11) She and the couple’s children were living in Liberia with Brantly but left before he developed symptoms.
(12) Brantly and Writebol were both treated in the hospital’s containment unit, which is specially equipped to care for patients with serious communicable diseases.
(13) Brantly said he was thankful Amber and his two children had already left the country by the time he fell ill. His wife and children had returned to Texas for a wedding.
(14) Brantly and Writebol were both treated in Emory hospital’s containment unit, which is specially equipped to care for patients with serious communicable diseases.
(15) Sacra had gone back to Monrovia after fellow missionaries Brantly and Writebol were diagnosed.
(16) These secretory variants contain frameshift mutations leading to products with normal amino acid sequences to the points of the mutations followed by short, aberrant C-terminal sequences and then premature termination (Nukiwa, T., Takahashi, H., Brantly, M., Courtney, M., and Crystal, R. (1987) J. Biol.
(17) Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly are the first Americans to survive the deadly virus that has claimed more than 1,500 lives, according to the World Health Organization.
(18) Brantly said he woke up on 23 July feeling a "little off".
(19) Hell yeah, I’m very worried.” Three Americans contracted Ebola in west Africa and were flown to the United States for treatment and later released: Kent Brantly, Nancy Writebol and Rick Sacra.
(20) Writebol said the next few days were a blur, as she was transported to the US where she joined her colleague Brantly in a two-room isolation unit at Emory University hospital.
Brent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Brenne
(a.) Alt. of Brant
(imp. & p. p.) Burnt.
(n.) A brant. See Brant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brent crude surged by $1.05, or 1%, to $124.65 a barrel on Friday, while US crude jumped by 98 cents to $111.90, its highest level since September 2008.
(2) But it says the fall in the oil price, which for Brent crude is now below $50 a barrel , also presents opportunities to reform energy subsidies and taxes in both oil exporters and importers.
(3) Brent crude rebounded more than 7.5%, adding $2.23 to $31.48 a barrel, helped by comments from Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil producer.
(4) London's 120-store Brent Cross shopping centre was forced to close on Saturday due to "adverse weather conditions".
(5) O'Shea told the Brent & Kilburn Times : "I thought the behaviour of the immigration officers was heavy-handed and frightening.
(6) A verdict has not yet been returned on a judicial review of Brent council's proposed closures held in July.
(7) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
(8) "For many of the communities in Brent, there is a strong culture of caring for extended family members on an informal basis.
(9) It’s a disease that can only be cured by police forces rooting it out from within.” The new prime minister, Theresa May, highlighted racial discrimination in the justice system as she took office last week, saying outside Downing Street : “If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.” Kennedy-Macfoy was cleared of obstructing police after a two-day trial at Brent magistrates court.
(10) The biggest problem for BP has come from low crude prices , with Brent averaging $44 a barrel across the fourth quarter, compared with $77 for the same period 12 months earlier.
(11) The increase has been caused by a combination of factors: rises in the wholesale price of fuel have produced steady rises since the beginning of the year with Brent crude costing an 18-month high of about $86 (£56) a barrel, while tax rises since December 2008 have also added about 10p to the cost of a litre of fuel.
(12) Brent crude oil dropped $1 to $27.7 and US crude headed towards $26 a barrel.
(13) We demonstrate the special requirements of this team approach and also pay a tribute to Burt Brent, who has set the standards of modern ear reconstruction.
(14) Today, as the Brent field winds down its production, we are preparing for one of the world’s most complex engineering challenges.
(15) Better to have announced something, even if less than hoped for, than nothing at all...” A barrel of benchmark Brent crude was changing hands for less than $41 a barrel in New York on Monday night after Opec – heavily influenced by Saudi Arabia – did nothing about a market already seen as saturated.
(16) A quarter of a century after I was hanging around Brent Cross, I was one of the team at the New Economics Foundation on the Clone Town Britain campaign, a plaintive cry against everywhere looking the same.
(17) Brent crude declined 2.5% to $59.7 per barrel on Tuesday.
(18) Today, the Sunday Times reports that the Liberal Democrat children's minister Sarah Teather arranged a meeting between Gove and council leaders from her Brent constituency days before those schools won a reprieve from the cuts.
(19) China is the world’s biggest energy consumer, so signs of an economic slowdown helped push down the oil price last week: at one point benchmark Brent crude was below $43 per barrel compared with a peak of $115 last summer.
(20) London's 120-store Brent Cross shopping centre shut early on Saturday.