(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.
Brest
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Breast
(3d sing.pr.) for Bursteth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orthopedic départment of Centre hospitalo-universitaire de Brest use one upon another two procedures: from 1974 to 1984, for 1287 cases the prevention of thromboembolic complications is done with the help of subcutaneous heparin at standard dose during 12 days; the clinical diagnosis in confirmed by an isotopic phlebography and isotopic lung scan.
(2) These results have led our cardiologist in Brest to naturally prefer a surgical approach than percutaneous angioplasty when LDA and DA are involved.
(3) The family-owned Télégramme de Brest, which covers western Brittany, boasts a total readership of 900,000.
(4) Local foci of opisthorchiasis have been established on the territory of 3 Belorussian districts (Brest, Gomel and Grodno provinces).
(5) Five different apolipoproteins (apo) and lipid profiles were studied in breast-fed mature (BM), brest-fed premature (BP), formula-fed mature (FM) and formula-fed premature (FP) infants in the first year of life.
(6) This Finistère peninsula, midway between Brest and Quimper, is blessed with 11 miles of undulating coastal walks, dotted with secluded rocky coves that you'll probably have to yourself.
(7) In Stage IV brest cancer, 88% of those with local recurrence and 15% of those with disseminated cancer were positive.
(8) Anthracycline derivative adriamycin (ADR) is one of the most important anticancer drugs with major clinical application in carcinomas of the brest, endometrium, ovary, testicle, thyroid, lung and in treatment of many sarcomas.
(9) The management of fetal heterotopic tachycardias is reviewed from a cooperative study involving 23 cases treated by French Pediatric Cardiology Centers at Angers, Brest, Nantes, Rennes and Tours.
(10) I loved James Morton ’s bicycle made from Paris Brest,” says Mel.
(11) The cases presented provide an overview of the use of the nail at the Brest Center, where the nail was invented and developed, and at the Rizzoli Institute.
(12) From 1981 to 1990, 96 confirmed hospital cases of imported malaria occurred in Brest.
(13) The study of six cases of MacLeod-Donovan chancre, 2 in Paris, 4 in Brest, in young men coming from the West Indies, showed after 15 days incubation, a balano-preputial lesion consisting of an oval-shaped granuloma, 1 to 4 cm diameter, raised, indurated, ulcerated, reddish-yellow, spontaneously painful, bleeding easily, accompanied in 50 p. 100 of cases by inguinal adenitis, due to secondary infection.
(14) Virus isolations were attempted at the virus laboratory in Brest (Pr Chastel) using human diploid fibroblastic cells, MRC 5 strain (Bio-Mérieux, France) and virus isolates were identified by neutralisation tests.
(15) After attempting to explain these aberrant variations on the basis of anatomical and embryological considerations, we describe one case encountered in the ENT department of Brest University Hospital, then discuss it according to the data provided by the literature.
(16) During a preliminary study, from October 1975 until June 1976, we tried to find free-living limax amoebae in the waters proceeding from 6 systems which partly cover the wants of Brest and its bay (Finistère).
(17) A drug may reach the newborn indirectly from the mother via the umbilical cord or brest milk and by direct application.
(18) 50 of January 14, 1980, has been made on the basis of the results obtained in the Brest region of the Byelorussian SSR and in the Turkmen SSR.
(19) A six months' follow-up study was carried out in the nursery of the University Hospital of Brest where neonates were systematically evaluated for dermatological abnormalities.
(20) Beckham announced on May 16 that he would retire, and featured in his last professional game as Paris St Germain beat Brest two days later at the Parc des Princes.