(a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
(n. pl.) People of Great Britain.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(4) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(5) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(6) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(7) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(8) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
(9) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(10) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(11) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(12) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(13) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(14) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(15) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(16) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(17) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(18) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(19) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(20) The distributions of triceps and subscapular skinfolds in these 1-year-old infants were considerably lower than in a 1967-68 survey of British 1-year-olds.
Dorn
Definition:
(n.) A British ray; the thornback.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
(2) Dorn, G. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y.), and W. Rivera.
(3) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
(4) Dorne, a part of the Seven Kingdoms, sends the second son of its ruling family to attend the upcoming Royal Wedding, as a calculated insult.
(5) The sedimentation potential or the Dorn effect occurs when heavy particles fall in a liquid.
(6) Previous studies in this laboratory have led to the identification of the 47-kDa cell binding protein of the AF, using the monoclonal antibody (mab) 5D2-D11 [Gramzow M, Bachmann M, Zahn RK, Uhlenbruck G, Dorn A, Müller WEG, J Cell Biol, 102: 1344-1349, 1986].
(7) A questionnaire was sent to diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics to determine changing trends in the treatment of endodontic emergencies since Dorn's survey 10 yr ago.
(8) In this paper the theory is used to interpret H. B. Dorn's data on the incidence of 21 kinds of cancer in both male and female Americans.
(9) This article describes a system of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting implemented at WJB Dorn Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina, which involves reviewing all inpatient charts by medical record technicians for possible ADRs and notifying the chief pharmacist for investigation.
(10) The oblique parasagittal diameter of the lumbar spinal canal at the L5-S1 level was measured in 49 employees of the Wm Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital using real time ultrasound in a case-control study.
(11) "Certainly the most destructive part of the Bush environmental legacy is not only his failure to act on global climate change, but his administration's covert attempt to silence the science alerting us to the urgency of the problem," said Jonathan Dorn of the Earth Policy Institute (EPA) in Washington.
(12) All spinach r-proteins that cross-reacted with antisera to chloroplast-synthesized r-proteins of C. reinhardtii are known to be made in the chloroplast (Dorne et al.
(13) In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity.
(14) A cohort of nearly 300,000 insured veterans (Dorn Cohort), experienced a much greater percent decline in CHD death rate over the period, 1954-1979, than the population of the U.S., while for stroke, the percent decline in death rate was virtually the same as the U.S. For CHD, greater percent declines were noted over the study period for non-smokers compared to cigarette smokers, for professionals compared to non-professionals and for persons with high socioeconomic scores (SES) compared to those with low scores.
(15) Use of the needle-catheter feeding jejunostomy at Richland Memorial Hospital and the Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, both clinical teaching institutions of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been evaluated in 114 patients ranging from 20 to 90 years old.
(16) In a much-cited 2013 study , for example, economists David Autor of MIT and David Dorn of Spain’s CEMFI institute found that because computers could now be substituted for low-skill workers performing routine tasks (book-keeping, clerical work and repetitive production and monitoring activities) we were going to see a “hollowing-out” of middle-skilled, middle-wage jobs and “a corresponding rise in employment at both the high and low ends of the skills spectrum”.
(17) We analyzed the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey, a sample of 18,733 U.S. death certificates, and the 1954-1962 Dorn study, a follow-up study of approximately 250,000 holders of U.S. Veterans Life Insurance.
(18) Two german physicians, Andreas Röschlaub and Anton Dorn, were against this project; they realised the possible results to man's health.
(19) Hypotheses about the extent, persistence, and constancy for different causes of the healthy worker effect are evaluated using the data of the Dorn Study of Mortality Among US Veterans.
(20) As the Dorne prince menacingly says to Tyrion: "Tell your father I'm here!