(1) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(2) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(3) A bulldozer on rail wheels purrs up on the other line and begins pawing at the stones.
(4) Three decades before, her father had driven bulldozers in Vietnam for the US army.
(5) But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
(6) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
(7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
(8) Maybe they’d be a good team because sometimes you need a really strong man in there who bulldozes things.
(9) Scotland remains the only country not to teach its own children its history, and the built heritage has been neglected, bulldozed or shunned by politicians fearing anything that might be construed as “too nationalistic”.
(10) When we reached Sanjiang, in Zhejiang province, an elderly woman was angrily telling the pastor how at the end of April police dispersed members of her congregation and neighbouring ones who had come to protect their new Protestant church from being bulldozed .
(11) It could easily have been 2-0 before half-time, the human bulldozer that is Anichebe firing over the bar as he turned in front of goal and Mirallas having a header diverted over by Kolo Touré.
(12) Despite community efforts, supported by Amnesty International, the bulldozers rolled into Oombulgurri last month.
(13) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
(14) All Lord Ashcroft has succeeded in doing is driving the bulldozer over his own foot.
(15) Correa says the bulldozers could be starting work within weeks," said Kelly Swing, professor of environmental science at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and director of the Tiputini research station on the edge of the Yasuní park.
(16) According to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency , several Israeli bulldozers entered the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday overflown by drones, which would fit with the timeframe described by the Israeli military.
(17) In the end, though, Dahl’s darker sensibility caves to Spielberg’s, whose kinder, gentler tendencies, overheated visuals and soaring John Williams scores have been known to bulldoze over many a project (think: Tintin, Hook, The Color Purple, War Horse).
(18) We will be looking carefully at the inspector’s decision before deciding the next steps.” Michael Hammerson of the Highgate Society, which opposed the scheme, said the ruling showed that when the super-rich “own something as important as a valued historic building in one of London’s most important conservation areas, and overlooking London’s most important open space, then they cannot use their money to try and bulldoze their way through the planning system”.
(19) That cannot happen in remote tiny communities, it cannot.” “We’ll consult, there’s not going to be a bulldozer-type mentality, and we’re going to determine which communities continue to get those municipal services, and probably better services, but it’s not going to be 282.” “Bulldozer-type mentality” is not a metaphor in the Kimberley – in September the WA government began demolishing buildings left in Oombulgurri, an eastern Kimberley community that was forcibly closed in 2011.
(20) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
Chicken
Definition:
(n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
(n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(2) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(3) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
(4) The effect of modifying the periodate-susceptible methionine residues in chicken ovotransferrin was small but significant.
(5) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
(6) The reaction of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) with chicken erythrocyte nuclei produces covalent cross-linking of HMG proteins 1, 2 and E to DNA, in addition to cross-links amongst LMG proteins.
(7) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(8) Thymus and spleen cells from such hypogammaglobulinaemic chickens were extracted with non-ionic detergents, acid urea, or combinations of urea and detergent, and the extracts were analysed for Ig by the inhibition assay.
(9) The LSCC-H32 cells were demonstrated to be as susceptible for most of the tested viruses as were secondary chicken embryo cells.
(10) These results indicate that chicken AK1 expressed in E. coli catalyzed the synthesis and accumulation of TTP within the bacterial cells.
(11) The deduced amino acid sequences of the inserts of these two clones show considerable homology with each other, the sequence of chicken skin beta-galactoside-binding lectin, and eight peptides derived from purified human lung lectin of Mr approximately 14,000.
(12) Significant cross-reactivity was observed between corresponding rabbit and chicken light chains, confirming other indications of homology between these proteins in the two species.
(13) Acute isovolemic anemia was produced in anesthetized chickens by serial exchanges of 6% dextran 70 equal to 1% of body weight to quantitate cardiovascular and metabolic parameters.
(14) Specific antibodies against G streptococcal binding proteins prepared in chickens inhibited binding of 125I-Hp to group G and group A streptococci, but not to Actinomyces pyogenes.
(15) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(16) The size of KM of neuraminidase is similar in all chicken influenza virus strains their antigenic formula is suggested [A(GP6-H3N2)].
(17) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(18) In one series of trials, spleen cells from strains of chickens with differing levels of susceptibility to MD tumors were stimulated with graded doses of Concanavalin A (Con A) or phytohemagglutin (PHA).
(19) These data indicate that ochratoxin A by itself does not cause hemorrhagic anemia syndrome of chickens and that an anemia caused by a nutritional deficiency can be elicited by a mycotoxin.
(20) The virus neutralizing (VN) titers were occasionally lower where the polyvalent vaccines were used when compared to those from chickens given the monovalent vaccines.