(n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
(n.) An embankment against inundation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Sue Anne Tay In 2008, a group of Shanghai urban planning academics and advisers, led by the respected preservationist Professor Ruan Yisan (responsible for championing the Bund restoration), proposed to local authorities to preserve 111 historically significant shikumen neighbourhoods.
(2) He expects total outflows of about €800m, including conversions into German bunds [bonds] and other such things."
(3) The propose analysed the main percentages be bunded in Literature.
(4) But the deal's deliberate opaqueness, mixed with uncertainly over how long it would take for the money to be paid out, saw spreads soar again this week, with the difference in yields between Greek and benchmark German 10-year bunds increasing to about 4.15% yesterday.
(5) 9.04pm BST 60 min: There's plenty of tiki taka on display, but it's all coming from Bayern, who triangluate beautifully down the right, their supporters indulging in some loud bundes¡olé!
(6) Money also flowed into German government debt, a classic safe haven, driving down the yield on bunds.
(7) This narrowed the spread between 10-year gilts and Bunds - a barometer of investor sentiment - to 92 basis points from 96 basis points yesterday.
(8) Behind us was the Bund, the waterfront of aristocratic Italian Renaissance and art deco buildings that sprang up at the start of the 20th century, the last commercial frenzy in the city.
(9) The yield on German 10-year bunds fell to a new low of 0.718% as investors abandoned shares for the relative safety of government bonds.
(10) "With any luck we will start to see those Bund spreads coming down over the next few months and that should improve prospects for growth," she said.
(11) It estimates that if yields could fall back relative to German government bonds - also know as Bunds - to a spread last seen in January it would improve Greece's large deficit by 0.9% of GDP and also significantly boost growth.
(12) 12 Shortly you will come to a path running along the Bund on your right.
(13) Government costs of borrowing : German government Bunds rally - making it cheaper for Germany to borrow as investors seek a safe haven.
(14) On Monday, as the euro fell on the foreign exchanges, the Greek stock market plunged and investors piled into the safe haven of German bunds, it no longer seems quite so far-fetched.
(15) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
(16) More here : German Oct trade surplus narrows, gives euro zone cheer 8.15am GMT Chinese trade surplus hits five-year high A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning.
(17) At 9am there were a few hundred students near the Bund, Shanghai's river-front, several thousand more in People's Square and hundreds more here and there throughout the downtown area.
(18) Spain's main Ibex 35 stock index rallied on the report, up 1.6% by lunchtime, while the spread between Spanish government bonds and their equivalent German Bunds narrowed.
(19) The world has been sorely disappointed," said Hubert Weiger, head of Germany's association for environment and nature protection, Bund.
(20) • US 10-year Treasury yield: 2.88%, down from 2.97% overnight • UK 10-year gilt yield : 2.93%, down from 3% overnight • German 10-year bund yield : 1.94%, down from 2.04% overnight Updated at 2.02pm BST 1.55pm BST Economics professor Nouriel Roubini insists today's jobs data means the US Fed should not slow its stimulus programme yet: Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Q2 growth is 1.9% ex inv.
Enclosure
Definition:
(n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
(3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
(6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
(7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
(9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
(10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
(11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
(12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
(13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
(14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
(15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
(16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
(17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
(18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
(19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
(20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.