(n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have the president of the tribunal, Sir Michael Burton, arguing that his work needs to be done in secret to secure the trust and co-operation of the intelligence services – but what about the trust of the British people and the confidence of the lawyers who seek to establish the rights of ordinary members of the public?
(2) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(3) We describe a modified procedure of the diphenylamine-colorimetric method for assay of DNA that is shorter than the procedure described by Burton.
(4) University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB), lauded by Hunt as one of the best in the world, is supporting two – George Eliot hospital in Nuneaton and Burton Hospitals NHS foundation trust.
(5) Alfred was previously portrayed by Michael Caine in Christopher Nolan 's Dark Knight trilogy and the late Michael Gough in the earlier Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher movies.
(6) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(7) The club’s financial problems are likely to have a significant effect on the kind of manager Birmingham are able to attract and it remains to be seen whether someone like Rowett, who has impressed during his time in charge of Burton Albion, would be prepared to take that leap of faith.
(8) Finally, Sybil Burton gave in, claiming cruelty and that her husband was "in the constant company of another woman," which Newsweek called "the throwaway line of the decade".
(9) Bill Burton, the deputy White House press secretary, stonewalled today when asked by reporters whether he supported going after people who may have committed crimes.
(10) Hill-Burton hospital audits have revealed widespread facility noncompliance.
(11) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
(12) 7.40pm BST If you were wondering why Seagulls no like Eagles and vice versa And why Dom the Glazier put the word 'rival' in quotation marks, here is my colleague Simon Burton's investigation .
(13) It had already been reported that the major bovine retina ganglioside was GD3 (Handa, S. & Burton, R.M.
(14) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
(15) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
(16) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
(17) Levy, Heller, Banich, and Burton (1983) have shown that hemispheric activational, or arousal, style, as measured by direction and consistency of choice of the "happer face" on a free-viewing Chimeric Faces Test, is highly reliable and varies across individuals who otherwise presumably have similar cortical organization (e.g., right-handed college students).
(18) Burton refused lawyers acting on behalf of Peach's friends and family access to the Cass report.
(19) In truth, in those years just before she met Burton, Liz Taylor was doing whatever Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer told her and going nowhere.
(20) The Hill-Burton program offers a rare opportunity to study a distributive health policy from its adoption to its elimination.