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Calmer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
  • (2) Fewer complaints and calmer policing, said Farrar, would reduce lawsuits and expensive payouts.
  • (3) We’ve expressed our concern about the need to try to establish a calmer, more rule-of-law based, less confrontational regime” in the disputed areas, Kerry said.
  • (4) The coalition itself, while in calmer mood, had previously repealed these same powers for the very good reason that they didn’t work.
  • (5) Good, but nutmeg would have been a calmer addition than the red pepper.
  • (6) I think it gave [Sandy] the additional spirit to get through the hearing.” Fry, too, seemed to be much calmer than he was during the tense standoff the day prior, Arnold said.
  • (7) I just thought, “Yeah, Jol has told you what I’m like and has told you to do that.” It seems strange to say it after a third incident, but I have improved, I am calmer.
  • (8) Yesterday pressure on bond yields eased, with the cost of benchmark 10-year yields dropping for both Italy and Spain as markets enjoyed a calmer day.
  • (9) However, 15 patients felt calmer and 29 patients (90.6%) stated that the purpose of requesting access to their records had been fulfilled.
  • (10) In contrast to the days when dealers would surge around the British Telecom pitch on the stock exchange floor, waving their hands, thrusting pieces of paper forward and trying to drown out competitors by shouting buy or sell orders as loudly as possible, the trading these days is superficially calmer, mostly done electronically, with just the odd phone call.
  • (11) Hunt mentioned the scandal at Mid Staffordshire hospital several times and Burnham placed a strong focus on the cost of agency staff: Guardian Healthcare (@GdnHealthcare) Burnham: "Trusts are in the grip of private staffing agencies" #healthdebate April 21, 2015 There were calmer interjections from the Lib Dem’s Lamb who focused on mental health provision throughout and Ukip’s representative Reid.
  • (12) Feeling calmer was the most frequently reported effect and daily smokers were more likely to report this than non-daily smokers (64% versus 38%, P less than 0.001).
  • (13) "They're a lot calmer than when they arrived," she says.
  • (14) It was a game that got away from us and we could have lost it in the end, which would have been a travesty.” While Villa did not play like a side in trouble, points are ultimately what matter and Lambert still has to convince all of his side’s supporters that he is the man to lead the club into calmer waters.
  • (15) Half-an-hour after the US open a calmer sense of perspective emerged as the FTSE traded 100 points above its early morning low.
  • (16) Elsewhere, in Gombe district, where Kabila cast his vote, the scene was much calmer, with people casting their votes in 15 minutes and describing the process as orderly.Jean-Pierre Okito, 45, a designer based in South Africa , said he had returned to vote for the first time in his life, choosing Kabila.
  • (17) If you can make it through that, calmer waters await.
  • (18) Now I go to anger management classes, and well, I am a lot calmer now.
  • (19) Prospects for a calmer, more technocratic debate about migration policy do not look good: the public looks too divided, the rejectionist minority are too angry and – thanks to Ukip – too politically entrenched.
  • (20) "However, when the imam appeared they spoke calmly, and the situation became calmer and people were less concerned.

Calver


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.
  • (v. i.) To crimp; as, calvered salmon.
  • (v. i.) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore from the economic aspect it appears to be profitable to replace productive, but ill, older dairy cows by healthy first-calvers because the negative effect of the mastitis on the production of milk increases with every successive lactation.
  • (2) The effect of the last developmental phase of the warble fly (Hypoderma bovis de Greer) larvas was studied as exerted on some health indices of milk in 20 experimental (treated) and 18 control (untreated) first-calvers of the Pinzgau breed at two localities of an area affected by bovine hypodermosis in the period from May to June, 1975.
  • (3) Simon Calver, the chief executive, said: "We are continuing to make fundamental improvements to our business in the UK, which will allow us to compete effectively in a changing marketplace.
  • (4) 'I feel good because I'm helping people' THE MUM: Kate Calver, 50, secondary school teacher Just before giving birth to Sophie, I was approached by the research team who asked me to be in the study.
  • (5) Apart from a higher effect, especially in the compensation of hypomagnesiaemia and metabolic acidosis, the use of the new supplement in first-calver stocks allows to reduce the total financial costs of mineral feed supplements by 20%.
  • (6) In three groups of first-calvers with 15 animals each, with an identical basal diet, we followed for six months the effect of the DOB mixture additive without fat, the DOB mixture with 5% of rendering-plant fat obtained mechanically and DOB with 5% of rendering-plant fat after perchlorethylene extraction (0.90% perchlorethylene residuum).
  • (7) The Lovefilm chief executive, Simon Calver, said: "The deal is a winner for the members who love Lovefilm because of its value, choice, convenience and innovation in home entertainment "With Amazon's unequivocal support we can significantly enhance our members' experience across Europe."
  • (8) "However, it is an unfortunate reality that building union officials often hide behind employee conduct and the actions of the FWBC will bring home to workers the consequences of blindly following union demands," said Richard Calver, acting chief executive of Master Builders.
  • (9) The calves of the Red Spotted breed and their first-calver mothers were subject to the study of total proteinemia and of the changes in protein fractions before parturition and in a ten-day period of post-partal development.
  • (10) Twelve calves of the Red Spotted breed and its crossbreds born by first-calvers, kept in a large-capacity stable of a dairy farm, were subject to the study of the ontogenetic development of the values of the blood picture from birth up to the 10th day of age.
  • (11) Preferably 10 sera from each of the yearling, first calver, second calver and older age groups should be tested.
  • (12) Chief executive Simon Calver, who joined Mothercare from LoveFilm last April, admitted the mother and baby retailer was being "squeezed in the middle" as supermarkets beat it on price at the bottom end and luxury brands, such as The White Company, stole some high-end customers.
  • (13) In none of the followed health indices of milk were significant differences in the values obtained from experimental and control first-calvers proved statistically.
  • (14) We investigated the effect of hypodermosis on the quantitative and some qualitative indicators of milk from 20 experimental and 18 control first-calvers of the Pinzgau cattle breed.
  • (15) After calving, the haemorrhages tended to disappear rapidly from the claws of the heifers, but no such recovery was evident in the second calvers and mature cows.
  • (16) Calver said Lovefilm has seen "very, very strong" uptake in streaming from games consoles, which it introduced in March last year, but that physical rentals were also performing "confidently" and "continuing at pace".
  • (17) In 77% of the cows and first-calvers of the experimental group the quality of colostrum complied with the standard; in the case of the control animals this proportion was 83%.
  • (18) It was administered to about 7300 highly pregnant heifers and first-calvers at rates of 0.15 to 0.2 kg per head and day.
  • (19) "It's the customers who decide whether to go for digital or physical rentals – that's why we're developing a hybrid proposition," Calver told the Guardian.
  • (20) A field trial was performed in two half-sib first-calver groups of the Bohemiam Spotted breed.

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