(n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
(n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.
(n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.
(n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
(v. i.) To serve in a campaign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(7) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(8) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(9) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(10) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(11) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(12) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(13) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(14) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(15) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(16) When we trained on it, my heart sunk,” Coleman said after his side began their Euro 2016 campaign with a nervous victory.
(17) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(18) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(19) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(20) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
Flusher
Definition:
(n.) A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
(n.) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study of male current drinkers showed that typical flushers drank less alcohol than did atypical and nonflushers, but there was no observed difference between the drinking patterns of atypical flushers and nonflushers.
(2) However, this study demonstrated that cultural factors such as embarrassment also contribute to lower alcohol consumption by flushers.
(3) The relative concentrations of ethanol and acetaldehyde in blood and that of acetate in alcohol metabolism could be summarized as follows: 7500 (15 mM): 1-3 (2-5 microM); 250-400 (0.5-0.8 mM) for non-flushers; and 7500 (15 mM): 5-10 (10-20 microM): 250-400 (0.5-0.8 mM) for a flusher.
(4) Ethanol concentrations of flushers and nonflushers were similar.
(5) Chlorpropamide alcohol flushers appeared to be more sensitive to ethanol.
(6) This study examined whether lower consumption of alcohol among flushers was correlated with cultural factors such as embarrassment over flushing as well as with biological factors among Japanese in Japan and Japanese-Americans using data from a joint Japan-U.S. collaborative survey.
(7) The mean alcohol intake differed significantly between groups: (1) habitat--Japanese versus Japanese-Americans, (2) flushing status--flushers versus nonflushers, and (3) embarrassment about flushing.
(8) Lower alcohol consumption by flushers than by nonflushers has been attributed to differences in physiological reactions to alcohol.
(9) The effects of ethanol and subsequent administration of intravenous naloxone were studied in double-blind, placebo-controlled fashion with a group of six male chlorpropamide alcohol flushers (CPAF) and a group of 13 nonflushing males.
(10) In the non-flushers, on the contrary, no significant increase was observed.
(11) My day as a 'flusher' in the London sewers Read more Back at the surface, Paris’s familiar hustle and bustle suddenly feels like an aggression.
(12) So if you see a flusher emerging from a sewer near you (with or without a python), do say thanks rather than moaning about your blocked toilet or the size of your water bill.
(13) In the flushers, significant increases in the blood acetaldehyde (AcH) level, skin temperature and pulse rate were found.
(14) The percentage of flushers was 68.6% of males and 41.9% of females, non-flushers 18.3%, 11.2%, and unknowns 13.1%, 46.9%, respectively.
(15) We found that "flushers" are found exclusively among subjects without ALDH I, and that their blood levels of acetaldehyde were significantly higher than those of "non-flushers" within 10 min after the block.
(16) There was no difference between the flushers and the non-flushers concerning the change in the blood ethanol (EtOH) level nor the change of P1 and P2 latencies in photopalpebral reflex (PPR).
(17) Flushers are genetically less able to tolerate alcohol than nonflushers and are less likely to become alcoholics.
(18) Since endogenous opiates and prostaglandins may be mediators of flushing syndromes, we attempted to block EIF in four Asian flushers with single doses of either the opiate antagonist nalmefene, or the prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor indomethacin.
(19) Lucky you didn’t faint,” says Vince Minney, who has been a flusher for 26 years.
(20) We determined by means of hybridization of genomic DNA samples with allele specific oligonucleotide probes, genotypes of the ADH2 and ALDH2 loci in Japanese alcohol flushers and nonflushers.