(n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(2) They examine capstone courses and internships among other strategies.
(3) The author presents a method for addressing these critical issues that evolved over a period of 11 years between the 3274th Army Hospital (1000B), a Reserve unit in Durham, North Carolina and its CAPSTONE, Womack MEDDAC, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
(4) Simple, stereotyped positional changes transform cells from lateral locations in the plate to posterior locations in the tube; bilateral partners shear their midline positions to form the keel, and ectodermal cells zipper up dorsally to form the capstone, of a tube which is four cells in cross section posteriorly, but more complex anteriorly.
(5) Updated at 11.15pm GMT 9.34pm GMT The Obama administration played down the launch of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile as a routine test on Tuesday and not a new provocation in the wake of Moscow’s conquest of the Crimean peninsula, writes the Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman (@ attackerman ): In what looked like a capstone to a week of provocations from Vladimir Putin, state media reported that Russia test-fired a long-range missile , the sort capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
(6) How much is Murdoch prepared to pay for the capstone of his career?
(7) Program development has been effected through the "capstone" concept, which allows for transfer of technical credit in one's specialty, capped by teacher education courses and concentrated courses to enhance one's expertise in the teaching role.
(8) The authors describe a capstone experience for the nursing major, proposing mechanisms for developing and evaluating a capstone in the baccalaureate nursing curriculum.
(9) Democrats hailed it as an “emphatic capstone” on the economic legacy of Barack Obama.
(10) A capstone, the integrative end-of-program experience in the major, allows students to synthesize their learning with a focus toward their future practices and shows achievement of curriculum goals.
(11) When you are the guardian of an organisation’s reputation, being advised of a developing situation at a late stage can be frustrating.” What you need to get there: A degree that encourages clear communication and analytical thinking, such as English or Law, is favoured over people with degrees in PR, communications and marketing, says Jamie McLaughlin, MD of PR recruitment firm Capstone Hill.
Kingpin
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Example Sentences:
(1) The death of Esparragoza would be the second blow to the Sinaloa cartel this year, following the February arrest of its most famous kingpin, Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán .
(2) Mexican police and soldiers have arrested Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, giving President Enrique Peña Nieto his second capture of a kingpin in less than a week.
(3) The strategy pursued by successive Mexican governments of going after criminal kingpins has resulted in numerous spectacular arrests and takedowns and weakened several important cartels.
(4) In the short term, Guzmán’s escape is more of a political than a security question,” the specialist website Insight Crime said, highlighting the way his arrest had been greeted in the US as proof that the Mexican government was both willing and able to go after even the biggest kingpins.
(5) Life after El Chapo: a year on from drug kingpin’s capture, business is blooming Read more This is clearest, he says, in the lack of judicial action against collaborators of the world’s most infamous narco, the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, arrested a year ago amid much fanfare.
(6) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(7) In his final audio released at the end of last year, the kingpin said he regretted all the violence he had overseen.
(8) La Tuta captured: Mexico's flamboyant primary teacher turned drug kingpin Read more In recent days the Mexican government has celebrated the capture of two top cartel suspects: on Wednesday Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the notoriously brutal Zetas drug cartel, was caught in the northern city of Monterrey .
(9) The recapture of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will have no impact on Mexico’s multibillion-dollar drug trade unless he is extradited to the United States, experts have warned.
(10) It was accused of scheming with Iran to hide billions of pounds’ worth of transactions from the authorities, leaving the financial system susceptible to “terrorists” and “drug kingpins”.
(11) Peter Sands, the chief executive of Standard Chartered, came out fighting against accusations by a US regulator that the British bank conspired with Iranian clients to move $250bn (£160bn) around the financial system for terrorists and "drug kingpins" as he attempted to repair the bank's battered reputation.
(12) One of the world's most sought after cocaine kingpins was hunted down and captured in Colombia yesterday in the toughest blow against the country's drugs trade in more than a decade.
(13) In recent months Beltran Leyva had begun leaving messages beside his victims signed by El Jefe de Jefes , the Boss of Bosses, although few took the claim seriously in a context where much of the violence stems from the inability of any kingpin to establish hegemony over the others, or even lasting alliances.
(14) This announcement marks the first steps in a sensible return to realign funding, focus and efforts into moving away from a largely prohibitionist approach to the much more effective approach of harm minimisation.” The justice minister, Michael Keenan, said local police were working with intelligence and policy agencies in Mexico, Iran, China and other countries to stop the drug from entering the country and to arrest drug kingpins.
(15) Many say his government’s assault on drug cartels and arrest of kingpins actually fueled the growth of Sinaloa and its major rival, the Zetas, which are now going head-to-heard for lucrative territory.
(16) Thai authorities have since arrested dozens of people, including a powerful mayor and a man named Soe Naing, otherwise known as Anwar, who was accused of being one of the trafficking kingpins in southern Thailand.
(17) The assigned reporter first ruled out initial information that the missing body was Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán – the leader of the Sinaloa cartel and the most famous of Mexico's many kingpins.
(18) The accusations followed claims from the family, housemates and neighbours of Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe that the 29-year-old had been mistaken for Medhanie Yehdego Mered, a 35-year-old smuggling kingpin supposedly deported from Sudan on Wednesday.
(19) The government has been heavily criticised for its inability to stop the flow and for turning a blind eye to so-called kingpins linked to the large and influential Chinese community in the country.
(20) Taking down the biggest kingpins has undoubtedly weakened several formerly powerful cartels, but it also appears to have provided the Jalisco-based cartel with opportunities for growth and expansion.