(1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(2) In stage I, a tympanoplasty is performed before transplantation of the carved cartilage framework.
(3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(4) "We carved out a few chances, but it was tough to break them down."
(5) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(6) Syria’s five-year conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, with Kurdish groups carving out their own regions and periodically battling groups from Syria’s Arab majority, whose priority is to overthrow Assad.
(7) It has been awfully hard-won, carved slowly out of a big block of human agony.
(8) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(9) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
(10) By the end of the year, Koizumi's displaced will have moved into homes being built in an area carved into a mountaintop two miles from the coast.
(11) He has urged the prime minister to carve out a British business bank from RBS and give it a mandate to expand rapidly to help cash-starved small businesses, as well as supporting exports and other sectors identified as strategically important.
(12) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(13) A new instrumentation for posterior spinal surgery consists of metallic rods carved with diamond-shaped asperities on which vertebral hooks or screws can be screwed in any position, level, or degree of rotation.
(14) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(15) His face was found carved into tree trunks all over Celtic lands and his hold over the early Britons was so powerful that early Christians relented and adopted the green man's image as a force for good and a symbol of new life and renewal.
(16) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(17) But as the dust settled, the spacecraft's cameras looked down on a landscape carved by ancient river systems.
(18) That would imply setting a global carbon budget of how much the world could emit in future, which would then have to be carved up among all countries.
(19) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(20) It is possible Aquascutum could be carved up between the two, as YGM wants its south-east Asian operations.
Primarily
Definition:
(adv.) In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(2) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(3) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(4) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(5) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
(6) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(7) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(8) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(9) Degradation of both viral and host DNA with micrococcal nuclease and spleen phosphodiesterase indicated that CdG was incorporated primarily into internal positions in both DNAs.
(10) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(11) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(12) Release of nsP4 from P1234 appears to be independent of the other cleavages and occurs primarily immediately after translation.
(13) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(14) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
(15) (1) Gastrin release is suppressed primarily by direct contact of acid with the antrum.
(16) at 13:00 h which restored DNA replication to follicles of Stages 2-10: FSH acted primarily on Stages 2-5 and LH on Stages 5-10.
(17) Twenty cases of advanced testicular tumors treated primarily by PVB therapy were reviewed.
(18) Management may be by regional anesthesia or primarily medical.
(19) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
(20) These results suggest that weight change during smoking reduction and cessation may be primarily due to changes in factors other than caloric intake or activity.