(n.) A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.
(n.) A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Robinson has said that he held talks with Cerberus executives including former US vice-president Dan Quayle to discuss the selloff.
(2) MPs are to look into the sale of £13bn of former Northern Rock mortgages to the US private equity group Cerberus Capital, to examine whether the deal was in the public interest.
(3) Cerberus, whose interest was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is understood to have offered to sign a non disclosure agreement.
(4) While neither the company, nor anyone representing Verbatim Communications Ltd, acted for anyone in the Nama sale to Cerberus, Verbatim Communications fully supports all investigations into the matter whether in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.” The company added that: “Three years ago, Verbatim Communications Ltd was engaged by Tughans to assist with a very successful event relating to third-level education.
(5) Wallace said: “Cerberus have been able to sell loans for double what they paid for them in a very short space of time.
(6) Not far away lies Cape Tenaro, where Hercules is said to have descended into the underworld and tamed Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
(7) Cerberus said it was committed to being a good steward of the assets it had acquired, but lawyers warned the sale could affect borrowers, who are only now being informed of the change in ownership.
(8) Tyrie’s letter on Wednesday to Harriet Baldwin, the economic secretary to the Treasury, said: “Concerns have been raised about the suitability of Cerberus as the buyer of the mortgage book.
(9) The 2014 purchase by Cerberus of €1.6bn of Northern Ireland property assets from the National Asset Management Agency – Ireland’s state-owned “bad bank” – has been the subject of a number of investigations, including by the UK’s National Crime Agency and the US Department of Justice, following claims that a Northern Irish politician was due to receive £7m in payments .
(10) Tyrie’s letter comes after the tax expert and barrister Jolyon Maugham queried the tax implications of the Cerberus purchase, warning that the taxpayer could lose out on future revenues because of the likely structure of the deal.
(11) Cerberus was looking at efficiencies from six gun-makers it acquired to make an industry powerhouse to rival Colt Manufacturing.
(12) Cerberus, named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards Hades , declined to comment on why a Dutch entity had bought the mortgages or whether it would pay the same amount of UK tax as a UK-registered entity would have done.
(13) Cerberus could decide to roll this programme out further.
(14) Last month, Westminster’s Treasury select committee said it would examine the Cerberus acquisition of the former Northern Rock mortgages to establish whether it was in the public interest.
(15) It had now turned, after a period examining dealings with the police, to looking at press relations with politicians, an area in which Campbell, after nine years as Tony Blair's media Cerberus, certainly has an insight.
(16) Any sale of the £17bn of B&B mortgages is likely to be some months away as Ukar is has yet to complete the sell-off of the Northern Rock mortgages – known as the Granite portfolio – to Cerberus.
(17) No Verbatim Communications Ltd employees or representatives facilitated or were in any way involved in the sale of Nama assets to Cerberus.
(18) Northern Rock mortgages are latest gamble for US private equity firm Cerberus Read more Online requests for information about Cerberus European Residential Holdings were met by a statement from the Dutch equivalent of Companies House: “No financial statements have been filed.” A spokesman for Tyrie’s parliamentary committee said: “Seven years after the taxpayer bailed out Northern Rock, it is good news that the chancellor has managed to sell these assets, and at a price above their face value.
(19) In Ireland Cerberus paid just €10,320 in tax over two years, despite combined turnover for 2013 and 2014 of €224m, according to the Irish Times .
(20) Among those involved with Cerberus was the former US vice-president Dan Quayle.
Constellation
Definition:
(n.) A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
(n.) An assemblage of splendors or excellences.
(n.) Fortune; fate; destiny.
Example Sentences:
(1) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(2) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(3) Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common complaints.
(4) The majority of them were able to perceive a connection between their worsened skin condition and the acute psychosocial constellation during their brief stay at home.
(5) First, the uremic syndrome may be viewed as a constellation of abnormalities which can be subgrouped by association so that azotemia may be correlated with neuropathic disease and hypertension with weight gain or body size, for example.
(6) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
(7) If in cases of discussed paternity in the child ahp was revealed and the Hp constellation of the mother: putative father was: Hp 1--1 X 1--1 or 2--2 X 2--2--provided that the paternity with the testing of other blood-group systems could not be excluded--it's necessary to try to identify the true Hp type of the child--since it might give the possibility for exclusion of paternity.
(8) These signal changes appear to make a specific constellation of findings for the diagnosis of vertebral hemangioma with MR imaging.
(9) Furthermore, there were no type differences in the frequency or severity of the symptom constellation reported during a competitive and highly challenging period of time.
(10) A constellation of morphologic abnormalities from all 3 cell lines produces a unique appearance.
(11) Mothers' opinions of their child's temperament constellation differed considerably from those resulting from the questionnaire analysis for the STWU and Difficult constellations.
(12) Its object was to define the angles and measurements within the bony lacrimal structures and to establish possible connections between the development of the postsaccal stenosis and certain bony constellations of the lacrimal system.
(13) As biological discharge phenomena evolve into vague psychological awareness, such an infant does not attain a sense of well-being, but rather attains a sense of "not-well-being" (Joffe and Sandler, 1965) which remains continuous or can be triggered--kindled--by any reactivating constellation, and the object is experienced as a source of unpleasure.
(14) The only contraindication to emergency portacaval shunt is the combined presence of ascites, jaundice, encephalopathy, and severe muscle wasting, a constellation that was incompatible with survival beyond one year.
(15) We describe an epidemic involving the explosive onset and rapid resolution of a constellation of symptoms that sent 17 seventh and eighth grade students and four teachers to the emergency department of a hospital after an apparent toxic gas exposure.
(16) When faced with the constellation of symptoms, including a delayed (two to three weeks) spiking plateau postoperative fever, abnormal results of hepatic function test and lymphocytosis in patients having received blood transfusion, the clinician must give serious consideration to the possibility of CMV infection.
(17) Thus, the helix-helix interaction in long coiled coils is characteristic of a global free energy minimum and not just of the regional constellation of side chains.
(18) There is no specific constellation of lymphocytic markers in peripheral blood which could indicate true thymic hyperplasia.
(19) The superego constellations in guilty, binge, sociopathic, and deteriorated alcoholics are delineated to explain the interaction of a treatment program with these patients.
(20) "There will be challenges as a result of cancelling Constellation, [but] the funding for Nasa is increasing, so we expect to support as many if not more jobs."