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Circumnavigation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even as Germany and Austria have moved in recent days to streamline the movement of refugees from Hungary towards western Europe, people smugglers have found brisk business in helping desperate refugees circumnavigate a European asylum system that seems as weighted against them as ever.
  • (2) So there’s a bunch of design work that we can do and is very, very important.” Circular economy: the top five stories of 2014 Read more Ellen MacArthur, who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe and is now a leading activist in creating a circular economy, also said changes in all sectors of society are needed.
  • (3) Unless there are plans to circumnavigate the statute book, then a separate hybrid bill will have to be introduced."
  • (4) Nuclear circumnavigation generally proceeded in one direction, could be in similar or opposite direction in neighboring myelinating SCs on the same axon, and was not proportional to the number of major dense lines within the myelin sheath.
  • (5) O'Brien today criticised the INM board for "considering refinancing proposals which would be highly dilutive" and accused the company of attempting to "circumnavigate" shareholders.
  • (6) The Mount Pleasant depot, so big it takes a good 10 minutes to circumnavigate on foot, is itself a symbol of the assets potentially on offer to purchasers of the Royal Mail .
  • (7) These include (a) Gelfilm (no-graft) induction of tympanic membrane regrowth; (b) the use of tragal cartilage and perichondrium in columellization and in Type III neomyringostapediopexy; (c) the use of laboratory-prefabricated ossicular homografts to correct malleal-capitulum and malleal-footplate discontinuities more precisely; and (d) the circumferential approach (circumnavigation of patient's head) and anterior position of the surgeon in order to visualize the sinus tympani, retropyramidal, and retrofacial areas, obviating extensive posterior tympanotomy bone dissections.
  • (8) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian MacArthur, who broke the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005, says fundamental reform is needed.
  • (9) She said: "Legislation is required to prevent abortion providers establishing subsidiary counselling organisations in order to circumnavigate the new requirement.
  • (10) Yet, with the players having returned for pre-season preparations earlier this week, Brighton have now circumnavigated that issue by securing García, who departed Tel Aviv at the end of last season citing personal reasons, in the newly created brief.
  • (11) Four human subjects each moved his nondominant arm between an upper target and a lower target, while circumnavigating a barrier that extended outward from the vertical plane of the targets.
  • (12) The island can be reached from the mainland on the Ilala passenger ferry, which passes through on its weekly circumnavigation of the lakeshore.
  • (13) On Thursday he sounded hoarse and shrill as he poured scorn on opponents for the umpteenth time, causing much amusement among Twitter users merrily circumnavigating the ban .
  • (14) For an exciting and downright hair-raising trip try circumnavigating the island on an offshore powerboat.
  • (15) Although Actel makes a big claim that their devices are extremely secure because there is no physical path for the configuration data to be read to the outside world, a back door was added with a special key to circumnavigate all the security set by themselves or one of their users."
  • (16) Beaumont held the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle, covering 18,296 miles in 194 days 17 hours.
  • (17) As to Georg Forster a graduation "praemii loco" is concerned in recognition of the excellent achievements in natural sciences of the scientist who took part in the second circumnavigation of the globe by Cook.
  • (18) That leaves Liam Fox to play Sir Francis Drake, looking for domestic glory in global circumnavigation but seen from abroad as a pirate.
  • (19) This image of the one guy circumnavigating the globe in a ludicrous soundtrack of success.
  • (20) Then it's on to Schinoussa, famed for its beaches, and Iraklia, the most mountainous of the Small Cyclades, for a circumnavigation of the island, looking out for dolphins and monk seals on the way.

Flying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fly
  • (v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
  • (2) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
  • (3) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
  • (4) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (5) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
  • (6) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (7) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
  • (8) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
  • (9) It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.” On a day of tension within the party, the former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for activists to stop abusing opposition MPs who were backing airstrikes.
  • (10) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
  • (11) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
  • (12) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
  • (13) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (14) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
  • (15) Police told him he had been placed on the US no-fly list, although he had never in his life been accused of breaking any law.
  • (16) Flies were observed to lack strong host specificity.
  • (17) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
  • (18) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
  • (19) "What I want to do is to fly 100% of the schedule and to remove any uncertainty.
  • (20) It is present throughout development and is as abundant in embryos as in larvae and adult flies.

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