(1) Clegg's most recent act of clegging was to explain to this newspaper that the Institute of Fiscal Studies was wrong to brand the spending review "unfair".
(2) Years from now, teachers will ask their pupils to stop "clegging on" about how the dog ate their homework and just bloody hand it in on time.
(3) "I think you have to call a spade a spade," he clegged, immediately before demonstrating his commitment to straightforward language by querying the definition of the word "fair".
(4) The previous administration's simplistic "culture of how you measure fairness", was partly to blame for the Institute's foolishness, clegged Clegg in a cleggish tone of voice.
Tabanid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This, and the fact that BLV-infected lymphocytes were recovered from tabanids allowed to feed on a BLV-positive cow, supports the idea that bloodsucking insects play a major role in the spread of BLV.
(2) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
(3) The ability of tabanid mouthparts to retain and to transfer mechanically Ehrlichia risticii Holland, Weiss, Burgdorfer, Cole & Kakoma was evaluated by feeding flies on infected and noninfected mice and on capillary tubes containing infected cells and cell-free medium.
(4) All these data combined would appear to indicate that tabanids play a considerable role in the spread of BLV under natural conditions.
(5) Therefore, more tabanids attach themselves to old animals than to young ones.
(6) The recapture data after the first day of marking was significantly delayed for tabanids that fed on fenvalerate-sprayed bullocks.
(7) The low A. marginale reactor rate in this white-tailed deer population was probably a reflection of the lack of cohabitation between cattle and deer and the fact that the primary arthropod vectors in Louisiana are tabanids.
(8) Where samples were large enough, the preferred alighting sites were determined for the tabanids, and differences in such sites were found for species in three genera.
(9) No isolates were obtained from greater than 4,000 tabanids collected along with the mosquitoes those years.
(10) Tabanids were collected during 2 consecutive summers from 3 counties in New York using a canopy trap and insect net.
(11) Traps baited with octenol + phenols, with or without acetone, caught the greatest numbers of tabanids.
(12) Lower tabanid burden of foals was indicated as a practical protective mechanism against pathogenic agents mechanically transmitted by tabanids, such as equine infectious anemia virus.
(13) Based on the presence of nulliparous host-seeking flies, Tabanus pallidescens Philip and T. wilsoni Pechuman can be added to the list of tabanids found to be anautogenous.
(14) These studies document that E. risticii-infected cells can be retained on mouthparts and potentially transferred by tabanids.
(15) In only one of the 4 cases, a tick-bite can be asserted, the role in the the transmission of this kind of arthropods being strictly excluded in 2 of the 3 other cases (transmission likely by a mosquito and by a biting fly (tabanid?)).
(16) Tabanids were collected in an area in northern Germany, where pastured cattle were abundant.
(17) The paper concerns the possibility of decreasing the number of tabanid flies on pastures by means of ball- and funnel-shaped traps (of the Manitoba type) with insecticides and expediency of using the above method for the cattle protection that prevents the milk productivity loss by 6.7 to 8.3%.
(18) Parity, stage of follicular development, sperm and fructose presence were determined for 6 tabanid species from southwestern Quebec during 2 consecutive years.
(19) This is clearly seen in host-location strategies by tsetse and tabanids.
(20) Meteorological effects on activity were studied during 2 weeks of peak tabanid abundance.