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Consignation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state.
  • (n.) The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification.
  • (n.) A stamp; an indication; a sign.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
  • (2) If we do not act now we will consign the cherished principles of equality before the law and access to justice to the dustbin of history, and as we approach the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta that would be an ironic tragedy.” An MoJ spokesperson said: “We note the judgment and will carefully consider our next steps.
  • (3) On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria .
  • (4) The inability to close the eyelids voluntarily is, with these types of lesion, a transient sign which is rapidly replaced by difficulty in maintaining the consign.
  • (5) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
  • (6) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
  • (7) "Thus we cannot just consign to the backburner the question of the European spirit.
  • (8) The tiny republic said it would consign the Yugoslav federation to history unless its ultimatum was met within days.
  • (9) Davis seemed unaware he had consigned himself to the backbenches, telling the BBC: "I may or may not be on the backbenches … This issue matters more to me than my job."
  • (10) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
  • (11) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
  • (12) Or a week's worth of manic negotiation has consigned two decades of corporation strategy to history.
  • (13) Selective pre-enrichment of 5 g of sample prior to plating on to a solid media disclosed that 2,7% of consignments were contaminated with Salmonella.
  • (14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
  • (15) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
  • (16) But the US, Israel and other western spy agencies have also spent years slipping faulty parts into black market consignments of equipment heading to Iran – each designed to wreak havoc inside the delicate machinery requirement for enrichment.
  • (17) It was after the Indian wars of the 1870s that the indigenous tribes started to be consigned to reservations – on the worst, most desolate lands for grazing or growing crops.
  • (18) For this purpose an assessment was carried out of the risk of accepting Salmonella contaminated consignments of foods, despite a negative outcome of (i) examination of 1.5 kg samples for Salmonella; (ii) examination of one or two 1 g samples for Enterobacteriaceae; (iii) simultaneous application of both tests.
  • (19) Voluntarily consigned to the margins, he is ideally placed to embrace the marginalised.
  • (20) But it's that very poverty of expectation, Birbalsingh argues, which consigns them to failure.

Stamp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
  • (v. i.) To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
  • (v. i.) To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
  • (v. i.) To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
  • (v. i.) To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
  • (v. i.) To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.
  • (v. i.) To strike the foot forcibly downward.
  • (n.) The act of stamping, as with the foot.
  • (n.) The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
  • (n.) The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
  • (n.) that which is marked; a thing stamped.
  • (v. t.) A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
  • (v. t.) An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
  • (v. t.) Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
  • (v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
  • (v. t.) A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
  • (v. t.) Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
  • (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
  • (v. t.) A half-penny.
  • (v. t.) Money, esp. paper money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (2) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (3) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (4) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
  • (5) On Friday, Sollecito had his passport taken away and his ID card stamped to show he must not leave Italy, according to police.
  • (6) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
  • (7) This means 9 in 10 first time buyers will pay no stamp duty at all.
  • (8) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
  • (9) The IFRC announced it was expanding its operations in the three countries in a bid to stamp out the virus now that the case numbers have been reduced to between 20 and 27 a week, compared to hundreds a week at the disease’s peak.
  • (10) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
  • (11) That means that the money being spent on food stamps is money that the government is paying to subsidize company profits: as businesses pay a minimum or near-minimumwage, their workers are forced to turn to government programs to make ends meet.
  • (12) But to leave with the result 1-0, I don’t believe too much that he can play.” Mourinho had actually walked on to the turf while his players celebrated their opening goal to stamp in some of the divots.
  • (13) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
  • (14) Labour’s promise of a stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers will lead to higher house prices.
  • (15) First class stamps prices are rising by 1p, while a second class stamp will rise by the same amount to 55p.
  • (16) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
  • (17) Committees too often rubber stamp these ingenious schemes with little real scrutiny.
  • (18) The final bill will most likely crack down on states that give recipients $1 in heating assistance in order to trigger higher food stamp benefits, a change that wouldn't take people completely off the rolls.
  • (19) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
  • (20) Buy-to-let investors rush to complete before stamp duty rise Read more Even Osborne’s form of penalising the market, through higher stamp duty, makes no sense.

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