(n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
(v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Right faction pushes to use Young Labor for votes majority at national conference Read more “This change to Labor platform would set two key goals, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions on a 2000 baseline year by 2030, and 50% renewables by the same year,” Corbell told a clean energy summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
(2) The ACT’s deputy chief minister, Simon Corbell, has called on the federal leadership to adopt the Lean position next weekend.
(3) Corbell has not spoken to Brandis directly about the fifth tranche of anti-terrorism laws, but said his department had raised concerns about lowering the age of control orders to 14.
(4) Passengers using regional rail services, however, might well complain that because the great train shed at St Pancras is given over, lock, stock and corbel, to Eurostar services, they have been demoted to platforms under a new, flat concrete, steel and glass roof, described as a "magic carpet" by its architects, set at the very far end of the station and seemingly closer to Manchester than Euston Road.
(5) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, told Guardian Australia there had been a “significant level of harmonisation” in police power and detention laws, and NSW’s threat to break away would represent a “very significant departure” in that harmonisation.
(6) From the dust and soot of the Euston Road rose a Railway Age cathedral, cloth hall and castle, all hammered and crafted into a convincing and enthralling whole, borrowing spires, arches, corbels and crockets from Amiens, Brussels, Ypres and all cardinal gothic points south through the Alps to Verona and Venice.
(7) "Regardless of what happens in the high court, the significance of this moment will remain and send a strong signal about what a contemporary 21st century Australia should look like," ACT attorney-general Simon Corbell said.
(8) Serological comparison of the prototype and an epizootic (Corbell) strain of simian hemorrhagic fever virus revealed that the two viruses were serologically similar.
(9) Serological comparison of the prototype virus grown in tissue culture and its homologous antibody and the prototype and Corbell viruses recovered from rhesus monkey serum and their homologous antibodies showed differences and suggest that a complex relationship exists which has not yet been defined.
(10) It is a leap of faith now to accept Simon Corbell’s assurances that the amendments will make this bill lawful when he’s spent the last few weeks arguing against the need for any such amendments,” Hanson said during the debate.
(11) The prototype strain differs from the Corbell strain in that the latter cannot be cultivated in vitro.
(12) It is very difficult to see justification in extending control orders to people of this age,” Corbell said, adding that children of that age could not independently form the intent required for political and religious extremism.
(13) Hanson criticised Corbell for producing amendments at the last minute, saying they prevented proper scrutiny by the assembly.
(14) It’s a corbelled pigsty,” says Duane Fitzsimons next day, pointing out a tiny medieval stone building near the lighthouse.
(15) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, said the amendments were intended to make it clear that the two legal regimes, the territory law and the commonwealth’s Marriage Act, were envisaged to work concurrently.
(16) Corbell said the territory’s move posed no threat to the commonwealth – and it had been established that the regulation of relationships was a shared power.
Cornel
Definition:
(n.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.
(n.) Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(3) Molecular hybridization experiments to cytoplasmic RNA from similarly contact-exposed conventional Cornell S-line chickens provided further evidence for the occurrence of an interaction between Marek's disease herpesvirus and the avian leukosis virus.
(4) The study group were all pregnant women over 20 primarily cared for and delivered at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center from September 1984- February 1985, excluding those transferred from other institutions for complications.
(5) The control group, which comprised 44 patients referred to the Department for surgical extraction of an impacted tooth, filled in the Cornell Medical Index questionnaire.
(6) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
(7) Now 61, Wolfowitz was born into a Polish Jewish immigrant family, and grew up mainly in the university town of Ithaca, New York, where his father was a professor of statistical theory at Cornell University.
(8) At partitions with a matched specificity of 95%, each voltage-duration product significantly improved sensitivity for the detection of left ventricular hypertrophy when compared with simple voltage criteria alone (Cornell product 51% [48 of 95] vs. Cornell voltage 36% [34 of 95], p < 0.005 and 12-lead product 45% [43 of 95] vs. 12-lead voltage 31% [30 of 95], p < 0.001).
(9) Measurements were made by using a real-time X-ray diffraction method at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.
(10) It's pure ad hominem (in the classic sense of the logical fallacy): "who is "Cornell [ sic ] West" to think that anything he says should be even listened to by "national security professionals"?
(11) External validity and concurrent validity were good for all except the Cornell Scale.
(12) Doxtader, K. G. (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.), and M. Alexander.
(13) He is author of Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press) and can be followed on Twitter at @alexander_betts Join our community of development professionals and humanitarians.
(14) According to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, women favored the Democratic candidate in 2012 by 11 points, 2008 by 13, 2004 by three, and 2000 by 10 points.
(15) Married with two grown-up daughters, Rosenfeld, 56, studied psychology at New York's Cornell University before gaining a PhD in marketing statistics and an MBA.
(16) The Cornell Interview of Peers and Friends (CIPF), a 30-minute semistructured interview, evaluated 7- to 11-year-old children's perceptions of their social relationships.
(17) Depressive and neurotic tendencies were not remarkable at that time by Self-Rating-Depression Scale (SDS) and Cornell Medical Index (CMI) in 42 infertile patients.
(18) I ask what a Cornell box representing Cathy Jamison, Linney's character in the new comedy series The Big C, would consist of.
(19) Euthyroid Cornell K strain and sex-linked dwarf (SLD) strain cockerels (which have abnormally low serum triiodothyronine concentrations) were supplemented with either 0, 0.01, 0.1, or 1.0 ppm of triiodothyronine (T3) in the diet.
(20) Of 142 female patients over age 75 at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 58 underwent radical mastectomy and 40 simple mastectomy for primary breast cancer.