(v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
(n.) A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
(2) For the next three years, Foxtons suffered collapsing sales and staff culls.
(3) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(4) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(5) Even when carried out rigorously, culling does very little to help.
(6) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(7) The results show a decreased physiological response in the animals culled with the mixture, characterised by lower total catecholamine, cortisol and glucose concentrations.
(8) Its instrumentation and organisation are described and a consecutive sample of 1000 ECGs culled from the 50,000 computerised since its inception are discussed.
(9) Even in zoos voted the best in Europe, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society has pointed out, there can be enough evidence of animals behaving abnormally, or a casual approach to culling any surplus, to avoid them or, ideally, close them down.
(10) The planned cull had suffered a series of blows recently, including the discovery of up to twice as many badgers in the culling zones than expected, driving up the cost and complexity of the cull.
(11) What the National Farmers' Union and Tories have achieved with this policy is to reinvigorate the animal rights movement and particularly hunt saboteurs, whose numbers have swelled massively since the culls began.
(12) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(13) Also on Monday, rock musician and leading opponent of the cull Brian May issued a call for Paterson to resign, claiming he had failed to meet the public's expectation of "honesty and transparency".
(14) A spreadsheet program was written to perform decision tree analysis for control of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease), when testing all adults in a herd and culling all animals with positive test results.
(15) The cull was implemented at four other sites owned by the same company and at a sixth farm less than a kilometre from the site of the confirmed outbreak.
(16) Earnest confirmed some departures were likely as “members of the president’s staff to use the opportunity of the election” to leave the White House and “sort of engage in a transition”, but he rejected suggestions of a cull of big names.
(17) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
(18) The government confirmed on Tuesday that the second year of the cull had begun, sparking outrage from animal rights activists, campaigners and opposition politicians who claim it is cruel and ineffective.
(19) Current recipients of SCC data used the data more frequently than did past recipients of the SCC data to evaluate mastitis treatment or control, choose cows to cull, identify cows to dry off early, indicate herd infection, and evaluate mastitis control.
(20) The risk is that it removes relatively few badgers; then the worst case scenario is not just the loss of the risk reduction observed in the RBCT but the possibility of actually increasing the risk to local cattle herds (such as observed in reactively culled areas of the RBCT).
Cult
Definition:
(n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.
(n .) A system of religious belief and worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(2) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(3) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
(4) But its films, carefully tied to the personal cult of Hayao Miyazaki , are so distinctive, so Ghibli, that they don't seem to belong with traditional anime.
(5) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
(6) He promised targeted powers to enable the UK to deal with the facilitators and cult leaders to stop them “peddling their hatred”.
(7) Cult superhero Meanwhile, Channel 4 has the E4 games portal, and its cross-platform team commissions simple web-based games to accompany shows, like the cult superhero comedy, Misfits.
(8) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
(9) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A group of children embrace in front of floral tributes left outside Cults academy in Aberdeen.
(11) Do they attack him – as the retiring veteran Queensland National party senator Ron Boswell urges – call him out as a cult of personality fuelled by gimmicks to try to stop him extending his influence.
(12) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
(13) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
(14) His war plan suggests possible outcomes such as "Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation ... Islam reduced to cult status".
(15) I have a clear view that if this is a part of international action against [Isis], that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good,” said the British prime minister.
(16) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
(17) I suspect he's happy to be cult, but would hate to be seen as cool.
(18) Yet chiropractic remains, in the opinion of medical commentators, an unscientific healing cult.
(19) This is a place where you could find animal sacrifices by the Santeria religious cult at an Audubon Society nature preserve.
(20) Skin tests on patients suffering from pollinosis suggest frequently an antigenic relationship between various grass and cult.