(1) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
(2) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(3) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
(4) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
(5) None of which stopped the gold-digger stories, which went through a highly hostile chapter when she and Bridge had a court hearing about child maintenance.
(6) Diggers have also been working to widen the mouth of the river to ensure that the mud drifts out to sea as quickly as possible, in the hope that the salinity and the volume of water will aid its rapid dispersal.
(7) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
(8) After a morning of tearing at the same ground two decades on, the digger overheated and had to be rested.
(9) A few dozen workers from the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an arm of the Pakistani military, have been making slow progress picking at the massive dam with mechanical diggers and explosives.
(10) He knows where the Chernobyl bodies are buried, he says, because he was the grave digger.
(11) Digger will not argue with the analysis that people should not try to rehabilitate their own reputations at the expense of English international relations in football.
(12) Still, Dughan took them roundabout ways, through Blythborough, on the A145 towards Uggeshall, past still diggers where roads were being widened.
(13) But any digger hoping for the kind of gold bars you see in heist movies would have been disappointed.
(14) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
(15) Pigment granule migration in pigment cells and retinula cells of the digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith was analysed morphologically after light adaptation to natural light, dark adaptation and after four selective chromatic adaptations in the range between 358 nm and 580 nm and used as the index of receptor cell sensitivity.
(16) Despite the daily pulling of toddlers through the roll call of highlights – Digger!
(17) A digger was then used to extract the car which had been flattened by the landslide and crushed by the root system of a large tree.
(18) Black diggers fought and died for a nation that denied them the right to vote.
(19) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
(20) Crisis PR is a booming business , helping to divert attention from the antics of offspring and gold-diggers.
Spade
Definition:
(n.) A hart or stag three years old.
(n.) A castrated man or beast.
(n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
(n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
(n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
(v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Time, to use a good Anglo-Saxon expression, to call a spade a spade.
(2) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
(3) The first, the 28A region, gave three recessive lethals and also contains three known visible mutants, spade (spd), Sternopleural (Sp) and wingless (wg); a complex pattern of genetic interaction in the region incorporates both the new and the previously known mutants.
(4) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
(5) The entertainment industry's reliance on the courts for a cheap and dirty fix to all its problems has mutated filesharing into a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that has no one to sue except for individual filesharers (and the most avid music filesharers are also the most avid music everything – CD buyers, concertgoers, bootleg collectors … When you live your life for music, you do everything musical in spades).
(6) Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by a spade-like left ventricular cavity and by both giant negative T waves and tall R waves in the electrocardiogram.
(7) After one year, attempted removal of the spade tipped K-wire was unsuccessful.
(8) "Any fool can spend money; Gordon Brown has proved that in spades.
(9) Our two cases of trisomy 12p (ter leads to 12.1) were compared with eight cases of trisomy 12p described earlier, and the following common characteristics were found: severe mental and physical retardation; flat and round, broad face with prominent cheeks; flat and broad nasal bridge with short nose; anteverted nostrils and large philtrum; broad and prominent lower lip; low-set or slanting ears, poorly formed with folded helix, prominent antihelix and deep concha; short neck; short sternum; "spade"-shaped fingers, the fifth being short; bilateral genu valgum; bilateral pes planus and talus valgus; increased space between the first and second toes; generalized hypotonia; and certain dermatoglyphic characteristics.
(10) When will spades be called spades and retreats retreats?
(11) Commuting back and forth across the Atlantic has taken its toll but paid off in spades, first with gold and silver in Daegu and now the 10,000m Olympic title.
(12) Little documented, the scene was caught by Colin MacInnes in his 1957 novel City of Spades, whose hero is a West African hustler called Johnny Fortune.
(13) Republicans stake their claim as Christie stresses credentials at CPAC Read more The 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference was in full swing, and at the end of Thursday afternoon, the crowd got what it had come for, in spades: three searing speeches from the main stage razzing President Barack Obama, damning “radical Islamic terrorism” and celebrating the United States as the best place on Earth in history.
(14) These and other problems identified by the PAC apply in spades to mass contracting by CCGs, which are even less capable of managing contracts than central government departments.
(15) Osborne's first spade in the ground was on work at the station for Manchester airport, the UK's third biggest airport.
(16) Another notable Britpop item was the cassingle version of Elastica's Waking Up, designed by Jon Anonymous: made up like a packet of cards, with a spade cut out of the front, it had a band member trading card inside.
(17) The spade-like configuration was also seen in four cases (7.0%) of the GNT- group.
(18) Every reason people in the UK might have not to vote, Nigerians also have, in spades.
(19) Bagolini and Ioli-Spade in 1968 presented a 30 year follow-up on Bietti's cases and presented six additional cases.
(20) In the 9 patients who had cardiac catheterization the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was raised, and angiography showed an "ace of spades" diastolic image of the left ventricle with systolic obliteration of its tip.