(n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
(n.) Region; locality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(2) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
(3) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(4) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
(5) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
(6) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(7) "In high-value areas like London it can be worthwhile digging under the house to add a basement, but in other parts of the country it won't be worth it," says Helen Brunskill of Brunskill Design Architects.
(8) The conditions for the incorporation of digoxigenin-11-dUTP (dig-11-dUTP) during polymerization were optimized to generate strand specific DNA hybridization probes up to a length of 5000 nt.
(9) Dig-ASO testing correctly reclassified 10 individuals who had tested inconclusively on analysis for leukocyte beta-hexosaminidase A activity; 3 were identified as carriers and 7 as noncarriers.
(10) Before digging into the problems with this latest solution, one big acknowledgment must be made: this is about as big a step as the ECB could have taken.
(11) It tells you everything you need to know about a Russia digging in for another 12 years of Putin.
(12) Merkl says the plan is to “really dig into the economics of collection and recycling so that people will find it profitable to collect and to separate.
(13) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
(14) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(15) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(16) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
(17) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
(18) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(19) We do not need parliamentary inquiries or royal commissions to dig into this."
(20) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
Ploughing
Definition:
() of Plough
Example Sentences:
(1) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(2) Yet out-of-touch ministers have ploughed on regardless and claimed this is a 'triumph'.
(3) He would much rather money be ploughed into renewable energy sources.
(4) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(5) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
(7) He said the government would also plough money into the expansion of solar heating systems.
(8) The retailer said annual profits were likely to be poorer than expected as it had ploughed millions of pounds into a multimedia advertising campaign and taken on hundreds more vans to back a new delivery service before Black Friday, which falls on 27 November this year, but could not be sure how shoppers would respond.
(9) PMQs ploughs on regardless, in part because both sides know the weekly exchanges shape backbench morale, in part because one side will always think it gains an advantage over the other at such sessions, and in part because too many MPs are afraid of radical parliamentary change.
(10) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
(11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
(12) The housing crisis tells you a lot about British society: springing from a pathological middle class obsession with home ownership, the spike in houses prices is seen as earned, not incidental: most people now expect to make a profit on housing, and the fact people like the Blairs plough cash in as an investment should be a warning sign.
(13) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
(14) The article also reported that "since leaving No 10, Brown has received more than £2m in fees and expenses — although this has all been ploughed back into his public and charitable activities".
(15) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
(16) The committee is planning to plough the money saved into CCTV cameras for the park and will try again next year to raise the money for a display.
(17) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
(18) Half will be ploughed back into frontline public services, leaving £6bn to fund a smaller tax-take from NI than under a fourth-term Labour government.
(19) Kevyn Orr will be gone in five and a half months, and so I’m able to, I think, deliver results on the lights, deliver results on EMS response times, deliver results on the blight, getting a little bit better at the snow-ploughing, and we’re just going to keep building on that.” Other notable moments: Detroit was slammed by heavy winter storms, making it the snowiest winter on record since 1880.
(20) All the profits from sales are ploughed back into providing skills training and setting up new retail outlets.