(1) At worst, they say, it would pave the way for the privatisation of the school system - in Sweden they are allowed to make a profit - and at best the system would simply be exploited by pushy middle-class parents who would exclude disadvantaged children by dint of their address.
(2) report cloning of a Drosophila homolog (Dint-1) of the mouse int-1 gene and show that this gene is identical to wingless+.
(3) The Birmingham goalkeeper, Ben Foster, was the man of the match, by dint of his second-half heroics.
(4) Mr Grieve is a meticulous and intelligent lawyer, so it is particularly striking that – by dint of his seat in the government – he felt obliged to engage in this ridiculous dance to keep private the prince’s meddling in public affairs.
(5) (3) Both Dint and Dm + w agree reasonably well with Dadd.
(6) The show unashamedly explored the by-now trademarked Beckham look of body-conscious dresses that stop short of being blatantly sexy by dint of their elbow-length sleeves and high necklines.
(7) On one hand, Pulgasari is a cautionary tale about what happens when the people leave their fate in the hands of the monster, a capitalist by dint of his insatiable consumption of iron.
(8) For venous complexes of the popliteal space which have to be operated, an extremely precise anatomical schema has to be drawn up, by dint of a very thorough clinical examination, whose results will be further refined using echography and phlebography; in most cases, it will be possible to tackle them postero-internally, the patient in the dorsal decubitus position, or even in lateral decubitus.
(9) If nothing else, Blair brought the fractious party together, by dint of ditching clause IV and, more importantly, winning.
(10) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
(11) The influence of the amplitude A and of the internal rotational diffusion constant Dint characterizing the dynamics of the system has been checked for in-phase and for uncorrelated motions.
(12) "But they don't see me as part of the problem," she protests, "because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off, not to name names; and we've done it through dint of hard work," she says, letting off another burst of laughter.
(13) Is this sort of ethical collectivism – whereby those living today share guilt for the past crimes of those they belong to by dint of their nation, race and so on – just, or productive?
(14) So Gazans are an occupied people and have the right to resist, including by armed force (though not to target civilians), while Israel is an occupying power that has an obligation to withdraw – not a right to defend territories it controls or is colonising by dint of military power.
(15) I have called this "the third Scotland" by dint of it differentiating from the two establishment visions of Scotland – the new SNP one and the old declining Labour version.
(16) That said, she concedes that, just as in her film, the absent parent is often seen as the more glamorous parent, simply by dint of the fact that he has not had to do all the hard parts of parenting; we only have to look at divorced couples to know this much.
(17) If the guys with bumper stickers ever poach a wolf, it’s not making much of a dint in their recovery.
(18) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(19) Bale, though, commandeered the headlines by dint of his late goal and it felt as though he was determined to repay Rafael Benítez for the decision to play him in a central attacking role.
(20) Facebook itself has been transformed as a political campaign tool since 2008, simply by dint of its exponential growth.
Tinted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Tint
Example Sentences:
(1) Tinted self-curing sealant was applied to the entire occlusal surface of each tooth.
(2) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
(3) Despite the severity of the illness, Michael, eyes shielded by tinted glasses he declined to take off when asked by photographers, promised to complete the tour.
(4) When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with rainbow-coloured lights and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile.
(5) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
(6) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
(7) Few cars have number plates; most have black-tinted windows.
(8) Clinical examination showed green tinting toward the distal ends of the most superficial strands of hair.
(9) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(10) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(11) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
(12) Mark Curry, founder and director at MAD Ventures says Singles Day will act as “both a great launch pad to showcase TINT to the Chinese market and as an opportunity to drive trial” of the new product.
(13) The Guardian view on the automated future: fewer shops and fewer people | Editorial Read more The problem with this rose-tinted view of automation, however, is its focus on big averages that take little account of individuals’ experiences.
(14) We noted a statistically significant correlation between hemoglobin concentration and the following: color tint of the lower eyelid conjunctiva, nail-bed rubor, nail-bed blanching, and palmar crease rubor.
(15) There is a political tint to this whole episode,” he added, claiming the media was taking its cue from Democrats.
(16) He relished his public status as no-nonsense voice of a common-sense socialism that had an increasingly nationalistic tint.
(17) "People with rose-tinted glasses are more responsive to positive things in the environment.
(18) Different dyes were used to tint Soflens contact lenses.
(19) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was measured by both a radial immunodiffusion (RID) kit from Immuno AG (Zurich, Switzerland) and a Tint Elize enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit from CytRx Biopool Ltd. (Umeå, Sweden) in serum samples that had been stored at -20 and -70 degrees C for six months.
(20) The transmittance properties of 96 tinted lenses were examined to determine whether these lenses met the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80.3 standards for traffic signal transmittances and color shifts.