(v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.
Example Sentences:
(1) This program brings the most up-to-date therapy for the treatment of many cancers to the USAF and DOD and provides the avenues for further advances in cancer therapy in the decades to come.
(2) At no time did Hancock seek federal funding for this work “Prof Hancock did submit a research grant proposal to the DoD’s Minerva program in 2008 to study language use in support of US efforts to engage social scientists on national security issues, but that proposal was not funded,” explained Carberry.
(3) In Tripoli, the DoD had persuaded the Libyans to fly their C-130 to Benghazi.
(4) Therefore, ER personnel should be attentive to the sex, age, and race of their patients in order to gain a degree of predictability as to when the greatest number of patients might present themselves at the ER for treatment of their DOD.
(5) Ashcroft's investments have included backing Kelvin Mackenzie's online TV channel Sports Tonight, the ConservativeHome website, Priory Clinic and Digital Marketing Group, the advertising and marketing services group, and Dods, the political intelligence firm.
(6) Then came the signing of that deal with Qatar with DoD [Department of Defense].
(7) Follow-up of these patients showed four dead of disease (DOD) at one, three, three, and seven years; one alive with disease (AWD) at one year; and two with no evidence of disease (NED) at four and five years.
(8) The parameters of sex, surgical intervention, the malignancy and the histological type of the tumor apparently dod not affect thrombus formation to a statistically significant degree.
(9) One such mandated responsibility in Public Laws 91-121 and 91-441 directs the Department of Health and Human Services or its designee to review the Department of Defense (DOD) plans to dispose of or to transport chemical warfare agents.
(10) It is the policy of the Department of Defense (DOD) that, in both peace and war, the movement of patients of the Armed Forces shall be accomplished by airlift when airlift is available and conditions are suitable for aeromedical evacuation, unless medically contraindicated.
(11) In August 1987, 10 cases had died of disease (DOD) and 27 cases were alive, but 4 cases were alive with disease (AWD).
(12) And I know, I know: it sounds like paranoia – until you discover that Darpa, the research arm of the US department of defence (DoD), has launched a massive research project into compromised hardware.
(13) Most of the folks I have talked to at the three agencies – DoD (Department of Defense), state and White House – claim they have little or no interaction with these teams to date,” Julianne Smith, a former deputy national security adviser to Vice-president Joe Biden, said.
(14) Among its key conclusions, the report said: • The DOD and the VA should do more to assess the efficacy and adequacy of treatment, especially if it is to be offered nationally.
(15) Seven of 17 (41%) unfavorable patients had local recurrences, two are alive with cancer, three patients are dead of disease (DOD), and five had significant complication, but there was no evidence of recurrent cancer.
(16) Awareness of the temporal effects on DOD admissions can thus improve the quality of ER treatment for DOD patients.
(17) On the day of admission (DOA), 69% of VAS were done by the patient and 28% by the nurse as compared to 8% by the patient and 90% by the nurse on DOD.
(18) Other US universities including Washington and Maryland are involved in studies directly funded and commissioned by Minerva and the DoD, while the US military also has its own in-house research institutions conducting further studies and projects.
(19) Since 11 July 2013, IRTF-2 has led a coordinated DoD effort to discover, triage, and assess the impact of non-NSA Defense material from NSA holdings of compromised data,” according to the DIA report.
(20) Veterinarians should counsel clients on the possible or probable consequences of level of feeding on growth rate and clinical expression of DOD.
Sulk
Definition:
(n.) A furrow.
(v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
(2) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
(3) "I say to those Tory MPs who share our views and our aspirations: 'Why don't you stop sulking in secret in the corridors of Westminster and come out of the closet?
(4) The marching boots were thrown to the back of the cupboard and you went into a major sulk.
(5) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
(6) Her cat is in a sulk, she says, because he hasn't been getting enough attention because of all the fuss.
(7) There was no national outrage over Sulk’s murder, nor over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Laramie girl, Christin Lamb, that summer.
(8) He loves the club and the team and he is an incredible professional, so I don’t think you would ever expect him to sulk,” Martínez said.
(9) Certainly, better act to change your destiny than do what Edward Heath did after being beaten in the Conservative leadership election of 1975 until his death 30 years later: sulk.
(10) The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of "a great political sulk", after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.
(11) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
(12) But then what is known in Whitehall as the "Lansley sulk" over his 18-month opposition to the policy of setting a minimum price for alcohol meant he was never going to stand up in parliament to defend it.
(13) Instead, the Australian electorate is watching aghast as Labor's two major political stars plot and sulk and tear each other apart in public – and fight to the death in a secret party ballot.
(14) People try masking this emotion or express it in specific ways nonverbally, such as sulking or not eating.
(15) Now there were three people sulking in the House, though Gove looked slightly more cheerful.
(16) No sulking or feeling sorry for themselves after such an unfortunate goal; just a quiet determination to get an equalizer.
(17) They're also close to wrapping up deals for Sevilla's Alvaro Negredo and Fiorentina's Stevan Jovetic and could battle Chelsea for the signing of PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who's in a sulk about the arrival of Edinson Cavani.
(18) When he came to see the computer tortoises in 1951 – they responded to light and scuttled back home when the bulb was switched on in their hutches – he also managed to break a game playing computer by recognising the work of a protege and cracking the algorithm on the spot: the computer flashed both "you've won" and "you've lost" messages at him, and then shut itself down in a sulk.
(19) Lots of Blairites left in a sulk because David Miliband wasn’t leader and it is generally the case that those that then joined are sympathetic to the leader,” said the source.
(20) The point is, I didn’t make the cut, and you know, you kind of think, fine, I understand Nick’s got to make tough choices, and there’s no point sulking.” So he decided to run for party president instead.