(n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance.
(n.) Alms; charitable gratuity or portion.
(n.) A boundary; a landmark.
(n.) A void space left in tillage.
(v. t.) To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has said the remote scheme will require people to work five days a week, 12 months a year to get the dole, compared with the six months the government will require of benefit recipients in urban and regional areas.
(2) Job seekers will learn the behaviours expected of workers, for example by there being immediate consequences for passive welfare behaviour.” It says the continuous work for the dole for all 18- to 49-year-olds, is being introduced only in remote Australia, because in those areas there are “limited or no real labour markets, as well as unique social problems that stem from passive welfare.
(3) The core hypothesis deduced from the Dole-Nyswander blockade formulation is that methadone is a sufficient but not necessary condition for abstinence from heroin.
(4) Labor doled out some money for trades training centres in high schools and Abbott had money for netball courts in Caboolture.
(5) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
(6) He announced the news in a series of doleful tweets, first asking Wiggins if he fancied a city break and then posting a picture of his Tour bike, claiming it was for sale.
(7) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
(8) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(9) The Labour proposal is intended to be compulsory for the young unemployed after they have had a year on the dole, whereas work experience was voluntary for a week, and mandatory thereafter.
(10) The over-hyped and widely trailed Question Time has been an exercise in what it was always going to be: a public outpouring of anti fascist sentiments and establishing anti racist credentials, with the BNP positioning itself as the champion of white working class interests.The BBC can pat itself on the back for its high viewing ratings when the count is done; the panellists can go back to what they were doing and the struggle for equality, fairness and justice will intensify, not on television, but on the streets, the estates, in the playgrounds, the workplace and the dole queues.
(11) In that case, requiring people to work for the dole and apply for 40 jobs a month is merely a pathway to demoralisation.
(12) The reformed RJCP will give job seekers the opportunity to be continuously engaged in work for the dole activities, five days a week, all year round – just like a real job.
(13) Some of the proposals would have had their own senate inquiries in the past,” he said, referring to planned changes such as stripping under-30s of dole for six months at a time, reviewing people who are on the disability support pension (DSP) and changes to the family tax benefit which are included in amendment bills 1 and 2 being examined by the senate.
(14) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
(15) This was an educator singing in a doleful prison cell; Seldon, the Birdman of Berkshire. "
(16) He was married with children, he'd been sacked from his job as a hosiery mechanic and like all sacked people, he was refused dole.
(17) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(18) But Freeman doled out advice along with the punches.
(19) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(20) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
Vole
Definition:
(n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.
(v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in its hormonal requirements for a successful DCR the bank vole is similar to the mouse.
(2) The concentrations of several acidic and neutral amino acids of brain, liver, and skeletal muscle were determined in field voles, Microtus montanus, and compared to values obtained from voles harboring a chronic infection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
(3) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(4) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(5) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
(6) Body mass and food intake increased substantially during pregnancy and lactation and the magnitude of the increase was unaffected by daylength; by contrast, body weight was significantly reduced in non-impregnated voles kept in short as compared to long days.
(7) The regression is less pronounced in voles than in shrews.
(8) Revertant vole cells appear morphologically similar to normal, uninfected cells, yet, like transformed vole cells, they are fully capable of growing in agar suspension and producing tumors in athymic nude mice.
(9) A survey in Essex in 2006 found most main rivers “utterly devoid of water voles”.
(10) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
(11) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
(12) The results suggest that in northern red-backed voles: the pineal does not mediate seasonal changes in thermogenic capacity, the pineal may mediate reduction of body weight and regression of reproductive organs but, in addition to day-length, other cues or factors may be important, populations may exhibit variability in sensitivity of reproduction to photoperiod which could allow for opportunistic breeding.
(13) Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against the two envelope glycoproteins (G 1 and G 2) of the Puumala (PUU) virus were generated and characterized.
(14) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
(15) The X chromosome of voles captured in Oregon was 39% longer than that of voles trapped in Washington.
(16) One vole of the 15 on the .001% PLCN treatment died.
(17) Water voles have recently been returned to Cornwall after being declared extinct in the county, to the South Downs national park and to Gwent in south Wales .
(18) Partial immunological cross-reaction was detected in a radioimmunoassay system between rat prolactin and either extracts of vole pituitaries or media on which vole pituitaries had been cultured; vole placental lactogen showed no cross-reaction with rat prolactin.
(19) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(20) The basic infective cycle of the parasite is a zoonosis between foxes as final hosts and small rodents such as common voles as intermediate hosts.