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Driller
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, drills.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Alamy While most politicians would have immediately sent for the drillers, Acosta hesitated.
(2) Perhaps we should cheer Lord Browne, the boss of Cuadrilla Resources, Britain's only shale gas driller, who said this week that he will invest "whatever it takes" to make shale gas a big source of British energy.
(3) Driller wrist is an occupational disease with pathophysiologic changes resulting from recurrent use of vibratory tools.
(4) Drillers have lost control over wells during fracking, including one last month in Bradford County that spewed chemicals for 19 hours.
(5) Of course, Green’s words sounded awfully familiar: Republican governor Tom Corbett said the same in August, when he declared – not for the first time – that it was up to the teachers of Philadelphia’s public schools to fix the funding crisis that Corbett created through tax breaks for corporations, his refusal to tax Marcellus Shale drillers, the abandonment of an equitable state school funding formula and $1bn in budget cuts to education funding in Pennsylvania (in which poorer districts like Philadelphia were disproportionately hit).
(6) Environmental campaign group Platform has been holding meetings with institutional investors encouraging them not to back any drillers in the far north.
(7) Ninety-five rock drillers who used pneumatic hand-held drills were interviewed and tested.
(8) "What I believe is they're looking at their share price daily and seeing it plummet, knowing that if they give in to the rock drillers now, they'll be back time and time again."
(9) That increase would be driven not by Donald Trump’s pro-oil energy policy – which the IEA expected would take time to have an impact – but from continuing success for low-cost, shale oil drillers.
(10) The AMCU dangled a fat piece of fruit in front of the workers' eyes: rock drillers (who are the core of this strike and do the hardest work underground) earning R4,000 a month were promised R12,500 a month.
(11) The apparent excess prevalence of radiographic small rounded opacities in anthracite surface coal mine drillers suggests that quartz exposures have been increased.
(12) Russian production has hit a post-Soviet record and the number of rigs deployed in the US rose for the first time in five weeks last week by 17 to 541, according to industry figures supplied by the driller Baker Hughes.
(13) The results from the analysis of quartz exposures are consistent with epidemiological results for an increased silicosis risk among drillers.
(14) A clinical and radiological survey of 34 men who were pneumatic drillers employed by the North East Gas Board, was carried out to determine the prevalence of osteoarthrosis.
(15) Miners working in the North are exposed to more pronounced effects of unfavourable occupational factors (hand drillers, bulldozer operators, etc.)
(16) Thirty-seven North American oil and gas producers have filed for bankruptcy, says Texas-based law firm Haynes and Boone, while analysts have warned half of US shale drillers could be out of business if the slump continues.
(17) From depths of 300 metres below the landlocked basin, drillers brought to the surface a core that contained 30 metres of thick, crystalline salt: evidence that 120,000 years ago, and again about 10,000 years ago, rainfall had been only about one fifth of modern levels.
(18) Our findings do not support the view that pneumatic drillers are particularly prone to develop osteoarthrosis.
(19) In contrast, a very high proportion of samples from surface mine driller areas exceeded the quartz PEL.
(20) On the eve of a visit by UK parliamentarians to Buenos Aires next week, the Argentine embassy in London on Thursday warned that legal action was being ramped up against drillers and their suppliers.