(1) Since the G20, the Met has issued more than 8,000 public order trained officers with embroidered epaulettes, which replace the traditional metal letters and numbers.
(2) Distinctive for its embroidered yellow plumage, the honeyeater is considered a “flagship” species: the most marketable of a group of endangered animals that share a habitat.
(3) [Officers had] the idea that if they embroidered the truth – and I put that mildly – then they could get the scalp of a Conservative cabinet minister of an administration with whom they were in conflict at the time.
(4) Sew the eyes using buttons, or alternatively you could just embroider them.
(5) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(6) Emma Elwick-Bates, Style editor at British Vogue and Glastonbury attendee – herself seeing out this year's festival in a navy Bedale Barbour, black Isabel Marant shorts embroidered with stars, vintage leather shorts and black Hunter wellingtons – has noticed the shift.
(7) Worn with smart culottes embroidered in vivid shades of pink and orange mixed with black, it looked more ready for a post-beach dinner on the Med than a gym session.
(8) Biographer Scott Anderson suggests sympathetically that Lawrence may have submitted to the rape to avoid further torture, and afterwards embroidered his tale with "the kind of violence that offers an absolution of guilt by making all questions of will or resistance moot".
(9) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(10) Chelsea will have a star embroidered on their shirts from now on, with this group of players and their interim first-team coach, Roberto Di Matteo, acknowledged as history makers.
(11) At the time, I thought this show was creepy as hell, with its weirdly obsessive celebration of “la famiglia” and “la mamma”, which, in fashion terms, meant having models carrying babies down the runway while wearing dresses embroidered with Clinton Cards-like slogans, such as “I love you, mamma!” and “Per la mamma piu bella del mondo!” (“For the most beautiful mother in the world!”) Now it turns out that the most offensive thing about this collection wasn’t that it looked like it heavily ripped off Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress, which featured expressions of love from her children, but rather that it was an expression of Dolce and Gabbana’s hilariously anachronistic opinions about parenting.
(12) Brimming with the embroidered thrones and lacquered vases of despots and dictators, these are objects over which wars were fought, trade routes opened up and empires built, next to exquisite trinkets that sent their makers blind.
(13) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
(14) His economic logic was not embroidered with political poetry.
(15) Cooper had no middle name (nor did his twin brother, George) and, as he moved through a sporting life in post-war Britain that took him from south London to Buckingham Palace and many interesting places along the way, he embroidered the fight game with a dignity it did not always deserve.
(16) Everything in its interior – from the cabinets of shells and minerals to the paintings on the walls and the tapestries embroidered with his motto: “There is no wealth but life” – is an expression of this ultimate collector, a man who sought to catalogue our experience of the world and the way art attempts to portray it.
(17) Beach towels at the swanky Fontainebleau Hotel have been embroidered with the words ‘kiss me’ from one of her pieces in her honour.
(18) 'Flowers are the new slogans' The Christopher Kane sweatshirt embroidered with the word "flower" brings new meaning to the phrase: "Say it with flowers."
(19) The main melody was just three notes – C, D, E – with brass embroidered around it.
(20) Updated at 9.38pm GMT 9.32pm GMT Gold silverware doesn’t make any sense, but how wonderful are these plates: WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Gold cutlery and cloth napkins embroidered with an eagle are part of the place settings for Tuesday night's State Dinner for French President Francois Hollande at the White House February 10, 2014 in Washington, DC.
Sampler
Definition:
(n.) One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
(n.) A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The DCM sampler is expected to contribute to public health impact assessments by facilitating detailed determinations of the identities, compositions, concentrations, sources, formation mechanisms, and biological activity of environmental toxicants in gaseous atmospheres.
(2) The sampling rates of the samplers were derived from Fick's First Law of Diffusion.
(3) A commercially available auto-sampler was modified to enable unattended sampling over a 24-h test period using a cumulative drug release test based on the USP apparatus 1.
(4) Airborne particulate matter was collected by high volume samplers at two sampling stations in Berlin (West) between March 1983 and February 1984 (immissions).
(5) The performance of a new ectocervical brush sampler--the Cervex--was compared with the Ayre spatula in 280 paired cervical smears.
(6) The 50% effective cut-off diameter of stage 1 of this sampler is 8.0 microns for spherical particles.
(7) Volumetric levels of pollens derived from broad-leaved herbaceous plant species heve been determined at a midwestern urban site with suction and rotating arm samplers.
(8) In the following investigation, air-germ measurements were conducted--using the Reuter-Centrifugal-Sampler (RCS) and the Sartorius-Sampler MD 3 (SAR), and using standardized nutrient-substratum and breeding conditions--in order to detect differences in the measuring process itself.
(9) The convenience and portability of the Reuter centrifugal air sampler (RCS) encouraged us to determine a range of 'expected values' for bacterial air counts in nine hospitals at 13 defined locations.
(10) The technique is applicable to the Andersen sampler.
(11) Electric air samplers equipped with foam plugs were used to monitor ambient air from the basement, the kitchen, and one bedroom at: 24 h prior to termiticide application, during application, and post-application at 24 h, 1 wk, and monthly for 6 mo.
(12) The electrostatic filter was placed in front of one of the treatment chairs and the slit sampler was, for one period, placed at a distance of 5 m from the filter.
(13) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(14) Using a newly developed SPM sampler and NO2 filter badge, continuous 4 day (96 hours) measurements were conducted in two hundred residential homes for four weeks.
(15) Using a low-noise air sampler and a sensitive radioimmunoassay, we measured the concentration of mite allergens in the air during sleeping with Japanese bedquilts (futon).
(16) The FIAX system uses quantitative indirect immunofluorescence to measure the specific binding of ANA to a sampler coated with human epithelial cells.
(17) The paper describes special problems of sampling toxic gases, very soluble in water, on workplaces with passive samplers.
(18) Andersen air samplers were used to determine the particle size distribution of Serratia marcescens aerosols created during several common laboratory procedures and simulated laboratory accidents.
(19) A significantly higher number of microorganisms was recovered by the Reyniers sampler.
(20) Air concentrations of solvents were measured with personal samplers and gas chromatography.