(1) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(2) He pointed out that some of the fall was down to the expiry of a government scheme expiring that had "artificially propped up" the housing market over the past year.
(3) The declaration of production date and expiry date, were increased by 57.3% and 49.8% respectively.
(4) If a 14C labelled metabolite is used the oxidation rate may sometimes be determined by measuring the expiry rate of 14CO2.
(5) It has to be that time because the Albanian power supply tends to go on the blink just after 6 p.m. and broadcasters who want to get their message across only have the erratic period between their listeners' arrival home and the quiet expiry of the glorious people's voltage as they all switch on their lights and radios.
(6) The system operates in English and Spanish and includes such information as the product name, registration number, ingredients, species for which the product is approved for use, the disease against which the product is used, names of manufacturers and distributors and other distinguishing characteristics of the product including expiry dates and withdrawal times.
(7) While Berlin played for more time, until after next year's general election and the expiry of Greece's formal bailout schedule in 2014, the IMF has been demanding a clear, credible longer-term programme.
(8) Mitch Fifield, the assistant minister for social services, told the paper: “It’s important, as the legislated expiry dates of board appointments approach, to make sure we have into the future the best mix of skills and experience from current and new members for a venture of this magnitude and importance.” The ads seek previous corporate experience and work in disability services.
(9) A drawback to the use of this kit is the recommended 1h expiry for 99Tcm-MAG3.
(10) Expiry of an authorization or an unregistered experimenter will come to light in the course of the plausibility study.
(11) Programmes will not appear on the MSN service until the expiry of the online catch-up TV window on broadcasters' own websites.
(12) They cannot be fraudulently used, however, as only the last four digits of the card numbers were obtained by the hackers and not the customer name and expiry date, the company said.
(13) * Thursday Expiry of a deadline imposed by EU foreign ministers at a meeting on Monday for Russia to withdraw its troops in Crimea or face possible sanctions.
(14) Don't assume because you can't see an expiry date on a voucher or gift card that it doesn't have one.
(15) is calling on mobile phone companies to provide customers with their contract expiry date, one month's notice before their contract ends and details of all the available deals to best match their needs.
(16) He added: “That implicitly precludes the group members from exercising rights under US law which have the result that the claimant’s ownership of the copyrights is brought to an end prior to their expiry.
(17) But the dearth of such courses is not the only reason why some 500 prisoners are now two years beyond their tariff expiry, the equivalent of serving an additional four-year fixed sentence.
(18) Chelsea's recently adopted club policy is to offer one-year deals to players in their 30s upon the expiry of current agreements and while the player had initially been asking for a two-year commitment, he has accepted a shorter arrangement on terms similar to the £175,000-a-week he currently earns.
(19) It's difficult not to imagine that the group has an expiry date.
(20) The private franchises could simply be allowed to run their course and, upon expiry, services folded in to the existing public operator, East Coast.
Obsolescence
Definition:
(n.) The state of becoming obsolete.
Example Sentences:
(1) He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets.
(2) As a minimum, there must be a system to guard against incompetence through obsolescence of any of the practicing professionals.
(3) Following this procedure, seven of the 29 biopsies had focal segmented hyalinosis and 16 of the 29 had focal glomerular obsolescence.
(4) However, the matrix of obsolescent Alport glomeruli stained intensely for collagen V and collagen VI, while these collagen types were not prominent in obsolescent glomeruli of non-Alport diseases kidneys.
(5) This form of tubular change is quite different from the well-known atrophy of the proximal convoluted tubules belonging to obsolescent glomeruli in chronic glomerulonephritis.
(6) Planned obsolescence's running mate is Moore's law , which decrees that every two years the computing world doubles the amount of transistors on a computer chip and therefore the power of the computer.
(7) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
(8) Implications for the obsolescence of parts of the literature of science are discussed, and the relevance of this analysis to Kuhn's work on scientific revolutions is briefly noted.
(9) In obsolescent glomeruli, anti-IV was not always detected although anti-V was constantly seen.
(10) The second thing you notice is that in the last decade or so, this warranted interceptions regime has been utterly wormholed, circumvented to the point of obsolescence.
(11) Percentage of obsolescent glomeruli and the degree of tubulointerstitial lesions, but not active glomerular lesions (crescents, necroses) predicted renal outcome.
(12) Thus the return-stroke muscle of the larval exopodites in which muscle fiber and motoneurons are identifiable permits study of the interaction between a neuron and its target muscle undergoing programmed obsolescence.
(13) Observation of serial sections showed that these epithelial cell clusters were derived from the distal convoluted tubules belonging to obsolescent glomeruli.
(14) In all eight biopsy specimens, we detected hyaline arterionephrosclerosis, focal glomerular obsolescence, and segmental, afibrillar thickening of glomerular basement membranes.
(15) Robots that can plant, fertilise, spray, weed, monitor, harvest, pack and transport crops will inhabit the countryside Such traditional, driven machines – even those adapted with GPS – are, however, already threatened with obsolescence.
(16) Other economic and operational benefits which result from the scheme are commercially disinterested advice on equipment obsolescence and replacement, and redistribution between the laboratories of old but useful equipment to meet specific needs of the service in the region.
(17) There was a positive correlation between an increase in renal cortical echoes and interstitial infiltration as well as with glomerular obsolescence, tubular atrophy, and vascular changes.
(18) Obsolescent Alport glomeruli, in which the capillary tuft had collapsed and few remaining cell nuclei were present, exhibited nearly complete loss of alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV), like obsolescent glomeruli in non-Alport diseased kidneys.
(19) The patients were classified into three groups based on the histologic findings in their initial renal biopsies: Group I (n = 19) had a combination of global and segmental lesions; Group II (n = 8) had only globally sclerotic or obsolescent glomeruli; and Group III (n = 5) had only segmentally sclerosed glomeruli.
(20) 4) A European sharing economy In a packed tent outside the parliament, a film called The Light Bulb Conspiracy is showing, an investigative documentary about planned obsolescence – the engineering of products designed to fail in order to guarantee consumer demand.