(n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
(n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
(n.) An ancient form of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(2) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
(3) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
(4) These formulae apply for arbitrary phenotypic distributions, yet even with multivariate Gaussian distributions of phenotypic effects the formula for correlated selection includes a correction to the standard formula in Falconer (1989).
(5) Photograph: Associated Press According to the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, who led the “Maxi Trial” against the Sicilian Mafia in 1987 and was assassinated by the organisation, “more than one-fifth of Mafia profits come from public investment”.
(6) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.26pm GMT Falcons 20 - Seahawks 0, 0:25 2nd quarter Golden Tate has it in the slot for four yards and a first down.
(7) Labour peer Lord Falconer proposed a bill stating that if someone has a prognosis of less than six months to live, they should be allowed to have an assisted death subject to a number of safeguards and checks.
(8) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(9) The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is expected to be released from federal custody on 20 July but will be on probation for three years.
(10) On Friday, an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket is set to take off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station orbiting Earth.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
(12) An alternative model due to Falconer (1965) is also fitted.
(13) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(14) Stereoscopic depth perception is demonstrated in the falcon, a non-mammalian with binocular vision.
(15) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
(16) Grating acuity, the ability to resolve high-contrast square-wave gratings, was measured in a falcon and in humans under comparable conditions.
(17) On the Colville River in northwestern Alaska, the last young falcons will fledge in 1975 and the remaining adult population will disappear by 1980 unless the present rate of reproductive failure is drastically and quickly reversed.
(18) The flat acuity-luminance function of the falcon results from adaptations which increase the optical sensitivity of the eye compared with the globose eye of strongly diurnal falconiformes.
(19) Given, for example, that over half of them have identified as devout, it is hard to imagine what would have persuaded the 11 peers behind an anti-Falconer paper, An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill , to look kindly upon its provisions, but the document constructs an ostensibly faith-free, "clear-thinking" case against, which is nonetheless replete with routine frighteners and selective misrepresentation.
(20) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
Saker
Definition:
(n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.
(n.) The peregrine falcon.
(n.) A small piece of artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Richard Saker In the meantime it is being left to dedicated people such as Carmel McConnell and Magic Breakfast, to big brands, to teaching assistants and staff across the country who are prepared to get up early enough to make sure that all of Britain's children have had enough to eat in the morning to prepare them for school.
(2) We have evaluated three quantitative colorimetric methods [bromthymol blue (BTB), Haskins, and Saker-Salomons (S-S)] for measurement of concentrations of chloroquine (CQ) in urine.
(3) Photograph: Richard Saker Among the design cognoscenti of the period, Braun products were the creme de la creme, the must-have objects.
(4) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer Corbyn ally Emily Thornberry rejoins the shadow cabinet, replacing the pro-Trident shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle, who now moves to become shadow culture secretary.
(5) KB Jason Williamson: ‘It did my head in having to travel an hour for a pint with a friend’ Musician, Sleaford Mods , Nottingham Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jason Williamson (right) of Sleaford Mods: ‘Now that I don’t live there I much prefer it.’ Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer I’ve always viewed London as kind of unobtainable.
(6) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer The limitations imposed by our financial strictures made themselves felt in every arena, from the poxy rates we paid our poor freelancers to the indignities of accessing our office through an “Editors’ Hallway” featuring portraits of the supremos of our landlords, the Daily Mail.
(7) Photograph: Richard Saker McConnell, who describes herself as a veteran of social protest movements of the 80s – Greenham Common and the miners' strike – decided something more serious had to be done.
(8) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Guardian Lives with her partner, a factory worker, and has grown-up children.
(9) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “From the conversations we have had with other community groups trying to save their pubs this [problem with ACVs] is not unique.
(10) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer ‘Labour has just decisively lost an election trying to copy the Conservatives’ He’s the only one who actually talks about child poverty, homelessness, unaffordable housing, progressive taxation, privatisation, and other core issues in a way which resonates with my beliefs.
(11) Photograph: Richard Saker In 2011, Boyega won a British independent film award for most promising newcomer for his turn as Moses in Joe Cornish's well-received sci-fi romp Attack the Block.
(12) Photograph: Richard Saker Making a garden for Nelson Mandela will remain one of my proudest boasts.
(13) Photograph: Richard Saker It's a similar story over at Keyworth primary in Kennington, south London, another outstanding school in an area of high deprivation , which also gets support from Magic Breakfast.
(14) Photograph: Richard Saker Best known for Attack the Block , the 2011 film in which a teenage gang defends their south London block from aliens, Boyega is a 22-year-old actor and presumably a lead in the new Star Wars film.
(15) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer Joy and Tony Watson in Eccles are also catalysts in their own community.
(16) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer One of my personal commitments from the start was to make a home visit to every secondary pupil (our primary head did the same for the primary pupils).
(17) Photograph: Richard Saker The breakfast club at Kingsmead is run with the support of the charity Magic Breakfast , which is involved with around 200 schools' clubs around Britain, and helps supply bagels, cereals and juices as well as technical support.
(18) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “We’re always thinking up new ways to get a response out of people,” Watt says, sitting in the BrewDog bar in London’s Camden.
(19) The post-Corbyn manoeuvring has already begun Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dan Jarvis: ‘Labour’s Bear Grylls’ Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “Jeremy has a huge mandate, which we should respect.” This, or a version thereof, is the refrain of dissidents in Brighton, the formula adopted by those who are not aligned with Corbyn but are holding fire – for now, at least.
(20) Saker Nusseibeh, chief executive of Hermes Investment Management, said: “There is no fundamental reason for the market to be in this state … We think it’s because the market is dominated by people who do not invest on fundamental factors.” What's holding back the world economy?