(1) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(2) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
(3) For Bond fans, this is the best Christmas present – the return of James Bond and classic elements of the series with yet another classic title coined by Ian Fleming,” said Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club .
(4) Richard Fleming, UK head of restructuring at KPMG, said: "Successive attempts to restructure the business, both financially and operationally, have not been enough to prevent the company falling into administration.
(5) In our simulations, type I error alpha and the power 1-beta were close to nominal values with the TT and the average sample size was close to Wald's continuous SPRT and compared favourably with the multistage methods proposed by Herson and Fleming.
(6) Fleming never forgets that a thriller has to thrill; that, whatever else it does, it must entertain.
(7) Fleming said: "When the Bridgend site opened there was a significant commitment to the community and the bank secured a grant to this end.
(8) The Flemings supported Cameron’s leadership in several ways.
(9) His partner Sonia Fleming said: "Michael you were my soul mate, you were the best loving partner and Dad anyone could have asked for.
(10) Prevalent cases (n = 22) were more likely than general population controls (n = 76), matched by sex and 10-year age group, to have: lived longer in Key West, been a nurse, ever owned a Siamese cat, had detectable antibody titers to coxsackievirus A2 and poliovirus 2, and ever visited a local military base (Fleming Key).
(11) One drawback of the timelessness of Bond – maintained by a movie franchise that keeps 007 in a permanent present – is how easy it is to forget that Fleming was writing in, and therefore about, a very specific period.
(12) New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (captain), Craig McMillan, Nathan Astle, Scott Styris, Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Chris Harris, Daniel Vettori, Shane Bond, Daryl Tuffey.
(13) A spokesman for Stonehage Fleming declined to comment.
(14) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
(15) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(16) Eon only regained the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in 007 movies last year after resolving a long-running legal dispute stretching back to a suggestion, in 1959, by the Irish writer Kevin McClory that Ian Fleming, the spy’s creator, should pen a Bond film set in the Bahamas .
(17) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
(18) The Fleming index appears to be a quick and useful instrument to identify patients who are at risk of dysphagic complications, but further reliability and validity studies are needed to demonstrate its utility.
(19) • Peter Fleming will be in conversation with Joanna Biggs, author of All Day Long, on Wednesday 23 September, 7pm, Sutton House, Homerton High Street, London
(20) The film reportedly has the support of the Fleming estate and is set to go into production later this year.
Flume
Definition:
(n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The turnover rates and oxidation rates of plasma glucose, lactate, and free fatty acids (FFA) were measured in three harbor seals (average mass = 40 kg) at rest or during voluntary submerged swimming in a water flume at 35% (1.3 m.s-1) and 50% (2 m.s-1) of maximum oxygen consumption (MO2max).
(2) These results both from the flume and the pool indicated extremely good linearity.
(3) In flame projection tests each MDI was fired horizontally into a flame, and the ignited flume length emitted from the MDI was measured.
(4) The biggest, Zoom Flume, continues for a quarter of a mile.
(5) It was a little like being invited to an exhibition of the latest developments in trouser pressing technology, going along because you felt you had to, and then finding it was actually being held at a gigantic water park with no queues for the flumes.
(6) Filming was continued till the flume could no longer be visualized on the TV monitor.
(7) At any given oxygen uptake, Q obtained by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming was not significantly different from the Q obtained by the dye-dilution method during flume swimming.
(8) High speed photography was used to record flumes seen on the video monitor, to enable characterization of flume appearance, dimensions and mean velocity.
(9) Six healthy male swimmers, aged 10-12, swam tethered using the breast-stroke in a flume.
(10) Thirdly, maximal direct conventional techniques used to evaluate maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) in swimming include free swimming, tethered swimming, and flume swimming.
(11) Six male college swimmers performed submaximal and maximal exercise tests in both styles in a swimming flume.
(12) Four healthy subjects were studied during exercise in water, using a swimming flume, and in air, on a stationary bicycle ergometer at mean skin temperatures of 30 and 33 degrees C, respectively.
(13) In the results of CS-flume and CS-pool, the regression relations between D and T were expressed in the general form, D = a+b x T, with r2 being higher than 0.998 (p less than 0.01), respectively.
(14) William Hague sipped cocktails with his wife at the Notting Hill carnival; he rode a log flume at an adventure park wearing the baseball cap that became so notorious.
(15) We have examined the aerosol spray flumes generated by four commercially available MDI products using high speed video photography.
(16) The propulsive motions of swimming harp seals (Phoca groenlandica Erxleben) and ringed seals (Phoca hispida Schreber) were studied by filming individuals in a flume.
(17) Ifeel about weddings the way cats feel about log flumes; the way babies feel about bathwater; the way cows feel about bolt guns and sloping floors.
(18) Eight highly trained swimmers were instructed to swim until onset of fatigue at four predetermined swimming speed levels in the swimming flume and at maximal effort over four different swimming distances in the swimming pool.
(19) Waterworld (adults £14.50, kids from £7.49) at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent has rapids in the dark, ringos and a wave pool; Wet 'N Wild (adults £11.95, kids £6.95) in North Shields , Tyneside , is one of the UK's biggest, with a flume running down three floors and a black hole ride; the LC in Swansea (adults £7, kids £4) offers up Wales's biggest indoor pool, with a rollercoaster water slide and whirlpool.
(20) Trout were infected at 7.5 degrees C for 10-50 min and all attached cercariae were washed off and removed from the flume.