(n.) One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
Example Sentences:
(1) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(2) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
(3) Karen Fletcher, Sheffield • So it's a "government sponsored scheme".
(4) A total of 90 Fletcher-Suit radium applications were analyzed to explore relationships between point A doses, milligram-hours, and the ICRU guidelines.
(5) Fibrinolytic studies in euglobulin fractions of Fletcher trait plasma (deficient in prekallikrein) revealed reduced activities as compared to normal plasma.
(6) The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," and by Alexander Morgan Capron in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: not now."
(7) In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner’s lawyers cite a statement from former Georgia supreme court chief justice Norman Fletcher, who argues that Gissendaner’s death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime.
(8) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(9) It is concluded that the inheritance is as described by Veltkamp and that the Kallikrein release from the prekallikreinogen (Fletcher factor) "in vitro" is related to the amount of Factor XII procoagulant protein.
(10) Javier Hernández, Shinji Kagawa, Darren Fletcher, Nani, Young, Cleverley, Alexander Büttner and Ryan Giggs are other members of Moyes's squad whose futures are likewise in doubt.
(11) Assays for known coagulation factors were nromal while Fletcher factor (pre-kallikrein) was 45%, insufficient to account for the observed markedly prolonged partial thromboplastin time.
(12) More here: European Central Bank must heed eurozone warning signs And I'm handing over to my colleague Nick Fletcher .... thanks all GW 1.59pm BST Photos: Italian vote of confidence debate A couple of photos from today's confidence debate in the Italian senate, which the new government won confortably ( see 1.26pm ) Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi shakes hands with an unidentified lawmaker as he attends a session for a second vote of confidence to confirm the new government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
(13) Other coagulation factors (fibrinogen, II, IX, XI, Fletcher and Fitzgerald) assay within or close to the human range.
(14) It was so I could tell Jeremy that I had backed him.” Corbyn has defied not only Fletcher’s expectations but everyone else’s.
(15) Jessica Fletcher, though, will surely find a new home in the schedule, while the actor could be a guest on the replacement programme, talking about what George Lansbury might have made of Jeremy Corbyn.
(16) Fletcher denied Ofgem was unable to influence behaviour, saying it had acted robustly with its call for an investigation by the CMA, and believed its latest initiatives would help.
(17) With Altidore's lack of movement glaringly apparent, the crowd agitated for Steven Fletcher's liberation from the bench and, taking the hint, Sunderland's manager threw him on.
(18) Revitalised, Sunderland scored again after Wickham’s defender-disorientating surge, during which the England Under-21 international did extremely well to remain on his feet, carried him into the area and Fletcher’s left-foot shot did the rest.
(19) A deficiency in the contact phase of blood coagulation, depending on the specific isolation of Fletcher's factor (prekallikreins) from blood plasma, was observed after chromatography of blood plasma on a column with noradrenaline-Sepharose.
(20) Fletcher’s bill, which carries a penalty of up to 14 years in jail for the most serious cases, requires every police force in England and Wales to develop and adopt domestic abuse policies within a year of it becoming law.
Manufacturer
Definition:
(n.) One who manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(3) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(4) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
(5) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(6) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(7) The antibacterial effect of lysozyme manufactured in the USSR was studied with respect to 1496 pathogenic strains of different microbial species.
(8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(9) After contributions from other investors, she estimates the fund will have between $80m to $100m for projects in infrastructure, health, manufacturing and education.
(10) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
(11) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
(12) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(13) British manufacturing increased by 1.3%, with industrial production overall up by 0.8%.
(14) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
(15) The effect of different substances partly used as preservatives for the blood storage and at different stages of manufacturing of human blood preparations on the dynamics of nonenzymatic deamidation of commercial protein preparations and on their heat stability was being studied.
(16) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(17) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
(18) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
(19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(20) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.