(n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
(n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
(n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Caroline Flint, a Labour MP and former cabinet minister, called for all corporate tax affairs to be made public.
(2) These data imply that Silvadene controls S aureus-generated burn wound infections better than the Flint product.
(3) HSBC’s shares have been on a rollercoaster ride since Gulliver and departing chairman Douglas Flint took charge six years ago, and are little changed from where they started out.
(4) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(5) Caroline Flint, Labour's spokesperson for energy and climate change, said the Ofgem report showed why a price freeze is needed: "Labour's price freeze will save money for 27 million households and 2.4 million businesses and our plans to reset the market will deliver fairer prices in the future.
(6) 'Archaeology on steroids': huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge Read more Archaeologists have found evidence that a big tree fell over and its base provided a wall which was then lined with flint.
(7) Flint became the first Home Office minister to admit that she tried smoking dope while a student in the 80s, a fact she revealed when pushing reclassification of cannabis through the Commons.
(8) A 17-day, in situ, biomonitoring study using caged, juvenile channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) was conducted at five sites along a 9-km section of the Flint River at the Anthony Ragnone Wastewater Treatment Plant near Montrose, Michigan.
(9) Flint walked out in protest at not being offered a full cabinet post.
(10) He said Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, and Lord Blackwell, the new chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, would agree with his view that chairing a bank was a full-time role.
(11) But Brown says he worked "very, very closely" with Flint when she was housing minister.
(12) Figures close to Brown were irritated that Flint was finding time to pose for the cameras while they felt she had yet to master the highly intricate details of her brief as Europe minister.
(13) The people of the New England electorate, with Barnaby Joyce as their MP, had thought he would be able to protect the Liverpool Plains for them,” Lock the Gate Alliance spokeswoman Carmel Flint told reporters.
(14) Tempers frayed at the last debate in Flint, Michigan, at the weekend, when Clinton accused Sanders of voting against the auto industry bailout – a charge he vehemently denies and that appears not to have swayed voters at the centre of the US car industry.
(15) A controversy exists with regard to the relative efficacy of two preparations of silver sulfadiazine (AgSD), Silvadene and Flint's Silver Sulfadiazine Cream.
(16) When asked about this, Flint said: “Nobody wants to push the button.
(17) Caroline Flint, shadow energy and climate change secretary, said the referral underlined why her party was committed to breaking up the big six and freezing energy bills till 2017, should it win power in elections next year.
(18) Flint said five months was too long to wait; a new leader would boost Labour in the polls and attract new funding from supporters.
(19) The water crisis in Flint is a sobering reminder of America’s long history of disregard when it comes to the welfare of black bodies – I am not the first to note how eerily reminiscent it is of the Tuskegee Experiment in the 1970s, when hundreds of black men with syphilis were not told they had the disease so that US Public Health Services could study its progression.
(20) Flint said the public was fed up with hearing the "same old excuses" from the energy industry.
Spark
Definition:
(n.) A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.
(n.) A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
(n.) That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle.
(n.) A brisk, showy, gay man.
(n.) A lover; a gallant; a beau.
(v. i.) To sparkle.
(v. i.) To play the spark, beau, or lover.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(2) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(3) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(4) The countries have accused each other of cross-border attacks and there are fears the current tension could spark a wider war with Nkunda at its centre.
(5) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(6) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
(7) The protests have sparked an exodus of Chinese nationals, many of whom have fled to neighbouring countries or further.
(8) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
(9) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(10) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was also confusion over Labour policy sparked by conflicting comments made by Corbyn and his new shadow work and pensions secretary, Owen Smith.
(11) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
(12) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.
(13) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.
(14) We have designated this phenomenon the sparking of growth, in which cholestanol satisfies an overall membrane sterol requirement and ergosterol fulfills a high specificity sparking function.
(15) Despite reasonable evidence suggesting the plot letter is a hoax , it has sparked debate in the city, with far right groups looking to capitalise while some prominent Muslims claim the allegations are baseless and rooted in Islamophobia.
(16) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
(17) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
(18) He claimed the blaze was sparked by overheated cables setting light to stacks of toilet roll.
(19) Some of the world’s largest investment firms have thrown their weight behind efforts to combat smoking, sparking renewed calls for UK local authorities to divest all their shares in the tobacco industry from their pension fund investments.
(20) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.