(a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
(a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
(n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
(n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the British government is facing a catch-22 situation, being equally anxious – as former diplomat Oliver Miles pointed out in the London Review of Books – to avoid setting the opposing precedent of allowing Assange to remain as a fugitive within the embassy in defiance of a European arrest warrant.
(2) "Nizeyimana is a top-level fugitive, among the four most senior of the dozen people we were still seeking," said Hassan Bubacar Jallow, chief prosecutor at the ICTR.
(3) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(4) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(5) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(6) A withdrawal from the EAW, as a result of the Conservative obsession to limit Britain's partnership and co-operation in the EU, would be welcomed by all transnational criminals who flee British justice and rely on other countries' legal systems to delay the return of any fugitive to British justice.
(7) His younger brother Salah is still on the run, Europe’s most wanted fugitive.
(8) Adani has calculated that the mine will release an additional 3bn tonnes of CO2 in Australia over a 60-year period, due to fugitive emissions.
(9) Sudan failed to act on the 2009 international warrant for its head of state, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, leading the ICC to describe him as "a fugitive president".
(10) The title came from an incident in 1975 when, as a young housewife in Salisbury, the capital of white-run Rhodesia, she made dinner at her home for a white liberal friend and Mugabe, then a fugitive guerrilla leader.
(11) • In the US, senator Robert Menendez, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, said Snowden was a " fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom " and said the episode had damaged US-Russian relations.
(12) Last week's US special forces raid to capture a fugitive Libyan al-Qaida leader, apparently the trigger for the move against Zeidan, was a humiliating reminder both of the impotence of the government and of how the country has become a safe haven for terrorists.
(13) 7.27pm BST EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to add four names to the list of people whose assets in the European Union have been blocked for allegedly embezzling Ukrainian state property under fugitive pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reports: The new names, which brought the total to 22, including Yanukovych himself, are to be made public Tuesday.
(14) The fugitive enjoyed a millionaire's lifestyle while on the run.
(15) The routine has become almost familiar: a fugitive mafia boss is cornered by Mexican security forces and captured without a shot fired.
(16) Last month, Guy Verhofstadt, a prominent member of the European parliament, told Reuters that Europe needed "full transparency" because of the US National Security Agency surveillance made public by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
(17) The folksy and charismatic cartel leader of puffy cheeks and large nose, known to wear a baseball cap and a grey-haired goatee, was a fugitive also wanted in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
(18) • Senior Serbian officials have told US diplomats in Belgrade that Russia may know the whereabouts of the fugitive Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic .
(19) "We have already identified and reconstructed the means by which they supported the fugitives.
(20) Jimmy McGovern's saga of the ill-fated residents of The Street was similarly afflicted, despite its pedigree, as was Broadchurch, the unremitting Southcliffe and Prey, the recent Mancunian take on The Fugitive which managed to be both far-fetched and gruellingly mundane.
Lake
Definition:
(n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
(n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
(v. i.) To play; to sport.
(n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(3) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
(4) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(5) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(6) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(7) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(8) In order to control adult midges, the distribution of larvae in the lake, the period and quantity of emergence from water, the time of flight, and the dispersal range of T. akamusi midges were studied.
(9) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(10) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
(11) A nearby sign warns that the lake and its environs are a protected natural area, where building is prohibited.
(12) See kajakkompaniet.se and langholmenkajak.se for information Swimming, Liljeholmsbadet Stockholmers swim all year round at the floating bath on lake Mälaren in Hornstull on Södermalm.
(13) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
(14) Biological nitrogen fixation, as determined by acetylene reduction, occurs in Lake Erie.
(15) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(16) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(17) The paper presents data concerning the activity of microflora in water and ooze deposits of lakes of the Yaroslavl Region.
(18) Gardner was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a Salt Lake City attorney in 1985 while trying to escape from a courthouse.
(19) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
(20) "My mother was born in Monte Carlo where her father – from the Lake District – was working for Cook's the travel agents, and educated in Nice.