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Furlough


Definition:

  • (a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Expect it to be talk of floor tonight during 6pm hr vote series October 14, 2013 6.15pm BST Obama: 'there has been some progress' Speaking to reporters at a Washington food pantry, where hailed volunteer work by furloughed federal workers, President Obama said there had been "progress" in the budget talks.
  • (2) The woman, known as Jane Doe, had filed a lawsuit in order to be granted a furlough to obtain the procedure.
  • (3) The Transportation Security Administration, part of the department of Homeland Security, is expected to furlough certain nonessential employees , but those do not include most screeners.
  • (4) Forty-seven medical personnel were furloughed and 88 were vaccinated for measles.
  • (5) These exposures resulted in three secondary varicella-zoster infections, six courses of varicella-zoster immune globulin prophylaxis and furlough of 13 staff members.
  • (6) Furloughed employees were asked to sign copies of a letter from their human resources departments and ordered not to used any government equipment - including BlackBerry smarphones - during the shutdown.
  • (7) LaHood warned of delays to air travel of 90 minutes and said the majority of 47,000 Federal Aviation Authority employees would be furloughed for at least one day per pay period until the end of the fiscal year.
  • (8) 7.22pm BST The White House has released a statement highlighting what Durbin was saying about how the US ability to enforce sanctions has been hurt by the shutdown, Reuters reports: The Treasury office of foreign assets control is unable to sustain core functions due to furloughs, the White House says, including implementing sanctions for Iran and Syria.
  • (9) The Medical Department also experienced some administrative failures, the most obvious of which were the failure to vaccinate against smallpox and the inability to control the loss of manpower associated with medical furlough.
  • (10) No secondary cases of varicella resulted from this exposure and only 20 days of furlough time were used during trial I.
  • (11) Among them was Miriam J Allen, who has been furloughed and says "thankfully I already paid my mortgage yesterday": Allen was summoned into her office in the Jacob Javits federal building for two hours on Tuesday to "close up my work station".
  • (12) In his time, McCann has also worked as a painter on the Forth road bridge and – just before booking his Game Of Thrones audition – he was lumberjacking, an axe-swinging furlough that seems pretty appropriate.
  • (13) I didn't see a great deal of The Day Today, because its transmission coincided with my long period of box furlough but what I did see was both brilliant and congruent with the strange, satiric anti-persona that Morris developed during his radio days.
  • (14) "We got a furlough letter, we got a letter from the president, saying basically: 'I'm sorry', we got a letter to give our creditors to show we're furloughed federal employees, please be flexible with us in paying our bills."
  • (15) To help you make sense of the facts and figures and furloughs, we're gathering the most useful and insightful commentary we can find around the web.
  • (16) Who knows, maybe the people that can fix the issue have been furloughed.
  • (17) President Barack Obama speaks to reporters as he visits Martha's Table, which prepares meals for the poor and where furloughed federal employees are volunteering, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013.
  • (18) In addition to the furloughed workers, which numbered up to 800,000 at the start of the shutdown and who should eventually be given back-pay as a result of Wednesday night’s deal, there are about 1.3 million essential civilian employees who were asked to carry on working without pay.
  • (19) At about 11:30 pm CST, the message was updated to say we were furloughed and not to report to work.
  • (20) Questions to consider: • Do you anticipate being furloughed?

Member


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
  • (n.) A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  • (n.) Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body
  • (n.) A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.
  • (n.) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the sign of equality.
  • (n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.
  • (n.) Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.
  • (n.) One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of Friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
  • (2) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (3) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
  • (4) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
  • (5) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (6) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (7) In the 2nd family, several members had cerebellar signs, chorea, and dementia.
  • (8) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
  • (9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (10) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (11) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
  • (12) In every case the patient was the first affected family member.
  • (13) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
  • (14) In this paper sensitive and selective bioassays are described for growth factors acting on substrate-attached cells, in particular members of the epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor beta, platelet-derived growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and heparin-binding growth factor families.
  • (15) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
  • (16) Half of the DRw11-positive panel members are DQw3 negative and DQw1 positive.
  • (17) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (18) From November, 1972 to November, 1974 the members of the team of a haemodialysis unit were systematically given Australia antigen immunoglobulin protection.
  • (19) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
  • (20) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.

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