(n.) Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of treatment with compression garments were assessed at 6 months and at 12 months, using a grading system based on colour, consistency and thickness of the scar.
(2) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(3) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
(4) Aerosol resuspension from garments is an important consideration in assessing inhalation exposure to toxic dusts.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women at work in a Bangladeshi garment factory.
(6) Scientists are looking at making fabrics that can absorb poisonous gases or harmful bacteria, or conduct electricity, and be used to make stylish garments.
(7) Nonporous Tyvek was permeable to all seven drugs, and the Kaycel garment was permeable to all of the drugs except etoposide.
(8) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(9) During all trials with chemical protective garments, plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone levels (PA) were significantly (p less than 0.05) elevated following the exercise protocol while neither was affected during exercise in fatigues only.
(10) The disaster brought Bangladesh’s entire garment industry under intense scrutiny but did not slow its strong growth, from $21.5bn that year to $28bn in 2015-16.
(11) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
(12) However it is clear that Mauritius is now using many more migrant workers in its 50,000 strong garment industry, many from Bangladesh.
(13) With a standard deviation of the approximately log-normal distribution of the experimental values as high as about 2 times the mean, it is necessary to carry out as many as 20 replicate experiments in order to differentiate with certainty between garments with a two-fold difference in penetration.
(14) They hang pretty strangely, these garments of Britannia: if our decline is down to the loss of empire, how can we call that a coarsening?
(15) It is probable that the single factor most important to the decline, in our experience with these injuries, is lower fabric flammability but, because our data may not be representative, corroboration is needed before one can exclude factors such as altered garment design, fire safety-related practices at home, or changing patterns of hospital referral.
(16) Saranex-laminated Tyvek was the most protective of the barrier garments, followed closely in effectiveness by the polyethylene-coated Tyvek.
(17) Textiles, if not garments, have always been a key element of global commerce.
(18) As a charity that campaigns on issues of women’s economic equality, we take these allegations extremely seriously and will do our utmost to investigate them … we remain confident that we took every practicable and reasonable step to ensure that the range would be ethically produced and await a fuller understanding of the circumstances under which the garments were produced.” When the Fawcett Society sought reassurance about standards at the factory, Whistles emailed back to say CMT is “a fully audited, socially and ethical compliant factory” and cited accreditations relating to the provenance and content of materials.
(19) For the next two, three years I moved from zero to hero: I was running the largest business owned by a woman in Malawi, in industrial garment manufacturing.
(20) Those in Bangladesh who demanded government intervention in one of the country's few economic success stories made little headway when dozens of garment factory owners sat in parliament and powerful industry bodies had the ear of policymakers.
Garrison
Definition:
(n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
(n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
(v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
(v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) India, meanwhile, continues to garrison half a million soldiers in Kashmir, nearly three times the number of American troops in Iraq at the peak of the occupation.
(2) High risk groups included the Garrison Force (home guard), anti-aircraft gunners and infantry and armoured units stationed at Hsing-jen.
(3) "There's still a 5,000-strong British army garrison, a new MI5 HQ in Belfast, and a British secretary of state.
(4) She was later moved to a hospital in Rawalpindi, the garrison town close to the Pakistani capital.
(5) After the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC the Greek garrisons of India and Afghanistan found themselves cut off from their Mediterranean homeland, and had no choice but to stay on, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with classical philosophy.
(6) The British garrison numbered nearly 140,000 but was in total chaos, under‑equipped with no aircraft or tanks, demoralised and disorganised.
(7) It says there was no civilian population on the island in 1833, with the Royal Navy expelling an Argentine military garrison that had arrived three months earlier.
(8) Having begun as a castle town at the end of the 1500s under the rule of the feudal warlord Mori Terumoto, by the end of the 19 th century it served as a regional garrison for the Imperial Japanese Army; as a major manufacturing centre, it helped fuel the Japanese empire’s military efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
(9) The military has erected a wall around the 3,800 sq ft plot where the al-Qaida leader’s compound once stood in the garrison city of Abbottabad, and wants to convert it into a graveyard.
(10) The mood, of course, was sombre across the sprawling garrison.
(11) Also near Al-Hasakah several buildings that were part of an Isis garrison were destroyed.
(12) Military personnel from Colchester Garrison helped emergency services during the night in Maldon in the county and most people evacuated from their homes had left rest centres, police said.
(13) "Musharraf is not avoiding the courts," Chaudhry said, adding the former president was still being treated at a hospital in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad.
(14) Over a 3-month period, 36 procedures (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, 25; colonoscopy, 7; flexible sigmoidoscopy, 4) were performed in soldiers both in the garrison and in combat.
(15) Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win Read more The other plotlines are more complicated: while Randy and Mr Garrison have been (mostly) obsessed with the election this season, rest of the town in up in arms about online harassment.
(16) By then, although he remained active on the periphery of politics, he had become a partner in the prominent New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
(17) On 3 June 1999, he accepted a peace plan allowing a Nato-led Kosovo Force, K-For, to garrison the territory and safeguard the return of the refugees.
(18) It was an Argentine garrison which had been sent to the islands to try to impose Argentine sovereignty over British sovereign territory … until the people of the Falkland Islands choose to become Argentinian, they remain resolutely British."
(19) Now they are back again after fighting this week resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and forced the closure of a small government garrison.
(20) In response, Traore closed all schools in Bamako and in the garrison town of Kati.