(n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
(n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
(n.) A mason's setting maul.
(n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than reopen debate following the frantic final 24 hours of horse trading, the new chair gavelled through the decision in a fraction of a second.
(2) Marci Hamilton, author of God vs the Gavel and chair of public law at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law , has been fighting RFRA laws for nearly two decades.
(3) Regular protests from their delegation are prone to trigger selective deafness in other negotiators and conference chairs, who gavel through decisions anyway.
(4) Indeed just a couple hours after Vollmer was lowered into the ground the new Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, raised her gavel for the first time.
(5) When in 2008 he lost his coveted chairmanship of the energy and commerce committee, a gavel first held in 1981, it was partly because fellow Democrats believed he was too close to the auto industry .
(6) For some, gavel-to-gavel TV and radio coverage is providing an unprecedented education about the workings of the courts, albeit a version that few poor people would recognise.
(7) "There are lots of times when stock prices jump thousands of percentage points and nobody's banging a gavel saying it shouldn't be allowed."
(8) McCarthy backed out, said he was not going to run at this time, then Speaker Boehner got up, said the election was postponed, then the chairwoman banged the gavel and the meeting was over,” Costello said.
(9) His hold on the Speaker's gavel is tenuous; there could be a challenge next January when the new Congress is sworn in, and he wants to protect his flank from far right attacks.
(10) There were whoops and whistles in the New York saleroom of Christie’s on Monday evening after Jussi Pylkkänen put down his gavel at $160m.
(11) The talks were on the verge of collapse with the Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, bringing his gavel down to abandon the meeting.
(12) I see no objections,” said the expressionless French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, barely glancing at the rows of country delegates then sharply banging his gavel.
(13) When Laurent Fabius brought down his green gavel in Paris on Saturday, the atmosphere in the hall was said to be electric .
(14) Seated on his plinth he seemed a languid, even slightly twinkly figure, spectacles balanced on the bridge of his nose, a velvet glove rather than a clattering gavel.
(15) As speaker of North Carolina’s House, Tillis used his gavel to oversee a dramatic shift rightwards in the state legislature, rendering the state legislature one of the most conservative laboratories for radical policies outside of Kansas.
(16) The "gavel-to-gavel" radio and TV coverage of the trial became something of a cultural phenomenon, spawning spoof Twitter accounts and YouTube videos.
(17) During a House vote Thursday afternoon, Ryan could be seen talking with Gowdy – the popular chair of the select committee on Benghazi who was touted by some to become majority leader, back when McCarthy looked all but set to take the speaker’s gavel.
(18) Rogers gavels the first panel to a close and brings in panel 2.
(19) And when he brought his gavel down on a sale of $160m (the figure rises to $179.4m once you include all the fees) a new record had been set.
(20) The Copenhagen accord was gavelled through in the early hours of yesterday morning after a night of extraordinary drama and two weeks of subterfuge.
Navel
Definition:
(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
(2) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(3) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
(4) Similarly, devices used in the cutting of the umbilical cord and placenta were not properly sterilized and potentially dangerous substances were applied at the navel after cutting the umbilical cord or placenta.
(5) A place to study your navel, if you can still locate it.
(6) The simian and human Navel strains comprised a single serogroup, distinct from the established Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma species of the class Mollicutes.
(7) Retropneumooperitoneum following the increasingly popular method of intermittent respiration by above atmospheric pressure respiration of the newborn is now more frequently observed, as is necrosis of the wall of the bladder by instillation of medication and catheters in the arteries of the navel.
(8) Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing Read more The furore over the opening of the cafe in late 2014 exemplified the problem with hipster-hating: that it is often little more than middle-class navel-gazing.
(9) Incidentally, I'm aware this is Olympic-level navel gazing, but you're a human being with free will who can stop reading any time.
(10) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
(11) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
(12) The authors describe an umbilical anomaly marked by confluent erythematous and crusted plaques, spreading beyond the navel limits and histologically regarded as a choristia that is to say a displacement of intestinal tissue within the epidermis.
(13) During the course of observation, navel-like lesions developed in one of the other 27 eyes with other abnormalities and in 4 of the 17 eyes without any abnormality.
(14) A 16-month-old girl was referred to our clinic with a complaint of a cystic mass in the region of the navel.
(15) We will not take the Senate for granted in 2015, as perhaps sometimes we were tempted to do in 2014, but the important thing is not to navel gaze, it’s not to focus on ourselves; the important thing it to get on with the job of being a better government today than we were yesterday, being a better government tomorrow than we are today.” The defence minister, Kevin Andrews, dismissed suggestions Abbott should step down.
(16) In a 1969 European title defence at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, against another Italian, Piero Tomasoni, Cooper suffered the lowest blow of his career – a dent seven inches below his navel in the aluminium cup covering his genitals.
(17) In spite of isopropanol being reported as a more efficient skin disinfectant than ethanol in several experimental models, no significant differences were seen in the frequency of navel colonization or in infection rates between the two treatment groups.
(18) People-watching, navel-gazing, and gentle meandering are all that are really required of you, and doing so little actually allows you to find yourself too.
(19) Yet this is rarely what mainstream politics is now about.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jon Glasby ‘It’s not about ivory towers or navel gazing, it’s about high quality research making a dfference to people’s lives’ Jon Glasby, professor and head of school designate, school of social policy, University of Birmingham, says: “With so much emphasis on Stem, social sciences can sometimes appear to take a back seat.
(20) Interestingly, in the conical incisor teeth, the enamel navel, septum and knot are absent, and Hox-8 has a symmetrical expression pattern.