(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.
System
Definition:
(n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.
(n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
(n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
(n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
(n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
(n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
(3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(4) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(5) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(6) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(7) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(8) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(9) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(10) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(11) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(12) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(13) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(14) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(15) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(16) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(17) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
(18) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
(19) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(20) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.