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Gibing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gibe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the government has dismissed environmental concerns about Gibe III.
  • (2) Why would any member of the opposition wish to undermine this with cheap gibes, straight from the bar stool?
  • (3) And in a sign that it intends pursuing its mega dam strategy – and avoiding having environmental groups damage efforts at getting funding from international lenders, as has happened with Gibe III – it is looking east for help.
  • (4) Much of the money goes on mean-spirited negative campaigning of the kind that saw off the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the 2011 election with gibes about his years away from Canada.
  • (5) The 93-mile long reservoir created by Gibe III will stretch to the tail of the 420MW Gibe II power project, which was opened in January by the Italian construction company Salini.
  • (6) Danger dams Ethiopia The Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia threatens about 200,000 people from eight tribes in the Lower Omo valley.
  • (7) With a price tag of €1.55bn (£1.39bn), Gibe III was always going to require external credit.
  • (8) At least 200,000 people from eight tribes are threatened and a further 200,000 people will be adversely affected by the Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia .
  • (9) Every statistician is familiar with the tedious “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” gibe, but the economist, writer and presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less , Tim Harford, has identified the habit of some politicians as not so much lying – to lie means having some knowledge of the truth – as “bullshitting”: a carefree disregard of whether the number is appropriate or not.
  • (10) According to the Oakland Institute, these groups' existence is under "serious threat" as they are forced off their land to make way for the Gibe III hydroelectric dam project, road-building and commercial investors.
  • (11) China's biggest state bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , may fund Gibe III in Ethiopia, to be Africa's tallest.
  • (12) Sinohydro had already agreed to build the 1,600MW Gibe IV dam further down the Omo, a project sure to generate further controversy.
  • (13) The author gibes a review of suicide problems in Norway.
  • (14) Nor would it be inappropriate since Hope, whom Time magazine once called "an American folk figure", was on intimate terms with every American president since Harry Truman, at all of whom he directed inoffensive gibes.
  • (15) At 243 metres the Gibe III dam will be the highest on the continent, a controversial centrepiece of Ethiopia's extraordinary multibillion-pound hydroelectric boom.
  • (16) Gibe III, which will have a generating capacity of 1,870MW – double what was available in all of Ethiopia last year – has sparked the greatest opposition.

Giving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Give
  • (n.) The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
  • (n.) A gift; a benefaction.
  • (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (3) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (4) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (7) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (8) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (10) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (11) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (12) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (13) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (14) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (15) The DDE also undergoes photocyclization to give dichlorofluorene derivatives.
  • (16) Similar results were obtained giving 1.2 g sodium valproate.
  • (17) Of the N-acetyl cysteamine derivatives tested, S-acetyl-N-acetyl cysteamine (at 10 mM) gives almost complete protection against inactivation whereas S-acetoacetyl-, S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-, and S-crotonyl-N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters exhibit either slight or no protection.
  • (18) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (19) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

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