(v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
(v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.
(a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(4) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(5) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(6) Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian Because health is devolved, the Welsh government can do things differently from England.
(7) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
(8) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(9) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(10) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(11) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(12) The Guardian has a mortgage advice service, provided by London & Country
(13) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(14) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(15) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(16) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(17) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(18) But there were red faces in the MoD when it withdrew details of more than £14m in expenditure following questions from the Guardian.
(19) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Sentinel
Definition:
(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
(n.) Watch; guard.
(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(2) Similarly, in all three naturally infected sentinel chickens from Maryland, IgM class antibody was undetectable 1 to 5 weeks after IgM was initially detected.
(3) Ten sentinel pigs placed in the area all developed haemagglutination-inhibition antibodies against Japanese encephalitis and the virus was isolated from the blood of 3.
(4) Specific-pathogen-free leghorn sentinel chickens were vaccinated with Massachusetts (Mass) alone, Mass and JMK, or Mass and Arkansas (Ark) combination live vaccines, or they remained unvaccinated.
(5) BTV serotypes 11 and 17 were initially isolated from nearly all sentinel sheep, goats and dairy calves from late July through September, whereas isolates of 11 and 17 were made from only 2 beef cows and 2 deer in August and September.
(6) The numbers of females captured by both types of traps were significantly correlated with human sentinel collections.
(7) Contaminants were recovered from 10% of Isolator 10, 2.7% of Bactec, and 7.2% of Sentinel bottles.
(8) "Let me assure you that our brave sentinels on the border will address any issue that happens on the border," said the foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.
(9) The paper analyses 50 pairs of sera pre-elevated within the "sentinel" epidemiological surveillance in a population exposed to a high risk at a 2 months interval.
(10) It is more elaborate that the previously described selective biopsies and includes biopsy of all identifiable nodes in the inguinal region, including the sentinel node area.
(11) The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) conducted an observational study of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the primary care setting.
(12) No MVE virus was isolated from these mosquitoes, but serum from one of the sentinel chickens contained MVE virus antibodies, indicating the presence of the virus in that region.
(13) Good folks and bad folks Sentinel spokeswoman Ann Marie Dryden said that the company is committed to helping the offenders it supervises fulfill the terms of their probation and leave the criminal justice system.
(14) Sentinel mice were housed in microisolator cages, exposed continuously to soiled bedding and bled at 21 and 42 days for serology.
(15) Seven further virus isolates from sentinel calves at Shambat (Khartoum) confirmed the presence of BTV serotypes 1, 4 and 16, and an untyped EHDV (designated 318) in the Sudan.
(16) Still, in interviews with home-state reporters Monday, Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
(17) Splenectomized cattle and mature, spleen-intact cattle were used as sentinels in a 4-year study to assess the seasonality of naturally transmitted anaplasmosis.
(18) During heat shock and other forms of physiological stress, heat shock proteins act as intracellular sentinels to recognize malfolded proteins.
(19) Net egg production and numbers of larvae acquired by sentinel mice of each strain were monitored every two weeks.
(20) The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) undertook a 100% audit of 226 patients included in a study of spontaneous abortion (SAB).