(n.) A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequently the quality of life review led by Zac Goldsmith and John Gummer took a less negative approach to nuclear power.
(2) September 12, 2015 Ben Gummer (@ben4ipswich) This is a serious moment for our country: the main opposition party would destroy our economy and threatens the security our nation.
(3) Gummer acknowledged that "most family barristers and solicitors are passionate about what they do and many are paid modestly."
(4) Remarks like those made by Gummer on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday that "courts exacerbate the problem in family breakup" are neither constructive nor well-informed, and expose an unhealthy antipathy towards the court system.
(5) In May 2014, Sheikh and Rico joined Collard, Donnor and Gummer on the board of Hoxton Regeneration Limited, the company which bought the New Era estate.
(6) Senior Tories such as Lord Lamont and John Selwyn Gummer, or Lord Deben as he is now known, voiced serious free speech concerns over her plans for ministers to order universities to ban extremist speakers from campuses.
(7) Clarke's remarks were foreshadowed by Ben Gummer, Conservative MP for Ipswich, who last week launched an attack on the legal profession in the Times.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former Conservative MP John Gummer, chair of the committee on climate change.
(9) Gummer said the cash would only be released after the government had time to consult victims.
(10) Meanwhile, the health minister responsible for negotiating with junior doctors, Ben Gummer, is under fire for wrongly telling a fellow Conservative MP that junior doctors can currently opt out of working at weekends and in the evenings and overnight.
(11) In a reply to Simon Burns, a health minister under the coalition, Gummer wrote: “We want to remove the opt-out from weekend, evening and night working in contracts for newly qualified hospital doctors, so that hospitals arrange their staff rotas evenly though the week and improve provision for junior doctors’ training.” However, the 45,000 junior doctors in England – all those below consultant level – do not have such a right.
(12) The BMJ authors themselves acknowledge that, and any debate about precisely how many of the thousands of deaths are avoidable misses the point,” Gummer said.
(13) Collard, Donnor and Gummer resigned from the company on 13 November 2014.
(14) The time is well overdue for ministers to listen to what junior doctors are telling them.” Health minister Ben Gummer said: “I am disappointed that the BMA has decided to put patients at risk by asking hardworking, responsible junior doctors to strike, without even negotiating on their behalf.
(15) The victims are dying,” McCartney said, “let’s not wait any longer.” Government refuses to increase payments to victims of contaminated blood scandal Read more Peter Bone, the Conservative MP for Wellingborough, said Gummer’s excuses for tabling the government’s statement in the Lords rather than the Commons were “not good enough”.
(16) People like George Young, James Arbuthnot or Peter Lilley , Stephen Dorrell; people that have done work for me, like John Gummer," Cameron said.
(17) Burnham called for a wide-ranging inquiry into the scandal to “get to the full truth of what went wrong”, but Gummer claimed it would slow down efforts to compensate victims.
(18) "Unlike soldiers, nurses and teachers, who are subject to a two-year pay freeze, these courageous lawyers need more cash," said Gummer.
(19) Ben Gummer, a junior health minister, was forced on Monday to defend the government’s plans to push back the release of £25m in financial support for those affected, despite a promise from the prime minister in March that the cash would be released immediately.
(20) Gummer has no need of such outlandish presumptions, since alternative proposals were set out in the consultation responses.
Lacrosse
Definition:
(n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women's lacrosse is potentially hazardous because, unlike men's lacrosse, helmets and face masks are not required.
(2) On Monday it issued a recall for another 3.36m cars including Chevrolet Impala, Cadillac Deville and Buick Lacrosse for an ignition issue that can lead to power steering and power braking being turned off while the car is being driven.
(3) As part of a continuing investigation on the ecology of LaCrosse virus in Wisconsin, field and laboratory studies were conducted to explore the possibility that the virus is transmitted transovarially in A. triseriatus mosquitoes.
(4) I was in my second season as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Drew University, and there was a game on the spring 2014 schedule that I dreaded: the University of Scranton.
(5) Few children will experience hockey, netball, lacrosse, rugby or trampolining without it.
(6) Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes became dually infected after ingesting two mutants of LaCrosse (LAC) virus simultaneously or after ingesting, by interrupted feeding, the two viruses sequentially within a 2-day period.
(7) Clavicular fractures and acromioclavicular joint dislocations occur frequently in high school lacrosse players.
(8) Disruption of the medial supporting structures of the knee occurs commonly in contact sports such as American football and lacrosse.
(9) Should a LaCrosse virus variant or reassortant evolve that was efficiently vectored by Ae.
(10) The purpose of this article is to document one case of a finger fracture and another of a nasal fracture caused by an impact injury from lacrosse sticks in women field-lacrosse players.
(11) The development of this injury is attributed to a defect in the design of the lacrosse chest protector.
(12) Some other infectious diseases such as LaCrosse encephalitis and Lyme disease are caused by agents closely dependent on the integrity of their environment.
(13) LaCrosse virus was recovered from F1 eggs, larvae, and adults that originated from the infected parent mosquitoes.
(14) Ann Thornber said that her son was a keen lacrosse player and he believed that a criminal conviction would destroy his life chances.
(15) It is seen almost exclusively in adolescentes or young adults engaged in active sports, notably basketball, but also football, lacrosse, tennis, and so forth.
(16) MANOVA analysis revealed that bracing did not significantly affect the performance of football players (males) but did inhibit the overall performance of lacrosse players (females) (P less than 0.05).
(17) His columns for The Chronicle range in subject from multiculturalism (which he calls “ segregation ”); to paid family leave (which results in men “getting laid off because [their] boss was losing too much money by paying absent employees ”); to the Duke lacrosse scandal (“a large number of people – instead of rejoicing at our peers’ innocence – will insist it is a conspiracy of white privilege ”).
(18) It is anticipated that when women midshipmen begin to participate in the same vigorous sports as men, e.g., soccer, lacrosse, and others, that injuries will increase.
(19) It’s like shutting down the Australian cricket team, saying we need a lacrosse team, and spending three decades investing in that.” He said several key capabilities will be lost from the country and the world.
(20) An immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody capture enzyme immunoassay (MAC-EIA) was developed for the rapid and early diagnosis of LaCrosse (LAC) virus infections.