(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.
Tool
Definition:
(n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
(n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
(n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.
(n.) A weapon.
(n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
(v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
(v. t.) To drive, as a coach.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(3) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(4) These studies demonstrate the potential of ICAM-1 transfectants as tools for analysis of the role of ICAM-1 in lymphoid adhesion.
(5) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(6) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
(7) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(8) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
(9) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
(10) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
(11) However LHRH agonists alone or in combination with ovarian steroids are of potential value as a research tool.
(12) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
(13) This model provides a standard nonoperative approach for the induction of intestinal ischemia in dogs and could be a valuable tool in the study of intestinal ischemia.
(14) Before we embark on the next steps of the global technological revolution, we must ensure that the most basic of online tools are accessible to all.
(15) This ion-selective microelectrode may show promise as a useful tool for the determination of intracellular bile salt activity.
(16) Axotomy should be a useful tool for determining which other neurotransmitter receptors are produced by facial motoneurons and efferent neurons in other cranial nerve nuclei.
(17) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(18) This study also demonstrates that pulsed-field gel electrophoresis is a powerful new tool for the analysis of human chromosomal translocations.
(19) In order to maximize the utility of these tools a high degree of reliability is essential.
(20) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.