What's the difference between hale and shale?

Hale


Definition:

  • (a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
  • (n.) Welfare.
  • (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hale-Stoner mice (6 to 8 weeks old) were injected with 7 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans 336 isolated from a patient.
  • (2) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
  • (3) Stephen Hale, Green Alliance director, said: "Ed Miliband's first major decision suggests he gets it.
  • (4) Phase 1 studies of "in vivo purging" with a monovalent CD3 antibody (Clark et al., 1989), and also with a genetically engineered humanized IgG1 (CAMPATH-1H) (Hale et al., 1988b) suggest that these limitations can be overcome.
  • (5) It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
  • (6) Asked what it felt like being the only woman justice, Hale said: "Most of the time you are not conscious of it.
  • (7) The Bank confirmed that the governor had had a private lunch with Hale, but said it had been two months ago.
  • (8) Three analyses are reported that are based on data from 19 studies using lexical tasks and a reduced version of the Hale, Myerson, and Wagstaff (1987) nonlexical data set.
  • (9) "One might just as well say that logically, on Lady Hale's approach, it would be irrational not to supply a night carer to take the client to the commode, irrespective of cost, if there is any likelihood of the client having to urinate even once during the night."
  • (10) Lady Hale's judgment adds weight to calls from the House of Lords select committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 last week for the safeguards to be replaced with procedures which provide an independent check on a person's care, but which are more in keeping with the ethos of the Act."
  • (11) The home secretary also announced that the Metropolitan police had agreed to investigate allegations by a journalist, Don Hale, that a file of allegations involving prominent people, including MPs, passed to him by Barbara Castle, had been seized from him by special branch officers.
  • (12) But as the deputy president of the court, Lady Hale, pointed out in the ruling [pdf] : “It cannot possibly be in the best interests of the children affected by the cap to deprive them of the means to provide them with adequate food, clothing, warmth and housing, the basic necessities of life.” The court urged the government to review the cap accordingly.
  • (13) Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond (supreme court judge) 5.
  • (14) In the case of CGL in chronic phase, there is also an associated extra risk of relapse, particularly in patients where engraftment may have been compromised (Hale et al., 1988a).
  • (15) The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said Hale had pro-EU views and warned that it was not the job of judges to tell parliament what to do.
  • (16) Examples include parts of the Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge, Lea Bridge station between Stratford and Tottenham Hale, which reopened in May after the council provided £5m in funding, and in Bristol, work to reopen the Portishead line will begin in 2018 .
  • (17) At a press conference convened at Cornelius's Romanian-Italian restaurant in Tottenham Hale, north London, he questioned the actions of Ukip candidates "scapegoating" immigrants.
  • (18) Hales believes there is the goodwill to pull it off.
  • (19) In an additional judgment, Lady Hale , deputy president of the court, said she had "some sympathy for the view of the Strasbourg court that our present law [on prisoner voting] is arbitrary and indiscriminate.".
  • (20) Histochemical methods were used for the detection of glycogen (periodic acid-Schiff), acid mucopolysaccharides (Hale) and acid phosphatases (Gomori) by light microscopy.

Shale


Definition:

  • (n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  • (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  • (v. t.) To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even under the most optimistic scenarios, shale gas is projected to meet just 10% of European gas demand by 2030.
  • (2) But similar accusations have been levelled by Anders Fogh Rasmussen , the secretary general of Nato, and by pro-shale officials in Romania and Lithuania , as cold war-style tensions have ratcheted.
  • (3) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
  • (4) Weak carcinogenic activity was found in the total crude water-soluble phenols recovered from the wastewater of a shale processing plant.
  • (5) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
  • (6) David Cameron said more than two and half years ago that the UK was going “all out for shale”, and ministers one year ago promised they would “fast track” bids.
  • (7) The FN has made political capital about cruelty to animals in the preparation of halal and kosher meat in the past, and its MEPs are preparing a resolution that would limit shale gas exploration, despite the party voting against a shale moratorium in the last parliament.
  • (8) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
  • (9) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
  • (10) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
  • (11) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
  • (12) Davies said: "The data from the monitoring of active wells and the carrying out of periodic surveys of abandoned wells would help assess the impact of shale exploitation and it is important that the public should have access to this information."
  • (13) Many people think UK shale gas would provide us with energy security, but what does that mean?
  • (14) But a report by consulting firm Pöyry for Europe's oil and gas industry shows the reliance on Russian gas will increase to 50% by 2050 regardless of whether shale gas is part of the mix or not.
  • (15) By measuring the solubility of Ni5As2 particles in a variety of aqueous solutions, we have determined that particulate Ni5As2 that might be produced during oil-shale retorting could be mobilized to the environment and made available to the cells of living organisms, including humans.
  • (16) There is much less data on the area in question – the first to be assessed for shale gas and oil in Scotland – than there has been in comparable areas in England, of which two have so far been surveyed.
  • (17) Results are reported of epidemiological studies in six groups of miners, who work in U mines, Fe mines and shale clay mines.
  • (18) Thus, it is possible that Ni5As2 could be solubilized and mobilized to the environment by the flooding of abandoned in situ retorts with ground water or by the disposal of oil-shale product water by spraying it on spent shale beds.
  • (19) These changes are vital to kick starting shale and make sure it’s not delayed by one single landowner.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Barbara Siegienczuk, one of the leaders of the local anti-shale gas protest group Green Zurawlow, with her husband and co-activist, Andrzej Bak.

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