(n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prince Naseem Hamed, former world boxing champion, lost his MBE in 2007 after being convicted of dangerous driving.
(2) The current status of onchocerciasis in Abu Hamed, Northern Province, Sudan, was studied.
(3) The fourth, Nima Arkani-Hamed , was recognised for "original approaches to outstanding problems in particle phsyics".
(4) One brother, Abou, played at Nîmes alongside Eric Cantona and two others, Seni and Hamed, also went into professional football.
(5) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
(6) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
(7) Two Iraqi men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh (a former interpreter for the US military) and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi were released, through the valiant efforts of ACLU lawyers.
(8) If you’re cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the South Metropolitan Health Service, this means that patients will wait longer for care, this means the ambulance queues will continue to grow and this means that health services in WA will suffer.” Hames said unless the WA health sector – which accounts for more than 28% of state expenditure – made significant changes to its operating costs, it would affect areas including education and policing.
(9) People tend to say Hame , which is wrong, or Hime , which will do.
(10) Dalia Abdel Hameed says, “I’m not generally the optimistic kind of person, but surely, in my short activism life … I noticed a change.
(11) Duncan Hames, a parliamentary aide to Clegg, said the Tories "had it coming".
(12) Hamed's friend, who does not want to be named, filmed the incident on his phone.
(13) So we refused.” “The smugglers argued with the captain,” Hameed added.
(14) Abu Anas al-Liby's real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai.
(15) So we knew there was a possibility we’d end up with the police.” Damietta On 6 September in the separate apartments where they were being kept across Alexandria, Ahmad Asfour, Hameed Barbakh and Osama and Tariq received the same message.
(16) The winners Nima Arkani-Hamed , Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
(17) Today's PISA figures are shocking evidence of Britain's long-term failure on education December 3, 2013 1.08pm GMT Duncan Hames , a Lib Dem, asks about the pupil premium.
(18) The president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society , Hameed Haroon, bolstered accusers.
(19) Within a few seconds, our vessel sunk and the other fishing vessel left.” “I found a lifejacket in the sea,” recalls Hameed.
(20) He has received numerous awards from academic societies--among them the Curtis Hames Award and the Certificate of Excellence from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine--has been appointed a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, has been awarded an honorary MD by the University of Oslo, and has had a long career of publication and teaching in countries all over the world.
Harness
Definition:
(n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
(n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
(n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
(v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
(v. t.) Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
(v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(2) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(3) Finally, it is suggested that the gestural approach clarifies our understanding of phonological development, by positing that prelinguistic units of action are harnessed into (gestural) phonological structures through differentiation and coordination.
(4) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
(5) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
(6) "We should be looking instead at decentralising the system, and looking closer to home for our energy supplies, such as solar panels on homes or harnessing wind energy on the coasts, or inland," he said.
(7) The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and South Africa agreeing to buy half of the power generated.
(8) None of us is locked into a harness on a bench, being made unwillingly acquainted with tobacco products.
(9) In LNCaP cells (a prostate tumor cell line) the hAR is a heterogeneous protein which is synthesized as a single 110 kDa protein, but becomes rapidly phosphorylated to a 112 kDa protein.
(10) However, Reinfeldt's majority was undermined by the far right, who have sought to harness anti-immigrant sentiment in a country where one in seven residents is foreign-born.
(11) Shows such as Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation or Alex Horne's Seven Years in the Bathroom demonstrate an impressive ability to harness technology to the cause of live comedy; the visual aspects in both cases contribute enormously to the laughs, but it's hard to imagine how the shows would survive a power cut.
(12) Costs were diminished since with the same harness it was possible to carry out the intraoperative blood salvage and concentrate the erythrocytes contained in the oxygenator and its lines.
(13) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
(14) Garcia says the movement is currently seeking to harness the anger in a common agenda of clear demands, a difficult task given the multiplicity of visions; it is not yet clear how much can be achieved.
(15) "In a way, it was good for harnessing anger," she continues.
(16) Specificity for the hAR was established by immunoprecipitation, immune-complex density gradient centrifugation and immunohistochemistry on human prostate tissue sections.
(17) In weightlessness, "falls" were achieved using elastic cords running from a torso harness to the floor.
(18) No significant changes in HAF, HAR, or hepatic tissue blood flow (HTF) occurred after the treatment.
(19) Almost a century after they were nearly destroyed by the Bolsheviks, these fierce horsemen – recruited by Ivan the Terrible in 1571 to guard Russia's borders – are back in harness.
(20) AHH and OHH suspension transiently increased interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production in response to the mitogen concanavalin A. Harness restraint alone did not affect IFN-gamma response.