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Hark


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To listen; to hearken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
  • (2) He said Indians today were of a new generation and were no longer nervous of such harkings-back to the past which represented no threat.” The diplomat - who went on to be Britain’s ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan - enclosed a press cutting from the Times of India, headlined “Rushdie’s Complaint”.
  • (3) He harks back to an age when cricket was part of the country's cultural life in a way it no longer is.
  • (4) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
  • (5) There are some, particularly younger African American activists, who blame black civil rights leaders for harking back to old traditions, rather than seeking new bridges.
  • (6) In court Cregan and Wilkinson admitted the attack but denied actively trying to murder the occupant, Sharon Hark, who the prosecution claimed belonged to a family with whom Cregan had a grievance.
  • (7) The story harked back to the county’s tobacco plantation past – but it was dominated by images of successful African Americans enjoying their yachts, golf courses and gated communities.
  • (8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
  • (9) Jermaine Ward, 24, was found guilty of the murder of David Short but cleared of the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (10) Constâncio also harked back to the 1930s, when German philosopher Edmund Husserl warned that Europe faced an existential crisis that would either destroy it, or see it reborn.
  • (11) This view is underpinned by a deeper sense of historical purpose, harking back to Margaret Thatcher’s governments.
  • (12) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (13) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
  • (14) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
  • (15) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
  • (16) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
  • (17) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
  • (18) The heavy-handed 'stop and search' activity outside London tube stations harks back to a period before the Lawrence inquiry and raises questions about racial profiling in immigration control."
  • (19) He was cleared of one count of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark on the same day and cleared of causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (20) I think we’re harking back to a world that probably didn’t exist.

Harken


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To hearken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this regard, techniques for endomyocardial resection have been described by Harken and Josephson.
  • (2) On this base different direct surgical approaches were advocated by Guiraudon, proposing an encircling endocardial ventriculotomy and by Josephson and Harken recommending a subendocardial resection technique.
  • (3) The recent contributions of Sullivan, Harken and Gorlin (54), Weily and Genton (55), and Harker and Slicter (56) to our understanding of the role of the platelets in initiating such fibrinous deposition now provide us with a way to prevent such late degeneration of valves made of fascia lata.
  • (4) The new store "is a reflection of realising that the relationship we want to have with our customers should harken back to this sense of community, this unique store environment".
  • (5) A second case of malfunction of a Harken disk valve due to undue disk wear is reported.
  • (6) The first candidate to speak, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, harkened back to the 1990s and the “vast right wing conspiracy” she once railed against in describing the investigation of her emails and use of a “private homebrew server” while leading the State Department.
  • (7) Read more It is a time-honored role for artist as designator, to point at the stuff of the physical world and revision it as art, harkening back to the readymade.
  • (8) It harkens to Kansas City's oldest community development corporation, the Black Economic Union, started in 1968 by NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown to spur redevelopment in the city's black neighborhoods.
  • (9) For the creation of atrial septal defect (ASD), we have developed a new method (Method I) using modified Harken blade for the closed commissurotomy, in which the membranous septum of the fossa ovalis was incised in case of patent foramen ovale (PFO).
  • (10) Many of his proposals harkened back to the old populist PRI, promising pensions for the elderly, life insurance for single mothers to support their children through college, a program to end hunger and a new system of passenger trains.
  • (11) It harkens back to the most absurd moments of the cold war, when nuclear strategists followed the logic of deterrence over the cliff and into the abyss.” In its efforts to reassure its eastern European allies over the threat of Russian encroachment, the US has also been mixing its conventional and nuclear signalling.
  • (12) I don’t pick out a name – don’t want to hurt anybody or help anybody, frankly.” Trump, whose campaign slogan is “make America great again” harkened back to an era when he thought the country was great and there was bipartisanship.
  • (13) A porcine bioprosthetic valve was implanted in 528 patients (514 Hancock and 14 Carpentier-Edwards valves) and a prosthetic disc valve in 178 patients (102 standard disc Björk-Shiley, 34 Beall, and 42 Harken disc valves).
  • (14) Years of frustration of cardiac surgeons attempting to control intractable ventricular arrhythmia finally ended when the team of Harken, Josephson, and Horowitz performed electrophysiologically directed left ventricular endocardial resection and reported their early results 10 years ago.
  • (15) All P underwent aneurysmectomy and an excision of the altered endocardium by Harken's method.
  • (16) In 3 patients excision of the altered endocardium by Harken's method (endocardial peeling) was done; in 2 of the patients it was preceded by intraoperative electrophysiological study.
  • (17) A Harken prosthetic disc valve (DVR) was used in 53 patients and glutaraldehyde-preserved Hancock porcine xenograft (PVR) in 56 patients.
  • (18) Social media’s reaction to the photo essay harkened back to other uses of Twitter to discuss women’s experiences, including #WhyIStayed , which served as a public forum for women to discuss experiences of domestic abuse.
  • (19) (Conservatives show footage of Black Panthers at the polls, progressives harken back – not very far – the obstacles white legislators put in front of black voters.)
  • (20) In proposing the neurogenic and psychogenic groupings, we do not intend to harken back to antique "mind-body" distinctions.

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