(a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(2) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
(3) Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie for the Guardian O n the evening of 21 March 2014, Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”, according to his LinkedIn profile, who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment), took his young Siberian husky for a walk on Bernal Hill.
(4) Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat campaign manager, accused Cameron of using the Greens to duck TV debates, adding: “Not since the photos of Cameron driving huskies have green issues been so cynically harnessed to Tory interest.” The broadcasters have proposed three one-hour TV debates, the first involving the Ukip, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative leaders, the second Lib Dem, Labour and Tory.
(5) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
(6) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
(7) Congenital paralysis of the laryngeal musculature has been seen in the Bouvier des Flandres and the Siberian Husky.
(8) Eggs of a tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium sp (probably D dendriticum), were detected in feces of a healthy, 5-month-old, Siberian Husky.
(9) The head of the charity that helped to arrange David Cameron's memorable husky photoshoot in the Arctic , launching the Conservatives' rebranding as the nice-not-nasty party, has warned that the PM's lack of leadership on environment issues risks "retoxifying" their image.
(10) Piers Morgan appraisal … Chelsea Handler "Let me ask him, doesn't he feel faintly embarrassed that in five short years he has gone from hug a husky to gas a badger?"
(11) A 6-week-old Siberian Husky pup had an unusual group of congenital heart anomalies that included a right-to-left patent ductus arteriosus, a small left ventricular chamber and ascending aorta, and a dysplastic mitral valve that may have been stenotic.
(12) He has told colleagues: "I'm not going to do huskies."
(13) An astrocytoma of the cervical spinal cord was diagnosed in a 3-year-old Siberian Husky.
(14) "[Cameron] wanted this to be based on substance, not just a nice picture of huskies: he was interested and engaged with the scientists," said Nussbaum, who joined WWF a year later in 2007.
(15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
(16) Additionally, sodium efflux in isotonic choline chloride was significantly (P less than 0.01) lower in erythrocytes isolated from Siberian Huskies.
(17) After a 30-minute technical session, sledders who are reasonably fit and at least 12 years old get to pilot their own team of eager huskies.
(18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
(19) Miliband claimed Cameron in the past had backed the green energy taxes, arguing Cameron should feel faintly embarrassed he had gone from "hug a husky to gas a badger" in the past five years.
(20) In five years Cameron has gone from "hug a husky to gas a badger".
Overweight
Definition:
(n.) Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
(n.) Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
(a.) Overweighing; excessive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(2) 55% of the patients had overweight, which positively correlated to the occurrence of pathological glucose tolerance.
(3) We performed a stepwise discriminant analysis first with only casual and end exercise systolic and diastolic BP, then after introducing age, overweight (Lorentz's formula), duration of hypertension, Sokoloff index and cholesterolemia.
(4) Consequently, we measured pharyngeal area and its lung volume-related changes (LVRC) from functional residual capacity (FRC) to residual volume (RV) in overweight females, 14 with OSA and 14 without OSA.
(5) Numerous experts note that women, more frequently than men, are overweight and have greater difficulty adhering to reducing diets.
(6) The effect of benfluorex on hyperinsulinism in overweight patients with glucose intolerance or mildly increased fasting blood glucose levels is valuable in these high vascular risk patients.
(7) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(8) The situation is even worse in London, with almost a quarter of children starting primary school and over a third of year six children overweight or obese.
(9) The purpose of this investigation was to determine the accuracy of dietary-intake information of normal-weight vs overweight parents in their reports of their children's food intake.
(10) Using the body mass index, defined as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kilogram per square meter), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimated that 26%, or 34 million, adult Americans aged 20 to 75 were overweight.
(11) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(12) In type 2 diabetics contradictory results have been obtained, probably related to varying degrees of body overweight in the patients investigated.
(13) So you're likely to be refused treatment if you're a smoker, overweight (such as having a body mass index above 30) or already have a child (adopted or biological).
(14) Overweight was reduced from 118% to 30.4% of normal body weight (Broca Index).
(15) The Coag Reform Council – which is to be disbanded at the end of this month – painted a mixed picture of health progress over the past five years, with life expectancy lengthening (to 79.9 years for men and 84.3 years for women) but the proportion of those who are obese or overweight is increasing (to 62.7%).
(16) 9.41pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd The "demeaning euphemism for overweight" Matt Adams lines out to Adrian Gonzalez for the second out of the inning.
(17) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(18) Fifty-two (41 females, 11 males) overweight patients, mean body mass index (BMI) = 29.3, were treated for 6 months in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group design.
(19) The subjects were characterized as normal weight restrained, normal weight unrestrained, and overweight restrained.
(20) "The research we undertook for this campaign showed that only 6% of people understood the links between obesity, overweight and adverse health effects," said chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.