(1) We have studied a special case where the subject hears 4 repetitions of a simple rhythmic pattern (iamb 300-600 ms, or trochee 600-300 ms), the interval between two patterns being 1200 ms.
(2) Although Bremer was expected to manage Iraqi funds in a transparent manner, it was only in October 2003, six months after the fall of Saddam, that an International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) was established to provide independent, international financial oversight of CPA spending.
(3) Instead, what we pay to see in the cinema, in countless biopics of tortured artists, is the poet, chain-smoking in his sepia study, grinding his fingers into his temples as the iambs flow, or the dancer, soaring on the stage, hallucinating in the wings.
(4) The IAMB's most recent audit of Iraqi government spending talks of "incomplete accounting", "lack of documented justification for limited competition for contracts at the Iraqi ministries", "possible misappropriation of oil revenues", "significant difficulties in ensuring completeness and accuracy of Iraqi budgets and controls over expenditures" and "non-deposit of proceeds of export sales of petroleum products into the appropriate accounts in contravention of UN Security Council Resolution 1483".
(5) At the same time, the IAMB discovered that Iraqi oil exports were unmetered.
(6) The IAMB first spent months trying to find auditors acceptable to the US.
Iambic
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
(n.) An iambic foot; an iambus.
(n.) A verse composed of iambic feet.
(n.) A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though Lord Derby's version is in unrhymed iambic pentameters, rather than the dactylic hexameters of the original, the narrative retains the density of an exciting though tragic war novel, never matched for scenes of ferocity and courage and the maintenance of honour, with its graphic descriptions of ghastly wounds, nearly all of which result in death.
(2) The play, written in Shakespearean iambics , was set in a futuristic limbo, before the coronation, when Charles refuses to grant his royal assent to a Labour prime minister’s press regulation bill.
(3) The joys of learning about iambic pentameter were no compensation for the weather and the food and the tight cliques of English girls, socially stratified in ways that were incomprehensible to me.
(4) They are "pulled about, the iambic pentameter is frequently broken … and yet the syncopation of scenes is like music".
(5) According to Channel 4 insiders, among those whowere approached by headhunters Egon Zehnder or have been interviewed are the network's director of television and content, Kevin Lygo; Andy Bird, Disney's international chief; Chris Hunt, the Iambic Media founder and former 'super-indie' chief executive; the BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson; the Talkback Thames chief executive and former BBC1 controller and Lorraine Heggessey; and UKTV's chief executive, David Abraham.