(a.) Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.
(a.) Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge.
(n.) A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the beliefs, opinions and doubts I hold are just that: they are ideas, not ironclad convictions.
(2) That's not to say this rule is ironclad, by any means, but Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and most importantly, Paul Ryan are all in better position per this criterion.
(3) If governments are not to become dependent on “insider” corporations, with the exclusion of other voices, overpricing and grotesque corruption risks that entails, then the ironclad regulation of lobbying and the re-establishment of disinterested civil and public service capacity should now be on every democrat’s agenda.
(4) The US maintained an “ironclad commitment” to the defence of South Korea , he added.
(5) In an effort to shore up the banks’ balance sheet, regular bank customers were sold investments that they wrongly believed were ironclad.
(6) The culture secretary, Maria Miller, has embarked on a year-long battle to persuade her party to embrace same-sex marriage, promising to secure ironclad guarantees that no religious groups would be required to conduct such ceremonies against their will.
(7) As US attorney for the eastern district of New York, Lynch built an ironclad reputation for steadily guiding the most complicated criminal prosecutions – from terrorism cases to sex trafficking to government corruption – toward conviction.
(8) This must be an ironclad agreement so that no commonwealth government can refuse to meet its obligations to health and education.” Foley also unveiled a plan for thousands of existing public housing dwellings to be transferred to the not-for-profit community housing sector, saying this was one area where non-government bodies were better placed to succeed.
(9) A spokesman for Netanyahu claimed to have “ironclad evidence” that the Obama administration had plotted behind the scenes to promote the UN resolution.
(10) Obama’s prohibition on ground forces in a combat role was less ironclad than the president has publicly stated, Dempsey suggested.
(11) The administration insists its opposition to Assad remains ironclad.
(12) She told reporters: “We are looking for an action-focused, results-oriented approach, and we are going to be trying to cooperate with other partners and allies in a global coalition really to try to solve this problem in an urgent way that we haven’t really taken up before.” Thornton said Washington’s commitment to the defence of South Korea and Japan was “ironclad”, adding: “We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that we’re going to maintain security in that region and that we’re going to be very serious about pursuing a solution to the illegal North Korean weapons programmes.” But Kurt Campbell, who served as the US’s senior diplomat dealing with Asia during Barack Obama’s first term as president, warned that Trump’s rhetoric lacked credibility.
(13) A lethal confusion, I suspect, created by one man with the ironclad confidence of a Lord Reith, a cocky newcomer who inherits what he suspects is a shambles, and a politician close to panic at the thought she might be the next to go.
(14) Opposition groups are likely to see the high-profile flight from Syria as a propaganda coup and evidence that ironclad allegiances in sensitive parts of the police state are starting to crumble.
(15) All this adds up to a salutary reminder that Miliband still has a mountain to climb in translating Labour's consistent but not massive opinion poll lead into something more ironclad and irresistible as 2015 nears.
(16) Trump, who has said his criticism was directed against US policymakers, not the Mexican people or its government, stated on Thursday that Univision would be defaulting on an ironclad contract if it doesn’t air the pageants.
(17) The fraudulence of the Copenhagen approach – "goals" for emission reductions, "offsets" that render ironclad goals almost meaningless, the ineffectual "cap-and-trade" mechanism – must be exposed.
(18) This "ironclad" system – operating outside statute, "but independent beyond a shadow of doubt" – could also appoint the first chairman, Letwin said.
(19) Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch: inside the billionaire bromance Read more At his Senate hearing last month, Hagerty, a key member of Trump’s transition team, stressed Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to its alliance with Japan, calling it “the cornerstone of regional peace and security” and “a platform for global cooperation”.
(20) Morrison returned from Port Moresby this week with no ironclad guarantee that the 1,300 detained on Manus would ever be allowed to settle in PNG.
Monitor
Definition:
(n.) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
(n.) Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
(n.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
(n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
(n.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
(3) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(4) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(5) In the present investigation we monitored the incorporation of [14C] from [U-14C]glucose into various rat brain glycolytic intermediates of conscious and pentobarbital-anesthetized animals.
(6) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(7) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
(8) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
(9) Early recognition is facilitated by monitoring of arterial blood gas levels for hypoxemia.
(10) We have not had another incidence of fetal scalp infection associated with intrapartum monitoring.
(11) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(12) Stable factor-dependent B-cell hybridomas were used to monitor the purification of the growth factor from the supernatant of a clonotypically stimulated mouse helper T-cell clone.
(13) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(14) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(15) We conclude that 1H MRS has a clear role in the diagnosis and biochemical assessment of intracranial tumours and in the evaluation and monitoring of therapy.
(16) Conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli was investigated by monitoring synthesis of the lacZ+ product, beta-galactosidase, in crosses between lacZ mutants.
(17) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
(18) We reviewed the results of intraoperative monitoring of short-latency cortical evoked potentials in 81 patients who underwent surgical procedures of the cervical spine.
(19) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(20) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.