(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.
Vehicle
Definition:
(n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
(n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.
(n.) A substance in which medicine is taken.
(n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(3) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(4) A group of rats raised on D-P++ for 4 weeks were fed D-P- for 7 days after which they received 500 pmol of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3; SUPP] or an equal volume of the vehicle (ETH).
(5) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
(6) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
(7) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(8) Controls were injected in the same manner with vehicle and microspheres.
(9) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(10) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(11) Thus, the lymphoid population containing cell-mediated anti-idiotypic responsiveness served as a vehicle of resistance.
(12) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(13) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
(14) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
(15) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(16) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(17) Vehicle administration had no effect on pulmonary function.
(18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
(19) II with melatonin instead of 25.9% in the corresponding vehicle controls.
(20) Twenty-four h prior to the measurement of 45Ca2+ uptake, the cells were transferred to serum-free medium ([Ca2+], 1.0 mM) containing 1.0 nM 1,25(OH)2D3 or vehicle.