(1) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(2) For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain.
(3) Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities.
(4) Even the agency admits, though, that there is much more work to do before everyone agrees with the judges at the International River Foundation , especially on the Thames's many urban and suburban tributaries – some of which still flow spasmodically through concrete pipes or over shopping trolleys and other modern jetsam.
(5) Beachcombers began to pick their way through the flotsam and jetsam thrown on to the shore.
(6) When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.
(7) It’s one thing to spill your guts in your own book, but another to do so among the Z-list flotsam and jetsam in the CBB house.
Salvage
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
(n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
(n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
(a. & n.) Savage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(2) Four of the eight CR patients had received an amsacrine-containing salvage regimen (ATA) prior to administration of the present moderate-dose cytosine arabinoside and mitoxantrone regimen; this indicates the lack of absolute clinical cross-resistance between the present combination and the daunorubicin- or amsacrine-containing regimens.
(3) (1) The results of re-irradiation as salvage treatment were poor.
(4) Immediate limb salvage was achieved in 31 of 36 limbs (86 percent).
(5) Early surgery in hydronephrosis may be indicated to salvage kidney function.
(6) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(7) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(8) No homologous blood was transfused in TURP when salvaged autologous blood with or without preserved blood was retransfused to the patient.
(9) The outcome of salvage mastectomy depends on the disease-free interval from initial breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy to local-regional recurrence.
(10) These data support the aggressive use of reoperation with graft salvage when F-AKP or extra-anatomic graft failure reproduces critical ischemia.
(11) The use of the iron chelator desferrioxamine (DFX) did not benefit the endothelium or improve salvage of ischaemic flaps.
(12) Ten patients undergoing femoral-popliteal and femoral-tibial in situ saphenous vein bypass for limb salvage were studied to determine the effects of side branch arteriovenous fistulae on flow through the distal end of the graft into the outflow artery.
(13) [14C]Formate and [U-14C]glycine are also incorporated, but de novo synthesis is clearly lower than synthesis from salvage precursors, although similar to de novo synthesis in liver.
(14) In our view, the surgical procedure of choice for a salvage elbow is an elbow arthrodesis.
(15) Forty-four patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) which relapsed after chemotherapy were treated with salvage radiotherapy (S-RT) with curative intent.
(16) The nucleoside transport inhibitor dipyridamole can potentiate the cytotoxicity of methotrexate by a mechanism that was thought to be related to the inhibition of thymidine salvage.
(17) There was no significant difference when patients were stratified for diabetes (log rank = 2.213, p = no significance [NS]), operative indication (disabling claudication vs. limb salvage) (log rank = 0.0005, p = NS), or outflow (no profundaplasty vs. profundaplasty) (log rank = 2.011, p = NS).
(18) Other pharmacologic agents, including lidocaine, nitrates, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, and aspirin, have been used acutely in myocardial infarction in the hopes of preventing death and salvaging myocardium.
(19) Biosynthetic activities of nucleotides in the salvage pathway were about 100-300 times higher than those in the de novo pathway.
(20) We have used the Haemonetics Cell-Saver autotransfusion technique in over 6,500 cases since 1979, salvaging more than 11,000 units of packed red blood cells.