(n.) A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) said it was unaware of any women partaking in a strike, but the agency said in a statement to the Guardian that it “fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference, and all detainees, including those in family residential facilities such as Karnes, are permitted to do so”.
(2) Jeh Johnson, the homeland security secretary, last month pledged to improve conditions and reduce the length of stays at Karnes and the country’s two other family detention centres, in Dilley, Texas, and Berks County, Pennsylvania, after a rapid expansion prompted by the influx of migrants in the summer of 2014.
(3) While the administration is understandably under pressure to respond to the current humanitarian crisis at the border, locking babies in prison cells and deporting women and young children to dangerous situations are not the solution.” Earlier this year, federal officials opened family detention centres in Artesia, New Mexico, and Karnes, Texas, in addition to a handful of other facilities which are being used to to detain and expedite the removal of families who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally.
(4) 15:549) and later supported by biochemical studies (Karn et al., Biochem Genet.
(5) But the three detention centers, in Dilley and Karnes City in Texas , and Berks County in Pennsylvania, have since then been inundated with complaints over their treatment of children.
(6) We demonstrate that the previously described gene Androgen binding protein (Abp; Dlouhy and Karn, 1984) codes for the Alpha subunit of ABP and rename the locus Androgen binding protein alpha (Abpa).
(7) Meanwhile, at the new Karnes County Family Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas, opened in August under the management of the GEO Group (the other largest private prison company in the world), numerous female detainees allege they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male prison guards in front of their children.
(8) I don’t believe at all that they were coached into doing this.” Parker added that contacts with knowledge of events had told her that detention centre managers had begun withdrawing access to facilities, including internet and telephone calls for all those detained at Karnes, regardless of their participation in the reported hunger strike.
(9) The genetics of salivary amylase will not be considered here, since it has recently been thoroughly reviewed elsewhere (Merritt and Karn, 1977).
(10) Some researchers have suggested that the two-factor solution (Verbal and Performance) of Karnes and K. E. Brown provides the appropriate model, while others have proposed an alternative model based on exploratory research with gifted and average students.
(11) I know the whole world is surprised, but in our camp we knew we could do it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Karne Hesketh of Japan scores the winning try against South Africa in the Rugby World Cup match at Brighton.
(12) The position of the cross-linked lysine was only three amino acid residues away from the invariant proline residue mapped as the S-1-rod hinge by McLachlan and Karn [McLachlan, A. D., & Karn, J.
(13) In the face of unprecedented levels of illegal migration of adults with children and unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, we have reiterated that our borders are not open to illegal migration; if you come here illegally, and don’t have a legal basis to stay under our laws, we will send you back,” Johnson said of the Karnes facility in July.
(14) Four minutes into injury time they finally achieved it, as replacement wing Karne Hesketh dived into the corner to earn a stunning 34-32 victory.
(15) Pro-197 was suggested to be the NH2-terminal boundary of the alpha-helical coiled-coil rod sequence of gizzard myosin, based on the homology with the nematode sequence reported by MacLachlan and Karn (Proc.
(16) U.S.A. 81, 2626-2630; Karn, J., Brenner, S., and Barnett, L. (1983) Proc.
(17) This supports an hypothesis originally proposed by Friedman and Karn in 1977 (Am.
(18) As a result of the development of a rapid and sensitive electrophoresis system, with markedly higher resolution than previously reported, we concluded that a previously proposed model (Karn et al., Biochem.
(19) Until the closing seconds it seemed they might fall agonisingly short, only for their New Zealand-born replacement wing Karne Hesketh to dive over in the corner in the final move of the game to clinch a supposedly impossible triumph.
(20) The first occurred in 1972 in a 74-year-old woman who had residences in Dilworth and Gahzales, Gonzales County, and the other was in a 56-year-old man from Kenedy, Karnes County, in 1974.
Rock
Definition:
(n.) See Roc.
(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(6) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(7) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(8) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
(9) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(10) Russell is a former director of Northern Rock while Crosby is the former chief executive of HBOS.
(11) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(12) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(13) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(14) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(15) Emotional reactivity of patients with endogenous depression and healthy test subjects towards classic and rock music was compared.
(16) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(17) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
(18) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(19) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(20) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.