(n.) A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We welcome a consultation, but default filters are awful," said ORG executive director Jim Killock.
(2) Anthony Barnett openDemocracy , Billy Bragg , Lord Errol , Bridget Fox Liberal Democrat PPC, Islington South & Finsbury , Jo Glanville Editor, Index on Censorship , John Grogan MP , Andrew Heaney Director of regulation, TalkTalk , Julian Huppert Liberal Democrat PPC, Cambridge , Julia and Simon Indelicate The Indelicates , Jim Killock Executive director, Open Rights Group , Nicholas Lansman Secretary general, ISPA , Graham Linehan screenwriter Caroline Lucas Leader, Green party , Baroness Miller , Simon Milner Director of industrial policy, BT , Peter Tatchell , Tom Watson MP , Lord Whitty Chair, Consumer Focus
(3) Policing should be targeted at actual offenders, with the proper protection of the courts," Killock added.
(4) Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, the organisation that commissioned the YouGov poll, called the government's plans extremist.
(5) "We want a debate," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, which has campaigned against many of the strictures in the bill.
(6) "This bill is the victim of one of the worst lobbying scandals of this parliament," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.
(7) In our view these clauses should be deleted entirely,” said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.
(8) "This is exactly what we and 20,000 supporters warned their MPs," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.
(9) "People may feel they are under surveillance," Killock said.
(10) Jim Killock, director of the ORG, said: “The government has ignored a court judgment, ridden roughshod over our parliamentary processes and denied the public the debate they deserve.
(11) Jim Killock, of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns on digital rights, said: "Google didn't ask us if we, their customers, minded our data being merged and used in new ways.
(12) Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: "It's good to see European data protection authorities take action so that users gain control of their data.
(13) However, Jim Killock, the executive director of internet freedom organisation the Open Rights Group, welcomed the judicial review of the "legal mess caused by the Digital Economy Act".
(14) It shows that they're taking the BPI far too seriously," Killock said.
(15) Separately, the Prism programme set up to help the US monitor traffic of potential suspects abroad was used by GCHQ to generate 197 intelligence reports Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, said the extent of the UK and US surveillance created risks for everyone and placed "extreme degrees of power in the hands of secret agencies.
(16) However, Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said it was now clear that British laws had been abused to give the agencies a chance "to monitor everything and everyone almost constantly".
(17) Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group warned that "letters being sent out could cause a lot of worry and fear".
(18) Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group said: “This is a basic error that could have negative consequences for the people who complained, and may also deter others from making complaints to Ipso in the future.” “Organisations have a legal obligation to protect our data and they should take this responsibility seriously.” Manji has been defended by her employer, which called the comments “offensive, completely unacceptable and, arguably, tantamount to inciting religious and even racial hatred”.
(19) Already more than 6,700 people have emailed their MP to demand a democratic debate on disconnection, according to Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, quoting figures from campaigning website 38Degrees.
(20) Jim Killock, its executive director, said: "This is an attack on everyone's right to communicate, work and gain an education.
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.