(v. i.) A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.
(v. i.) That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been manageable, even beneficial to the economy when people slowly climbed the property ladder.
(2) Western blots of both the native alpha antigen and the cloned gene product demonstrate a regularly laddered pattern of heterogeneous polypeptides.
(3) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(4) Methods employing electroosmotic flow in an untreated silica capillary were found to provide, at best, only partial resolution of the 23 fragments in a 1-kbp DNA ladder.
(5) Britons at the top of the social ladder are by far the most likely to have lied in order to get a job; 41% of social grade A have lied on a job application.
(6) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
(7) Around the same time Clinton also beefed up President Carter's 1977 Community Reinvestment Act – forcing lenders to take a more sympathetic approach to poor borrowers trying to get on the housing ladder.
(8) When this sequence was used to probe Southern blots of EcoRI-digested genomic DNA, a ladder of bands with increments of about 170 bp was observed.
(9) Of the big national companies, the only one to take a major hit was English National Opera, while there was also a big cut for the Lowry, and complete cuts for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and touring companies including the long-standing Red Ladder.
(10) On SDS-PAGE analysis, HA showed a single band at 35 kDa under reduced conditions and numerous ladder bands between 35 kDa to more than 300 kDa under nonreduced conditions.
(11) Women, in particular, have difficulty in saving sufficiently for retirement as they often take time off work to raise a family, which can set them back on the career ladder and reduce the amount they can afford to put away for pensions.
(12) "We were extremely limited as we had such a small deposit, and knew the rate of interest we would pay back would reflect this, but considered this to be short term as we were getting on the ladder.
(13) Finally, by using whole cells, it was found that the lower-molecular-weight species of the ladder pattern selectively partitioned into the hydrophobic phase of a Triton X-114 phase partitioning system, and the higher-molecular-weight bands were found in the aqueous phase.
(14) LPS-stimulated murine macrophages indicate that the "ladder" complex reflects differential glycosylation of mature 17 kDa TNF.
(15) Our advice to parents is to take full advantage of the new rules to help secure their children a place on the property ladder,” he says.
(16) Emma Reynolds MP, Labour's shadow housing minister, said: "Any help for first-time buyers struggling to get on the property ladder is welcome.
(17) The pauses observed during translation generate subsets of smaller discrete peptides, visualized in the gels as ladders of variable relative intensities, appearing exclusively and concomitantly with the fibroin.
(18) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
(19) The staff at the Peacocks store in Pontypridd were attempting to be as cheerful as always, laughing and joking as they clambered up a ladder to tape a new sale sign ("biggest ever – 20-70% of everything") to the window.
(20) Meanwhile, millions of other people, unable to get a foot on the property ladder, also have little choice but to rent – sometimes into their 30s or even 40s.
Lauder
Definition:
(n.) One who lauds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement drew sharp criticism from Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress.
(2) During his speech, Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, said: “Right now, we stand on one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world.
(3) Robert Lauder, principal of the nearby Friends Seminary, said he could see why Sedwill saw similarities between Kabul and New York .
(4) Lauder Professor Emeritus of Public Health, Mary Elizabeth Tennant, Associate Professor Emeritus of Nursing (Public Health), A. Pharo Gagge, Emeritus Fellow, John B.
(5) Mr Bloom's bongo bongo land and Mr Lauder-Frost's club of " perfectly normal conservatives ", which among other bizarre and sometimes offensive beliefs regards Doreen Lawrence as a disfigurement to the House of Lords, appear to be at least on the fringe of a wider debate about migration.
(6) PPG and Axalta have now joined the Responsible Mica Initiative , already supported by cosmetics multinationals L’Oreál, Chanel, Estée Lauder, as well as major mica-sourcing companies including Merck and Chinese-owned Fujian Kuncai.
(7) Over the last 10 years, calculated ultraviolet levels at Lauder have increased significantly, due to decreases in atmospheric ozone.
(8) During craniofacial development in the mouse embryo (days 9-12 of gestation; plug day = day 1), transient expression of serotonin (5-HT) uptake in epithelial structures of this region correlates with critical morphogenetic events (Lauder et al., '88; Shuey, '91; Shuey et al., '89, '92).
(9) Some of the world’s biggest cosmetics companies including L’Oréal and Estée Lauder, as well as suppliers such as Merck, source mica from India, one of the top producing mica countries in the world.
(10) It is tempting to treat the Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom and Gregory Lauder-Frost of Traditional Britain as fleshly but similarly risible lieutenants in the prelapsarian dreams of Spode's Black Shorts.
(11) Taken together with results from previous studies where 1) 5-HT has been reported to stimulate palatal shelf reorientation and palatal mesenchyme cell motility in vitro [Wee et al., J Embryol Exp Morphol 53:75-90, 1979; Zimmerman et al., J Craniofac Genet Dev Biol 3:371-385, 1983] and 2) long-term culturing of mouse embryos in the presence of 5-HT or fluoxetine has been shown to cause malformations of the craniofacial region (Lauder, Thomas, and Sadler, in preparation), the results of the present study suggest that 5-HT could act as a developmental signal in the palate, oral cavity, and face during the period of active morphogenesis.
(12) Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, praised German authorities for "not relenting in the pursuit of those who murdered, or aided in murdering, thousands of people" during the second world war.
(13) The Haaretz newspaper reported that billionaire Ronald Lauder, a longtime friend of Netanyahu’s, was linked to the affair.
(14) This rise in low-level pampering during frugal times is so well known that Leonard Lauder, the chairman of Estée Lauder Companies Inc, once theorised that the state of the economy was inversely proportional to the amount of lipstick sales in beauty stores.
(15) Burns seemed to fit safely into the sort of Scot portrayed on the music hall stage a century ago by Harry Lauder, or in the 19th century Kailyard school of literature set in an idyllic rural lowland setting which never, in truth, existed.
(16) Leaving aside the fact that he appears to have morphed from the chubby, frosted-tip rogue that he was for several decades into Dale Winton's blond brother, all with the help of nothing other than the Estée Lauder moisturisers his girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley happens to shill for, it's the man himself that concerns me.
(17) ‘Mein Kampf shows where ideologies can lead’: the case for republishing Hitler Read more Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, told Agence France-Presse that not only would “Holocaust survivors be offended by the sale of the antisemitic work in bookstores again”, but that he also failed to see a need for a critical edition.
(18) This is the last time we’ll have such a prominent survivor presence, so we’ve made a special effort to get them here,” Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, which is bringing 100 of the survivors, told the Guardian.
(19) A record number of foreign brands – including Burberry, Estee Lauder, Nike, Topshop and Uniqlo – will take part by hawking their wares on Alibaba sites such as Tmall.
(20) And even though it should be studied and German students taught about the devastating impact it had, said Lauder, “the idea that to do so requires an annotated edition with thousands of pages of text is nonsense.” He added: “Now, it would be best to leave Mein Kampf where it belongs: the poison cabinet of history.” • This article was amended on 12 January 2015.