(n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
(n.) An occupier of land.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(2) Landman Economics – an organisation quoted on the Labour party's own press release to justify Miliband's "make work pay" plan yesterday – has released a report this morning that states : "it is unlikely that the extension of the living wage to all UK employees would result in any substantial aggregate employment losses.
(3) It is low-income working families who are bearing the brunt of benefit cuts: figures from Landman Economics show over £4 in every £5 of benefit cuts are hitting working households.
(4) Through mutualisation, however, Landman says the government could recoup its bailout money via an income stream known as "profit participating deferred shares" in the bank, which made a £232m loss last year, has £22.5bn of assets and operates 70 high street branches.
(5) Analysis firm Landman Economics concluded earlier this year that remutualisation of Northern Rock would deliver a better payback to taxpayers than a sale.
(6) In a boost to a parliamentary campaign calling for Northern Rock to be owned by its members, analysis firm Landman Economics has concluded that, based on the stock performances of similar banks, a flotation or trade sale would not raise sufficient funds to make up the £50bn of public support pumped into Northern Rock.
(7) CPAG's figures were compiled by Landman Economics from data in the Family Resources Survey .
(8) Landman, run by Howard Reed, former chief economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), points out that mutually owned building societies, which dabble in fewer exotic financial instruments, weathered the crisis relatively well and argues that a balance between mutuals and privately owned banks would bode well for economic stability.
(9) As part of its mandate to ensure the impact of policy changes on “protected groups” is taken into account properly, the Equality and Human Rights Commission asked analysis firm Landman Economics and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to produce just such a “cumulative impact assessment”.
(10) That’s money that could be spent on stopping the crisis in our schools and hospitals and making sure every elderly person gets decent care.” The analysis, conducted for the TUC by consultancy Landman Economics , used tax and benefit modelling to gauge the impact of the rise in insecure work since 2006.
(11) The promoters are the iridiologist J. Landman, the nutritional consultant E. Wannee and the writer R. Jochems.
(12) Research last year by Landman Economics showed that the cost to the exchequer of millions of workers paid less than the living wage – "wage dodging", as the GMB calls it – is £3.23bn a year in social security spending and lower tax receipts.
Petroleum
Definition:
(n.) Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
(2) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
(3) Therefore, the presence on a refinery site of a carcinogen other than petroleum has not been ruled out, and further study is urged.
(4) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
(5) In forest, removal of olfactory substances from the human skin, by vigorous washing and application of petroleum jelly, or by wearing impermeable clothing, greatly reduced the numbers of flies attracted.
(6) Likewise, greater occupational exposure to chemicals (paint, petroleum products, and unspecified chemicals) during pregnancy was found for mothers of patients (RR = 2.4, 95% CI = 1.2-4.6).
(7) Experimental controlled ecosystems have provided essential information about the fate of petroleum at sea.
(8) A proprietary insecticidal mulesing powder containing diazinon and an experimental liquid dressing based on eucalyptus oil, naphthalene, cresylic acid and chlorfenvinphos in a carrier of liquid hydrocarbons and petroleum oil were compared for their ability to promote wound healing and reduce the incidence of fly strike in freshly mulesed lambs.
(9) Extraction with petroleum ether-chloroform-phenol yielded a protein fraction free of detectable lipopolysaccharide, in which group 3 OMPs (28,500 apparent molecular weight [28.5K], 27.0K, and 25.5K) represented 81% of the total.
(10) Interestingly, however, various fractions--especially those extracted by organic solvents such as petroleum ether, hexane, and chloroform, as well as some purified compounds from these plants--could strongly inhibit the mutagenicity of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), an indirect mutagen, when tested in the presence of S-9 mix but not that of 2-(2-furyl)-3-(5-nitro-2-furyl)acrylamide (AF-2), which does not require metabolic activation for its mutagenicity.
(11) BP would need to bring equipment from Texas to contain South Australia oil spill Read more BP plans to drill the first of four exploratory wells off the South Australian coast next year and submitted an environmental plan (pdf) for approval to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority last week.
(12) The nature of organic substance appearing in the petroleum stratum is discussed.
(13) In this chapter the authors examine the toxicologic and epidemiologic literature for a broad range of petroleum-derived products in order to assess the carcinogenic potential of these compounds.
(14) Unlike aspiration pneumonitis, which follows petroleum distillate ingestion, chemical pneumonitis from pine oil cleaner may occur from gastrointestinal absorption of pine oil and deposition in lung tissue.
(15) Mutagenicity, polynuclear aromatic compound content, and skin carcinogenicity were compared for a series of complex oil mixtures derived from the refining and processing of petroleum.
(16) Serum samples were extracted with petroleum ether following precipitation of proteins with ethanol.
(17) BP credit rating downgraded after Tony Hayward's grilling by Congress 19 June One of BP's partners, Anadarko Petroleum, refuses to accept any responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion despite owning a quarter of the well.
(18) In the past, the Saudis have encouraged Opec (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) to reduce its output targets during periods of low oil prices.
(19) We report the case of a child who sustained partial thickness burns from a garlic-petroleum jelly plaster, which had been applied at the direction of a naturopathic physician.
(20) The extraction of carotenes with petroleum ether under the same conditions does not change the electrophoretic mobility of the chlorophyll-protein complexes.