(1) Rapid developments in communications networks (cellular telephone, direct-link satellite, and international high-speed computer nets) and the continued success of affordable powerful personal computers (desktop, laptop and soon "palmtop" devices) have set the stage for educational materials accessible by electronic means.
(2) Seeing the faces in my dark room or on my laptop screen brings back the hidden emotions and memories, often leaving me in tears and unable to carry on with my work.
(3) As I've mentioned before, the internet in Johannesburg isn't great and I've had to go outside my apartment, and wave my laptop in the air, to get reception.
(4) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
(5) Williams said: "There is no doubt in my mind that you are a paedophile who has for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls, storing on your laptop not only images of pre-pubescent and pubescent girls, but foul pornography of the gross sexual abuse of young children."
(6) "We stand by our track record in creating choice and innovation, whether offering movies in HD and 3D, or on-demand to your TV, PC or laptop.
(7) The officials confiscated his laptop, phone, two memory sticks, two DVDs, a Sony games console, a smartwatch and a hard drive, the letter revealed.
(8) In a gesture of astonishing openness, Giulio Regeni’s grieving friends and relatives handed over their phones and laptops to the Italian police.
(9) Family members said they found valuables including a laptop, watch and money were missing and were not returned or accounted for by police in the official inventory of the scene.
(10) Typical lithium-ion batteries used in everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars last around 1,000 recharge cycles.
(11) IDC has revised its forecast for the number of tablets that will be sold in 2013 up from 172.4m to 190.9m - suggesting that it thinks tablets will outsell laptops this year.
(12) On the tablet market: "So the question you have to ask yourself is when it comes to tablet, what market or what opportunities, still, it's solving, what problem is it solving, and is it just a replacement laptop?
(13) There’s always going to be some guy behind behind a laptop saying, ‘What about this?’ So for me it’s never about proving anything to critics but proving that my supporters were right.” Ward gets back to eating.
(14) They were provided with a laptop computer and instructed how to ensure their homes, shops and meeting places would show up accurately on the map.
(15) There is a culture of increasingly sexualised images among young people: a culture that says that girls will only get on in life if they live up to the crudest of stereotypes; a culture where pornographic images, some violent, are available at a click on a smartphone or a laptop.
(16) Without electricity, the batteries on my toothbrush, phone and laptop gradually ran down, and I let the slow rhythm of the sun reorganise my workaday brain.
(17) The most popular items bought online were TV and audio equipment, laptops and games items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners.
(18) Journalists hammer updates into their laptops, hoping to be the first to write up the bullet list of features that define a new title, while developer and publisher employees flip their name badges and queue for a play on the competition's latest.
(19) News of the system - which will be aimed at the users of small laptop computers - created enormous buzz, as the clearest signal yet that Google intends to directly challenge Microsoft's Windows and its continuing dominance of the computer industry.
(20) If you genuinely do distrust industrial production, if you do believe that a mass, mechanised civilisation is incompatible in some way with democracy, post-fossil fuel economy or a humane society in general – and such opinions are not rare – then you necessarily have to own up to the critique, something that the guiltily uneasy combination of hay bales and laptops found at many protest camps can make especially uncomfortable.
Shark
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
(6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
(7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
(8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
(9) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
(11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
(12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
(13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
(16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
(17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
(20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.