(n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
(n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
(n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activated matrix (an imidazolyl carbamate) is relatively stable to hydrolysis but smoothly reacts with N-nucleophiles such as those present in either affinity chromatography ligands or leashes, e.g.
(2) Two cases are presented in which radial forearm flaps with a proximal vascular leash are used to cover such defects without the need for microsurgical expertise.
(3) In February, President Barack Obama said drone strikes are "kept on a very tight leash" and "have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties".
(4) ethynyl estradiol), we investigated a series of 17 alpha-substituted estradiol compounds to determine the optimal properties of a leash at this position.
(5) He described them as five bundles of aberrant pyramidal fibres which separate out as leashes from the corticospinal fibres at different levels and each had its territory of bulbar nuclei (like the Reich which is the territory of the German empire of which there were only three).
(6) These findings suggest that the long 'leash' provided by PEO hydrogels may give the heparin more access to the thrombin-antithrombin pair than the tight bond to PVA, and that crowding of heparin units on a surface limits access of the thrombin-antithrombin pair.
(7) The walkers may be the ones with the pockets full of Pedigree Schmackos, barks the subtext, but ultimately it's the walkees who hold the leash.
(8) Thus Singapore’s indigenous capitalists were kept on a short leash.
(9) Two pole-leashes attached to 2 points on the harness gave the handler considerable control over the posture of the monkey, making it easier to teach the monkey to walk with a leash and to climb into its restraint chair or test apparatus.
(10) "And whenever he came out the dressing room he'd be pulling on the leash, tail wagging – let's go, let's get it done."
(11) The sketch show Rubbernecker featured four little-known talents: Robin Ince, Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais – familiar, if at all, from Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show, which also let Sacha Baron Cohen off his leash.
(12) The stationary phase consisted of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) chelate groups, bonded to small particle, wide pore silica gel by means of a polyether hydrophilic leash.
(13) Parliament needs to change the watchdog before it lets the rottweiler off the leash.
(14) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(15) A chest harness and pole-leash method to transfer rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) weighing up to 16 kg from home cage to primate restraint chair was designed.
(16) The hope, it seems, is that the outsourcing show will continue, but with better-managed firms on a tighter leash and smaller operators encouraged to enter the market.
(17) "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
(18) Conditions for the coupling of a range of ligands and leashes have been evaluated.
(19) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(20) Mundine said the move would “let bigots off the leash”.
Troika
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(2) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(3) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(4) It means that Ireland will make a clean exit from its €85bn financial assistance programme, which ends on 15th Decembe r. It has hit the targets set by its troika of lenders, and Kenny's government must be confident that it can walk alone.
(5) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(6) We also hear that Troika officials have been rather surprised by the latest talk about Greece potentially handing Germany a bill for outstanding war reparations .
(7) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
(8) The problem lies in the terms of “reform” that are being demanded by the troika.
(9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(10) Photo: Reuters Updated at 1.06pm GMT 12.17pm GMT The troika of lenders - the ECB, IMF and EU - have issued their statement on Ireland after the country successfully completed the final review of its €85bn bailout .
(11) The commission, a member of the troika that bailed out Greece, alongside the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, with packages worth more than €200bn, said it believed the country's debts were sustainable.
(12) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.
(13) The president, however, has not simply expressed “grave reservations” about whether this grouping should take power; he has blocked it on the grounds that this is “the worst moment for a radical change” and is trying to install a pro-troika government led by the very centre-right forces that the electorate has rejected.
(14) But the only thing it has achieved is the pre-legislation of harsh measures that the troika [European commission, European Central Bank and IMF] will approve when it returns.” “What we are seeing is a war of propaganda, a lot of doublespeak,” Dimitris Tsiodras, spokesman of the centrist Potami party told the Guardian.
(15) Athens is not only dependent on rescue funds from its "troika" of creditors – the European Union, the European Central Bank and the IMF – that rushed to prop up its ailing economy in May 2010.
(16) This week Athens was granted a two-month extension of its bailout programme by the EU, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund, its “troika” of creditors, after negotiations aimed at taking Greece into a “post-bailout” era stalled.
(17) After a meeting lasting more than two hours inside the building, the officials–from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika–snuck out of the ministry via an external fire escape, thereby avoiding the front entrance.
(18) The leftwing party has vowed to stop dealing with the “troika” - the European commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - and appeal directly to European leaders to ease the harsh austerity measures imposed on Greece.
(19) If Spain collapses, it will take a large portion of the major European banks with it; this is why the Troika backed off from forcing Spain into a bailout programme.
(20) Clearly, it is not for lack of resources that the troika is heading for another showdown with Greece as the economy shrinks a projected 7% this year: the few billion euros at stake in the forced budget tightening for the next two years are pocket change for the European authorities but will mean more pain and unemployment for the Greek people.