(n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
(2) In 2004, a mother claimed that Leat had been taking pictures of her daughter with a mobile phone but he denied the accusation and no action was taken.
(3) The abuse went undetected at the school – where Leat taught for 15 years – until December last year when one victim told her mother that Leat had been touching her.
(4) Leat, 51, would swear his victims to secrecy and even write letters to them in which he would describe what he wanted to do to them and ask them to reply.
(5) Nicholas Gerasimidis, for Leat, said: "It might be said that had he not been in the position that he was that this interest may never have found an opportunity for expression."
(6) An féidir leat mé a dhíriú i dtreo sagart tuiscineach?
(7) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
(8) Another member of staff saw Leat projecting an indecent image of an adult on to a wall during a lesson, warning pupils not to tell their parents what they had seen.
(9) He said he would support anyone else who came forward and said they had been abused by Leat.
(10) Nigel Leat was jailed indefinitely last year for abusing children he taught, often when other pupils were present, and sometimes filming his attacks .
(11) Married father of two Leat, from Bristol, admitted 36 offences involving five pupils aged between six and eight over five years.
(12) Concerns were not followed up and this led to children not being protected from Nigel Leat.
(13) The court was told Leat became interested in images of child abuse on the internet 10 years ago when his marriage became "asexual".
(14) Leat was only arrested in December 2010, when a schoolgirl told her mother he abused her "every day apart from when the teaching assistant was in the classroom".
(15) The judge told Leat: "Your manipulation of the children was clever, cunning and insidious.
(16) Official records show that those who reported Leat's behaviour were told they should not "insinuate things" or "accuse him of things".
(17) Four neutral oligosaccharides (AraXyl2, AraXyl3, Xyl2, and Xyl3), isolated by preparative paper chromatography, were shown by enzymic and methylation techniques to constitute a series of beta-(1 leats to 4)-D-xylose and O-alpha-L-arabinofuranosyl-(1 leads to 3)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-D-xylose, respectively, the latter being a new compound.
(18) Nigel Leat, 51, a married father-of-two, groomed at least one girl a year and showered her with gifts, afforded her privileges and organised one-on-one teaching sessions.
(19) Ofsted carried out inspections and described the level of care afforded to children as "outstanding" during the time Leat, 51, was offending.
(20) About 30 parents and teachers watched at Bristol crown court as Judge Neil Ford QC, the recorder of Bristol, sentenced Leat to an indefinite term and ruled he must serve at least eight and a half years.
Lent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lend
() imp. & p. p. of Lend.
(n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
(a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.
(a.) See Lento.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insulin regimen was determined according to the amount of insulin infused during the examination, dividing insulin dosages into two separate doses using semilente in the morning and a mixture of regular and lente insulin in the evening.
(2) The overall control of blood glucose before and two hrs meals was better with soluble insulin regiment than with the Lente insulin regimen.
(3) It was in that period that Ronald Reagan lent official US recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organisation, making a move that would have been too costly for his successor, Bush the elder.
(4) In 2012, politicians in the Welsh Assembly applauded its success in tackling financial exclusion in south-east Wales, noting that the most affordable credit alternative to MoneyLine required the borrower to pay back £82 for every £100 lent whereas MoneyLine charged between £19 and £35 for every £100 lent [link].
(5) Nationwide said its gross mortgage lending in the six months to 30 September rose 15% to £10.2bn and, of that, £2.5bn was lent to first-time buyers – helping almost 20,000 borrowers buy their first home.
(6) Rylance has lent his support to the Save Our Sands campaign, speaking about his ancestors who lived in Dover, including his great grandfather, who was the captain of a cross -channel ferry.
(7) I lent the book to my mother after my re-reading, and - half-jokingly - she asked whether this novel had been rewritten "to be contemporary".
(8) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
(9) The 59 outpatients, aged 7 to 70 years, attended each morning, and started therapy with 8 to 12 units of Lente insulin daily, the dose being increased every 2 or 3 days by small increments until control was attained.
(10) In 31 patients transferred from conventional Lente to Monotard, proinsulin and a-component antibody levels were significantly lower than in 22 patients maintained on conventional Lente after the 5-year follow-up period.
(11) Crossreactivity of nitrite reductase (cytochrome cd1) with a respective P. perfectomarina rabbit antiserum was limited to strain DSM 50227 of P. stutzeri; although it could not contribute information towards broader relationships within rRNA group I, it lent further prove to the unity of these two species.
(12) These infections also exhibited a course slow enough to permit the assessment of treatments under conditions mimicking human infections and lent themselves to the choice of the best adapted strategy to treat an infection.
(13) The Welsh secretary, David Jones, has given up Twitter for Lent.
(14) Citigroup's boss, Vikram Pandit, said his firm wrote $75bn of loans in the final quarter of 2008 while JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon said his bank had lent $150bn – a rate barely different from the previous year.
(15) Increases in the specific radioactivity of lipid extracts from washed spermatozoa lent support to the contention that lipoproteins become firmly bound to the cells.
(16) i lent brett ratner my 2nd (of 2) parms dorz cos he wantd 2 impress women and I was worrid he mite get bbq sauce on it agen lol You've said your films are intended as "polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator."
(17) Of Ms Bailey, he said: "She's got a great track record, excel lent media credentials.
(18) Italy compared Italy’s economy stopped growing and banks like BPV became consumed by non-performing loans, tens of billions of euros that had been lent to small and large businesses that then failed under economic hardship.
(19) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(20) Gerbils were divided into four experimental groups and were studied for up to 1 week of survival: Group A (n = 50) was fed but received no insulin, Group B (n = 50) was deprived of food for 24 hours before surgery but received no insulin, Group C (n = 49) was fed and received daily injections of 0.1 IU lente insulin for 3 days before surgery, and Group D (n = 48) was deprived of food and received daily insulin injections.