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Lien


Definition:

  • () of Lie
  • (obs. p. p.) of Lie. See Lain.
  • (n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Through a spokeswoman, Vaccaro said the previous arrests never resulted in a conviction, and that he has paid the tax liens.
  • (2) Unlike Lien, Liu has no choice in the matter; he is serving 11 years in a prison in northern China.
  • (3) The Greek government’s willingness to walk into the fire is a dangerous proposition for Europe and the global markets,” said Kathy Lien, managing director of FX strategy for BK Asset Management in New York, in a note to clients.
  • (4) The results are summarized as follows: 1) Oral administration of 0.5 g of Ko-ken-huang-lien-huang-chin-tang (pueraria, coptis, scute and licorice combination) to piglets at 1 day old was effective in reducing incidence of infection (P less than 0.1) and increasing the body weight gain (P less than 0.05) during the first 10 days of life.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest US President Barack Obama waves after eating dinner at Bun cha Huong Lien with Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi.
  • (6) A total of 166 Ami and 128 Atayal adolescents were included from their original living area, the Hwa-Lien Hsin and Wa-Lai District, Taiwan, Republic of China.
  • (7) These results indicate that the properties of the effect of Lien on haemodynamics may be similar to those of verapamil and different from those of Qui.
  • (8) Sitting amid buckets of rice in the market, Nguyen Thi Lim Lien issues a warning she desperately hopes the world will hear: climate change is turning the rivers of the Mekong Delta salty.
  • (9) US Secret Service and local police closed down the streets surrounding Bun Cha Huong Lien eatery on Monday evening.
  • (10) We have had no lien on the Chinese mainland since the Boxer rebellion .
  • (11) While 54-year-old restaurant owner Nguyen Thi Lien knew a foreign television crew was on the way, she had no idea they would be bringing a very special guest.
  • (12) Te-An Lien of Chinese Taipei just completed the third round, and he’s in last place (39th, to be precise).
  • (13) Reporters crammed into the meeting room in a Beijing hotel asked whether the organisers had even spoken to Lien's office.
  • (14) The problem lies in a part of the business that focuses on "second-lien" loans, often known as piggybank loans because they are taken out as well as mortgages.
  • (15) We didn't see a huge reaction in the pound because it's late in the New York session but you'll see some more aggressive selling when the market opens (in Asia) on Sunday," Kathy Lien, managing director of BK Asset Management in New York told Reuters.
  • (16) Koso-san (Hsiang-su-san), Oren-gedoku-to (Huang-lien-chieh-tu-tan), Gorei-san (Wu-ling-san), Kakkon-to (Ko-ken-tang) and Byakkoka-ninjin-to (Pai-hu-chia-jen-sheng-tang) showed no effects.
  • (17) A 58-year-old housewife from Ar-Lien village, Kao-Hsiung County, was admitted to the National Taiwan University Hospital in July 1988, after suffering from diarrhea, lower leg edema and weight loss for one year.
  • (18) Fossil fuels will play a large part in that, so CCS has to play a role too,” said Norway’s energy minister Tord Lien.
  • (19) Thus, in cases where the diagnosis is proven and the course of the disease is reasonably mild and painless, conservative management of intrascrotal hydatid torsion is possible and can be an effective means of treatment in lien of surgical intervention.
  • (20) Federal tax liens filed against Brockmeyer by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) state that he has tens of thousands of dollars in overdue personal income taxes from joint filings with his wife, Amy.

Liken


Definition:

  • (a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
  • (a.) To make or cause to be like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (2) A Liberal Democrat MP who likened the atrocities against Palestinians by "the Jews" to the Holocaust has made a public apology in the face of widespread anger.
  • (3) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (4) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
  • (5) A Republican conservation group in Utah likened it at the time to “selling the house to pay the light bill ”.
  • (6) Tuvalu prime minister Enele Sopoaga even likened climate change to “a weapon of mass destruction”.
  • (7) Myners – a non-executive director of Co-op group – was also scathing in his assessment of the board members after asking them a simple retail question and likening their inability to answer to that of Paul Flowers, former chairman of the Co-op bank, who had stumbled over basic questions posed by the Treasury select committee last year.
  • (8) She likened the outside prayers to an occupation and added: "For those who like to talk about world war two, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory.
  • (9) For many Jews, the unique horror of the Holocaust makes any such attempt to liken the Nazis to the communists highly offensive.
  • (10) Instead, it can be likened to the febrile state in which an initial and brief activation of both nonshivering thermogenesis in BAT and shivering thermogenesis in muscles occurs only during the rising phase of the fever and is suppressed as soon as a stable hyperthermic state is reached.
  • (11) Stay (sung primarily by Detroit) became a mutant No 1 hit, a pop culture flashpoint parodied by both French & Saunders and Newman & Baddiel, who likened Fahey's voice to a foghorn.
  • (12) However, human rights groups claim too little progress has been made on sweeping away the kafala system that bonds labourers to their employer and has been likened to modern slavery.
  • (13) Outrage has been voiced by politicians across the spectrum amid concerns that the attack, which lasted 10 seconds and was captured on CCTV, will intensify what has been likened to a civil war between radical factions on the left and right.
  • (14) Another likened the NHS reforms to the poll tax," says Montgomerie in his article.
  • (15) The report, Dying Waiting for Treatment , likened the Republican response to the opioid crisis to “using a piece of chewing gum to patch a cracked dam”.
  • (16) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
  • (17) Fresh details have emerged of the police operation against the terrorists who stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris , with one officer likening the scene on the ground floor to “something from Dante’s hell”.
  • (18) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
  • (19) These growths are likened to those observed by Japanese neurosurgeons since 1960.
  • (20) He quoted the Israeli writer Amos Oz, likening the deal as "a fitting Chekhovian end".