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Lind


Definition:

  • (n.) The linden. See Linden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lind, who is expected to decide Manning's sentence shortly, has given no clues about which way she might be leaning.
  • (2) The fact is we are going to be collateral damage,” Another woman told Linde how she was currently being headhunted for a major job in London but had been asked to sign a contract guaranteeing her rights to permanent residency in the UK, something she said she could not do.
  • (3) Detailed evidence for the sequence has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50047 (9 pages) at the British Library (Linding Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from which copies can be obtained on the terms given in Biochem.
  • (4) Speaking in January, after meeting Swedes who had experienced xenophobia since the Brexit vote, Linde said: “I am astonished at what I heard.
  • (5) The contraction was maintained at 5% of the maximum voluntary contraction, a tension during which the muscle blood flow might be expected to increase by about three times (Lind & McNicol, 1967).3.
  • (6) But Lind will have to decide whether she believes Manning is really contrite, and not merely apologising as a pragmatic bid for a shorter sentence.
  • (7) Lind put herself into the character of Manning, and wondered whether the intensity of his motive could have blotted out his awareness of the consequences of his actions: "I'm thinking so much about what I want to do with this information that the enemy never crossed my mind," Lind speculated.
  • (8) Jennifer Lind One aspect of the leaked Chinese contingency plan is monumental – if it were true.
  • (9) A further 112 days will be deducted as part of a pre-trial ruling in which Lind compensated Manning for the excessively harsh treatment he endured at the Quantico marine base in Virginia between July 2010 and April 2011.
  • (10) Adrian Lamo, left, in 2011 In earlier pre-trial hearings the judge presiding in the case, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that the defence must not discuss the soldier's motive for leaking in the course of the trial up to verdict.
  • (11) The use of a synthetic zeolite (type 4A, Union Carbide Corp., Linde Div., New York, N.Y.) in a procedure for the preparation of pure cell wall fractions proved successful for many gram-positive, gram-negative, and acid-fast bacteria, as well as for some fungi.
  • (12) The examinations of DWORSCHAK and LINDE encouraged us to use peracetic acid in the rooms of creches in presence of children systematically.
  • (13) Colonel Denise Lind, the judge presiding over the court martial in the absence of a jury, has ruled that for Manning to be found guilty of "aiding the enemy" the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he knowingly gave helpful information to al-Qaida, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and a third terrorist group whose identity remains classified.
  • (14) • Judge Denise Lind announced the sentence in a hearing that lasted about two minutes.
  • (15) In pre-trial hearings the judge, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that to make the charge stick the government must prove that Manning knowingly gave intelligence information, via WikiLeaks, to al-Qaida and its affiliates, including al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
  • (16) At early assessment eight previously asymptomatic patients (31 per cent) from the Nissen group and six (23 per cent) from the Lind group experienced difficulty swallowing.
  • (17) A rather touching YouTube video is doing the rounds in which Bicep2 principal investigator Chao-Lin Kuo takes a bottle of champagne and a video camera to cold-call Linde with the news that they have confirmed inflation.
  • (18) Crucially, Lind has set the prosecution the challenge of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Manning had "a general evil intent", in that he "had to know he was dealing, directly or indirectly, with an enemy of the US".
  • (19) However, on Friday, in a series of written findings released after the prosecution finished their sentencing arguments, Lind provided a harsh summary of Manning's actions.
  • (20) Jennifer Lind is an associate professor of government at Dartmouth College and the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 2008).

Wind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
  • (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
  • (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
  • (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  • (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
  • (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
  • (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
  • (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
  • (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
  • (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
  • (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
  • (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  • (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
  • (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
  • (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
  • (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
  • (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  • (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  • (n.) The dotterel.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  • (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
  • (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  • (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
  • (12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
  • (15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
  • (16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
  • (19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
  • (20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."

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