(1) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(2) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
(3) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
(4) And we literally had hundreds of thousands of them."
(5) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(6) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
(7) It could still be terrorism but it looks as if the aircraft went out of control because the controls were literally burning up.
(8) A novel vector was employed which permits rapid and highly efficient cleavage of the GST fusion protein yielding 10 mg of purified PurH product per liter of bacterial culture.
(9) You literally never see that at political rallies, though obviously at Tea Party ones they are there all the time."
(10) An empirical rate expression was developed from experimental data which led to a prediction that the natural rate of oxidation in the ocean is about 0.023 micromoles of As(III) per liter each year.
(11) A technology for preparation of purified concentrates of rabies virus has been developed permitting to use simultaneously dozens of liters of tissue culture virus-containing fluid for the preparation of a concentrate.
(12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
(13) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(14) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
(15) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
(16) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(17) The majority of children came from low socio-economic homes (61%) with mostly illiterate or semi-literate mothers.
(18) As compared with the normoglycemic patients, the patients with hypoglycemia had elevated median plasma concentrations of glucagon (44 vs. 11 pmol per liter; P = 0.001), epinephrine (3400 vs. 1500 pmol per liter; P = 0.012), norepinephrine (7500 vs. 2900 pmol per liter; P = 0.002), and lactate (3.5 vs. 2.1 mmol per liter; P = 0.020) and similar alanine and beta-hydroxybutyrate concentrations.
(19) Finally, poliovirus experimentally seeded in 20 liters of tape water was recovered from Johns-Manville D79-Johns-Manville D39 or Johns-Manville D79-Filterite 0.45 micron 142-mm filter combinations was a efficiencies of 86 and 85%, respectively.
(20) Results concerning existence and uniqueness of equilibria, stability of the equilibria, and boundedness of solutions suggest that "compensatory" systems might not be compensatory in the literal sense.
Petrol
Definition:
(n.) Petroleum.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) Here petrol is practically a free gift,” Arias said.
(3) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
(4) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(5) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
(6) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
(7) He reduced the standard rate to 8%, but introduced a higher rate of 12.5% for petrol and some luxury goods, doubling the upper rate later that year to 25% before lowering it in 1976.
(8) Shell, along with other oil companies, has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading of profiteering on the UK petrol forecourt, but the $27bn annual earnings figure underlines the enormous global profits being made "upstream" – bringing oil and gas out of the ground.
(9) That is 3.1% over the year and today's figures show that Britain is coming back ... For the first time in a decade all three main sectors of the economy have grown by at least 3% in the past year," he said in answer to a question about the price of petrol.
(10) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(11) Petrol car registrations rose by 3.4%, while diesel vehicles saw a slight 0.6% decline in registrations.
(12) Supporters of all parties want more action to cut the cost of petrol.
(13) He not only wouldn’t increase tax on petrol, he gave extra help to those extracting fossil fuel.
(14) This tends to push buyers behind the wheel of a diesel, which usually produces less CO2 than an equivalent petrol.
(15) But anyone who dreams that Germany’s warmth provides more than a sticking plaster to Europe’s migration crisis should have seen the scene half a mile south of the petrol station on Sunday.
(16) Customers posting on Twitter reported having their cards refused in shops, petrol stations and restaurants, as well as not being able to see their balances or withdraw cash at the bank's ATMs.
(17) It was the highest level in more than two years, driven higher by clothing and petrol prices, in a sign that the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote is fuelling a rise in the cost of living.
(18) But the task remains to move the country's remaining fossil fuel-dependent sectors to clean technology: Iceland's fishing fleet, cars and buses, which run on oil and petrol, ironically make the country one of the highest per head greenhouse gas emitters in Europe .
(19) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
(20) An attempt to contain juvenile petrol abuse at Elcho Island in the Northern Territory of Australia is described.