(n.) A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
(n.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast.
(n.) A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, / caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.
(n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.
Example Sentences:
(1) On foreign policy, a president who has been at loggerheads with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, over a Middle East peace process promised unflinching support for the state.
(2) Two powerful European commissioners are at loggerheads over whether to strengthen the emissions trading system, in order to maintain Europe's leadership on climate change.
(3) Cabinet ministers are at loggerheads over same-sex marriage, with Scott Morrison insisting there is no legal barrier to holding a referendum on the issue.
(4) Watson will try to strike a conciliatory tone but has been at loggerheads with the leadership during the election after an outburst about allegations of entryism into the party.
(5) Meanwhile, back in Westminster May has placed herself at loggerheads with a number of Conservative backbenchers who believe the government should pursue a soft Brexit maximising access to the single market – and who also want a parliamentary vote before article 50 is triggered.
(6) In London, MPs remain at loggerheads with the government over its refusal to make military plans public.
(7) The FA and Premier League are often seen as being at loggerheads but a Premier League spokesman stressed that, as Roddy's work emphasises, this is not the case.
(8) The EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said Greece and its creditors were still at loggerheads over reforms to Greek pensions and VAT rates, which lenders want to be toughened as a quid pro quo for giving Athens further bailout funds.
(9) George Osborne is at loggerheads with the work and pensions secretary over proposals to cut spending on universal credit by more than £1bn a year.
(10) Finance for 2013-20 has emerged as the most contentious issue with the US, China, India and the EU all at loggerheads.
(11) Newcastle’s manager has been at loggerheads with the France creator, but getting rid of him was a high-risk strategy given he did not sign a forward.
(12) The EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said Greece and its creditors were still at loggerheads over reforms to Greek pensions and VAT rates, which lenders want to be toughened as quid pro quo for giving Athens further bailout funds.
(13) Britain and Brussels have been at loggerheads for weeks over Theresa May's campaign to clamp down on so-called "benefits tourism".
(14) Yet he has set himself at loggerheads with the 1.3 million men and women who make up that staff.
(15) Worse, he was at loggerheads with the Islamist-led Congress that appointed him.
(16) The two governments have been at loggerheads for several months over Karzai’s refusal to sign an agreement governing a continued American security presence in the country after the bulk of Nato troops pull out later this year.
(17) In a sign of growing international solidarity over North Korea's recent behaviour, Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia – which has been at loggerheads with the US over Syria – said: "There is no disagreement with the United States over North Korea."
(18) The pair had been at loggerheads in the days when Parker was co-founder of the original Napster filesharing service.
(19) In addition the Tory leader in Wales, Andrew RT Davies, has said he will vote for the UK to leave the EU, which puts him at loggerheads with the prime minister, David Cameron.
(20) By Tuesday afternoon, more than 780,000 comments had been submitted to the regulator over its proposed “open internet” rules that have cable companies, politicians, consumers and activists at loggerheads over the future of the internet.
Secure
Definition:
(a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
(a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
(a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
(a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
(v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
(v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
(v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
(v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(4) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(6) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(7) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
(8) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(9) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(10) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(11) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(12) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(13) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
(14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(15) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(16) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(17) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
(18) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(19) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(20) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.