(n.) A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.
Example Sentences:
(1) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(2) The troubled carmakers General Motors and Chrysler pleaded for billions more dollars from the US government last night as they promised to axe further jobs, factories and marques in a desperate struggle for financial survival.
(3) What change do we foresee in #Angola?” Rafael Marques, an award-winning local journalist and writer, tweeted shortly after the news of the Angolan leader’s decision not to run next year was made public.
(4) Jiang reckons this boom in interest in the British marque was the result of its association with the British royal family.
(5) Marques admits it is a good time to be in opposition.
(6) Eric Eoin Marques is the subject of a US arrest warrant for distributing and promoting child abuse material online.
(7) Neurotraumatologic Unit at the University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla.
(8) Daimler, which owns the Mercedes-Benz marque, has been one of the slowest firms to appoint women to its eight-person board, appointing its first ever woman, a legal affairs specialist, in 2011.
(9) We have 850 employees and I’m always worried they are as happy as possible, but I can give no guarantee to make them all happy.” Niki Lauda, the marque’s nonexecutive chairman, was asked whether this was a tense time for Mercedes and said: “There might be some more discussions later today or tomorrow morning.
(10) We have previously shown that the increase in cAMP-binding activity during sporulation is due to de novo synthesis of R subunit and to an increase in the translatable mRNA coding for R (Marques et al., Eur.
(11) While VW remains the most popular marque in Germany, new registrations dropped by 2% in November, compared with the 8.9% rise enjoyed by the overall car industry.
(12) Marques, who is both a US and Irish national, will face the high court again on Thursday.
(13) His pronostic is marqued by high percentage of malign degenerescence.
(14) Thirteen species of anopheline mosquitoes were collected in all-night human-bait indoor and outdoor collections at 5 houses from July 1986 through December 1987 in and near the town of Costa Marques, Rondonia, Brazil.
(15) Rik Ferguson, vice-president of security research at Trend Micro, said he was awaiting further details to be made public as Marques is brought to trial, but that the takedown and related law enforcement "is great news for the campaign against child exploitation".
(16) Differences were found in specimens from Costa Marques, a malaria endemic area; Dourado, a site with a very exophilic population and Juturnaíba, located near the type locality.
(17) JLR said the new jobs at its advanced manufacturing plant in Solihull would be dedicated to increasing production of the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Discovery and Defender marques.
(18) Photograph: Marques Brownlee That made data centres a perfect fit for Duke, said Tom Williams, the company’s director of external relations.
(19) Standardised cancer morbidity incidence rates from three surveys: Lowveld (1962-67), Johannesburg (1953-55), and Lourenco Marques (1956-61) are also compared.
(20) Stoves launched a competition to invent a new Made in Britain marque after it found general confusion amongst consumers about whether products were British made.
Marquee
Definition:
(n.) A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's still going to be one of the marquee companies of the US and the world."
(2) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
(3) Heselden's only reservation about the ceremony, said David Robinson, would have been the time it took 30 or more staff to wrestle with erecting the marquee.
(4) Hemingway’s daughter, Corey, is in a marquee at the back of the site, painting a teddy bear onto some MDF, in the pursuit of a Teddy Boy pun that either doesn’t work, or I don’t get, but it looks great.
(5) Filmed in a marquee in the grounds of Harptree Court in Somerset, and making unlikely TV stars out of judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, Bake Off (as it is known to its fans) is made by the independent production company Love Productions.
(6) When the first exit polls flashed up on the big screen in the same marquee at 7pm local time on Sunday, there were as many reporters, photographers and cameramen as there were party supporters.
(7) Beyond the live coverage, which will be in fixed time slots, including a live game at the Saturday 12.30pm ET time slot on NBC itself (in order to build a consistent presence), there will be a whole raft of secondary programming and content, including a half hour goals show on Sundays, a two hour Saturday highlights show, "Match of the Day", modeled on the BBC show, and cut-down games from marquee teams such as the two Manchester sides, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham, in distinct Monday and Tuesday night programmes.
(8) Krul still needed to brilliantly save Danny Drinkwater’s shot but Pardew’s decision to start Obertan and once again omit Rémy Cabella, his £12m marquee summer signing from Montpellier, had been vindicated.
(9) Poyet’s quest for that hitherto elusive league win involved dropping both Jack Rodwell, his marquee summer signing, and Adam Johnson to the bench.
(10) The marquee part of the Affordable Care Act went live yesterday as millions went online to browse health insurance options and begin signing up.
(11) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(12) At a meeting on Monday afternoon activists said they were in talks with a marquee company over donations of bigger, more permanent structures, allowing them to set up a "visitor centre" and an "outreach group" to spread the message via local schools and businesses.
(13) Had he been one of the marquee names in South Africa rather than an athlete schooled in the J-League who plays his club football in Russia, his performance would have made banner headlines worldwide.
(14) He repeatedly raped a young woman after dragging her into the wedding marquee and handcuffing her.
(15) "We've come a long way to re-establishing Discovery's brand as a real powerhouse, but I think Discovery can be even bigger and stronger, and become the marquee brand in cable," said Zaslav, according to Multichannel News.
(16) "Here's my take: whilst the clamouring for 'marquee' signings has no doubt contributed to a short-term success strategy at the top clubs, part of the problem is this: a 17-year-old Mexican wonderkid will cost a coach significantly less money than a 17-year-old British kid of equal talent.
(17) He was replaced as Delhi’s marquee player by Carlos, who became the club’s player-manager in July and will oversee the team’s 2015 campaign.
(18) Now he has returned as one of the marquee signings of Tim Leiweke’s big-money revolution in Toronto : “I was just saying to somebody last night, in 2004 and 2005, when I was playing for the Metrostars, we’d show up at the old Giants Stadium, we’d go into the locker room, change, we’d get back in 15-seat passenger vans, drive out to Rutherford, train on field turf that’s 100 degrees, get back in the vans, go back to Giants Stadium.
(19) The marquee was packed for both a great King Creosote set and the mighty, raucous British Sea Power.
(20) It only harms the league to have headlines involving Sterling, the newly crowned Most Hated Man In America , overshadowing the playoffs, especially with the NBA Finals, the league's marquee event, a week away.