(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.
Masque
Definition:
(n.) A mask; a masquerade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Back in the high puritan era of 17th-century England, when Oliver Cromwell tried to ban all forms of public dance, from court masques and ballets to maypole dancing, the effect of the prohibition was to create a generation for whom dance represented sin.
(2) Last year, his composition The Masque of Time was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
(3) We conclude that small airway disease due to encroachment of bronchiolar walls by SiO2 deposition is masqued by the damage produced by cigarette smoking, even in the presence of radiographic signs of silicosis.
(4) Other Poe titles: Stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Purloined Letter; The Masque of the Red Death; The Imp of the Perverse; The Pit and the Pendulum.
(5) Punchdrunk have provocatively merged theatre with art-installation in shows like Faustus and The Masque of the Red Death; I take my hat off to these and other pioneers.
(6) Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian He was busy in television from 1970, appearing in two Doctor Who sagas, The Claws of Axos (1971) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976), as well as in the first of the BBC’s adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1975, as Frederick Hale; in the second, in 2004, he played Hale’s father, Richard).
(7) She’s reunited with director Sarah Frankcom, who steered her in the 2013 Manchester International Festival hit The Masque of Anarchy.
(8) Special protective shields and cellon masques applied allowed precise reproduction of positioning and immobilization of children during irradiation.
(9) It was one of those Masque of the Red Death moments, similar to the Poe story in which aristocrats dance on in the palace as the plague rages outside.
(10) The Masque bug in iOS and the corresponding WireLurker malware targeting iOS devices via Apple and Windows port-machines, had a lot of experts saying that the age of Apple malware is finally upon us,” says Kaspersky, although it also points out that this is still most likely to affect people who’ve jailbroken their devices.
(11) I've come to think of it as a sort of late-period masque, where the roles and disguises that John Harmon and Boffin consciously assume exaggerate the more ordinary play-acting and pretence that we all engage in.