(a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) If public health and local government can successfully combine their respective expertise, added Marron, the end result could be that public health can then "drive the political agenda" both locally and nationally.
(2) U.S.A. 84, 7036-7040; McPherson, Perlak, Fuchs, Marrone, Lavrik & Fischhoff (1988) Biotechnology 6, 61-66] at the N-terminus.
(3) Singer Emma Marrone, who represented Italy in this year's Eurovision song contest, said Scuccia's success was "an insult to showbusiness" because the nun was not talented enough.
(4) The venerable castagna , once an essential foodstuff for poor Italians and now the basis of the sugary marron glace , is facing a double threat from the east, experts claim.
(5) Marron agreed the changes were an ideal opportunity to tackle deep-seated problems.
(6) Follow-up thought: A lot of coaches will now be asking what that pick says for Ryan Nassib - the quarterback who new Bills head coach Doug Marrone coached at Syracuse.
(7) Marron, head of the Public Health England transition team, acknowledged the challenge of working with local politics, but spoke of how public health as a result can "drive the political agenda" locally and nationally.
(8) But, Marron said, its closeness to government will prove an advantage and ensure that its expert advice is heeded.
(9) Public health also has powerful political support, Marron told the debate.
(10) Others were in place at upper river Eden, the rivers Lowther, Eamont, Kent, Bela, Cocker, Marron and Derwent as well as upper river, Derwent, Stonethwaite Beck and Derwent Water.
(11) Joining Guardian public services editor David Brindle – who chaired the main discussion – were Jonathan Marron, head of the department of health 's Public Health England transition team, chief executive of the Association of Directors of Public Health Nicola Close, chair of Skills for Care Professor David Croisdale-Appleby and joint director of public health at Camden Quentin Sandifer.
(12) The creation of the new NHS Commissioning Board means the Department of Health will in future do a lot less to set health policy, so public health professionals will have more freedom to lead, Marron said.
(13) Typical "glomeruli" consisting of a varicosity of "rosette" joined to the dendritic claws of the granule cells, and "en marron" systems with perikarya of type II Golgi cells were easily recognised.
(14) An exotic type of contact was described in the last decade, in the rat cerebellar cortex, under the designation of synapse en marron.
(15) Jonathan Marron, the Department of Health's director of PHE transition, also stressed in one of the earlier debates that PHE's closeness to the Department of Health will mean that its advice is taken seriously by officials and ministers.
(16) As well as audience members a number of speakers were invited to attend: Nicola Close, chief executive, Association of Directors of Public Health; Professor David Croisdale-Appleby, chair, Skills for Care; Jonathan Marron, director, Public Health England transition, Department of Health; and Dr Quentin Sandifer, joint director of public health, Camden.
Matron
Definition:
(n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
(n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(2) By the age of 25 she was a head OT; four years later she took on her first general management role as a hospital matron.
(3) Only a minority of physicians opposed the introduction of the English model of nursing care, with the matron who had the power of organizing the hospital.
(4) It was using the charity to help transport patients who were fit enough to leave A&E, but the Red Cross was not providing healthcare to patients, the hospital’s duty matron said.
(5) Although ostensibly instituted to render care to "female paupers," the matronized nursing service was readily expanded, and subsequently delivered care to the entire, predominantly indigent patient population.
(6) And look over there; surely it can’t be, but yes, my word: stern old Mr Sillars getting all frisky with Ms May, the boarding school matron, and her kitten heels.
(7) Richard Brothwell, Wakefield's community heart failure matron, is one of the professionals trialling the system.
(8) In one short visit, using questionnaires to the matron, cook and the residents and a check-list of general observations, the degree of risk, high, moderate or low, can be assessed.
(9) 98 Hospices in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland of 111 that had a named matron or senior nurse, including 17 funded by NHS and 81 independent units.
(10) Along with Shields and Brinkley, other names who have portrayed Chicago's fictional showgirl Roxie Hart include Ugly Betty's America Ferrera, Coronation Street's Jill Halfpenny and presenter Denise Van Outen, while Kelly Osbourne and the EastEnders actor Anita Dobson are among those who have played the hard-as-nails prison matron Mama Morton.
(11) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
(12) "But having said that, we are working with community matrons and they could do it for you.
(13) While prosecuting as witches those women careproviders who were matrons and sages, the Church instituted consecrated women to provide what she expected from care-giving, and had them recognized as the socialized model of care-providers.
(14) Our view of the NHS and of the nursing role is still based on the traditional picture of matrons in white caps, but we need to look at the evidence and rethink who is best placed to deliver care of a high quality, and how to ensure that this also represents value for money.
(15) One minute the reception at Private Eye 's chaotic Soho office is quiet, and a matronly receptionist is making me a cup of coffee.
(16) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
(17) At their wedding in Acapulco in 1957, Mike's lifelong friend, the crooner Eddie Fisher, was best man, and Eddie's wife, Debbie Reynolds, was the matron of honour.
(18) Lectures on malignant melanoma, hazards of sunburns in childhood, and the importance of sun awareness were arranged for the nursery school matrons in the preschool sector.
(19) Although matrons (nursing administrators) who have graduated from the College are capable of performing special tasks to ensure quality care, they do not have the corresponding authority and recognition.
(20) We are not doing them a favour by serving them, they are doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.” Inside that hospital Henley spoke to a matron, Nadine Opiniano, who told him: “I do think some people here don’t appreciate what the NHS means.