(1) The character of Miss Jean Brodie became Spark’s “milch cow”, and brought her international fame, especially after the novel was made into a film starring Maggie Smith , who won an Academy (best actress) award for her performance.
(2) Following the introduction of the Milch technique as the preferred method of reduction of anterior shoulder dislocations in an A&E department, a retrospective study of the technique was carried out.
(3) Except for the Milch procedure, the risk of painful instability of the ulnar stump is real, but not very frequent if the technique is correctly applied.
(4) Verizon’s top lawyer, Randall Milch, sounded a tone of wariness over the specifics of the proposal while praising it overall.
(5) This study shows that the Milch technique can successfully be used by inexperienced staff to reduce dislocated shoulders with a reduction in the requirements for sedation and anaesthetics.
(6) Britain, in or out of the EU, can use it as a milch cow.
(7) Greater success with Milch's technique was experienced in patients under 40 years of age in whom the dislocation had been present for less than 4 hours.
(8) Screening for mycobacteria was carried out on samples of normal milk, supramammary lymph nodes (SLNS) and udder tissue from apparently healthy milch cows, including the milk from those suspected of tuberculous mastitis.
(9) The surgical procedure is a modification of the Milch cuff resection with the use of a dynamic compression plate.
(10) More than 100 pairs of dairy cows, and a whole population of 3000 milch cows, were studied for this report.
(11) Other HBO programmes that will premiere on Sky Atlantic include Luck, executive produced by David Milch and Michael Mann and starring Dustin Hoffman; Mildred Pierce, featuring Kate Winslet; and fantasy drama Game of Thrones.
(12) If Verizon receives a valid request for business records, we will respond in a timely way, but companies should not be required to create, analyse or retain records for reasons other than business purposes,” Milch wrote Thursday on Verizon’s blog.
(13) It was established that the cardiac frequency in pregnant cows is 83.3 min-1, in new-calved--83.7 min-1 and in milch-cows--86.3 min-1.
(14) A method for the reduction of anterior dislocations of the shoulder based on the Milch technique is presented.
(15) In order to increase the efficiency of lysotyping as a method for differentiating Klebsiella strains the authors tested the activity of 10 additional phages isolated, prepared and studied in the laboratory and compared to the Slopek-Milch set.
(16) In 73% of the Milch cases either no analgesia or sedation or Entonox alone was used.
(17) For example, it has been postulated that cystoid macular edema (CME) is due to accumulation of prostaglandins produced after cataract surgery and that indomethacin prevents the development of CME (Tennant, 1976; Milch and Yannuzzi, 1987).
(18) A modified procedure is useful for patients with ulnocarpal impingement syndrome where the Milch shortening osteotomy may not succeed because of radioulnar incongruity.
(19) The modified Milch technique is less troublesome for the patient and the physician and we strongly recommend it.
(20) The Milch technique was attempted in 142 cases with a success rate of 86%.
Mulch
Definition:
(n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.
(v. t.) To cover or dress with mulch.
Example Sentences:
(1) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(2) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
(3) The Royal Horticultural Society put out guidelines for domestic gardeners to save water, such as mulching and improving the soil by digging in large amounts of compost or other organic matter.
(4) Use a swoe (a flat push-and-pull hoe) to loosen the surface: this will act as a mulch – especially on heavy soils.
(5) In Pinjarra, a small town of 3,200 about 17km inland from Mandurah, where Hastie and Turnbull addressed a gathering of Liberal party faithful on Sunday night, Pam Squires had already mulched the political flyers she got in the mail and couldn’t remember any of the candidates’ names.
(6) Such techniques already exist, from terracing to prevent soil loss through erosion and flooding, minimum or zero tillage, coupled with crop rotation and the application of manure, compost or mulching.
(7) A single exposure of growing wheat plants to patulin can produce yield reductions similar to those observed in stubble-mulch farming.
(8) For interpretation we used the "relationship of excitability" as described recently by Mulch and Scherer for the thermal test.
(9) All those little animals and plants, he said, crushed into mulch, that thing you call oil.
(10) Back in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens we were mulching, drip-watering and allowing our lawns to brown off during dry spells, just as Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place are doing here in London.
(11) It also worth mulching around plants to keep weeds down and water locked into the soil – grass clippings work well.
(12) Mulch newly planted trees and shrubs after a good watering, and choose new plants adapted to drought, such as grey-foliaged plants, sages, lavenders, santolina, or those with fat leaves which store water, such as sedums and sempervivums.
(13) Your body will decompose to a grey, pulpy mulch that will fertilise the soil the next generation will nonchalantly trample over on its way to the hologram shop.
(14) All were covered with reddish-brown mulch except for two that appeared newly dug, neither with any kind of marking and one of them presumably Tsarnaev's.
(15) Anything you cut down, such as hedge prunings, can be used for a mulch.
(16) If weeds are a problem you can modify a crop for herbicide resistance, as Monsanto has done, or you can use a combination of unglamorous but effective ground cover, mulching, soil management, rotation, weeding or even use weed crops in other constructive ways.
(17) Do not add small dribbles of water frequently; instead, give individual plants a good soak about once a week, and then mulch if you can.
(18) The presumed source of infection was old prairie hay used for mulching.
(19) Mulch can easily take the form of inorganic gravel or chippings, but there are many products now available.
(20) Applied this spring while the soil is moist, and spread evenly in a 5-10cm layer, a mulch will form a protective topping to the soil to hold the moisture in.