(v. i.) The act or business of making mines or of working them.
(a.) Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(2) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(3) The mining activity does not seem to have contaminated drinking water significantly.
(4) I think of tattoos as art, but also, every time I look at mine, I relive the emotions I felt when I had them.
(5) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
(6) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(7) The story and the characters of Girl Online are mine.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella with her debut book ‘Girl Online’.
(8) From the large database available, there is no evidence of a consistent association between any particular cell type and specific mining exposure.
(9) She consciously destroyed the workforces in places like the railways, for example, and the mines, and the steelworks … so that transition from adolescence to adulthood was destroyed, consciously, and knowingly.
(10) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(11) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
(12) Merrin, 64, worked at the mining group Sherritt for 10 years and rose to be chief operating officer before leaving in 2004.
(13) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(14) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
(15) One hundred and twenty five patients with non-specific lung diseases were exa mined with a view to the relation and interrelations between lung ventilation, acid base equilibrium and lipopectic lung function.
(16) An intelligence officer told Associated Press that they were aware of the movement, but that the military is acting with care as many civilians are still trapped in the town and Boko Haram is laying land mines around it.
(17) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(18) In the still active mine workers, dynamic spirometry results showed no difference between smokers or nonsmokers or between underground and surface workers.
(19) Iodine content of iodinated salt intended only for human consumption was eyamined in samples from all domestic manufacturers (salt mines in: Tuzla, Pag, Ulcinj, Ston, Nin, Seca-Portoroz).
(20) The ability of these women to tell their stories – and mine to translate them for the authorities in whose hands their fates lie – is intrinsic to their ability to find safety and, hopefully, get justice.
Stope
Definition:
(v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
(v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
(p. p.) Alt. of Stopen
Example Sentences:
(1) Marie Stopes estimates that , as a result of the reimposition of the global gag order, the loss of their services alone could result in 6.5m unintended pregnancies during Trump’s first term, 2.1m unsafe abortions, and 21,700 maternal deaths.
(2) But right now none of that is the problem: the problem is that this amendment expressly removes the right of organisations such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to impart information.
(3) Marie Stopes described the rise as small but warned that the figures sent a warning for the government's family planning strategy.
(4) An amendment that Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries and Labour's Frank Field have put forward to the health bill would strip abortion providers such as Marie Stopes of their pregnancy counselling roles, opening them up to tenders from "independent" organisations.
(5) The Dorries amendment would have stripped non-statutory abortion providers such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) from offering counselling to women.
(6) All but 10 are run by the charities Marie Stopes and BPAS which, under the Dorries amendment, could be stripped of their counselling role.
(7) The prime minister, David Cameron, was at first said to be sympathetic to Dorries's view that women should be offered independent advice, but he became persuaded by the view of campaigners that the planned amendment would prevent abortion providers such as Marie Stopes from giving counselling.
(8) Charities including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes offer the compulsory counselling women must undertake before they make a decision on termination.
(9) Tracey McNeill, the director of Marie Stopes UK and Europe, said: "We work very much within a legal framework; we comply with all the CQC regulations.
(10) The CQC, which sent officials to clinics including those run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Marie Stopes and the NHS, is expected to publish its findings within weeks.
(11) Dawn Purvis, director of Marie Stopes Northern Ireland, said: "We are hugely disappointed that the women of Northern Ireland, who are citizens of the UK, remain unable to access the same services from the NHS as their mainland counterparts.
(12) The results therefore suggest that an inward calcium ion current may play a role in the development of digitalis-induced increase in the stope of phase 4 depolarization in Purkinje fibers.
(13) Dr Paula Franklin, medical director of Marie Stopes, which like the BPAS has contracts to provide terminations on the NHS , said she was concerned that the heightened scrutiny was having an effect on "existing clinics and on doctors and nurses who come every day to the centres, many of whom have to navigate through sometimes angry – sometimes not – protesters.
(14) "Marie Stopes International and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service have similar interests.
(15) "The idea that BPAS or Marie Stopes are colluding to make a profit is wrong.
(16) Hundreds of young and vulnerable women seeking abortions are to be sent to other clinics after some services run by Marie Stopes International were suspended because of inspectors’ safety concerns.
(17) In a statement, the chief executive, Simon Cooke, said: “As of today Marie Stopes UK has agreed with the Care Quality Commission to voluntarily suspend some of its termination of pregnancy services.
(18) The government has announced a change in the rules to ensure that women are also offered counselling provided independently of the charity-run services, such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes.
(19) A statement from Marie Stopes said it fully supported "the desire of the Department of Health and others to ensure that women seeking termination of pregnancy from any provider - including the NHS - receive care which is appropriate and falls with the legal framework.
(20) Marie Stopes said none of its 19 units was found to have breached the rules, while BPAS said that to the best of its knowledge none of its clinics was involved.