(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.
Warehousing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warehouse
(n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Example Sentences:
(1) To address the crisis, the government began simply warehousing these children in camps at US border patrol facilities and on military bases in Texas, Arizona and California.
(2) Medicaid often provides the money for services to keep people in their homes and in the community, an essential step forward from the past in which people were “warehoused” in facilities largely separate from society.
(3) ILF recipient Kevin Caulfield said: "Changes brought in by this government herald the end of independent living for disabled people and the return to a segregated society where disabled people are warehoused away.
(4) The workers who help get products to market are legion, from those on the commodity level – in mineral and metal mines, in the agricultural fields – up through processing, manufacturing, warehousing, and transport.
(5) The new company will clearly be looking at economies of scale, not just in warehousing, printing and finance systems, but eventually in editorial output.
(6) Australia’s unhinged border protection debate has seen people who have committed no crime warehoused in indefinite detention in offshore immigration detention.
(7) "As our social worker said, it's just warehousing for kids."
(8) The budget retailer, owned by Associated British Foods, will open its first store in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2015 and said it was in negotiations to open up to eight further stores in north-east America, with warehousing to support them.
(9) Now we have tens of thousands of kids at the border, with legions warehoused in makeshift camps, stuck in a labyrinthine legal system alone and grasping for sanctuary.
(10) "This judgment opens the door to warehousing older people in their own homes without regard to their quality of life.
(11) This has disproportionately affected roles in the middle of the income distribution – such as manufacturing, warehousing and administrative roles.
(12) At the heart of these family-sized support models is a strengths- or capabilities-based approach, which believes people who need support also have something to offer those around them, and shouldn't be warehoused away from their communities.
(13) There is a real hypocrisy in the fact we have two royal commissions currently afoot – one into institutional child sexual abuse and another into youth detention centres – and yet at the very same time we’re warehousing children on Nauru in conditions that allow this kind of abuse to thrive.” 'Abu Ghraib'-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry Read more The Australian Council for International Development and the Australian Council of Social Service said the current royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse should immediately examine incidents and allegations raised in the Nauru files.
(14) This is the latest in a whole series of reports and investigations that have found very serious issues with Bureau of Prisons shadow systems of private prisons,” said Carl Takei, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s national private prison project and one of the authors of the 2014 report Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants Trapped In Our Shadow Private Prison System, which investigated contract prisons in Texas.
(15) Employment in wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, financial acivities, and leisure and hospitality changed little.
(16) Alongside jobs at senior management level and banking he has also applied for taxi driving, warehousing jobs and baggage handling at nearby Stansted Airport.
(17) Prison reform campaigners are sceptical about the benefits of “warehousing” large numbers of prisoners together, and point to evidence showing that smaller prisons perform better in terms of safety and reducing reoffending.
(18) Transportation and warehousing also showed large gains.
(19) There is a real hypocrisy in the fact we have two royal commissions currently afoot – one into institutional child sexual abuse and another into youth detention centres – and yet at the very same time we’re warehousing children on Nauru in conditions that allow this kind of abuse to thrive.” De Kretser said there needed to be a full inquiry but the safety of people on the islands or at risk of being sent to the islands was the first priority.
(20) If proven refugees are still being warehoused on Nauru or Manus Island at the end of the year, they should be resettled in Australia.” Brennan told the Guardian that while some in the refugee advocacy community would oppose any position that maintained boat interdictions and turnbacks, it was a solution that would allow for the camps on Nauru and Manus Island to be emptied.