(1) But there were red faces in the MoD when it withdrew details of more than £14m in expenditure following questions from the Guardian.
(2) (a) unaltered tooth, (b) access preparation, (c) instrumentation, (d) obturation, and (e) MOD cavity preparation; or 2.
(3) The open reading frame can be expressed from the dam-regulated mod promoter (for modification of D108 DNA), yet also contains its own dam-independent promoter for expression that is detectable by northern blot analysis late in the D108 lytic cycle.
(4) The technology had been jointly developed by his company Porton and the MoD's research arm, and around £40m was on the table if a sale to multinational 3M went through.
(5) Claims that the soldiers violated the Geneva conventions were made in the course of damning criticism of the soldiers' conduct and that of the MoD by Patrick O'Connor QC, counsel for the Iraqis.
(6) But defenders of Ihat recall the notorious case of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi who died in British detention, and note that the MoD has paid out £22m in compensation to victims of alleged abuse in Iraq.
(7) The MoD had said claims of negligence or breaches of the soldiers' human rights should be blocked because of combat immunity.
(8) Corbyn to complain to MoD about army chief's ‘political interference’ Read more Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s political mis-steps over the past 10 days have allowed his views to be dismissed as flaky and irresponsible – even where he is right, as in his warnings about kneejerk responses to terrorist attacks and, indeed, in his Armistice Day strictures about the requirement for the top brass to stay out of politics .
(9) Hollington was named an hour after the MoD announced the death of another marine, killed in an explosion in Sangin yesterday while on a "reassurance patrol".
(10) One hundred fifty-nine Mod II unicompartmental knee arthroplasties were reviewed.
(12) The mean orientation discrimination (MOD) was defined as that change in orientation angle away from the optimal which produced a response statistically different--on the 1% level--from the response to the optimal orientation.
(13) He says next year's MoD budget is expected to include new money for cyber-defence – an acknowledgment that even during a time of redundancies and squeezed budgets, this is now a priority.
(14) Hammond sought to blame the BBC for misinterpreting an Isaf statement issued on Monday, but the MoD conceded the statement might have been unclear.
(15) The abutment teeth next to the modification spaces were moderately restored with MOD or class II restorations on most of the teeth.
(16) This investigation evaluated the efficacy of training at moderate-60% Maximal Heart Rate Reserve, HRRmax, (MOD) and low-40% HRRmax (LOW) intensities in a population of older American women (N = 16, mean age = 78.4 years).
(17) Results indicate that P-Mod-S has the ability to regulate Sertoli cell function throughout pubertal development.
(18) Osborne also envisages “demonstrating the concept” of safe fracking by “focusing on a small number of sites in less contentious locations” including “public sector land (particularly MOD owned)”.
(19) A senior MoD source said: “Despite the continuing conspiracy theories and associated hype in the media, the reality is that there are no US Remotely Piloted Air System support facilities operating anywhere in the UK.” But the human rights group Reprieve said that the job specifications indicated UK complicity in the US drone programme.
(20) Admiral Sir Trevor Soar The commander in chief of the Royal Navy fleet until March this year, Soar told the undercover reporters he knew "all the ministers" at the MoD.
Trick
Definition:
(a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
(a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
(a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
(a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
(a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
(a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
(a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
(v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
(v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(4) That was the thing that told against us in the end and we have to be serious about that.” In defence of the Corbyn camp’s plans to renationalise privatised industries, John McDonnell MP, who is the candidate’s campaign agent, said that privatisation had been “a confidence trick”.
(5) The announcement from the Congressional Budget Office, a research body, that health reform would cost $940bn (£627bn), which was less than had been expected, appears to have done the trick.
(6) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
(7) I don’t think it’s indicative of lower fish stocks, they just learned a new trick,” Mardisk F Leopold, who led the research, told the Guardian.
(8) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
(9) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
(10) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(12) "So when you figure out that trick, that becomes how you attack anything bad.
(13) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
(14) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(15) Gordon Brown and David Cameron put the question of substance at the heart of the political battle yesterday, as the Tory leader accused his rival of relying on "short-term tricks" in place of long-term solutions.
(16) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(17) It is impossible to trick your mind into veering away from the enormity of what happened in this tiny country in the centre of Africa.
(18) In the second world war, countries had their own encryption tools but now we share networks and tools, and if you can undermine the random number generator - if you can make it less random - and that’s what the NSA was doing by trying to trick, buy or persuade companies to make their encryption more breakable,” said Gellman.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
(20) Take, for example, the "trick" of combining instrumental data and tree-ring evidence in a single graph to "hide the decline" in temperatures over recent decades that would be suggested by a naive interpretation of the tree-ring record.