(a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
Example Sentences:
(1) That shows the level of support for us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Retired health manager Margaret Alexander, pictured with husband Gordon: ‘Why can’t our government find the money?’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Up the road at the village of Nether Stowey, retired health managers Gordon and Margaret Alexander, 84 and 78 respectively, were admiring the flowers outside Coleridge’s old cottage .
(2) Nether glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity nor [125I]iodoglucagon binding could be detected in the poorly differentiated hepatomas.
(3) By this research the percentage of school-children living in a mainly rural district in Nether Saxony whose carriage is endangered is to be stated and besides that it is to be examined whether and how far orthopedic training, practised by special nurses for physical training, can help to improve their carriage.
(4) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
(5) I don't take much notice: as a frontline sergeant in a busy multicultural town in the nether regions of England, there isn't anywhere worse they can put me, and nothing they do will change the nature of my work.
(6) There were other people on the beach, including picnicking families, but it was not packed, and they were mainly in the water, with their nether regions hidden.
(7) He shows us its hollowed-out nether regions and parson’s nose in a deliberately obscene way.
(8) Nearest station to Nether Stowey is Bridgwater – take the bus to Williton and Minehead.
(9) It is nether possible nor desirable for analysis to adopt the neutral attitudes and techniques of the natural science observer.
(10) (Nether Alderley, Cheshire) Professor Alistair Stanyer Burns.
(11) Recently, as the morning sun stretched towards my bedroom window, my mind became stranded in that nether world between sleep and waking.
(12) The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions.
(13) Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.
(14) On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip.
(15) You've just had a baby and 28 stitches in your nethers?
(16) Nether Stowey butcher Andrew Pope, who lives on a farm next door to the site, was more relaxed.
(17) OS Map: Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales: southern & western areas Coleridge's cottage to Wordsworth's house Somerset Quantock Hills at Coleridge Way nature walk, Nether Stowey, Somerset.
(18) Nether thrombosis nor stenosis of the renal veins and the inferior vena cava was present.
(19) Terkel disliked this nether region beneath the skyscrapers.
(20) Have a look at Danny's website - it's top notch ... and I'm not just saying that because he's blowing smoke up my nether regions.
Straiten
Definition:
(v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
(v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
(v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his enforced absence following a dramatic fall from grace that symbolises many of the ills of football’s culture of entitlement, France will be hoping football can again bring the nation together in the most straitened of times.
(2) Ai Weiwei , the big man of Beijing, has spent years discovering pockets of freedom in the most straitened circumstances, resisting every effort by the Chinese government to shut him down.
(3) It’s a unique place.” It may say something about Bradford’s straitened circumstances that, whereas some city leaders hold court from palatial offices, the leader of Bradford district council’s HQ is comically modest.
(4) In such straitened circumstances, accepting more pupils may seem an obvious way to generate extra cash.
(5) "It's vital that in straitened economic times, the UK government does not make the grave mistake of making cuts to higher education and research funding or spreading limited funds too thinly," the foreword says.
(6) Even if the company laboured under financial constraints that sometimes made getting the paper out each night seem like a Sisyphean miracle, I could never really regret them, selfishly speaking: I had nothing more lavish with which to compare the circumstances, and if things hadn’t been so straitened I never would have had a shot at the comical series of overpromotions that defined my time there.
(7) Lectures from Brussels on the need to cut public spending and balance budgets, given the desperately straitened times, have added insult to injury.
(8) The first option is understandable, but the second is essential in the straitened circumstances that will cast a long shadow over public services for the foreseeable future.
(9) The reforms were about the survival of the NHS in straitened times.
(10) It is almost inconceivable that in these straitened times local authorities, whose budgets have been decimated, could launch their own school building programme without government support.
(11) It’s for people like us.” I found this difficult to comprehend given our straitened circumstances, but I have never forgotten the message.
(12) The announcement is designed to show that even in straitened economic times the government is committed to pressing ahead with radical plans to promote economic growth.
(13) So when people have close contact with schools and find they are actually brilliant, relief and surprise combine to create the impression that, in spite of straitened conditions, the government is doing quite well.
(14) Other companies, from Hull Truck to London’s Young Vic – also looking for ways to cope in increasingly straitened times – are joining the Rep to mount co-productions.
(15) (He is accustomed, having lived as a Jew under nazism and a Pole under communism, to straitened scenarios.)
(16) But London, even in these straitened times, not only has money available to keep cultural spending at the same level, it can actually increase it.
(17) Vekaric said Mladic had suffered increasingly straitened circumstances since 2006, when he narrowly evaded arrest in the village of Ljuba.
(18) Chelsea's owner was also angered by Arnesen's ill-advised decision to discuss the owner's straitened finances in public.
(19) In spite of the family's straitened circumstances, her application and quick intelligence advanced her steadily.
(20) The privation that contributed to Balan’s death didn’t occur in the straitened circumstance of a refugee camp, or on the borderlands of a war-torn region.