(1) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
(2) The CK-M expression in the developing outflow tract (OFT) and conduction system is described in detail.
(3) The objectives of this study were to document the official oral fluid therapy (OFT) policies of all the ministries of health in South Africa and of the four provincial authorities, to determine what methods of OFT are used in hospitals providing paediatric care, to determine the OFT methods recommended by hospital staff for use at home, to establish the level of support for the idea of one national policy for OFT and to determine what senior academic paediatricians think about these issues.
(4) Further, the oft-reported psychiatric troubles preceding MS clinical onset suggest that at least in some MS patients there are specific gaps in personality structure dating back to early phases of their development.
(5) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(6) In a report – which described the payday lending and debt management industry as opaque and poorly regulated – the influential committee said the government should outline a timetable within six months for deciding whether control of consumer credit will be transferred from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a new regulator replacing the Financial Services Authority.
(7) Following a review and consultation with Ofcom, the OFT found that despite ITV's market position declining, it remains almost the only provider of very large commercial audiences.
(8) There is no doubt that it is getting tougher.” Sheng, whose book, Northern Girls, follows the lives of China’s oft-exploited female migrant workers, said she believed an author’s calling was to write about the problems of society: the “injustice, the inequality and the darkness”.
(9) There is the oft-quoted structural shift from print to web for both consumers and advertisers.
(10) That is, if their oft-stated commitment to move away from outdated north-south approaches is genuine.
(11) The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) warned last year that there was “insufficient visibility and comparability of charges” to ensure that competition in the market was fully effective.
(12) "However, in order to ensure that any potential conclusions from the OFT's processes can be taken into account in the trust's own decision, we will await the OFT's findings and will publish our final conclusions on Project Canvas later this spring."
(13) The former London mayor Ken Livingstone tried to sell an afternoon distribution slot on the tube network after the OFT's 2005 ruling, prompting interest from Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers and News International.
(14) And in a direct contradiction of the oft-stated view of the Israeli leadership, he asserted: "you do have a true partner" in Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad.
(15) As part of the transition from OFT to FCA, from Autumn 2013 existing OFT licence holders will need to apply for interim permission so they can continue to operate.
(16) The OFT welcomed what it called "very clear confirmation" that it could assess current account terms and conditions on fairness.
(17) The oft-quoted 5-cm rule for melanoma excision is not valid.
(18) Yesterday, the supreme court delivered a shock decision when it ruled that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) could not challenge overdraft charges because it does not have the power to decide whether they are unfair.
(19) Furniture Village said it was aware of the OFT investigations but added that it would be inappropriate for it to comment or confirm its involvement until its findings were published.
(20) Then, in the summer of 2007, the payouts stopped after the OFT announced a test case against eight current account providers in a bid to establish the legality of the charges once and for all.
Ost
Definition:
(n.) See Oast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immediately prior to the OST, there were no differences in heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, mean arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance for HDT and HUT.
(2) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
(3) "It is hard to predict how quickly the increased scope for tax planning will be exploited; again this could be quantitatively significant as a quarter of the costing already arises from tax planning," the c osting document said .
(4) The materials used were an established line of human osteosarcoma cells (OST strain) and twelve surgically resected or biopsied specimens.
(5) The number of cases was reduced from 18 to 4 when the OST was carried out.
(6) The information was obtained of the Gc frequencies in two population units of Buryats of Aginsky and Ost-Ordynsky Autonomous Districts of Chita and Irkutsk Regions, including the Olkhon island (on the lake Baikal), in totality, 593 individuals and 13 local groups.
(7) With the use of human LDH as a marker, growth and remission of four human osteosarcomas (KOS-1, KOS-2, KOS-3, OST) and a malignant fibrous histiocytoma (KMF) transplanted into nude mice were monitored during chemotherapies (Adriamycin [doxorubicin], cisplatin, mitomycin C, cyclophosphamide and vincristine).
(8) High-OST scoring male students compared to Low-OST scoring male students showed reduced P200 latency.
(9) Over the full 10-min period of OST, the mean arterial pressure was not different between groups.
(10) Speaking before the publication of Osted’s annual report, Sir Michael Wilshaw said it made no difference whether schools were free or academies, the key factor was leadership.
(11) A correlation was assessed between c-erbB-2 positive tumours and histological grade, liver metastases as first site of metastases, disease free survival time (DFS) in the second and third year after diagnosis and overall survival time (OST) in the third and fourth year after diagnosis.
(12) MSPMs included non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (four patients), hematologic malignancies (HM) (three patients), and 12 with other solid tumors (OST).
(13) The human osteosarcoma cell line (OST-1-PF) can grow in protein-free Coon's modified Ham's F12 medium.
(14) Fifteen asymptomatic subjects were recruited from 18 to 33-yr-old male users of OST.
(15) The median survival times after the diagnosis of MSPM was 33 months, 10 months, and 1 month, respectively, for those with NSCLC, OST, and HM.
(16) Carcass lipid accretion rate decreased 22% to 30% (P less than .001), and carcass protein accretion rate increased 30% to 36% (P less than .001) with hGRF and oST treatment, respectively.
(17) The sensitivity, cross-sensitivity, acquired resistance and restoration of sensitivity to adriamycin (ADR) in cultured human osteosarcoma (OST) cells were studied from the viewpoints of cell proliferation and cell cycle pattern by flow cytometry.
(18) The objectives of this study were 1) to compare intermittent subcutaneous administration of human growth hormone-releasing factor (hGRF) at two doses with a similar regimen of ovine somatotropin (oST) for effects on growth and composition of gain in growing lambs and 2) to determine whether increasing the dietary amino acid availability enhances response to oST or hGRF.
(19) The lights went up on the popular musical Nord-Ost on Wednesday evening in the 1,000-seat theatre.
(20) The largest increase has been in deaths related to the misuse of opioid substances; 2,677 opioid-related deaths were registered in the UK in 2015.” He added: “The most important recommendation in this report is that government ensures that investment in OST of optimal dosage and duration is, at least, maintained.” However, drug treatment experts leapt on the report’s recommendations for the introduction of heroin-assisted treatment – where users are prescribed heroin to allow them to safely maintain their habit – and medically supervised injecting rooms.