(1) If they play Edmonton Oilers hockey they won't have a chance.
(2) Speaking to GQ magazine, the former Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon said: "One thing I read that was peculiar to me – [Seau] had never been diagnosed with a concussion.
(3) Victim to an era it almost single-handedly created, in which teams and fans leave behind old stadiums for flashy new ones, the Astrodome has been idle since 2008 – the Astros moved into a newer stadium downtown in 2000, and the Oilers American football team played there from 1968 before leaving Houston for a newer stadium in Tennessee in 1996.
(4) This game will mean a lot to Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who held the same position with the Titans (or the Oilers, as they were known when he first arrived) for more than 16 years.
(5) He has made a huge, unthinkable amount of money, and made himself indispensable, too, as an orchestrator, an oiler of the wheels.
(6) Only once before had a team erased a bigger deficit to win a playoff game: the Buffalo Bills beat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in 1993.
Owler
Definition:
(v. i.) One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the AMA’s president, Brian Owler, said the performance of hospitals would only get worse after the federal government “retreated from its responsibilities” on hospital funding, cutting $1.8bn in immediate funding over the next four years in the 2014 budget and reneging on a deal to help meet increased hospital costs in the long term, saving $57bn over the next 10 years.
(2) The group’s president, Brian Owler, reaffirmed concerns that disadvantaged groups would be deterred from accessing preventative health care, and called on the government to scrap the co-payment model and seek expert advice.
(3) It’s about removing services for patients,” Owler said.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prof Brian Owler says poor health policy has plagued the Coalition since the 2014 budget.
(5) The only way to defeat the GP tax is to defeat the Abbott government.” The national president of the Doctors Reform Society, Dr Con Costa, told the ABC: “It is definitely a significant victory, but by no means the end of the battle to maintain Medicare.” The AMA president, Brian Owler, said local GPs and patients had “inundated” MPs with complaints about the initial changes to short consultation rebates, and he believed the level of concern had taken the government by surprise.
(6) Owler said the AMA also did not support allowing state and territory governments to charge co-payments for emergency department visits.
(7) I think the message that was clear today was a commitment on behalf of the prime minister and the minister to look at alternative models, something that we haven't heard before, or since the budget was announced, and I think that's a very positive move,” Owler said at a press conference after the meeting.
(8) Asked to confirm the government had indicated it was willing to adjust the GP co-payment, Owler said: “The prime minister and the minister made it fairly clear in the meeting that they were willing to look at alternative models and consider those on their merits.
(9) Patients’ out-of-pocket expenses could rise as a result of recommendations that 23 medical procedures should no longer be funded by Medicare, the president of the Australian Medical Association, Brian Owler, has warned.
(10) These programs are often built up by people who often put in extraordinary amounts of work and have an enormous amount of experience,” the head of the Australian medical association, Brian Owler, said.
(11) Read more Owler said the health minister was “pre-empting” the outcome of the review by highlighting procedures she thought were unnecessary, effectively “politicising” the process.
(12) Dr Young has first-hand experience and is obviously very experienced working with asylum seekers, and like him, our concerns are also about people in detention, particularly long-term detention, and especially the impact on children.” Prof Brian Owler, president of the Australian Medical Association, said he had “respect for what Dr Young is doing by speaking out,” adding he had “no reason to doubt what he’s saying”.
(13) The first task is to lift the freeze on Medicare patient rebates.” Other priorities outlined by Owler include: a genuine, transparent consultative approach to the Medicare benefits schedule reviews; the restoration of public hospital funding; a review of the private health insurance system; significant new investment in general practice; coordinated medical workforce planning.
(14) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said: “Treasurer, if you are a pensioner worried about having your pension cut, if you are a mum worrying about how you’ll be able to afford to take your kids to the doctor and pay the GP tax, if you’re working-class parents – perhaps you work at Alcoa and you’ve just lost your job and you’re worrying about how on earth you’re going to pay for your kids to go to university – the one thing you don’t need is an arrogant, out-of-touch treasurer telling people just to take a chill pill.” Dutton met with the AMA president, Brian Owler, in Brisbane on Thursday night to discuss the government policy of introducing a $7 contribution for standard GP consultations and out-of-hospital pathology and diagnostic imaging services from July next year.
(15) As we’ve been saying, this is an enormous humanitarian crisis that’s facing the people of west Africa and apart from the humanitarian crisis, there are economic and security issues and there are other implications for Australia,” Owler said.
(16) Owler said the review announced on Sunday aimed to take a scalpel to services provided under Medicare.
(17) Sussan Ley denies Medicare consultation will be over in two weeks Read more The AMA had signed up for review of the remuneration paid to doctors for MBS services, Owler said.
(18) The AMA president, Brian Owler, said Abbott and Dutton had indicated they were “willing to look at alternative models and consider those on their merits” – which potentially represented a significant shift on a budget measure that was likely to face Senate defeat.
(19) Both Dutton and Owler described the meeting as productive, although more talks were needed.
(20) Owler, a neurosurgeon at Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney, said the co-payment would not be a problem for many people.