(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(3) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
(4) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(5) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(6) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(7) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(8) McVeigh's brother Oliver said nothing had been found there and the organisation set up to locate him and other IRA victims – the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims – needed more information.
(9) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
(10) A strong EBV activation activity was observed in aqueous extracts of some Cantonese salted dried fish from China, harissa (a spice mixture) and to a lesser extent qaddid (dry mutton preserved in olive oil) from Tunisia.
(11) The present study compares the atherogenicity of a standard diet and diets with 10% olive oil or 10% margarine added, in rabbits maintained at a mean plasma cholesterol level of about 20 mM for 13 weeks.
(12) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(13) The postnatal maturation of the GABAergic innervation of the rat inferior olive was studied with an antiserum to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the GABA-synthesizing enzyme.
(14) Downing Street explained on Thursday night that Oliver and Michel shared the cost of the bill, and so no hospitality was extended and nothing need be declared.
(15) Administered to rats by stomach tubing oxythioquinox (Morestan) toxicity is very strongly increased after solubilisation in olive oil.
(16) Among the fats, olive oil is recommended more than other vegetable oils (64%).
(17) In the investigation, the neocortex was represented by the frontal cortex (field 10), the old cortex by the hippocamp, the midbrain by black substance, and medulla oblongata by the inferior olive.
(18) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(19) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(20) The changes in both molecules were also observed in animals in which the inferior olive was destroyed by electrocoagulation, ruling out the possibility of a direct action of 3-acetylpyridine on dendritic microtubular proteins.
Sliver
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
(n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
(n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
(n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
(2) The slivers of muscle grow between pieces of Velcro and flex and contract as they develop.
(3) Given their ages (Pacquiao is 36), it was not a total surprise that neither of them could sustain the quality of the exchanges or the vigour of their past over the course of 12 rounds, although there were slivers of magic from both.
(4) Slivers of articular cartilage were stored in Ham's medium, plasma, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and dimethyl sulphoxide at 0, -20, 4, and 38C.
(5) But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
(6) All the foreign bodies evaluated (lead and plastic pellets, pieces of wire, nails, needles, small fragments of rock and glass, wooden slivers, surgical sponges and surgical threads) were detectable with ultrasound.
(7) • House Republicans passed or planned to pass at least 11 mini spending bills to fund slivers of government.
(8) But visible change has accelerated rapidly in the past few thousand years – a tiny sliver of the Earth’s history.
(9) As I prepared to make tracks, Charlie Meckna pointed up at some slivers of grey cloud that hung in the vast powder-blue sky.
(10) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
(11) For people with busy lives Slivers of Time is a website that allows you to show volunteer-seeking organisations the precise hours you are free and would like to help organisations in your local area.
(12) Huhhhhhhhh,” goes another, when the drowsy, pitched-down vocal of DOEP drops in, a sliver of R&B squashed under a hobnailed boot.
(13) "We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive advantage in both the confectionery category and the global food business as a whole," said Rosenfeld, who pointed out that the tie-up will allow Kraft to become the world's leading confectionery company with a market share of 14.8%, a sliver higher than its US rival Mars, which recently bought Wrigley's chewing gum to take its share to 14.6%.
(14) Far from being a straight-up sci-fi, it adds a dash of Scandi-noir, a pinch of thriller and the occasional sliver of black humour into the mix.
(15) And, whatever happens to nature, it is our own highly complex interconnected society, built on a lucky period of stable climate during a tiny sliver of planetary time, that looks most at risk.
(16) 12 cords were cut with scissors, and 4 with a sharpened sliver of reed.
(17) An earlier version said that Holyrood controls only a small slither, rather than sliver, of its own spending.
(18) With his teeth caked in slivers of cola nuts, he said he had tried to board earlier convoys but there had not been enough space.
(19) When an attempt was made to remove the screw 12 weeks after its insertion, the screw broke at its neck releasing several small slivers of metal into the joint.
(20) They can even say Obama only beat Romney by 50% to 48% – a sliver that only grows large in the undemocratic electoral college.