(n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.
(n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution analysis of CBF change images (outlier detection by gamma-2 statistic) was assessed as an omnibus test for state-dependent changes in regional neuronal activity.
(2) The opposition said the government’s approach towards the budget debate in this critical parliamentary sitting week was to stack separate proposals into single bills to avoid scrutiny, particularly in the welfare omnibus bills, and to crowd out the agenda with renewed parliamentary debates on carbon- and mining-tax repeals.
(3) In particular, we recommend the avoidance of omnibus significance tests in favor of specific planned comparisons whenever hypotheses more specific than the omnibus null hypothesis may be formulated a priori.
(4) The participants belong to the Omnibus panel of GPs run by Doctors.net.uk , a professional networking site to which almost all of the UK's 250,000 doctors of all types belong.
(5) 55 freshmen were administered a measure of formal operations consisting of eight suboperations and a complete score, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the conceptual complexity measure.
(6) There are causes for both celebration and reflection when viewing the results of the 1989 Omnibus Survey.
(7) ITV1's FA Cup highlights programme between 9.25am and 10.55am and its Coronation Street omnibus, between 10.55am and 1.10pm, each had 400,000 viewers.
(8) "I believe that the governor was recommending that it be de-coupled form the omnibus bill and if it's rewritten as a stand alone bill it will pass."
(9) This article briefly describes the legislative history of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) and supplemental security income (SSI) provisions, as well as related Medicare and Medicaid provisions, of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-272).
(10) The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 expands the covered limit to $2,200 (from the $500 set in 1966) but retains the 50% coinsurance requirement for beneficiaries.
(11) Democrats in the House of Representatives have rallied around Senator Elizabeth Warren to oppose the plan, hatched with support from corporate lobbyists, which buries the clause deep in the 1,600-page omnibus spending bill and could extend future public bailouts to riskier trading activities.
(12) The omnibus bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation, force clinics to meet standards of surgical centers (rules that could close 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics) and require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, a problem for anyone in rural Texas.
(13) Many of the task force's recommendations became part of the Omnibus AIDS Bill filed in the 71st Legislature.
(14) I don’t think this Senate is going to approve in the omnibus bill any language that could open any door to the Green Climate Fund,” she said.
(15) Idle No More began with First Nations’ opposition to the Harper government’s omnibus Bill C-45, which violated indigenous rights and weakened environmental protections to benefit natural resource corporations.
(16) Under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, the United States Congress has called for a study of the quality of care of Medicare beneficiaries and a strategy to assure it.
(17) 2005) and the development of other social security related legislation resulting in proposals that ultimately combined in the overall Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
(18) BBC2's World Snooker coverage averaged 700,000 viewers between 2.30pm and 5.30pm on BBC2; while the EastEnders omnibus pulled in 1.1 million between 3.05pm and 5pm on BBC1.
(19) The I-view Omnibus poll reveals raising the pension age to be highly unpopular: it is opposed by 69% of those polled and supported by only 18%, with the remainder uncertain.
(20) Soon after the November 2008 election, as he began his second minority government, Harper launched an “omnibus bill”, which contained so many provocative proposals that he united the previously divided opposition parties, which decided not just to vote against the bill but to form a coalition that could replace his government.
Pup
Definition:
(n.) A young dog; a puppy.
(n.) a young seal.
(v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(6) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(7) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(8) The effects of quinpirole and sulpiride on dopamine (DA), dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and accumulation of dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) after inhibition of DOPA decarboxylase were determined for the striatum and tegmentum of 11- and 17-day-old rat pups.
(9) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(10) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(11) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(12) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(13) Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely informed clients of the need to continue deworming procedures once the pup left the store.
(14) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(15) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(16) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(17) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
(18) The weight and size of the eyeballs were almost the same as those in normal NC pups.
(19) Their pups continued to consume the caffeine diet until 50 days.
(20) The pups were divided into caffeine and noncaffeine groups.