(1) The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island , and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.
(2) Robert Davies, another original investor, also a financial backer of Swansea’s Ospreys rugby union region which shares the Liberty Stadium, also has a 10.5% stake.
(3) The governor of Okinawa prefecture, Hirokazu Nakaima, said he could not understand why the Ospreys had arrived before local safety concerns had been addressed.
(4) A slightly elevated concentration of chromium (1.7 ppm) or arsenic (3.2 ppm) was found in the livers of individual ospreys.
(5) On 2 October, the navy said a marine who ejected from an MV-22 Osprey aircraft over the Persian Gulf was presumed lost at sea.
(6) A US Marine has died and 21 people have been taken to hospital after their Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii on Sunday.
(7) The incident will do little to allay fears that the Osprey is accident-prone.
(8) An osprey nested recently on Cocos, but her two chicks were later found dead in their nest after their mother fed them with a toxic puffer fish.
(9) Carcasses of immature ospreys from the Chesapeake Bay had significantly lower concentrations of DDE, DDD + DDT, cis-chlordane, and PCB's than carcasses of adults from the same area.
(10) But he added: "We will work hard to share across the country the burden borne by Okinawa by taking steps towards transferring Osprey training to [Japan's] main island," he told reporters.
(11) We can never live safely here.” Japan’s defence minister, Tomomi Inada, called for all Osprey flights to be suspended until safety assurances could be given.
(12) Yellowstone’s latest surveys also show that a five-year effort to conserve aerial predators such as hawks and eagles has been successful, with numbers of peregrines remaining stable and the nesting success of bald eagles and ospreys “above the long-term averages for both species during the last several years”.
(13) Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the internet would have - entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper on the e-mail screen, there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry (from the osprey-tracking site to tours round old nuclear silos and the extraordinary aerial trip down the California coastline and a thousand others), not to mention the weirdest porn.
(14) Japan’s ground self-defence forces plan to start flying 17 Ospreys from April 2019, according to local media.
(15) You might swim past highland cows taking time out on mini beaches by the river, the resident osprey out for a fishing trip or famous resident octogenarian explorers and their canoeing friends taking their daily dip.
(16) Okinawa remains a major offensive US military base, over the bitter objections of its inhabitants – who, right now, are less than enthusiastic about the dispatch of accident-prone V-22 Osprey helicopters to the Fukenma military base, located at the heart of a heavily-populated urban center.
(17) His book, Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914, to be published by Osprey in February, is an analysis of the BEF in 1914.
(18) When asked if that criticism applied to Senator John McCain, who deemed the raid a failure after receiving a classified briefing on the operation, Spicer repeated: “Anyone who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and a disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens.” Eight-year-old American girl 'killed in Yemen raid approved by Trump' Read more The night raid on a village in the central Yakla region appears to have gone wrong from the start, with the crash landing of an Osprey aircraft.
(19) Several ospreys had elevated concentrations of mercury in their livers; two ospreys had more than 20 ppm which may have contributed to their deaths.
(20) The analyses performed on 14 bald eagle carcasses and livers, 3 bald eagle eggs, and 14 osprey eggs show measurable levels which indicate that Kepone accumulates in the tissues of fish-eating birds.
Wing
Definition:
(n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
(n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
(n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
(n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
(n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
(n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
(n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
(n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
(n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
(n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
(n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
(n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
(n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
(n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
(n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
(n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
(n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
(n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
(n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
(v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
(v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
(v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
(v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
(v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(2) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(4) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(5) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(6) Changes of mineral content in the approximal enamel of the teeth were determined in situ with quantitative bite-wing radiography.
(7) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
(8) "The influence of private companies is getting ever bigger, and the right-wing government has been in favour of more privatisation."
(9) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(10) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
(11) The resection included the skin, globe, sphenoid wings, and orbitofrontal bone.
(12) Wing muscles were removed and examined histologically at various times after stretch.
(13) 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.
(14) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(15) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
(16) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
(17) So again, they did what they had to and should do.” Aakjaer’s Facebook account also contained other derogatory references to eastern Europeans, a message of support for the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.” When Aakjaer was contacted by the Guardian in January, he said that he was not “a racist at all”.
(18) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(19) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(20) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.