(n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
Example Sentences:
(1) SimCity, of course, handed this panoply of powers to the player.
(2) But the county authorities, along with Montana's state election officials, have steadfastly refused to grant the request, offering a panoply of excuses, many of them contradictory.
(3) In addition, much of it comes from the panoply of neurotransmitters available, of which the neuropeptides represent a major portion.
(4) Members of the Ig gene superfamily play a major role in the development and operation of the immune and nervous systems, and any perturbation of their expression would be anticipated to produce a panoply of signs and symptoms, such as those characterizing the AT phenotype.
(5) The US government believes there are 20 to 30 Americans currently fighting in Syria for the panoply of jihadist groups there, according to a senior official.
(6) As expected, the White House’s announcement included visa bans, asset freezes and export licence denials on a panoply of top Russian officials and firms as reprisal for the continuing destabilisation of eastern Ukraine .
(7) Both the administration and Congress intend the legislation to join a panoply of recent moves to bolster cybersecurity, including February’s announced creation of a consolidated center within the intelligence agencies for analysis of internet-borne threats.
(8) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
(9) The study identifies a whole panoply of strategies used by mothers in response (only mothers were questioned for the research), some of which frankly don't sound much like strategies at all.
(10) For under £100, a panoply of Android handsets are now available too, which Google claims offer the full smartphone experience.
(11) But that old attitude has been largely overtaken by a panoply of so-called scientific techniques to reduce the "stress" of the whole occasion.
(12) Print brands donate content to Facebook in hopes of generating return traffic [and revenue] but seem disappointed,” said Group M. “Facebook is a simpler, better-sold alternative to print’s competing panoply.” For TV broadcasters, growth has been cut from 7.4% at the beginning of this year to just 2.6% by year end.
(13) The modern smoker is confronted with a highly engineered, complex composite of specially designed paper, tobacco, tobacco additives, and a panoply of filters, a far cry from the hollow reed Columbus saw.
(14) The memo explains that just as consumers now blame cigarette companies for lung cancer, so they will end up blaming food companies for obesity, unless a panoply of defensive strategies are put into action.
(15) Organisers expect 15,000 people daily at the gathering, which is supported by Greenpeace, Oxfam, the Via Campesina international peasant movement and a panoply of other participants including Ukranian green education pioneers, survivors of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, organic food organisations, the 100 Million Trees programme and ITPA, a Brazilian conservation group.
(16) He went on to hit the full panoply of liberal issues.
(17) The developmentally disabled, specifically those mentally incompetent from birth, are entitled to a full panoply of constitutional rights and protections.
(18) It is based on a panoply of technical procedures of surgical reconstruction.
(19) Kinani told the Guardian the security forces and Hashd al-Shaabi or popular mobilisation units, the name given to the panoply of militias taking part in the campaign, had taken control of Tikrit general hospital, not far from the city centre, as well as parts of Tikrit University.
(20) Today is no exception; a panoply of images of celebrating Andy Murray's win at Wimbledon .
Slew
Definition:
(imp.) of Slay
() imp. of Slay.
(v. t.) See Slue.
Example Sentences:
(1) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
(2) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(3) A slew of figures from showbusiness, royalty and sport have also been linked with offshore companies in the documents.
(4) The developments include a DC SQUID with FM read-out, resulting in the most compact SQUID electronics so far, a planar microwave biased RF SQUID with very high slew rate, and efforts to create reliable SQUIDs with sufficient sensitivity for biomagnetic applications that are cooled by liquid nitrogen.
(5) Last year saw a slew of shootings involving members of the Yamaguchi-gumi - Japan's biggest underworld organisation - and a rival gang as they battled for control of lucrative districts in Tokyo.
(6) Individual cities have introduced a slew of initiatives, such as San Diego’s recycling of wastewater for drinking .
(7) "Our asset purchases depend on economic and financial developments, but they are by no means on a preset course," Bernanke will testify, according to Reuters : Bernanke set off a brief but fierce global market sell-off last month when he outlined plans to reduce the quantitative easing program, and he has joined a slew of Fed officials since then who have spelled out their intention to keep interest rates near zero well after the asset purchases.
(8) It works thus: you pick out what you want from a slew of local shops, and for £3.50 a man in a van delivers it to your house after work, a sort of posh meals-on-wheels meets Ocado.
(9) He conceded his speech was wide-ranging, which is one reason it prompted a slew of different headlines in the weekend press .
(10) Between the election and inauguration, Trump spent much of his time hosting meetings with representatives on a slew of topics and interest groups.
(11) It is the third suit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against a slew of North Dakota laws aimed at making the state abortion free.
(12) However, Black produces a slew of evidence that questions the analysis of the Office of National Statistics used to work out the productivity of the health service.
(13) The average chronic slew rate was half the average acute value.
(14) A slew of former and current New York politicians are joining demonstrators, who are bringing in 100 wheelchairs.
(15) CT scatter was observed to increase as scan field size and slice thickness increased, whilst there was little change in scatter with changes in gantry tilt and table slew.
(16) Similar changes were noted for the rate of voltage change (slew rate).
(17) Following a slew of downbeat economic indicators, market expectations are growing that there will be more quantitative easing from the Fed before the end of the year.
(18) The contentious Carmichael project has been delayed amid a thermal coal market slump and a slew of legal challenges from conservationists and traditional owners.
(19) The only real difference between Adam and Eve's kids and Marion and Ralph's over-achieving sons is that while the first murderer (Cain) slew Abel because, according to Genesis, the latter was favoured by God, David might have to slay Ed for being favoured by Labour party members.
(20) Some had been expecting an even weaker reading after a slew of downbeat economic indicators from the US in recent weeks.