(n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
(n.) One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
(v. t. & i.) To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(2) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
(3) That's right, centuries of political columnists owe their careers to the pioneering efforts of Davy, Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier.
(4) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(5) In this article the results of studies on the relationship between anaphylaxis and CNS, performed by both pioneers and contemporary investigators, are briefly reviewed.
(6) For example, where 2 longitudinal tracts are pioneered independently in grasshopper, only one is formed in Drosophila.
(7) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(8) Since acetylcholine (ACh) was identified as a neurotransmitter at parasympathetic nerve terminals by pioneering pharmacologists such as O. Schmiedeberg, R. Hunt, O. Loewi and H.H.
(9) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(10) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(11) He was a pioneer sexologist, demographer, and sportsman and an early Zionist.
(12) Their pioneering studies led to the continuing discoveries of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and today's considerable knowledge concerning the molecular identity of antigens and further consolidation of ANA.
(13) The move signals a change for Democrats , who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership.
(14) Seven health habits, commonly referred to as the "Alameda 7," were shown to be associated with physical health status and mortality in a pioneer longitudinal study initiated in 1965 in Alameda County, CA.
(15) In a speech to the United Nations , Hu will declare that China is ready to pioneer a new low-carbon path of development, make a commitment to increase forest cover and pledge financial support for poorer nations to adapt to global warming, according to a source close to his delegation.
(16) Their growth cones pioneer a stereotyped pathway through the limb which becomes the route of one of the major leg nerve trunks.
(17) Just as the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence was the global pioneer for assessing new drugs and treatments in the last decade, London should become the pioneer for digital health technology assessments in the decade ahead.
(18) We, in the infection control field, are quality pioneers in hospitals.
(19) It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery.
(20) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.
Wilderness
Definition:
(v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
(v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.
(v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(3) But Lyndon Schneiders, national campaigns director of the Wilderness Society, says the new data shows Australia is “lying to the world and lying to ourselves” about the true state of greenhouse emissions.
(4) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(5) Wilderness areas throughout the Western hemisphere.
(6) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(7) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
(8) The movements that produced Brexit and Trump won about half the vote; Wilders’ is forecast to get below 20% (more from the Peilingwijzer poll aggregator here ).
(9) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(10) At a club that has become used to selling its best players at the end of the season – more often than not to Liverpool in recent times – his arrival looks like a continuation of the smart managerial appointments that have taken Southampton from the wilderness of League One to one of the Premier League’s most consistent sides.
(11) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(12) Fashion moves fast, and four years is a long time in the wilderness.
(13) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(14) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(15) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
(16) The past year has also witnessed the rise of ultra rightwing movements such as Reclaim Australia and the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the local offshoot of a party inspired by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.
(17) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(18) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
(19) Geert Wilders , the Dutch politician who faces trial for inciting racial hatred, repeated the sentiment that Europe is now “at war”.
(20) The whole listing in 2013 by [former environment minister] Tony Burke and the Greens was an ideological one aimed to destroy the forestry industry.” Colbeck said the government “will look at the decision further from here” but added “I don’t think community values would accept logging in wilderness World Heritage areas.