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Polaris


Definition:

  • (n.) The polestar. See North star, under North.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite everything that has happened the established Polaris World sites have fared better than some of the recent arrivals.
  • (2) Local group Polaris Media is paying 559.3m kroner (£55.9m), which will raise net proceeds of £54.4m for Mecom .
  • (3) Margaret Thatcher ordered the missile system in 1982 during the cold war, to replace the ageing Polaris system – but it only came into service in 1994, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  • (4) Gilbert unsuccessfully tried to sell old warships to Argentina and announced an expensive Polaris improvement.
  • (5) The Polaris Institute thinktank reported in December 2012 that 45 oil lobbyists had been allowed to work inside Harper’s government and that during the previous four and a half years, officials and ministers had held some 2,700 meetings with the oil lobby.
  • (6) That way the animals, who have names such as Madde, after Goss’s wife, Fred, Hugo and Polaris, can be followed to see if they’ve strayed into areas at risk of poaching or human conflict.
  • (7) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
  • (8) In place of PM will be a repeated of the contemporary history show Document, about the Polaris missile, with an edition of Soul Music at 5.30pm.
  • (9) But five years on, the Polaris World holiday dream of sun-drenched apartments overlooking golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus has turned sour.
  • (10) The one that had just navigated a smooth stretch of road a few hundred feet long had taken 15 minutes to do so, and it didn’t really fit behind the wheel of the little red chrome four-wheeler, a sort of all-terrain golf cart called a Polaris Ranger.
  • (11) By 2010, Polaris World was forced to relinquish most of its assets – the golf courses and unsold properties – to a consortium of banks led by CAM Bank (Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo), the leading lender behind the Murcia building spree.
  • (12) While sales figures are still miniscule, hundreds of new cassette labels have begun over the past few years; her favourites include Suplex , Reeks of Effort and Sexbeat , which is releasing a Cassette Store Day exclusive by Polaris music prize winners Fucked Up .
  • (13) The BIOT was established in 1965 when Britain expelled the Chagos islanders and allowed the US to set up a large base in a deal that included cutting the cost of Polaris missiles for the UK's nuclear submarines.
  • (14) This mixed bill features two new creations: a trio by rising talent Alexander Whitley set to Adès’s Piano Quintet, and an epically scaled response to his Polaris by the magnificent Crystal Pite.
  • (15) When Britain prolonged the life of Polaris, engineers were dragged out of retirement to make new parts.
  • (16) They moved there after managing to get out of a Polaris World apartment "intact".
  • (17) The territory was established in 1965 when Britain expelled the islanders and allowed the US to set up a large base in a deal that included cutting the cost of Polaris missiles for the UK's nuclear submarines.
  • (18) The newest of the Polaris World resorts, El Valle, is perhaps the most surreal.
  • (19) The other states where minors under 18 are automatically considered trafficking victims and do not need to prove they were forced into prostitution, are Illinois, Kentucky, Vermont and Tennessee, according to the Polaris Project, which campaigns for stronger laws against human trafficking.
  • (20) In a handwritten "secret and personal" note he told her that when Harold Macmillan negotiated the deal in Nassau with John Kennedy to buy Polaris, the cabinet "ratified the decision and the agreement, but played no part in arriving at the original decision or in laying down the negotiating brief".

Submarine


Definition:

  • (a.) Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.
  • (n.) A submarine plant or animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
  • (2) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
  • (3) He says: "Everybody in Britain wants to be safe in their bed at night, but they don't want to build the submarines.
  • (4) South Australian MPs were concerned if Japan was awarded the contract local shipbuilder ASC would miss out on the chance to build the submarines.
  • (5) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
  • (6) This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that personnel assigned to submarine duty would display less physical fitness as compared to shore-based personnel.
  • (7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
  • (8) A potentially serious, and expensive problem is that the UK and US timetables for building a new generation of submarines and missiles to go on them are out of sync.
  • (9) He promised to be consultative and then made a promise to a backbencher about awarding the submarines contract without consulting his cabinet, or even some of his South Australian ministers.
  • (10) A later investigation suggests the boat was sunk by a torpedo launched from a North Korean submarine.
  • (11) In a confidential report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that safety failings at the UK's main nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow, are a "recurring theme" and ingrained in the base's culture.
  • (12) Australian officials estimate developing up to 12 submarines to replace ageing Collins-class submarines will cost at least $50bn (US$40bn).
  • (13) America's biggest companies have spent a similar amount beefing up their cybersecurity in the past five years, but analysts say this hasn't been enough to prevent "significant military losses" involving stealth, nuclear weapon and submarine technology, though none of the companies involved will admit it.
  • (14) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
  • (15) Repetitive, three-month separations and reunions are experienced by a group of United States Navy submariners and their wives.
  • (16) According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea when the vessel approached.
  • (17) In some situations the precrash position of the occupant allowed him to submarine beneath the belt system, allowing the belt to ride up on the soft belly wall.
  • (18) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
  • (19) By combining earlier results from ICESat and data from other studies, including measurements made by submarines travelling under the polar ice cap, Laxon said preliminary analysis now gave a clear indication of Arctic sea-ice loss over the past eight years, both in winter and in summer.
  • (20) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.

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