(1) 9634 patients (21-39 years, with at least 1 normal pregnancy) with no previous experience with oral contraceptives or IUDs, seen at clinics in Rio Piedras, Caguas, and Ponce, Puerto Rico from July 1961 to October 1969 to study their changing patterns in cervical cytology were divided randomly into 2 groups, of which 4846 were given oral contraceptive, Enovid, and 4788 provided with a vaginal contraceptive excluding IUDs, and followed for a period of 6 months-8 years.
(2) So he’s come here and ponced off us hasn’t he, like all the east Europeans are?
(3) Cohen, M. Ponce de Leon, H. Diggelmann, W.C. Lawrence, S.K.
(4) Juan Ponce de León, a volunteer with the campaign, said the machine was part of a wider effort to bring in as many donations as possible this year.
(5) Ponce notes that more and more young people with more than nine years of schooling are migrating to the US, risking their lives as they cross the border illegally.
(6) Ponce de Leon and Mares just exchanged a rather tasty flurry of punches in the second round, with Mares perhaps landing the bigger punches...and he's down at the bell!
(7) Even Marcos's defence minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, brutal jailer of the democracy campaigners, was placated by Aquino, eventually finishing up as a senator.
(8) So, he comes here, ponces off us and then his son’s in our political system.” North East Hampshire is a safe Tory seat.
(9) Other ads focused on the economic consequences: Fernando Ponce, then head of Anprac, the beverage industry association, warned that 10,000 jobs would be lost in the short term, and 20,000 in the medium term.
(10) A great big sweaty bespectacled bear of a man, Raymond the Roller would run the heavy roller from one end of the pitch to the other at a fair old lick scattering any subs poncing about and traumatising the kids taking part in the penalty shoot-out.
(11) Ponce notes that things will only get worse as a result of the economic recession in the US and Europe, which is compounded by Mexico's low rate of job creation.
(12) Carmen Ponce, an economist specialising in gender issues, says 2012 will be a "very challenging" year for Mexico in terms of job creation, as Chinese goods begin flooding the country as a result of the implementation of a trade agreement that opens the door to imports from China.
(13) Of 602 specimens obtained from blood donors in Ponce in 1987, 1 (0.2%) was positive; an additional specimen was indeterminate.
(14) According to Marvin Ponce, vice-president of the Honduran congress, up to 40% of police have ties to organised crime.
(15) Ponce de León said he hoped the machine would generate enough interest to help families at least get through the holiday season.
(16) Instead we have the spiky analysis of Paulie Malignaggi ringside, and most pertinently of all (and what you’re all dying to know) the fight will be prefaced by Jimmy Lennon Jr’s rallying cry of “It’s Showtime!” Ponce de Leon inching back into the fight a little in the 4th, but Mares still demonstrably faster.
(17) Ponce forecasts that around 100,000 jobs will be lost this year.
(18) 4.34am BST Post-fight Ponce de Leon might feel aggrieved, as the incumbent champion, at the speed with which the fight was stopped.
(19) For Ponce, these figures reflect "the feminisation of unemployment".
(20) 4.28am BST Undercard still going... Ponce de Leon quite happy to let this become as scrappy as it's become in these middle rounds.
Pounce
Definition:
(n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
(n.) Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
(v. t.) To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
(v. t.) The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
(v. t.) A punch or stamp.
(v. t.) Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
(v. t.) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
(v. t.) To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
(v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(2) And then with nine minutes remaining Agüero was on hand to pounce again after Aaron Cresswell inadvertently diverted Kelechi Iheanacho’s driving run into his path.
(3) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(4) Just a stepover here, a Cruyff turn there, and his opponent would be destroyed ... Only in real life, Boruc stumbled and bumbled and Olivier Giroud pounced to score.
(5) January is a favoured month for banks to pounce on struggling businesses, while their tills are still full with Christmas takings.
(6) Gekas saw a shot saved by Navas but the goalkeeper could only parry and Papastathopoulos pounced.
(7) BSkyB pounces on 17.9 per cent stake, at 135 pence per share, costing £920m, blocking a potential bid from Virgin.
(8) Throughout the testing period, the latency to play, as indicated by one rat pouncing on the opponent, was significantly higher in prenatally stressed than control rats.
(9) When he went on to begin a sentence with the words, "In my layman's understanding ... " Nel pounced and said: "You see, Mr Dixon, now you call yourself a layman."
(10) Vermaelen’s attempted clearance is scruffy, and Götze pounces on it and fires off an instant shot from 15 yards.
(11) Botín's father, Emilio, executive chairman of the Santander group, was behind the takeover of Abbey National in 2004 and pounced on Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley during the 2008 banking crisis, in deals much envied by rivals.
(12) This week, the Mail pounced on another frighteningly generic cause: sitting down.
(13) Sturridge raced down the right and attempted to lay the ball across to the unmarked Suárez but José Fonte stretched to poke the ball behind just as the Uruguayan prepared to pounce.
(14) Sanchez pounces and switches the ball inside to Vidal.
(15) His passing is sweet and it is really interesting how deceitful he can be: Rodríguez can look absent from the game but can pounce and catch his markers unaware.
(16) Perhaps for all of the potential upsides there are still too many opportunities to fall foul of “death and gaffe watch” journalists waiting to pounce on a too-easily-misconstrued twitter picture.
(17) Supremely confident – although not arrogant – Norway claim they are probably the tournament’s fittest team but Isabell Herlovsen swiftly emphasised she is quick as well as athletic after pouncing on a rare Carney error.
(18) PSG had won the away leg 2-1 despite Zlatan Ibrahimovic's sending off and seemed content to sit back in an uneventful first half but the match came to life 10 minutes into the second period when Valencia's Brazilian forward Jonas pounced on a loose ball to rifle home a fierce shot from outside the penalty area.
(19) As ever, he will be razor sharp, ready to dart and pounce at just the right time, come kick-off against Fulham at Craven Cottageon Saturday, hoping for another goal to add to his wall chart.
(20) Origi read the midfielder’s intentions quicker than any home defender and pounced on the ball, held off Piszczek on the edge of the area and steered a low shot back inside Weidenfeller’s right hand post.