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Raid


Definition:

  • (n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
  • (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
  • (v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
  • (2) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
  • (3) The raids began a year ago in Marylebone, but they have recently spread to the West End.
  • (4) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
  • (5) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (6) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (7) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
  • (8) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (9) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
  • (10) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
  • (11) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
  • (12) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
  • (13) During their detention by Pakistani authorities the women, one of whom was wounded in the Abbottabad raid, were interviewed by American intelligence agencies.
  • (14) Police arrested her in September in a raid on a club on Iracema beach, a crowded neighbourhood packed with lively restaurants, hotels and bars.
  • (15) The Greek finance ministry's financial crimes unit conducted the raids, and says it has many other groups in its sights.
  • (16) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
  • (17) The abduction early Thursday comes amid anger among Libya's powerful Islamic militant groups over the US special forces raid on Saturday that seized a Libyan al-Qaida suspect known as Abu Anas al-Libi.
  • (18) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
  • (19) At least that seemed to be the lesson last week when the autumn statement confirmed a further £600m raid on the troubled universal credit – a move that didn't cause a ripple.
  • (20) The Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood has indeed criticised the Saudi air raids in Yemen in parliament, and called on Riyadh to be quicker to establish public inquiries into its errors.

Waid


Definition:

  • (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 100 esophagectomies were performed at the Waid Hospital in Zürich between 1981-1988.
  • (2) An account is given of 169 rectal anastomosis performed with the EEA-stapler between 1981 and 1984 in the Municipal Hospital Waid of Zurich.
  • (3) Staples is collaborating with the veteran comics writer Mark Waid, telling a new origin story for the perpetual teenager, enlivened by some Ferris Bueller-style fourth-wall breaking by Archie, who has just broken up with his high-school sweetheart Betty.
  • (4) Some of us,” she said, “are gainfully employed, live in the suburbs and drive fancy cars.” Democrats are outspending Trump on advertising in Arizona, and Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, recently campaigned in Phoenix, noted political strategist David Waid.
  • (5) An account is given in this paper of 480 patients who had been hospitalised for colonic diverticulosis or diverticulitis in the surgical department of the Municipal Waid Hospital of Zurich, between 1970 and 1986.
  • (6) From 1973 to 1990 190 consecutive patients were admitted to the department of surgery of the Stadtspital Waid, Zurich, with a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis.
  • (7) Patients admitted to the Department of Surgery (134 beds) of the Waid Community Hospital in Zürich (400 beds) after 1st Jan. 1979, and who received antibiotics during the period between 22 Jan. and 31 March were included in the study (n = 154).
  • (8) Data were collected concerning 307 arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis created in 186 patients between 1970 and 1988 at the Municipal Hospital Waid of Zurich.

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