(n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
(n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
(v. i.) To rant; to storm.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky Prospective 2016 presidential candidate Paul was asked in April 2014 whether he believed “that climate change exists, and that it’s a manmade problem”.
(3) The extent of the challenge facing some was underlined when the rand actually weakened against the dollar following the rate rise, when usually such a move would be expected to prompt a rise.
(4) A day later, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton echoed the president in the first major speech of her candidacy, saying: “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.” The Republican candidate Rand Paul immediately jumped in, outlining his own record of calling for criminal justice reform and attacking that of Clinton.
(5) Results, examined with the Rand index of cluster comparison, demonstrated that cluster group membership can be so different between alternative clustering methods as to equal chance assignment.
(6) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
(8) If she does so, the two children she had with the late Mozambican president Samora Machel will receive 3m rand each from Mandela's will, and six children from Samora Machel's previous marriage will inherit 100,000 rand each.
(9) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(10) Using data from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment, the effects of cost-sharing plans on the health of the primary teeth in 264 children aged 3 to 5 years were investigated.
(11) Kentucky senator Rand Paul and Florida senator Marco Rubio, arguably Cruz’s chief rivals, have also held meetings with faith leaders.
(12) An elderly person is typically eligible for a grant of 1,350 rand (£75) per month.
(13) You ever hear ’em ask Hillary Clinton, this money she’s getting, whether it influences her decisions?” Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who has been hinting at new Clinton revelations for weeks, told an anti-abortion group on Friday.
(14) The Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul walked out of a live interview with the Guardian on Friday, in his third testy exchange with a journalist since launching his campaign for president three days ago.
(15) Election 2015: off-year votes put focus on marijuana, LGBT rights – and Airbnb Read more Bevin’s win also had coat tails down ballot as Democratic state auditor Adam Edelen, widely tipped as a potential opponent for Senator Rand Paul in 2016, lost in an upset to his Republican opponent.
(16) But her principal outlet is her blog, Atlas Shrugs , named after the philosophical novel by the arch-conservative Russian emigre, Ayn Rand, which promoted "the morality of rational self-interest".
(17) Senator Rand Paul, who has resisted Republican calls for more intervention, said the US should steer clear of Syria and Iraq.
(18) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(19) Unlike many of his fellow contenders, Rubio has mostly ignored the Trump show – a move that has spared him the sort of public confrontations that have thus far borne little fruit for candidates who’ve tussled with the Republican frontrunner, such as Jeb Bush and Rand Paul.
(20) While Paul has collapsed in polls, Texas senator Ted Cruz has surged, successfully appealing to many of the socially conservative libertarians who backed Ron Paul, Rand’s father, in his two presidential bids.
Wand
Definition:
(n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
(n.) A staff of authority.
(n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
(2) You can fill the spaces around clinics with unscientific anti-abortion hectoring of women patients while literally filling space by violating women with a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand.
(3) The authors examined the relationship between the number of colonies picked with the Prompt Inoculation Wand and the hemacytometer and viable colony counts for each of six test organisms, including Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida krusei, Candida parapsilosis, Candida glabrata, and Cryptococcus neoformans.
(4) For the past nine years, Iraq ’s security forces have tried to stop car bombs with a British-made bomb detector wand that was long ago proven to be fake.
(5) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
(6) Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, said there was no "magic wand" that could be waved to break down trade barriers.
(7) Using a telemetry signal through a handheld programming wand, nine tracings were completely and clearly recorded for analysis.
(8) Now wave your own wand and grant them the living monthly wage – the £136 the Asia Floor Wage Alliance calculates is needed to support a family in India today (and bear in mind that the women are often the sole earners).
(9) The pump is noninvasively programmed using a hand-held telemetry wand to administer the drug in a continuous infusion, bolus, or bolus-delay mode.
(10) But I think it would be wrong to think that Bob will come in and work with Dan, James and Kyle and wave the magic wand.
(11) There's no magic wand - creating jobs won't simply solve the world's problems Read more It will, however, be subject to a performance agreement, the first of its kind, which will see Britain monitor the fund’s work and withhold 10% of the money if targets are not met.
(12) "There is no single magic wand, but the focus at the summit from the eurozone countries was what particularly the German government could secure.
(13) Light-wand-guided intubation has been reported to be an easily learned, atraumatic alternative to laryngoscopic or blind nasal intubation [6, 9].
(14) Everything here takes three times longer to do than it should and unless you have a magic wand you will have to be patient.
(15) The complete 1H-NMR assignments for horse ferrocytochrome c have been reported by Wand and colleagues and by our group at Oxford.
(16) "They look like wands and they are supposed to bend when they spot a bomb.
(17) It is an ultrasonic wand that, when activated inside any glass of beer – even from a bottle or can – froths up a draught-like head as if pumped from the guts of a country pub.
(18) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
(19) Rally organiser Justin Wand will be riding his 1926 Brough SS100: "It was designed in 1925 and guaranteed to have a top speed of 100 mph, an absolute phenomenom at a time when most cars pootled along at about 35 mph."
(20) Reforming the system can only be done if we work together, there are no magic wands.