(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment appeared to have a suppressive effect on RATA, but not on ATA titers, in hypothroid patients with clinical thyroiditis.
(2) Using preselected screening criteria, 663 with specific occlusal features were selected and an additional 355 children with nonspecific features were randomly allocated on a pro-rata basis.
(3) Medical utilization has been risen with the level of services offered more than pro rata to population increase.
(4) City's punishment for breaching Uefa's financial fair-play regulations means they will be restricted to a 21-man Champions League squad next season and it is possible that could mean a pro-rata reduction in the number of home-grown players they must include.
(5) By the time I reached the Laban Rata rest house, I had been climbing for about six hours, seen three different species of rare pitcher plants , but decided that climbing mountains was definitely not something I would be making a habit of.
(6) We redesign the National Insurance (NI) system so that the state can limit the supply of new NI numbers in one category: private sector job offers on less than a certain wage (for example £18,000 a year pro-rata).
(7) Surely it should be pro-rata to the size of what you're doing?"
(8) However, Yentob's salary was described as the "full-time equivalent of his pro rata salary for reduced hours".
(9) Addition of sodium nitrite to BRP extracts increases acid-activatable vasodilator activity pro rata.
(10) Institution of therapy was associated with a fall in copper excretion pro rata with time.
(11) The National Trust , which employs many of its seasonal workers on zero-hours contracts, said it offered the same pay and benefits to those workers, pro rata, as full-time staff, but needed some workers to be on a more flexible arrangement.
(12) No patient who had initially negative serum for RATA subsequently had positive tests during follow-up of five to 24 months, whereas eight of 31 patients with initially negative serum for ATA later developed positive tests.
(13) "[We will] account to artists a good-faith pro rata share of any revenues and other compensation from digital services that stem from the monetisation of recordings but are not attributed to specific recordings or performances," they wrote.
(14) The comparison for any given metabolite is made, keeping the same level of predicted intracellular concentration as in traditional Kiil treatments, and it is found that the number of treatment hours per week may be reduced pro rata as the dialyzer clearance is increased.
(15) He was handed 1.5m shares in 2012 under the 10-year share plan and will receive a portion of his award on a pro-rata basis.
(16) Taken together, these results showed lung burdens rising pro rata with exposure concentration and exposure time.
(17) They could guarantee the losses in the same way as they underwrite the World Bank: each government would provide a modest pro-rata capital infusion and commit the rest in the form of callable capital that would be available if and when losses are actually paid out.
(18) Neo natal oestrogenisation of the male rata provoke at 3 months : 1) a reduction of the insulin secretion at the glucose loading with all the diets 2) hypercholesterolemia with the diet rich in saturated fats 3) hypertriglyceridemia with diets rich in M.C.T.
(19) If there is any money left over for the creditors, they need to work out what they can afford to pay and contact creditors making 'pro rata' offers.
(20) Patients with symptomatic Wilson's disease had by far the highest excretion of radiocopper in all three time periods which fell after treatment, pro rata with time, as had been found for stable copper.
Ratan
Definition:
(n.) See Rattan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tata Motors, controlled by billionaire Ratan Tata, bought the company from Ford for £1.5bn in June 2008.
(2) Ratan Miah's farm has yielded 17 maunds (traditional baskets) of the vegetable since the beginning of May – and he says the crops sold well at market.
(3) Operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ratan-600’s primary area of focus is monitoring the sun, though it has contributed to Seti’s work.
(4) In a rare interview, Ratan Kumar Sinha, the director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, told the Guardian that his team is finalising the site for construction of the new large-scale experimental reactor, while at the same time conducting "confirmatory tests" on the design.
(5) Of course, but [Ratan-600] didn’t have a receiver that has any spectral resolution.” The receiver on the Russian radio telescope is very wide, which aids it in its primary mission of monitoring solar activity but also means that, like a terrestrial radio receiving a news station, rock’n’roll station and country station at the same time, it is difficult to discern which band is broadcasting at which frequency.
(6) Seth Shostak of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (Seti) in Mountain View, California, told the Guardian he was shocked to have learned of the discovery only now – the readings from Russian radio telescope Ratan-600, Shostak said, were taken a year ago.
(7) Ratan Tata is due to act as interim chairman for four months.
(8) However, one Tata source said this was positive news for the UK and that Ratan Tata would now commit to turning around its steel operations.
(9) They said Ratan Tata was analysing whether to go ahead with the ThyssenKrupp deal and proposals to sell Tata Steel’s speciality steel arm, which employs 2,000 people in north-east England, before announcing his plan for the business.
(10) Ratan Tata, the interim chairman who took over from Cyrus Mistry this month, is understood to be conducting a detailed review of Tata Steel UK before making a final decision.
(11) However, the permanent replacement for Mistry is almost certain to be supportive of Ratan Tata’s approach, given his influence.
(12) Last week, together with a group of CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies and civil society organisations – including Sir Richard Branson, Ratan Tata and Mary Robinson – we directly called on world leaders to show leadership and commit to reach a global goal of net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and embed this goal in an agreement at a summit in Paris later this year.
(13) Tata's chairman, Ratan Tata , said: "We are very pleased at the prospect of Jaguar and Land Rover being a significant part of our automotive business.
(14) Ratan Tata will go through in detail and analyse.” Ratan Tata was chairman of the company for more than two decades before standing aside for Mistry in 2012.
(15) Think Michael Gove raiding Singapore's education system for ideas on toughening up exams; or even the Indian steel magnate Ratan Tata, complaining last year that his company's western workers were overfond of their leisure and blaming "a certain comfort level that comes from a country that has had good times" .