(v. t.) To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.
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(1) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(2) Along with arms, the US provides the coalition with logistical support and mid-air refuelling of its warplanes.
(3) Short-term personal samples collected while refueling ranged from not detectable to 38.8 ppm with a geometric mean of 5.8 ppm.
(4) The Americans are supplying the intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance air capacity as well as most of the air-to-air refuelling.
(5) (1) The specific relationship with father as a different person: the concepts of 'specific refuelling' and of object-specific libido are introduced; and it is suggested that during the subphase of differentiation, all of Michael's specific objects (in particular, the father) shared some 'symbiotic' quality with the mother.
(6) 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.
(7) This study identified potential areas for chemical leakage, such as refuel receptacles, hydraulic reservoirs, hydraulic motors, doors, ramps, engines, and more.
(8) If embarking on missions from an airfield, the helicopters can carry out missions lasting about two-and-a-half hours before needing to be refuelled, depending on their load and the speed they travel.
(9) It said the crew “admitted that they had entered deep [into] Vietnamese waters to refuel several other Chinese boats which were fishing illegally there”.
(10) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(11) Boeing is said to hope that Mr Sears's guilty plea will put an end to the scandal and revive the refuelling contract, which was put on ice by the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
(12) Britain is also offering air-to-air refuelling capacity to operate outside the UK, but based in Britain.
(13) The oligarch has been in prison since he was seized by special forces as his plane landed to refuel on a Siberian runway in 2003.
(14) A German frigate could help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean, from which fighter jets are carrying out bombing runs, and tanker aircraft could refuel them mid-air to extend their range, the defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week.
(15) It will also represent the biggest single loss of UK life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006, when an ageing RAF Nimrod crashed in the country shortly after mid-air refuelling, with the loss of all 14 people aboard.
(16) In 2008, David Miliband, the new foreign secretary, admitted that, contrary to previous assurances, two US rendition flights had refuelled on British soil.
(17) Similar modules, also launched using reusable boosters, would remain in Earth’s orbit to refuel the interplanetary craft to be able to use multiple trips, including to other parts of the solar system such as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn on which Nasa’s Cassini mission recently found evidence of a polar subsurface water ocean that could harbor life.
(18) Six Tornado GR4 aircraft, accompanied by a Voyager refuelling tanker have been flying reconnaissance missions over northern Iraq since they were deployed to the base at Akrotiri a month ago.
(19) While the CIA used UK airports for refuelling and overnight stopovers, there is no evidence that any landed in the UK with prisoners on board.
(20) The administration says that since Nato took over command of the operation in April, the US role has largely been restricted to supporting military action by Britain, France and others with refuelling and surveillance missions.