(1) "That said, most of us will be watching the blue riband events and we will trust BBC1 and BBC3 to find those for us."
(2) What was his first experience with the blue-riband ensemble of El Sistema?
(3) BT, the new kid on the block, has scored a major coup in its multibillion-pound sports broadcasting battle with Rupert Murdoch's Sky, after agreeing a dramatic £900m deal for exclusive live rights to European football's blue-riband club competition from 2015-16.
(4) Yet the loss of Sutton will be seen as a huge blow to one of Britain’s blue riband sports so close to the Olympics.
(5) TV ads built the reputation of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, dominating the blue riband film category launched in 1954 until recently.
(6) The 1500m, he said, has always been the blue riband event, the one he has wanted to win ever since he first saw it being raced at Barcelona in 1992.
(7) It is understood that around 18 months ago Ronaldo and his advisors spoke to the majority of Europe’s blue riband clubs regarding potentially leaving Real.
(8) 11.36am Gold men's four The focus in the morning of Saturday 4 August falls on Eton Dorney and the final day of the Olympic rowing regatta, where the blue riband event of the men's four is the most eagerly anticipated event.
(9) You sit up all night for the cricket, and late in the evening for some foreign football game, but you can’t be arsed to get up in time for the blue riband event of the Olympic games?
(10) The two-minute ad, Back to the Start, which has won the grand prix award in the blue riband category at the Cannes international festival of creativity, provoked a storm of debate and received acclaim when it was first aired on TV in the US during the Grammys in February .
(11) In athletics, still the blue riband event of the Games and the one in which it is arguably hardest to win medals, the rowing and cycling formula has started to pay off, too.
(12) And, speech-wise, Friday night’s blue riband for rhetoric was taken hands-down by a splendid Owen Jones, a Guardian columnist, who reminded a willing crowd of just how many Corbyn stances down how many decades – Mandela, when Mrs T was labelling him a terrorist; gay rights, when the Sun was in full loony-left mode; talking to Sinn Fein, years before it would bear fruit; opposing the insane arming of Saddam – seemed lost causes at the time, since proved hilariously vindicated.
(13) The veteran American skier, who harboured realistic hopes of adding to his five Olympic medals in the blue riband event of these Games, ended up eighth in the men's downhill.
Ribbon
Definition:
(n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
(n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
(n.) Same as Rib-band.
(n.) Driving reins.
(n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(n.) A silver.
(v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "hexagonal ribbon" model proposes that hexagonal profiles are true cross-sections of elongated hexagonal ribbons.
(2) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(3) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(4) Description and differentiation of the ribbon shaped vascular muscle cells from cardiac muscle cells, and the potential for confusion of the two in older animals, was addressed.
(5) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(6) Differentiated ribbon synapses are found after 8 days in vitro, the time at which they normally appear in situ.
(7) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(8) When negatively stained with uranyl acetate, LPSI was ribbon-like but LPSII exhibited hexagonal lattice structures.
(9) synaptic ribbon (SR) and synaptic spherule (SS) numbers, was explored in 6 different stocks and strains of laboratory rats, viz.
(10) In the astrocytes, the residual bodies were extremely polymorphous and contained inclusions with bilamellar ribbon-like structures.
(11) These labeled amacrine cells received conventional synaptic contacts from other unlabeled amacrine cells and ribbon synaptic contacts from unlabeled bipolar cells, in both the proximal and distal inner plexiform layer.
(12) Regular patterns of actomyosin interactions arise when ribbons are aligned with myosin thick filaments, because the repeat distance of the myosin lattice (429 A) is an integral multiple of the subunit repeat in the ribbon (35.7 A).
(13) All underwent implantation of a ribbon electrode through a small laminotomy, under general anesthesia.
(14) We have reported that meso-hexestrol, a synthetic estrogen, inhibits microtubule assembly and induces microtubule proteins into twisted ribbon structures.
(15) The first is characterized by afferent synapses to the brain with, in the sensory pedicle endings, structures similar to the presynaptic ribbons noted by some authors in photoreceptors of arthropods.
(16) Presynaptic ribbons could be observed in cone cells on E.E.
(17) The other part was processed for electron microscopy to quantify synaptic ribbons (SR).
(18) A possibility of reorganization of the tubular structures into the ribbon-like ones and vice versa is shown.
(19) Some tied yellow ribbons and bows to the Eccles Cross while others stood quietly, reflecting on what had happened to someone who, according to the local paper, was an "extraordinary man who we can be proud to call one of our own".
(20) At the apposition of the ribbon to the hair cell membrane, presynaptic densities are formed and the ribbon appears to become anchored.