(1) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(2) When the two sides met last season it finished 6-0 to Chelsea to sabotage Wenger’s 1,000th match as Arsenal’s manager and left him so distressed that, for the first time ever, he refused to do his press conference.
(3) One would assume that green groups would want to make absolutely sure that the money they have raised in the name of saving the planet is not being invested in the companies whose business model requires cooking said planet, and which have been sabotaging all attempts at serious climate action for more than two decades.
(4) But while she unquestionably adds colour to Westminster, the outspoken MP has also shown a repeated facility for self-sabotage.
(5) If the rumours of Isis’s sabotage become reality, the consequence would be huge.
(6) In announcing this sabotage, ministers make a mockery of their own supposed core objectives: local empowerment within a "big society"; massive job creation – via a green industrial revolution – to counter austerity-related job losses; desire to be the greenest government ever ; tackling global warming, and so on.
(7) In both cases, her coaching seems to have paid off, at least for a time: those GOP lawmakers walked into decidedly fewer self-sabotaging boobytraps in the election cycle following the 2013 retreat at which she spoke, and Pence’s strong performance at the RNC last month was a bright spot in an otherwise blighted convention.
(8) "These acts of sabotage that threaten our country's whaling ships and crew were extremely dangerous," the agency said in a statement.
(9) Just over a third said they were persecuted through fear or threats, saying their career was deliberately sabotaged.
(10) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(11) Echoing Sisi, Fawzy speculated that whoever killed Regeni was trying to sabotage commercial relations between Egypt and Italy.
(12) There was a great hue and cry and everyone came out – but pretty soon the mullahs sabotaged the consensus and it all went quiet again.
(13) Attacks on the economic life-lines of the country were to be linked with sabotage on government buildings and other symbols of apartheid.
(14) The Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude , said: "Allegations about trade union industrial intimidation tactics, including attempts to sabotage businesses supply chains and harass employers' families are deeply concerning.
(15) Russian authorities should ensure a thorough and effective investigation, including making it clear to officials in Chechnya that sabotaging the process is not an option,” said Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch .
(16) It’s a form of, I think incredibly dangerous and vindictive industrial sabotage.
(17) On my return I found that there had been little alteration in the political scene save that the threat of a death penalty for sabotage had now become a fact.
(18) Microorganisms implement their strategy of persistence by two principal tactics: (1) sabotage of the host's bronchial defenses (ie, direct microbe-mediated damage to the host), and (2) subversion of the host's normally protective defenses into damaging host tissue itself (ie, indirect host-mediated damage provoked by the microbe).
(19) For fiction – our mirror to the world, our way of understanding it – to allow itself to become that battleground is insane, and self-sabotaging.
(20) Israel , which has an undeclared nuclear arsenal, has warned that it will not accept a nuclear-armed Iran and is suspected of running covert operations, with western countries, to sabotage Iran's programme.
Salvage
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
(n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
(n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
(a. & n.) Savage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(2) Four of the eight CR patients had received an amsacrine-containing salvage regimen (ATA) prior to administration of the present moderate-dose cytosine arabinoside and mitoxantrone regimen; this indicates the lack of absolute clinical cross-resistance between the present combination and the daunorubicin- or amsacrine-containing regimens.
(3) (1) The results of re-irradiation as salvage treatment were poor.
(4) Immediate limb salvage was achieved in 31 of 36 limbs (86 percent).
(5) Early surgery in hydronephrosis may be indicated to salvage kidney function.
(6) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(7) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(8) No homologous blood was transfused in TURP when salvaged autologous blood with or without preserved blood was retransfused to the patient.
(9) The outcome of salvage mastectomy depends on the disease-free interval from initial breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy to local-regional recurrence.
(10) These data support the aggressive use of reoperation with graft salvage when F-AKP or extra-anatomic graft failure reproduces critical ischemia.
(11) The use of the iron chelator desferrioxamine (DFX) did not benefit the endothelium or improve salvage of ischaemic flaps.
(12) Ten patients undergoing femoral-popliteal and femoral-tibial in situ saphenous vein bypass for limb salvage were studied to determine the effects of side branch arteriovenous fistulae on flow through the distal end of the graft into the outflow artery.
(13) [14C]Formate and [U-14C]glycine are also incorporated, but de novo synthesis is clearly lower than synthesis from salvage precursors, although similar to de novo synthesis in liver.
(14) In our view, the surgical procedure of choice for a salvage elbow is an elbow arthrodesis.
(15) Forty-four patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) which relapsed after chemotherapy were treated with salvage radiotherapy (S-RT) with curative intent.
(16) The nucleoside transport inhibitor dipyridamole can potentiate the cytotoxicity of methotrexate by a mechanism that was thought to be related to the inhibition of thymidine salvage.
(17) There was no significant difference when patients were stratified for diabetes (log rank = 2.213, p = no significance [NS]), operative indication (disabling claudication vs. limb salvage) (log rank = 0.0005, p = NS), or outflow (no profundaplasty vs. profundaplasty) (log rank = 2.011, p = NS).
(18) Other pharmacologic agents, including lidocaine, nitrates, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, and aspirin, have been used acutely in myocardial infarction in the hopes of preventing death and salvaging myocardium.
(19) Biosynthetic activities of nucleotides in the salvage pathway were about 100-300 times higher than those in the de novo pathway.
(20) We have used the Haemonetics Cell-Saver autotransfusion technique in over 6,500 cases since 1979, salvaging more than 11,000 units of packed red blood cells.