(n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Separation of the methyl esters was performed on columns of 10% sailor on Chromosorb.
(2) "I don't know why," he says, but it's something that didn't even happen at his lowest ebb: amid the bleakness of the early 70s, he somehow kept sporadically producing incredible songs: Til I Die, This Whole World, Sail On Sailor… There's always touring, however.
(3) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
(4) This is a haven for sailors from near and far, and filled with locals whose faces you might recognise from Howards' Way.
(5) The releases, including that of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, coincided with the end of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and came days after the release of 10 American sailors briefly detained by the Revolutionary Guard.
(6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(7) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(8) A set of factors of ship's environment greatly affected the onset of diseases in sailors.
(9) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(10) The rejection of contentious themes resulted in a domestic drama in which Ellida's sexual rejection of her husband and her obsession with the lost sailor is steered towards an uplifting conclusion.
(11) Manouchehr Mottaki told the Associated Press that Britain must admit that its sailors entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.
(12) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(13) Beastly Brits Dom: This show should have been called “British people are awful”, which is what Owen says when they spot Kevin on what had to be the campest video-game launch in history (hello sailors!).
(14) Use of interrater agreement as a reliability index and two cutoff points for the partition of the sample resulted in the elimination of about one-third of the initial sampl and the formation of two subsamples-the "sick" (N equals 45) and "not sick" (N equals 73) sailors.
(15) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
(16) Iran dramatically raised the stakes in its tense diplomatic stand-off with Britain last night, broadcasting a propaganda video of the British sailors and marines seized last week, including a "confession" that they had entered Iranian waters.
(17) Last month General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, warned that manpower was increasingly seen as an "overhead" and that Britain was in danger of being left with hollowed-out armed forces boasting "exquisite" equipment but lacking the soldiers, sailors and airmen needed to operate it.
(18) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
(19) Prince Felipe, who competed as a sailor at the 1992 Barcelona Games, repeated the mantra that Madrid's bid "made sense" because 80% of the venues were already built.
(20) The International Sailing Federation said just over 7% of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.
Shipman
Definition:
(n.) A seaman, or sailor.
Example Sentences:
(1) After Harold Shipman was found to have murdered more than 200 elderly patients, a process called revalidation was set up.
(2) It was where Ian Huntley was attacked and Harold Shipman ended his life.
(3) My mother, suffering needless months of terminal pain, wishing she was fit enough to get to Dignitas in Switzerland , sighed wryly: “Where’s Dr Shipman when you want him?” But Shipman has rendered it impossible for GPs to speed death, every ampule guarded and accounted for.
(4) Others, however, in a list helpfully compiled by Tim Shipman of the Daily Mail , were mainly honoured for their deep pockets.
(5) Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) English shipbuilding sacrificed to pander to Scottish separatists.
(6) The concentration of staurosporine chosen for these studies, 1 microM, was previously reported to inhibit protein phosphorylation completely but to have no effect on the activation of phospholipase C in thrombin-stimulated human platelets [Watson, McNally, Shipman & Godfrey (1988) Biochem.
(7) It has been reported that since the Harold Shipman case, not enough morphine is being given to relieve the pain of dying patients.
(8) Although a systematic evaluation process has not yet been completed, anecdotal evidence suggests that more interesting classes and greater learning results from a variety of teaching methods (Bloom, 1976; Shipman & Shipman, 1985).
(9) Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) As I predicted earlier, @AlistairBurtFCO is seen as the most unfair sacking by both hacks and MPs (on all sides).
(10) In fact, Kay and Shipman dismiss the importance of institutional barriers upfront, writing in the introduction that, while there's truth behind concerns about sexism, the "more profound" issue is women's "lack of self-belief".
(11) Despite an ongoing, glaring lack of equality for women in culture and in policy, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman's new book , The Confidence Code, argues that what's truly holding women back is their own self-doubt.
(12) And Britain's most prolific serial killer, Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered 215 patients, lived and worked just up the road in Hyde.
(13) The number of killings has fallen steadily for the past nine years, since the murder rate peaked at 1,047 in 2002-03 when the 172 victims of Dr Harold Shipman were included in the figures.
(14) For example, when Kay and Shipman talked to young women participating in Running Start – an organization that trains college-aged women to run for public office – they heard from one woman worried about being labeled a "bitch" if she was too assertive.
(15) It’s true that annual homicide rates then rose for the next quarter of a century, reaching a peak of more than 1,000 in 2002 (when 172 murders were attributed to Harold Shipman alone), but since then they have fallen back precipitously and homicides are now at their lowest level in about 30 years.
(16) Similarly, and I haven’t looked this up or anything, but I’m pretty sure that wedding vows have almost completely eradicated all forms of infidelity, just as the hippocratic oath prevented Dr Harold Shipman from ever existing.
(17) After the Harold Shipman inquiry, it was recommended that doctors undergo revalidation every five years, but there is no evidence that the revalidation process addresses moral reasoning or the moral identity of doctors.
(18) Shelter Scotland brought in private partner Orchard and Shipman to provide part funding, which is one option.
(19) Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) Cameron says he's looking forward to Tendulkar going into bat.
(20) The applicants reportedly include a British politician who's trying to make a comeback, someone convicted of possessing child abuse images and a doctor who doesn't want negative reviews from patients to be searchable (he should have consulted Harold Shipman on how to put a stop to that problem).