(1) Land near the city of Corcoran sank 13in in just eight months.
(2) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
(3) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(4) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(5) When the nest temperature was raised to thermoneutral, the direction of pup flow reversed and an immobile animal sank to the depths of the huddle.
(6) As the reality of Putin's decision that he would return to the Kremlin next year sank in, one joke was doing the rounds: "In response to the charge that there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got plastic surgery."
(7) He said: 'Let's raise the red flag over the town hall', and my heart sank because I knew that it would be taken as a marker.
(8) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
(9) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
(10) An intravenous bolus injection of 1 mg of naloxone was administered immediately before starting a routine hemodialysis session and was repeated when the patients' systolic arterial pressure sank below 90 mm Hg.
(11) Nielsen indicated that shoppers spent 1.6% less at the UK’s leading supermarkets in the four weeks to 13 September, while the volume of items bought sank 1.9%.
(12) I thought we had finally put it all behind us, but when the authorities told us recently it was likely to happen again, that was when our hearts sank.
(13) The bodies of 111 people have been found since the boat sank half a mile from Italian territory on Thursday.
(14) It was French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit.
(15) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(16) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
(17) The presence of these radionuclides at great depth could not be explained by Stokesian settling of small fallout particles and it was hypothesized that zooplankton grazing in the surface layers packaged these particle-reactive radionuclides into large, relatively dense faecal pellets which rapidly sank to depth.
(18) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
(19) As revenues sank 28.5% to €82.6m, it made an operating loss of €3.8m, down from a €4.7m profit last year.
(20) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.
Sark
Definition:
(n.) A shirt.
(v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
Example Sentences:
(1) The twins argue this investment is creating jobs and protecting Sark's future.
(2) Observers were graded on a scale of I to IV according to the Sarks classification, which correlates fundus appearance and visual acuity with the severity of postmortem histological changes in Bruch's membrane.
(3) It’s my home.” Another Sark resident, who has made complaints to the police but has asked not to be named, said: “The situation has become unbearable.
(4) The British sham directors, many originally from the Channel island of Sark, are based in remote places, including Nevis, Vanuatu, Mauritius, Cyprus and Dubai.
(5) He is one of the candidates on a list that the Barclays' island bulletin, Sark News, says would be a disaster for the island if elected.
(6) He sees his role as editor of the Sark Newspaper as being in the best traditions of pamphleteers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
(7) Mr Delaney has, additionally, been subjected to attacks on his property, the setting of explosive fireworks outside his home and office, abuse by mail and online graffiti and even the creation of a mock grave.” Dawes wrote: “Mr Delaney is the sole proprietor and editor of the Sark Newspaper.
(8) D. radiophilus yielded three size classes of plasmid while D. radiodurans Sark, D. proteolyticus and D. radiopugnans each yielded two.
(9) Only one listed address, a cottage on Sark, seems genuinely residential.
(10) He seeks to expose the feudal system and the fact that Sark is not a democracy.” The letter continued: “Mr Delaney points out that this is not mere parish politics.
(11) Last week Delaney said hotels and other businesses on Sark owned by Sark Island Hotels, a subsidiary of Sark Estate Management, would not open next year or “for any foreseeable period after that” – a blow for the island’s tourist industry.
(12) The sarcomeric unit ("sark") is an elastic structure (cf.
(13) Sark is a popular holiday island where cars are banned.
(14) As neighbours and friends working within the local offshore financial industry in Sark scattered across the globe, the couple moved to the Caribbean.
(15) We are subjected to a weekly onslaught of abuse and vitriol by the Sark Newsletter.
(16) John Parker, the owner of a British incorporation agency, explained in an email: "Sarah and Edward Petre-Mears have dual residence – Sark and Nevis … The reason for this is that the UK government is trying its hardest to stop the 'Sark Lark', as it is known, and they decided to do something about it before it was forced upon them."
(17) At 10am today Lieutenant Colonel Reg Guille opened the door of the island hall on Sark and quietly ushered in the end of more than 400 years of feudal rule.
(18) ), making models – including a replica of the Cutty Sark in a bottle – played to his strengths of exactitude and attention to detail.
(19) Sark is a remote self-governing tax haven in the Channel Islands , a nine-mile ferry-ride from Guernsey.
(20) Getting to Nevis from Sark requires a long, indirect and infrequent flight to the slightly bigger nearby island of St Kitts, followed by an hour's sea-voyage on the Mark Twain, an ageing boat.