(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.
Shark
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
(6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
(7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
(8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
(9) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
(11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
(12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
(13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
(16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
(17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
(20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.