(n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
Example Sentences:
(1) His own Fear, Anger and Disgust take charge and Riley is sent to her room, dad celebrating what he appears to believe is a perfectly pitched fatherly response to unprecedented levels of “sass”.
(2) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(3) There were one or two exceptions –rightwinger Ben Sasse won the party's nomination in Nebraska, and in Mississippi, Chris McDaniel forced the incumbent Thad Cochran into a runoff.
(4) Tuesday saw the return of sass & bide, who gathered a star-studded front row including Iggy Azalea, Zoe Kravitz and Poppy Delevingne, after a six-year hiatus.
(5) He then introduces the seven essays that comprise this issue: Baruch Brody's "The President's Commission: the need to be more philosophical," Alastair Campbell's "Committees and commissions in the United Kingdom," Pascal Kasimba and Peter Singer's "Australian commissions and committees on issues in bioethics," John Williams' "Commissions and biomedical ethics: the Canadian experience," François-André Isambert's "Ethics committees in France," Rihito Kimura's "Ethics committees for 'high tech' innovations in Japan," and Hans-Martin Sass's "Blue-ribbon commissions and political ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany."
(6) Senators Ben Sasse and Dean Heller have said they oppose Trump, nominee or no.
(7) Ben Sasse, a Republican senator for Nebraska and frequent Trump critic, said on Twitter : “John Lewis and his ‘talk’ have changed the world.” Conservative commentator Bill Kristol posted: “It’s telling, I’m afraid, that Donald Trump treats Vladimir Putin with more respect than he does John Lewis.” Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer who ran as an independent conservative in the presidential election, said : “While you avoided the draft, John Lewis risked his life for equality in America.
(8) According to the clinical model based on natural sciences, we expect an approach to valid entities by an optimisation of the defining criteria which are derived from psychological, somatological and clinical sources (Sass, 1987).
(9) Read more In contrast, the Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse, a frequent critic of Trump, called for the president to explain what he was talking about and his sources of information regarding the alleged surveillance.
(10) These latter, which are outlined and compared, are as follows: the methodology developed by David Thomasma in the 1960s and 1970s; one created by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade; another developed by the author; and the Bochum Protocol authored by Hans-Martin Sass et al.
(11) These compounds were extracted from blood or isotonic saline using a modification of the method developed by Sass et al.
(12) We are in the midst of a civilization-warping crisis of public trust, and the president’s allegations today demand the thorough and dispassionate attention of serious patriots,” Sasse said in a statement.
(13) Sass proposes that a basis be sought in "intermediate moral principles" that have found support in various ideologies and in complementary application of several models of doctor-patient hermeneutics and communication.
(14) We don’t have so-called judges, we don’t have so-called senators, we don’t have so-called presidents,” Sasse told ABC’s This Week.
(15) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
(16) This open letter aims simply to ask ‘WHY is that the only choice?’” Sasse wrote.
(17) We have previously shown that bFGF is found in subendothelial ECM (Vlodavsky, I., J. Folkman, R. Sullivan, R. Fridman, R. Ishai-Michaeli, J. Sasse, and M. Klagsburn.
(18) Although one Tea Party-backed Senate candidate, Ben Sasse, won in Nebraska, and dozens of so-called “establishment” candidates were forced to adopt deeply conservative positions to run viable campaigns, the Republican leadership felt it was starting to quell the rightwing revolt.
(19) Zaner, and H.-M. Sass in this issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy on anencephalic infants as organ donors.
(20) 84:2292-2296) and in basement membranes (Folkman, J., M. Klagsburn, J. Sasse, M. Wadzinski, D. Ingber, and I. Vlodavsky.
Sluice
Definition:
(n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Example Sentences:
(1) 20 July 2006: The Tamil Tigers close the sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people, prompting the government to launch its first major offensive on Tiger territory since the 2002 ceasefire.
(2) The pulmonary vascular resistance increase evoked by nerve stimulation (a) occurred in the absence of tidal air changes; (b) did not consistently differ during predominantly ;sluice' and ;non-sluice' conditions of pulmonary circulation perfusion; (c) was approximately one and a half times greater during constant pressure than during constant volume inflow perfusion of the pulmonary circulation; and (d) was greater during reverse than during forward perfusion.3.
(3) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
(4) These data do not support the presence of a "sluice" or "waterfall" effect in the umbilical-placental circulation of the sheep fetus in utero.
(5) So while Sir Gideon was – we are told – browsing and sluicing at a Downing Street dinner, poor Ms Smith was put up against Paxman for some political cage wrestling.
(6) The pulmonary arteries accounted for approximately 50% of vascular resistance upstream from the sluice point when alveolar pressure exceeded venous pressure.
(7) Photos of the boiler room, operating theatre and sluice room spoke of my great-grandfather's practicality and attention to detail; the beautiful Indian flowered bedspreads and carved wooden furniture spoke of my great-grandmother's flamboyant taste.
(8) In the original theory of sheet flow the effect of the tension in the interalveolar septa on the flow through the sluicing gate was ignored.
(9) The Ouse Washes reserve, part of the flood relief system for the Great Ouse river, was hit by flooding after the Environment Agency was forced to open sluices on to the washes to prevent floods elsewhere on the 150-mile river catchment.
(10) Another option being considered was a sluice near Bridgwater to keep the sea tides out of the river network on the Levels.
(11) Meanwhile, back at the car lot, both teams were getting it in the neck for their sloppy sluicing.
(12) The gleaming taps in the sluice rooms, wash rooms and scrubbing-up room are dry and always have been.
(13) It is inferred that these muscle activities and sluice channels facilitate the erection of the penis.
(14) The miners were unable to source the power needed to sluice and dredge or crush the ore.
(15) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(16) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(17) But they show as well that a satisfying hygienic standard cannot be arrived without sluice-systems and appropriate air conditioning.
(18) First on its list was dredging the rivers Parrett and Tone, but it also included a tidal sluice barrier on the Parrett.
(19) We assessed the strength of attachment of cultured human vascular endothelial cells to tissue culture plastic by controlled sluicing of cells, grown on multiwell plates, with isotonic saline using a specially designed nozzle attached to a reciprocating pump.
(20) The British had seen no economic value in them and proposed on the 1950s a series of sluices, embankments and canals.