(1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(2) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
(3) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(4) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
(5) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
(6) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
(7) The ball sat up; gravity would bring it down again and, when it did, he would score.
(8) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
(9) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(10) I still feel that I am standing behind the chair and it is someone else sat there, and I’m just reading over their shoulder.” He hopes life becomes a little more comfortable.
(11) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(12) The 85-year-old ex-president, who has been on the verge of death according to his lawyer, sat in a wheelchair next to his two sons, who are being tried in a separate corruption-related case.
(13) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
(14) Tess Daly tells us on TV Greats: Our Favourites From The North ( Sat, 8.15pm, BBC2 ).
(15) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(16) Nick Stafford, adaptor I hadn't read War Horse before I was approached to adapt it, so I got a copy and sat down with it.
(17) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(18) Open Mon-Sat 10am-10pm • Brian Donaldson is books editor of Scottish arts magazine The List
(19) In front of her, sat the "centre of government": Kerslake, Macpherson, Heywood and Heaton.
(20) The lowest doses which initiated infection were 12.5 TCID50 of O1 BFS virus and 25 TCID50 of SAT 2 virus, infectivity having been assayed in primary bovine thyroid cell cultures.
Vat
Definition:
(n.) A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.
(n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
(n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
(n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
(n.) A vessel for holding holy water.
(v. t.) To put or transfer into a vat.
Example Sentences:
(1) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(2) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
(3) The IFS gave this argument an airing today, and produced figures to show that – on such a basis – the VAT rise was a fair tax after all.
(4) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(5) These vat mutant strains accumulate and secrete precursor forms of the soluble vacuolar hydrolases carboxypeptidase Y and proteinase A.
(6) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(7) The chancellor said the 2.5% cut in VAT to 15% would last for 13 months and form the centrepiece of a recovery programme which will pump £9.2bn into the economy in 2008 and a further £16.3bn in 2009-10.
(8) Seasonal and habitat influences on the egg-laying activity of four species of Culex were compared in south Florida using jar- and vat-type oviposition traps.
(9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
(10) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(11) In the interview, he also pledged to scrap the 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products, known as the “tampon tax”.
(12) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(13) But the squeeze on living standards also cited has been exacerbated by the chancellor's January VAT rise, and the Bank clearly sets little store by his much-vaunted "plan for growth".
(14) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(15) Such a plan could include temporary cuts to VAT and national insurance, the IMF said.
(16) The variable antigen type (VAT) composition of first relapse populations developing in mice infected with 11 VAT populations of a stock of T. evansi was shown to be independent of the infecting VAT.
(17) Osborne and Alistair Darling would be daft to rule out a 20% VAT band; don't expect them to admit as much this side of polling day.
(18) Vince Cable, the business secretary, claimed raising VAT was not necessarily regressive, saying the tax was fairly "progressive" due to the exemptions on food, children's clothing and other key essentials in the expenditure of poorer people.
(19) Similarly, the raising of the VAT rate is regressive in impact, so that cumulatively these and other measures have actually deliberately made the poor poorer.
(20) The reforms included changes to the Greek pension system and VAT regime.