(1) The Sleep Sentry sounded the alarm in 6 of 9 cases of hypoglycemia, giving a nosological sensitivity of 0.67 (95% confidence limits 0.30-0.93).
(2) At the base gates an American sentry, suspicious of the bedraggled Afghan, yelled at him to stop.
(3) In early February 1916, he failed to report for sentry duty in the trenches near Serre on the Western Front.
(4) At Ghazi airbase a Pakistani sentry said he admired the money and resources they brought to the aid effort.
(5) The efficacy and credibility of a skin temperature--skin conductance meter (Teledyne Sleep Sentry) for detecting hypoglycemia was studied during night-time in 22 adult insulin-treated diabetics.
(6) A quarter century later it is said to have blown down in a violent storm, to be stolen by a sentry who only admitted this on his deathbed.
(7) Presidential guard sentry posts were initially empty, but a few guards later appeared and were permitted to take up positions.
(8) All these invisible lines lead to St Paul’s, which stands sentry, keeping watch over the metropolis it has shaped for 300 years, sometimes in highly specific ways.
(9) The Sleep Sentry did not sound the alarm in 35 of 51 cases of non-hypoglycemia, giving a nosological specificity of 0.69 (95% confidence limits 0.54-0.81).
(10) Blood pressure measurement with two automatic devices, Dinamap 845 and Sentry, was compared with the standard mercury sphygmomanometer, by means of a 3-period crossover experiment.
(11) He said: “With more warnings of threats to our citizens in Tunisia following the horrific events of two weeks ago, we’re fighting a new Battle of Britain, once again, against a fascist enemy prepared to kill civilians and opponents alike.” Vital questions about the UK’s involvement in Syria air strikes | Letters from Oliver Miles and Robert Wall Read more The RAF is deploying in missions over Iraq and Syria all of its 10 Reaper drones, eight Tornado fighters, two Sentinel ground surveillance aircraft, two Sentry E-3D airborne surveillance aircraft, an air-to-air refuelling aircraft, and a turboprop Shadow plane equipped with listening devices.
(12) The world on the train goes on at its own pace as it devours the railway miles, silver birch trees standing sentry along the line.
(13) Curfew is at 11pm but there are hardly sentries on patrol in the corridors.
(14) At 3 a.m. the Sleep Sentry sounded the alarm 22 times, of which hypoglycemia was present 6 times giving a diagnostical specificity or diagnostical true positive rate of 0.27 (95% confidence limits 0.11-0.50).
(15) Elba recently completed the third series of Luther, while taking on more significant film roles – including key parts in Pacific Rim , Prometheus and Thor: The Dark World , in which he plays the Asgardian sentry Heimdall.
(16) He said: "I was put on night sentry duty and told by my officers to shoot any porters trying to escape.
(17) "I remember being on sentry duty at a post overlooking the dog kennels, and the guy I was with wouldn't even look at them," one British eyewitness recalls.
(18) A Kenyan soldier clambers up to his sentry post and stares out across vast plains of bush, acacia trees and red dust.
(19) The contents of basic mineral elements (Na, K, Mg, Ca, P, Cl) were investigated in service dogs during their long-term basic training; the dogs belonged to two age categories, and the influence of different work stress (sentry, tracker, watch dogs) on the changes in the contents of these elements was also studied.
(20) He was nervous to leave it, his sentry post, but on this promise he must.
Watchword
Definition:
(n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.
(n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action.
Example Sentences:
(1) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
(2) Individualism – the assertion of every person’s claim to maximised private freedom and the unrestrained liberty to express autonomous desires … became the leftwing watchword of the hour.” The result was an astonishing liberation: from millennia of social, gender and sexual control by powerful, mostly elderly men.
(3) That will be the watchword of David Cameron’s Tories next week.
(4) The mantra of "fewer, better" will become a watchword across the BBC's output – as will collaboration with other broadcasters: a reinvented Call The Midwife is relocated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
(5) Instead of being held captive to words such as "rational suicide" or "euthanasia", what is needed is an acceptance of more contemporary watchwords such as autonomy and self-determination.
(6) The watchwords are suitably commercial: “strategic commissioning”, “market-making”, and “brand protection”.
(7) In private, the watchword remains "Hamburger Hill", the brutal 80s Vietnam war film named because Vietnamese bullets turned human flesh into hamburger meat.
(8) Indeed, "choice and control" have been watchwords espoused by politicians of all hues since the mid-90s.
(9) It would seem unlikely that Germany would countenance any of these measures in any way, and for that reason caution remains the watchword.
(10) Count the number of times you hear the chancellor and prime minister say “security”, their watchword and their excuse for all they mean to do, from brutal spending cuts to purchasing an armoury of foreign military hardware.
(11) Shopping will change beyond recognition, with “ hyper showrooming ” the watchword – shops will become “emotional destinations”, products hidden away behind digital screens, and heavily tailored to individual taste, guided by algorithms and ultimately our own prior behaviour.
(12) Patience, not aggression, has been the watchword of law enforcement ever since.
(13) Ruthlessness has become the network owners' watchword now, because the mobile phone boom they have ridden for nearly 20 years is over.
(14) Caution was the watchword, and both coaches were unapologetic.
(15) Security” is Cameron’s current watchword – “for families, for the country” – but there is no security for families forever on short private leases.
(16) The traditional core service in most places is essential support with personal care for people with long-term health and care needs, where the watchword is continuity of relationships, reliability and dignity.
(17) "Reform" was their watchword and they had one new article of faith: that the best proof of any leader's bona fides was the habit of loudly defining themselves against their own side.
(18) Except for a few tweaks that generally resonate more at home than with Germany's European and international partners (such as requiring the government to be more transparent concerning arms exports to autocratic regimes), continuity and caution will remain the watchwords of German foreign and security policy.
(19) One understanding holds "Benghazi" as a watchword for government malfeasance.
(20) "[We] propose a 'new union for fairness' whose watchwords are power-sharing, diversity and constitutional partnership, replacing the old union of centralisation, uniformity and Westminster's undivided sovereignty."