(n.) A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
(2) But I want to talk about The Wire , which to my shame I came to somewhat late, despite the fact that Michael K Williams [who plays shakedown artist Omar in The Wire ] and I are both in Boardwalk together [Williams plays nightclub owner and gangster Chalky White].
(3) Goodwin was a well-known rascal at the Old Bailey, where a prosecution counsel had accused him of being “Mr Fixit”, although he was better known elsewhere as “The Face”; he famously caught out and exposed a bent cop who wanted money from him by hiding a tape-recorder in a Christmas tree at his home where the shakedown took place.
(4) There is no doubt that a massive shakedown is under way.
(5) Mike Kelly, head of modern languages at the University of Southampton, says: “Every university is going to be looking at its portfolio of subjects over the next year and I think there are going to be various shakedowns.
(6) Suggestions that Australia spied on Timor-Leste during the resources negotiations were first raised in Shakedown , a book about the grab for Timor oil written by journalist Paul Cleary – a former adviser to the Timor-Leste government who now writes for the Australian.
(7) If they don't, we'll know where the Googles, Facebooks, Amazons and such actually stand – waiting to see if they can profit more by collaborating with the telecom companies' ongoing shakedown of middlemen and content providers (above and beyond their already overpriced "consumer" service).
(8) Ghanaian team-mates followed the strutting-cockerel steps of Asamoah Gyan for a Colombia-style shakedown.
(9) The test was part of what the navy calls a demonstration and shakedown operation, essentially an MOT, and was the final examination for HMS Vengeance after completing its refit.
(10) He called an escrow account established for victims of the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill a “ Chicago-style political shakedown ”.
(11) All for orchestrating an upbeat shakedown that stoked the hopes of another host, only to leave the public bearing the costs.
(12) The company had its service slowed by ISPs as they negotiated fees – a move Oliver described as having “all the ingredients of a Mob shakedown” .
(13) There was a routine shakedown and demonstration that HMS Vengeance passed with flying colours.
(14) "First it blocks your ads, and then asks for money to unblock them" “‘Shakedown’, ‘racketeering’ and ‘extortion’ are common terms publishers we've spoken with have used in relation to [Adblock Plus’s] ‘acceptable ads’,” says Sean Blanchfield of PageFair .
(15) Raids were not uncommon, but they usually consisted of a shakedown and a few arrests by cops from the local precinct.
(16) He said that deterrent sentences were to be expected for those who commit acts of violence or theft of valuable items but added: "There will be a shakedown of the less serious cases although all forms of looting and rioting are going to attract greater sentences.
(17) As both our allies and enemies had known about the misfire for months, how come it was we Brits who were the last to know about it?” “HMS Vengeance successfully completed a shakedown and demonstration and came home safely,” said Fallon, having long since switched to his own faulty telemetry.
Trial
Definition:
(n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner.
(n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
(n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
(n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
(n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
(n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
(n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(3) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(6) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(7) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(8) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(9) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(10) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(11) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
(12) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(13) Recently reported unfavorable clinical results (i.e., a high incidence of pain) have led to the discontinuation of one trial of porous polyethylene.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(16) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(17) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(18) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
(19) Of these, 41 were given a trial of sulfapyridine or dapsone, and six showed a significant response.
(20) The initiation of clinical trials should be a primary goal of gene therapy research programs.