(n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
(v. t.) To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even under the most optimistic scenarios, shale gas is projected to meet just 10% of European gas demand by 2030.
(2) But similar accusations have been levelled by Anders Fogh Rasmussen , the secretary general of Nato, and by pro-shale officials in Romania and Lithuania , as cold war-style tensions have ratcheted.
(3) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(4) Weak carcinogenic activity was found in the total crude water-soluble phenols recovered from the wastewater of a shale processing plant.
(5) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
(6) David Cameron said more than two and half years ago that the UK was going “all out for shale”, and ministers one year ago promised they would “fast track” bids.
(7) The FN has made political capital about cruelty to animals in the preparation of halal and kosher meat in the past, and its MEPs are preparing a resolution that would limit shale gas exploration, despite the party voting against a shale moratorium in the last parliament.
(8) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(9) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
(10) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
(11) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
(12) Davies said: "The data from the monitoring of active wells and the carrying out of periodic surveys of abandoned wells would help assess the impact of shale exploitation and it is important that the public should have access to this information."
(13) Many people think UK shale gas would provide us with energy security, but what does that mean?
(14) But a report by consulting firm Pöyry for Europe's oil and gas industry shows the reliance on Russian gas will increase to 50% by 2050 regardless of whether shale gas is part of the mix or not.
(15) By measuring the solubility of Ni5As2 particles in a variety of aqueous solutions, we have determined that particulate Ni5As2 that might be produced during oil-shale retorting could be mobilized to the environment and made available to the cells of living organisms, including humans.
(16) There is much less data on the area in question – the first to be assessed for shale gas and oil in Scotland – than there has been in comparable areas in England, of which two have so far been surveyed.
(17) Results are reported of epidemiological studies in six groups of miners, who work in U mines, Fe mines and shale clay mines.
(18) Thus, it is possible that Ni5As2 could be solubilized and mobilized to the environment by the flooding of abandoned in situ retorts with ground water or by the disposal of oil-shale product water by spraying it on spent shale beds.
(19) These changes are vital to kick starting shale and make sure it’s not delayed by one single landowner.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Barbara Siegienczuk, one of the leaders of the local anti-shale gas protest group Green Zurawlow, with her husband and co-activist, Andrzej Bak.
Shalt
Definition:
() 2d per. sing. of Shall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops’ message stating that abortion is contrary to the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
(2) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
(3) Such was the thou-shalt-not-pass determination as Pavey clenched her teeth round the last lap that it was a minor wonder she was able to smile so quickly afterwards.
(4) According to the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher revealed many of the secrets that he had carefully hoarded during his 22 years as an MI5 officer, new recruits would be expected to take to heart its 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not get caught."
(5) And for the hopefuls lining up outside the passport office: thou shalt not quibble about freedom of speech.
(6) The first two – "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" – come from a time when the Jews still believed in the existence of many gods but had sworn fealty to only one of them, their tribal "jealous" god.
(7) 3.45pm ET : Mollie Hemingway is tweeting photos of some of the more bizarre, random and interesting signs being seen at the rally today: Thou shalt not be douchebags I prefer facts nuance and intellectual debate so I'm probably not a real American Strange mama grizzlies distributing endorsements to constitutionally challenged witches is no basis for a system of government (Monty Python's Holy Grail reference there.)
(8) … a new friend is as a new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
(9) Thou shalt put up and shut up, until such time as though gets a passport.
(10) Thou shalt not kill, well, who would have thought it?
(11) In any case, the commandment meant only "Thou shalt not kill members of thine own tribe".
(12) And thou shalt not kill, unless thou work for the Metropolitan police.
(13) Hundreds of protesters outside the university wielded placards with slogans such as "thou shalt not kill".
(14) MI5's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not get caught In August last year, the high court ruled that Witness B may have been involved in "possible criminal wrongdoing" when he interrogated Binyam Mohamed.
(15) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, unless the is an MP.
(16) He delivered an ultimatum: thou shalt not not intervene.
(17) He pitched Don's song Thou Shalt Not Steal to Kitty Wells , who had a country hit with it in December 1954.
(18) Thou shalt not steal, unless thou has a parliamentary expense account.
(19) It’s the first commandment: thou shalt have no other issues before me.
(20) The most important being: thou shalt honour thy mother and thy father and thy home secretary.