(1) Veteran lefty Billy Bragg, Suggs, Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard, dance act Orbital, and rock-ravers Enter Shikari were among the bands and artists brought together to recreate the sound of silence.
(2) The campaign has also attracted the support of activist Bianca Jagger , Costa award-winning author Helen Macdonald and Rou Reynolds from the band Enter Shikari , while chef Yotam Ottolenghi said he backed it “because we’re running out of time and it’s pretty terrifying”.
Tracker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
(n.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye movements of convergence and divergence were recorded by a limbus tracker.
(2) Lloyds TSB, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Nationwide have SVRs of 2.5% while the Woolwich transfers existing customers to a tracker of base rate plus 0.95% - a pay rate of a minuscule 1.44%.
(3) It’s first Fitbit Tracker was released that year, a glorified pedometer that looked like a clothes peg.
(4) The responses of accommodation and vergence were measured simultaneously with a dual Purkinje image eye tracker and infrared optometer while subjects viewed a Maltese cross monocularly through a pinhole pupil and made voluntary efforts to imaginary changes in target distance.
(5) But this is not sufficient and IEA should be more transparent regarding the sensitivities of its key assumptions.” The Carbon Tracker report found that the cumulative impact of a world of low population and economic growth and a continued renewable energy boom would cut energy demand even lower than the IEA’s low emissions scenario, which keeps the world within 2C of warming.
(6) Someone with a £150,000 repayment mortgage currently on a tracker rate of 2.5% would see their costs rise from £673 a month to £877 a month if rates went up to 3%, and to £1,060 if they hit 5%.
(7) It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,” said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative .
(8) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
(9) Nationwide building society has cut the cost of its two-year tracker to just 2.64% for loans up to 70% LTV.
(10) Tortuosity of LIMA was negotiated using the Tracker-Seeker catheter guidewire system.
(11) The film garnered $40m in digital sales after the company made it available for download, according to Sony, and another $6.7m in cinemas worldwide, according to industry tracker boxofficemojo.com .
(12) Low rates have left mortgage borrowers, particularly those on base-rate trackers, much better off.
(13) Four million people with tracker mortgages will see repayments fall following today's move.
(14) A loan tracker service, set up by Citizens Advice examining about 2,000 loans taken out with 113 lenders, found that 87% of lenders did not ask the borrower to provide documents to show they could afford the loan, while 58% failed to explain that the loan should not be used for long-term borrowing.
(15) Xiao controls Tomorrow Group, a holding company with stakes in real-estate, insurance, coal and cement firms and his wealth is estimated to be about 40 billion yuan (£4.6 billion), according to wealth tracker Hurun Report .
(16) BP’s 2017 outlook has increased its electric vehicle projections on last year, but this still lags far behind the potential penetration if the technology were to take off, meaning there is still a risk of the company misreading oil demand,” said James Leaton, head of research at the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based thinktank.
(17) The latest Asda income tracker survey, which tracks the amount of cash households have left after paying for necessities such as mortgage or rent, gas and electricity, food and transport, is at its lowest point since the survey started in 2007.
(18) After several unsuccessful attempts at dislodgment, a Tracker catheter system was advanced directly to the site of the sphere, and the sphere was successfully dislodged.
(19) FitBug Orb and Kik Plans The FitBug Orb, released last year, makes fitness trackers more affordable at under £50.
(20) Under Zonneveld's valuation, Royal Mail would join the FTSE100 list of Britain's biggest companies, which means tracker funds will be forced to buy the stock.