(n.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
(n.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shiner and Bowling said the use of the stop-and-search power would increase tension and damage confidence in the police.
(2) Garnham repeatedly described evidence from Iraqi witnesses as lies and strongly attacked the conduct of and claims made by Phil Shiner of the firm representing the Iraqis, Public Interest Lawyers.
(3) Phil Shiner, solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers , said: "[This] has confirmed that the government's plan to deny legal aid to claimants other than those who are classed as 'lawfully resident' in the UK for 12 months was unjust and indefensible.
(4) Shiner also accused the government of pursuing a personal vendetta against him in revenge for his work gathering hundreds of cases against British forces in Iraq.
(5) When Shiner first publicised claims that the Danny Boy incident involved innocent Iraqi civilians, he compared the alleged atrocity to the massacre carried out by US troops at My Lai during the Vietnam war.
(6) At the time, Shiner said: “It is apparent that some people object to and disapprove of the work carried out by PIL, but the directing of abuse at PIL for the legitimate work we do to uphold the rule of law in a democratic country cannot continue unchallenged.” Before this week’s trial, Shiner acknowledged that he was likely to be disqualified for misconduct.
(7) Twice married, Shiner has five children, some of whom worked at his law firm.
(8) Shiner's firm has launched a legal challenge to the police tactic of kettling during recent student demonstrations, claiming a breach of human rights.
(9) "There is a case called Ali Zaki Mousa," Shiner said, "currently before the court of appeal that will determine whether the UK should fulfil its legal obligations by holding an extended inquiry into 150 additional complaints by Iraqi civilians."
(10) Phil Shiner, who ran the firm, was charged by the SRA, which referred him to the solicitors disciplinary tribunal.
(11) ), are analyzed on the basis of a model used previously for qualitative theoretical studies of the Ca2+ activation of muscle contraction (Shiner and Solaro, 1982).
(12) The solicitor Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, renewed his call for a wider inquiry into allegations about how British troops treated detainees in southern Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
(13) Changes in Keq upon deuterium substitution, which are predicted by the calculations of Hartshorn and Shiner (1972), should be observed for many other reactions as well.
(14) The tribunal was told on Thursday that Shiner had sent a letter admitting eight allegations of acting without integrity, including one charge that he acted improperly at a press conference in 2008 where he claimed the British army had unlawfully killed, tortured and mistreated Iraqi civilians at the battle of Danny Boy, near Amara in southern Iraq on 14 May 2004.
(15) So much so that venerable professions like law have morphed into modern shoe shiners for multinationals.
(16) Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, which has represented Iraqis allegedly mistreated by British forces, said: "There is the clearest evidence from the court martial into the death of Baha Mousa, and other emerging evidence, that systematic abuse by UK soldiers in Iraq was rife.
(17) Squawfish were fed fry of experimentally infected redside shiner and squawfish and partially developed specimens of N. lewisi recovered 8 weeks later.
(18) Phil Shiner, a lawyer for the Iraqis, insisted today that any new inquiry must include other claims of ill-treatment by British troops.
(19) Shiner is seeking a judicial review of what he says is the failure of the MoD to conduct a proper inquiry into the allegations.
(20) Dr Michael Shiner, of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at LSE, said additional safeguards are necessary and the government should provide explicit guidance so that everyone is clear where action is needed.
Silvery
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.
(a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fat silvery frames wrapping around groups of floors in a vain attempt to break up the sheer bulk, it looks like a stack of hard drives or the back of a computer server – an accidental nod to the nearby Silicon Roundabout.
(2) From the meeting room window, you could sense the corporation's heritage and scale: the immense old grey whale of Television Centre to the south, its 50-year-old curves barnacled with more recent additions; to the west, the long silvery blocks of the BBC's newer "Media Village", opened in 2004, at the peak of the corporation's modern expansion, by Jonathan Ross himself.
(3) They have arranged the new paving into a broad diamond pattern of pale granite on dark, put all the street lighting on to a row of tall, silvery masts.
(4) An odd-looking fellow, with a deep voice, a weather-beaten face and silvery hair, topped by a beret worn in military fashion.
(5) This layer contains a horseshoe-shaped gland, the choroid gland, the outer portion of which is surrounded by a layer of silvery guanin crystals generally termed the argentea.
(6) To examine the changes in secretion of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) with reference to their osmoregulatory roles, changes in pituitary mRNA levels and plasma concentrations of these hormones were examined during seawater adaptation in silvery juveniles (smolts) and precociously mature males (dark parr) of amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus).
(7) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
(8) It is Patrick Dempsey growing from spindly tween idol into a silvery heartthrob.
(9) In her biography, Dusty , Lucy O’Brien quotes Jerry Wexler, who produced Dusty in Memphis along with Arif Mardin, talking about the uniqueness of her sound: “There were no traces of black in her singing, she’s not mimetic… She has a pure silvery stream.” Silvery, I like that.
(10) Her long blond hair, tied back as usual, has turned silvery grey.
(11) Built on an artificial island, it looks beautiful from above, with all the complexity of an airport resolved into a single silvery object.
(12) Courtesy of Sir Peter Blake He started to do them in a thin, silvery watercolour, which he felt conveyed the essence of a dream, but later adopted a wider palette after realising that his own dreams were in colour.
(13) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(14) Atlantic fronts barrel in, clouds tussle, shafts of sunbeams and great fat silvery pools of light chase over swelling seas to fields of infinite greens.
(15) A silvery thread snakes through paper made from white cotton.
(16) Clad with vertical solar fins designed to protect the interior offices from glare, these silvery slats are stretched open as the building swells upwards, giving it the look of a broad-shouldered banker bursting out of his pin-striped suit – now with deadly laser beam eyes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diego Nazario, back, and Emanuel Dantas Borges, train in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, surrounded by dead small silvery fish.
(18) In a recent study by Miceli, Silveri, Romani, and Caramazza (Brain and Language, 1989, 36, 447-492), free speech records for 20 unselected Italian-speaking agrammatic patients were analyzed along a variety of linguistic parameters, with particular emphasis on substitution and omission errors within traditional "part of speech" categories.
(19) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
(20) An increase in seawater adaptability was observed in silvery juvenile amago salmon as underyearlings from autumn to winter, when some of the wild population migrate to the sea.