(1) The beach, less than two miles away, is small and shingly at high tide but the sea recedes to reveal a sandy stretch.
(2) In May the prime minister announced that £10m from this fund would be used to match the Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing's £20m donation to Oxford University's big data healthcare centre, which plans to analyse NHS patient records, DNA sequencing and clinical trials in an effort to improve detection and treatment of a range of conditions.
(3) Morrison blocked the sale to both of the two bidders , China’s largest state-owned company, the State Grid Corporation of China, and the privately owned, Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure, controlled by the billionaire Li Ka-shing.
(4) Chisholm’s letter reinforces the UK authorities’ unhappiness about the takeover, which would give Hutchison, owned by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, about 40% of UK mobile phone users with more than 30 million customers.
(5) The level and pattern of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were investigated in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters), sediment, and water from the Shing Mun River.
(6) But mobile and online service provider Tom.com – controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing – has already dropped the Google search box from its portal, switching to Chinese rival Baidu.
(7) The publicity from the Apple award attracted the attention of Hong Kong investor Li Ka-shing and his venture capital firm, Horizon Ventures.
(8) Asian tycoon Li Ka-Shing looked to have won the battle for Northumbrian Water on Tuesday, after the board of the utility recommended his £2.4bn offer .
(9) According to its records, Moricrown was part-owned by the Cheung Kong Investment Company Limited, a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Holdings – a flagship company of Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing.
(10) Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, has agreed terms to buy Northumbrian Water at an all-time high for the share price.
(11) But the field of potential buyers has thinned to just two – the State Grid Corporation of China , which is China’s biggest state-owned company, and the privately owned, Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure, controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing.
(12) Also on Wednesday, Hong Kong’s most prominent tycoon, Li Ka-shing, broke his silence over the protests to urge the demonstrators to go home.
(13) Li Ka-Shing – Hong Kong’s most prominent tycoon, apparently worth over $USD31 billion and whose every word is treated with the veneration normally accorded to oracles – barked that Occupy Central would contribute to eroding Hong Kong’s prospects.
(14) The intention to play in the mobile market is going to necessitate that investment.” Li Ka-shing’s UK empire From smartphones to sewage treatment, perfume to power lines, 86-year-old Li Ka-shing has a long list of business interests in the UK.
(15) A few hours after Trimit appeared on Techcrunch , the tech news site, D'Aloisio received an email from a venture capital firm led by Li Ka Shing, the Hong Kong billionaire.
(16) Hong-Kong based Hutchison, run by Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, already owns the 3 mobile network and combining it with O2 would create the UK’s biggest mobile group.
(17) Li Ka-shing has an estimated fortune of $34.1bn (£25.5bn) from his sprawling empire of ports, utilities and property, according to Forbes.
(18) How do you feed the planet, and not wreck it in the process?” Modern Meadow’s solution has attracted investments from the Thiel Foundation, run by billionaire libertarian and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel; Sequoia Capital , which has backed some of the world’s biggest technology companies; Artis Ventures ; Iconiq Capital; and, most recently, Horizons Ventures , the venture fund of Li Ka-shing.
(19) SA Power Networks is already majority owned by billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s companies.
(20) Elsewhere, Hong Kong resident Li Ka-shing, whose interests span from shipping to the Three mobile network in the UK, lost $1.5bn in Monday’s selloff.
Stony
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(2) Digital examination revealed that the prostate became stony-hard and larger 10 weeks after the initial BCG immunotherapy.
(3) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(4) Not because the arts and humanities are especially hard to legitimise, but because everything is hard to justify when your opponent is standing there with crossed arms and a stony face.
(5) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(6) It would face the same challenges and would continue to act in much the same way, steering the country towards new elections in late 2017 or 2018 and pursuing the stony path of incremental economic reform.
(7) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(8) Without naming and shaming, during the USA's game against Portugal, I saw one leftwing tweeter ask with plaintive, stony-faced sincerity "how can anyone be supporting the imperialists?"
(9) No one is considered universally funny: there will always be someone stony-faced and dry-eyed in a room filled with hilarity, wondering what everyone else is laughing at.
(10) To a stony-faced audience at a conference organised by Learning Without Frontiers, she said: "We should recognise and embrace some of the good things that came out of the 19th century."
(11) The villages, whose populations range from a few hundred to 2,000, are scattered on stony land criss-crossed by busy roads, electricity pylons and cables and water pipes.
(12) Watched stony-faced by the Israeli delegation led by ambassador Ron Prosor, Abbas on Wednesday called for the international community to recognise Palestine as a state under occupation in the same way that countries were occupied in the second world war.
(13) If one of the first signs of ageing is being irritated by the young, I'd transformed into the ultimate short-fused, stony-eyed Methuselah.
(14) To help meet the need for physician manpower in preventive medicine a new residency was established at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in July 1983.
(15) The Stony Brook Child Psychiatric Checklist, a parent completed rating instrument based on DSM-III-R, was used as part of a psychiatric inpatient admission evaluation.
(16) At the School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the surgical clerkship became mandatory in 1976.
(17) Labour's riposte will be that the more difficult the economic news the stronger the yearning will be for a "change election" on the economy and the greater the premium on fairness in austerity – fertile terrain for Miliband, stony ground for the incumbent Cameron.
(18) The gland becomes stony hard, is not displaceable and, characteristically, the fibrous tissue penetrates the capsule and infiltrates into surrounding structures such as muscles, vessels, nerves and even the trachea.
(19) The liver was markedly enlarged and of stony consistency.
(20) The anti-Trident activists wave at the Faslane workers as they come and go; the workers remain stony-faced.