(n.) A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
(2) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(3) So we might as well keep the money and eliminate the middle man.” Last autumn, Soames and Cockburn concluded that a handful of contracts – led by the Armidales, and the deal to house asylum seekers in the UK – could cost Serco up to £500m in losses, which posed a mortal threat to the business.
(4) The shadow defence secretary, Nicholas Soames, said the government had "lost its grip" on policy in Iraq and that ministers had been "unacceptably complacent and negligent" if they did not keep themselves informed of the Red Cross's concerns.
(5) As one of the disenchanted Labour voters described by MacAskill, I have had many polemics put my way: the most persuasive have been George Galloway's "Just Say Naw" and a speech on the implications of Scottish independence for business by Rupert Soames, CEO of the Scottish firm Aggreko.
(6) Merely being around Soames – who is bulky, self-assured, and often speaks in similes that involve things like spaniels, grandmothers, rhododendrons and oysters – evokes sensations of an earlier, stronger Britain.
(7) On 10 November, Soames announced a new strategy for the company: it would be simpler, and smaller, and serve governments only.
(8) Like his colleague Tory MP Nicholas Soames, who in 2009 called the "scourge" of ragwort a national "shame", Benyon struck back, saying his critics were being "unnecessarily aggressive", and that he wasn't advocating ethnic cleansing of ragwort but that he wanted to deal with "a severe infestation of a poisonous plant".
(9) It ain’t going to happen.” Towards the end, one pilot with a direct manner told Soames they had been treated like “toilet cleaners” by the previous management and asked about the estimated £4m pay-off that Hyman received when he left.
(10) I think we need a full explanation of that without delay.” Johnson had earlier described the correspondence between Serco CEO Rupert Soames and the prime minister, which took place while Cameron’s negotiations over a new EU deal were still ongoing, as “the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux tapestry”, adding: “It makes us look like a banana republic.” Elsewhere on Tuesday, Cameron suggested in a speech that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis , was probably in favour of Britain leaving the EU.
(11) The comments from the FTSE 100 firm came after its chief executive, Rupert Soames, appeared before Holyrood's economy committee last month and claimed that international investors were getting "worried".
(12) I was counting my days on the basis of how many really, really shitty bits of news happened a day, and it used to be four,” said Soames.
(13) Soames slumped in his seat and he started to laugh.
(14) I don’t see that for a long time,” said Soames.
(15) Soames was on his way home to work for a few more hours.
(16) Campbell tweeted: “More respect for people like Nick Soames who once told me he hates football and loves Foxhunting.
(17) * * * Soames and I spent several afternoons together in May and June, talking about what had gone wrong at Serco.
(18) The Tory MP Nicholas Soames was another favourite: "Soames" (this, again, at a party conference) "was magnificent, a vast, florid spectacle, a massive inflatable frontbench spokesman.
(19) Boris Johnson has been accused by the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, the Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames, of “fundamentally dishonest gymnastics” for criticising a planned multibillion-pound trade deal between the US and the EU that he had previously lauded as “Churchillian” for its brilliance.
(20) Soames spent the morning talking to the contract manager about shift patterns and the cost of helicopter earphones.
Swam
Definition:
() imp. of Swim.
(imp.) of Swim
Example Sentences:
(1) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
(2) However, cells grown in liquid medium swam normally and did not show any differences from wild-type cells in terms of swimming speed or tumbling frequency.
(3) The latest incident carries echoes of the case of another American, Evan Hunziker, who swam across the Yalu river from China to North Korea in 1996.
(4) Beppe Grillo , the former comedian who co-founded the M5S, made an impression on Sicilians when he swam the 3.5km (2.2-mile) stretch that divides the island from the mainland in 2012.
(5) However, when adapted to the dark for an hour or more, vis-à-vis pairs swam positively to the light.
(6) When rats swam in cold water for 10 min twice and were rewarmed by immersion in water at 38 degrees C during 20 min, embryo transport was accelerated despite that no changes occurred in the blood levels of sex steroids.
(7) The swimming time was increased by 5 min until the rats swam continuously for 1.5 hr.
(8) He told the Guardian he swam across a river and borrowed a friend’s car to make it into Port Vila.
(9) After a 4-week conditioning period, the "Long" group underwent a 6-week period during which they swam up to 44,000 m.wk-1, while the "Short" group maintained their swimming at 22,000 m.wk-1.
(10) After four boats carrying nearly 600 people successfully landed in western Indonesia – some migrants jumped into the water and swam – a fifth carrying hundreds more was turned away early on Monday.
(11) Rats that swam for 3 h showed a 6-fold increase in serum creatine phosphokinase (SCPK) activity which declined to control values within 7 h after swimming.
(12) At all times, morphologically normal spermatozoa from donors and patients swam faster and had greater rolling frequency, flagellar beat frequency and amplitude than did abnormally shaped cells.
(13) The rats swam for 50 min in 34-35 degrees C water with a tail weight (5% of body wt).
(14) Before stimulation, glycogen was higher in rats that swam on the preceding day (supercompensated rats) compared with controls.
(15) After dilution in salt solution, some caput sperm exhibited circular motion, whereas most cauda sperm swam progressively.
(16) The cheers of 1,300 Norwegian teenagers carry far over the still grey waters where, on 22 July 2011, children swam for their lives .
(17) During observations the diver either stayed in one place for 30 min, swam transects or followed individual fish.
(18) Sperm recovered from the proximal region of the caudal epididymis, near the corpus, swam in either the helical or hyperactivated patterns, or a mixture of the two.
(19) Perhaps that whale swam up the Thames for a reason.
(20) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.