(1) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
(2) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(3) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(5) Perhaps local governments could contribute a proportion of the asking price of a house if it is to be sold to a local who will actually live in it?
(6) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(7) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(10) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
(11) The four other works were sold at auction at Christie's and disappeared into private collections.
(12) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(13) She, and three other captives, were told that if they didn't pay $10,000 each within a few days, they would be sold to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai.
(14) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The flat in Crouch End, north London that Linda Grant bought for £92,000 in 1994 and sold for £660,000 last year.
(16) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) Since 2006, some charities have sold donated goods as agent of the donor and then written to the donor, asking if they wish to give the proceeds of sale to the charity.
(19) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(20) When Hussain gave him a camera and told Cromitie to reconnoitre targets, he promptly sold it.
Soly
Definition:
(adv.) Solely.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examines the extent to which household size is related to nutritional status in school-age children in the Solis Valley in highland Mexico.
(2) It therefore appears that the resources available to households in the Solis Valley are inadequate to buffer children in even more advantaged households from the stresses of maintaining large families.
(3) Our former European business editor, David Gow, was there and tweeted the highlights: David Gow (@gowdav) #euco France needs to master deficit to control debt which is burden for future generations, says Hollande blaming his predecessors for prob June 28, 2013 David Gow (@gowdav) #euco Sharp differences btw Merkel Hollande over Ez soli-fund.
(4) On his own he’s nothing.” Friends of the Earth, though, said that they were disappointed at the appointment, citing a potential conflict of interests as Cañete had been replaced as chairman of the two companies by his brother-in-law, Miguel Domecq Solis.
(5) Bacillus circulans WL-12 when grown in a mineral medium with yeast cell walls or yeast glucan as the soli carbon source, produced five beta-glucanases.
(6) Climent flew in, Caneo caught the bus from Santiago and they were joined by another team-mate, Diego Solis.
(7) "I'm insulted when I hear that because we have a very professional civil service," Solis told CNBC.
(8) Its patrons include the Liberal Democrat Lord Lester, Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, Sir Shridath Ramphal, the former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Soli J Sorabjee, the former attorney general for India, and Arthur Chaskalson, the former chief justice of South Africa.
(9) That blog was written by a man, Odin Soli, who now calls himself a writer of "online fiction".
(10) Obama did not show any symptoms, and the White House has confirmed that the president is fit and well after he shook hands with Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist at the National Anthropological Museum, earlier this month.
(11) This was enshrined in its immigration law, based on jus sanguinis (the right of blood) rather than jus soli (the right of soil): only those with German parents could become German, leaving the children and grandchildren of immigrants, who were born in Germany, foreigners in the only country they knew.
(12) "There was that sense that the first woman president was within our grasp, and we were losing it," said Patti Solis Doyle, who was removed as Clinton's campaign manager in February 2008.
(13) The results reported in the companion paper (Ostrosky-Solis, Efron, & Yund, 1991) indicated that literacy did not affect overall performance levels but did influence scanning behavior: "...reading, or learning to read, caused the scanning mechanisms of literate subjects to adopt more consistent scan paths, from subject to subject, than they would have adopted without this reading experience."
(14) Soli Ozel, an analyst at Bilgi University in Istanbul, said Obama had pressed "all the right buttons".
(15) "Well … to make a long story short Plain Layne turned out to be this middle-aged guy named Odin Soli who had also won blog awards years before as Acanit, a young lesbian Muslim girl with a Jewish girlfriend."
(16) Labor secretary Hilda Solis immediately hit back at claims that the Obama administration might have skewed the jobs numbers.
(17) The T. fusca cellulase genes are expressed at a low level in Escherichia soli, but at a high level in Streptomyces lividans.
(18) Solis died shortly afterwards just as the first deaths from swine flu were being reported.