(1) The "graying" of America has riveted the attention of policy makers in the United States on the potential specter of an excess population of sick, poor, disabled, aged Americans.
(2) State officials there have said a pharmacy supplying execution drugs received an email in January that raised the specter of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed more than 160 people.
(3) 'The things about him that I wish ...' Specter goes on, a little awkwardly.
(4) Perhaps more significantly, after the slight summer wobble that had raised the specter of last year’s collapse on the run-in, the Sounders have secured a playoff spot, and could achieve a further boost to their long-term ambitions when they play Philadelphia in the US Open Cup final this week – giving them a possible early route back to the Champions League.
(5) In-hospital resuscitation focuses on an aggressive team approach, raising the specter that some patients who have little chance of survival may receive protracted, but futile, resuscitation efforts.
(6) Unilateral hearing loss raises the specter of acoustic neuroma.
(7) With just over four months left before Americans heads to the polls, the specter of the general election hung heavily over the summit.
(8) That raised the specter of the intelligence committee, which is charged with overseeing the NSA, withholding information from members elected in the 2010 election, when many libertarian and Tea Party Republicans uncomfortable with government power – like Amash – won office.
(9) Clinically, these cases demonstrated signs or symptoms of autoimmune dysfunction, raising the specter of primary cerebral vasculopathy as a cause of cerebral infarction, in contrast to recurrent cerebral emboli.
(10) I tell Specter how proudly Remnick told me of his triumph in the Hackathlon, and that I wondered afterwards what he meant by extolling such bare-faced bad writing.
(11) On a conscious level, these patients may have pessimistic views of the future, including the specter of imminent death, which, for some, is a real possibility.
(12) The combined changes (specters of isoenzymes of intracellular and extracellular pectatelyase, protein composition of periplasm and outer membrane) in the cells of E. chrysanthemi ENA49 from the periodical culture growing on the inducer containing medium have been studied.
(13) (Specter and Gladwell are both old friends of Remnick's from the Washington Post, and both now colleagues at the New Yorker.)
(14) How far have the courts in these cases extended the Tarasoff duty to protect and is the specter of strict liability real or imagined?
(15) That line becomes the unstated mantra of season two, in which Penny Dreadful streamlines into a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on remorse, solitude, personal demons and the remote, hazy specter of deliverance.
(16) Not a single Republican in either chamber voted for it – and neither did the Republican defector Specter.
(17) To quote Grantland's Charles Pierce's "A Commissioner's Legacy," a necessary corrective to some of the warmer and fuzzier reactions to Stern's departure: The specter of the days when the NBA was thought to be “too black” never has been far from his decision to knuckle Allen Iverson about rap music and to create and enforce a silly dress code that was applauded by great swaths of the nation’s boring people, and to make a buck off the softer side of hip-hop culture while remaining terrified of its tougher precincts.
(18) Boehner and his staff gamely tried to fend off both the specter of a shutdown and a leadership challenge from his caucus’ more belligerent culture warriors – as late as yesterday, a Boehner spokesman was assuring the press that the battle-tested speaker “wasn’t going anywhere.” No doubt, however, that a cursory look at the long train of sober spiritual leaders in his caucus lining up to deliver pointless CSPAN tantrums over the outrages of science prompted the longtime Ohio Congressman to mutter some variant of Good Lord, not this again together with a few well-chosen profanities for good measure.
(19) Trump also warned of the specter of voter fraud without evidence, revisiting accusations he first made in August that there would be voter fraud in “certain areas” of Pennsylvania, a statement that was a clear dog-whistle about African American areas of Philadelphia.
(20) The picks ultimately raise the specter that Trump’s administration could be more conventional than many had anticipated, following Trump’s repeated pledges to “drain the swamp.” In fact, Puzder has even been attacked by a number of Trump allies, including Breitbart, for his past support of immigration reform.
Wraith
Definition:
(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(2) Sales were boosted by strong orders for the Ghost Series II introduced in November and the Wraith, which has had its first full year of sales.
(3) BMW reports: Rolls-Royce continues to see strong customer demand for Wraith, significant orders for the recently announced Ghost Series II and good demand for the Phantom family of cars across the world.
(4) The tread of feet in the roads was dulled, and horses and guns moved like wraiths in the swirling mist.
(5) The new Rolls-Royce Wraith has been a stunning success in the super-luxury segment, setting new modern style and technology leadership benchmarks.
(6) Instead, he’s looking more like a man destined to return to Madison with a wad of Delta Sky Miles to haunt the capitol tunnels, a wraith occasionally seizing hapless passersby at underground crossroads and demanding they tell him if they’ve seen Ronald Reagan, what causes male-pattern baldness and how big Canada is.
(7) They hovered just above 3% today and could drop to 2.5% in coming months, said Wraith.
(8) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "children's blood".
(9) Carroll was reported in today's Daily Star to have sent texts to Steve Wraith, editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, claiming he felt he had being forced out of the club.
(10) A model poses with a Rolls-Royce Wraith limousine during the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition this year.
(11) Rolls-Royce manufacturers the Wraith, Ghost and Phantom, its top-of-the-range model.
(12) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
(13) A synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 365-380 of the influenza nucleoprotein (NP365-380) has been previously shown to associate with class I major histocompatibility complex-encoded molecules and to stimulate cytotoxic T lymphocytes [Townsend, A. R. M., Rothbard, J., Gotch, F. M., Bahadur, G., Wraith, D. & McMichael, A. J.
(14) It sells more cars worth over £150,000 than any other manufacturer, and last year launched the Dawn, a convertible based on the Wraith.
(15) Last year was good for carmakers in the UK too – Rolls-Royce, albeit owned by BMW, sold more Wraiths, Ghosts and Phantoms around the world than at any time since it was founded more than a century ago.
(16) The conscious patients watch me warily as if I am some sort of wraith.
(17) Carroll's comments back up the content of texts he sent to friend and editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, Steve Wraith, as the transfer saga unfolded last night.
(18) Demand was high for Phantom and Ghost Rolls-Royce cars, and orders were strong for the new Wraith model, BMW said.
(19) They, of course, have benefitted as the stimulus measures from central banks push up asset prices [ source: the Bank of England ] If you fancy a Wraith, prices begin at around £230,320 .
(20) John Wraith of RBC Capital Markets expects the rally in the gilt market to continue for some time, although it will become a more "gradual rally".