(1) Doctors refuse to discharge 'Baby Asha' because of fears for safety on Nauru Read more It’s understood the baby girl, who is about a year old and is known as Asha, suffered burns when boiling water was accidentally spilt on her on Nauru.
(2) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
(3) Federici, fatally, spilt this, and Bony was ruthless.
(4) Addition of surfaceactive agents to the experimental solutions, did not spilt the wave into separate acts.
(5) Croatia's anthem is played next and at the end of the line of Croatia's line, Ivica Olic is wearing the expression of a man weighing up whether or not to glass somebody he thinks might have spilt his pint.
(6) "Of course there's a change in the amount of coffee being spilt," she adds.
(7) Many millions of words have been spilt on the subject of the perfect cup of coffee, the vast proportion confusing or downright contradictory.
(8) He has captured the elements of nascent rock scenes in New York, London and California: the sweaty fans, spilt drinks and crumbling venues.
(9) My hands – hand – simply wouldn't work, and it wasn't just in a slipping-off-keys manner, which would be at least understandable given the amount of ash I'd spilt on my keyboard down the years.
(10) The arrogance of the outsiders who argued that anything was better than Gaddafi’s rule has caused much Libyan blood to be spilt, destabilised a vast region from the Maghreb to Mali, and is now encouraging thousands to try their luck crossing the Mediterranean to Italy .
(11) It will not serve BP's ambition to stave off that day if its chief executive plays down the scale of the crisis as he did by suggesting in his interview with this paper yesterday that the oil that has spilt so far is – to paraphrase only a little – just a drop in the ocean.
(12) According to the joint investigation team, which included Shell, around 3,800 barrels of crude were spilt at Bonny.
(13) The probability of spilling the liquid, the quantity of liquid spilt, and subject's estimates of the probability of spillage were determined for all conditions.
(14) The vapours caught light, and in the ensuing panic she spilt petrol on her clothes and they also caught fire.
(15) As the presentation may mimic a number of neurological conditions, or patients with AIDS may suffer head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage, or other common conditions, it is probably wise to assume all patients have AIDS and to modify operating technique and other procedures where blood may be spilt to minimise the risks of acquiring the infection.
(16) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
(17) In fact, vastly more ink was spilt on the subject of the internet, MP3s, iPods, filesharing and their attendant effects on the music industry's finances than on even the biggest pop star.
(18) This may sound cynical – who has kids with someone thinking they are gong to spilt up?
(19) Although my Catholicism remains resolutely lapsed, it was something I could relate to in a wider sense, and I found myself photographing some spilt milk on a Jerusalem street and an oil stain I saw in Bethlehem.
(20) Chemical analysis revealed that the isotonically contracting muscle spilt only 25% as much high energy phosphate as did the isometrically contracting muscle.
Stilt
Definition:
(n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
(n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
(n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
(v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
(2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(3) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(4) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
(5) Old plastic supermarket bags clog the ground under the platform stilts and the smell of sewage is overpowering.
(6) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
(7) Updated at 1.33am GMT 1.23am GMT Lorde , a 17-year-old who achieved massive international success in about four months, steps on a small, round stage to perform a stilted version of her megahit Royals.
(8) It has been a stilted trajectory so far, when you consider the Guardian first wrote about her in 2008, describing her as "the female Frankmusik, the Fisher Price Fischerspooner" based on her debut single !Franchesckaar!
(9) My house is on stilts and there are 11 steps up to my front door so by Saturday morning, the water was already very high.
(10) The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times.
(11) Instead, the houses are built on stilts – meaning they can be much closer to trees.
(12) Initial clinical signs included stilted gait and simultaneous advancement of their pelvic limbs.
(13) Sample one of these stilted rorbu – timber-built and each boasting modern kitchens, lounges and nice bathrooms – in the cod-fishing town of Svolvær.
(14) Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
(15) It has been claimed that those using social media in an abusive and vindictive way towards this woman are supporters of mine,” said Evans, who beyond a stilted video statement on his release had said nothing as the controversy swirled around him.
(16) (There is an ancillary attempt to make himself sound posh by using the stiltedly correct form of "ambassador to the UK".
(17) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
(18) "I represent the people of Xinjiang," Aisikaier says in stilted Mandarin.
(19) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(20) General clinical symptoms in these animals immediately postexposure were tremors, lethargy, stilted gait, and, in some animals, prostration.