(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.
Thimbleful
Definition:
(n.) As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) A conveniently formed thimble has been created for use in dissection during augmentation mammaplasty and gynecomastia operations which forms a rigid extension to the surgeon's finger.
(2) You will need : pins needle thread thimble iron Firstly, turn the garment inside out and iron the ripped area so it is nice and flat to work with.
(3) He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
(4) Paintings dark with age line the walls, and the audience sits on rough benches drinking thimbles of pruneau brandy.
(5) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
(6) The use of a thimble to facilitate scrotal fixation of the testis is described.
(7) Radiation dose given to patients undergoing radiotherapy by 300 kVp X-rays is detected by a thimble ionization chamber placed at the skin surface.
(8) The chamber is capable of being calibrated directly with an iridium-192 source which has in turn been calibrated with thimble-type ion chambers.
(9) No significant differences in lithium release were found when the volume of media used in the test was reduced from 250 ml to 200 ml, the final stage of the test in pH 6.8 phosphate buffer reduced from 5 to 3 h, the number of tablets in each thimble reduced from three to one, or the prescribed phosphate buffers replaced with phthalate and Tris, respectively.
(10) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
(11) It cannot be hidden by the pea and thimble game played by the Australian government, which claims the offshore detention camps are out of our jurisdiction and in the control of the Papua New Guinean and Nauruan governments.
(12) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(13) Two thimble chambers calibrated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology provide calibration traceability of iridium-192 HDR sources and re-entrant chambers to a primary national standards laboratory.
(14) The total effects of the cavity displacement and the perturbation of the field by the cavity in thimble-chamber measurements of absorbed dose were investigated for electron beams of energy 15, 20, 30, and 39 MeV and for 60CO gamma radiation by LiF dosimeter rods of diameter 1 mm and length 6 mm.
(15) It was found that relative signal distributions from the shielded semiconductor detector agreed, within 1 per cent of the maximum signal, to the depth dose curves and that the relative signal in profile distributions also agreed, within 1 mm or 1 per cent of the signal at the central axis, as compared with dose measurements with a cylindrical, thimble ionization chamber.
(16) The cervical cap--a small, rubber, thimble-shaped barrier contraceptive--fits tightly across the cervix and prevents sperm from entering the uterus.
(17) The rate of temperature changes was studied in a nylon thimble chamber provided with a temperature sensor, when the chamber was inserted in different phantom media.
(18) An air kerma rate is measured using a calibrated thimble chamber in an "in-air" calibration jig.
(19) The thimble glass frit was pressurized internally by gases such as helium (He) or argon (Ar) while the test solution was applied externally to the frit.
(20) At the café table, at the bar, they order a thimble-sized espresso.