(1) It consists of a clinical assessment made by a surgical tutor over a period of six weeks throughout a student's surgical term, a visual, clinically orientated written examination a "spotter-type" practical examination and a viva-voce examination.
(2) A plane-spotter, Anthony Castorani, told CNN he heard a "pop" as the jet landed, followed by a brief fireball at which point the aircraft began to break up and spin.
(3) These were (i) the introduction of "spotters" with experience in sports medicine to identify and advise exhausted runners before they collapse; (ii) staffing the run's medical centre with medical and nursing specialists in intensive care; (iii) improved management of heat exhaustion; and (iv) conducting education seminars after the run to make recommendations for improving subsequent events.
(4) It seems highly probable that both Costellos are agents of the RIS, Costello’s role may well be that of a talent spotter,” notes the MI5 file.
(5) Until now, we have been limited to lists of suspicious aircraft and networks of flight routes pieced together painstakingly using information from everyone from plane spotters to the European parliament.
(6) Hare accused the trend spotters of the early 21st century of lining up eagerly to pretend the controversy which raged around Look Back In Anger was "some kind of ghastly mistake".
(7) "We have been impressed by the efforts made to prevent football hooliganism in foreign countries by sending 'spotters' to help pick out those at risk of committing criminal acts and believe similar practical help would be beneficial in the fight against terrorism," the MPs say.
(8) They have been acting as spotters to identify military targets for air strikes and cruise missiles.
(9) Straw has been Blackburn's MP for 33 years; he replaced Barbara Castle, for whom he had worked as a special adviser (something of a talent-spotter, Castle once said that she had employed Straw for his "guile and low cunning").
(10) She was a great spotter of talent, and contributors would often come into the office for a chat; Mario Testino shot early fashion for the fashion editor Liz Connell, Craig Brown became music critic and Deborah Moggach was a regular contributor.
(11) Follow the children's quiz trail around the house and garden, using tracker packs with secret messages and spotter sheets.
(12) Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘Day-trippers from east London perform Maghrib, the Islamic evening prayer on the promenade at Southend.’ The title of the series, Thames Log , came from the ship spotters at Tilbury, who “sit all day logging the continual stream of vessels passing through”.
(13) Others are pros on the lower levels hoping to be picked up by the UFC’s talent spotters.
(14) The best known is the military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is accused of being an artillery spotter for the Ukrainian forces and involved in the deaths of two Russian journalists .
(15) The spotter was a man called Peter Beard , a well-connected photographer and Africophile.
(16) Spotter's ratings: ★★★★★ I don't believe it!
(17) The town of Ottery St Mary enjoyed something of a tourist boom as beaver spotters headed to Devon to try to spot the creatures and many naturalists argued that the beavers were good news for biodiversity and could ease flooding problems because their dams slow the rate water moves down rivers, such as the Otter.
(18) 4 Dec, Helmand W Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, shoot and wound man as possible "spotter" .
(19) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(20) • The routine use of forward intellience teams (FITs) who film, photograph and follow protesters, and use "spotter cards" to identify activists and store their information on databases raises fundamental privacy issues and should be reviewed.
Sputter
Definition:
(v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
(v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
(v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
(v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
(n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) All tooth specimens were sputter-coated with gold for 4 min and examined using a scanning electron microscope.
(2) And the Sunni-Shia conflict driving so much of this is not unlike the Wars of the Reformation– those took a century to conclude ... and still sputter along in Northern Island three centuries later.
(3) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
(4) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
(5) Electronegative elements will be detected with similar sensitivities in the spectrum of negative sputtered ions, but inert gases, which are ionized with difficulty and have small electron affinities, will be detected with considerably poorer sensitivities.
(6) It is based on the selective evanescent field excitation of ligands adsorbed to supported planar bilayers on argon-sputtered glass plates.
(7) of implantation the surface of the as-cast polyurethane was covered with a monolayer of platelets and leukocytes, whereas thrombus development progressed more rapidly on the sputtered polyurethane surface and at 1 hr.
(8) Looking for a solution for Britain's sputtering maternity services?
(9) The catheter segments were sputter-coated with approx.
(10) While TEM provides the highest resolution images of sputter-coated cytoskeletons, it also damages the specimens owing to heating in the beam.
(11) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
(12) Images of DNA and ribosomal subunits contrasted by sputter shadowing with tungsten are shown.
(13) Several substrates--aluminum mnium foil, silver mirror deposit and sputtered gold-provided good conductive backgrounds for chromosomal spreads.
(14) Using sputter coating to form oxide films allows control of its thickness.
(15) Sputtered coats of 1-2 nm of platinum or tungsten provide both an adequate secondary electron signal for SEM and good contrast for STEM and TEM.
(16) Forty-five sputter-coated implants and an equal number of noncoated titanium implants were placed into 15 partially edentulated dog mandibles.
(17) The forward planning in such cities runs counter to the steadily accumulating evidence in Washington that Barack Obama's efforts to green America's economy is sputtering to a halt.
(18) Here we show that construction and use of a tungsten target greatly improves the quality of the sputter shadowed deposit.
(19) The thickness of the oxide layer can also be controlled by sputter coating.
(20) This study investigated and compared the healing rates of bone around commercially pure titanium implants and titanium implants sputter-coated from a hydroxyapatite target.