(1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(2) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(3) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(4) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
(5) Women in their 20s Christina Wallace , Director, Startup Institute of New York I do think the women's movement is stalled – especially since it's just not something my generation really thinks about.
(6) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."
(7) Progress on treaties underpinning nuclear disarmament – which have too long been stalled – has also recently begun to look more hopeful, with renewed prospects for achieving the entry into force of the comprehensive test ban treaty and for starting negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive purposes.
(8) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
(9) Overseas, the recovery in the eurozone, the place that buys half of our exported goods and services, appears to have stalled.
(10) His department has extra funds available for the NHS in Northern Ireland after the A5 road project linking the Irish Republic to Derry via the western counties of the province was stalled.
(11) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
(12) Too often the debate gets stalled in a maternal versus fetal rights headlock.
(13) The US said it had removed North Korea – once a member of George Bush's axis of evil – from the terror list to breathe life into the stalled nuclear negotiations and would continue to pressure Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue.
(14) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(15) The chancellor's handling of the economy has come under scrutiny as the economy's tentative recovery in 2010 has stalled.
(16) "They will always create obstacles in order to prevent it, and every time we make some progress there is an incident that happens" He also called on the Obama administration to release Taliban commanders from Guantánamo Bay, so they could take part in a peace process that began and then stalled in Qatar earlier this year.
(17) Wider acknowledgement of the problem has not always translated into the practical action required to safeguard the lives, health and dignity of survivors of violence.” The report calls for the government to take action on promised reform, stalled legislation and police training.
(18) Thirty-one cases were managed surgically, 14 by external fixation, and six by stall confinement.
(19) "The nationalists will go to great lengths to try to prove there is a groundswell towards leaving the UK but the truth is that their campaign is stalled.
(20) Right now, policymakers will probably be more concerned by stalling eurozone growth than a headline inflation figure dragged down by commodity prices.
Starling
Definition:
(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
(n.) A California fish; the rock trout.
(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Example Sentences:
(1) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(2) For the purpose of an experimental study in which the three different types of pressure catheters most commonly used in anorectal manometry were compared, a Starling-resistance could be established.
(3) Properly timed atrial systole may alter systolic performance by the mechanism of Starling's law of the heart, which states that the extent of systolic myocardial fiber shortening is dependent on the degree of diastolic fiber stretch, or preload.
(4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) Even within the ACE inhibitor group their effects vary--improving, impairing, or not changing the Frank-Starling relationships following reduction in left ventricular mass.
(6) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(7) We used single-unit vagal recordings to study the average discharge pattern during a respiratory cycle from 57 intrapulmonary CO2 receptors in 6 ducks artificially ventilated with a Starling pump.
(8) Thus the Frank-Starling mechanism has a very significant role in an intact organism with normal hemodynamics.
(9) Possible mechanisms causing the observed biphasic lymph flow response to capillary pressure elevation are: 1) changes in Starling forces oppose an increase in capillary pressure; 2) the rate of change in tissue fluid pressure affects lymph flow to a greater extent than does the absolute change in tissue fluid pressure; or, 3) the lymphatics empty upon elevation and refill as the capillaries filter.
(10) Pre- and postoperative hemodynamic workup with construction of Starling curves were used to answer this question.
(11) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(12) This study is the first to demonstrate that an intestinal helminth previously reported to be of little or no histopathological consequence, Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus, has a significant detrimental impact upon the flow of food energy through a definitive host, the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris.
(13) An addition to Starling's hypothesis is therefore suggested to adapt it to dependent tissues.
(14) These temperatures are 2-4 degrees C higher than the resting temperature in starlings, and are among the highest steady-state temperatures observed in any animal.
(15) These three parameters can be related to the ventricular filling time, supporting the opinion that the fetal heart follows the rules of the Frank Starling relationship.
(17) This altered cardiac response to venous filling, also observed in patients with essential hypertension, is suggested to be caused by an altered Frank-Starling relationship of the hypertrophied heart in hypertensive individuals.
(18) Endurance athletes have greater ventricular diastolic chamber compliance and distensibility than nonathletes and thus operate on the steep portion of their Starling curve.
(19) Within the heart the Frank-Starling mechanism, adrenergic stimulation causing increase of heart rate and contractility, and during the chronic course also myocardial hypertrophy are operating.
(20) Metabolic imbalance (hypoxia) can be linked with diabetic macular edema through hemodynamic principles according to Starlings law.