(1) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
(2) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(3) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(4) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
(5) On Friday, Sollecito had his passport taken away and his ID card stamped to show he must not leave Italy, according to police.
(6) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
(7) This means 9 in 10 first time buyers will pay no stamp duty at all.
(8) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(9) The IFRC announced it was expanding its operations in the three countries in a bid to stamp out the virus now that the case numbers have been reduced to between 20 and 27 a week, compared to hundreds a week at the disease’s peak.
(10) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
(11) That means that the money being spent on food stamps is money that the government is paying to subsidize company profits: as businesses pay a minimum or near-minimumwage, their workers are forced to turn to government programs to make ends meet.
(12) But to leave with the result 1-0, I don’t believe too much that he can play.” Mourinho had actually walked on to the turf while his players celebrated their opening goal to stamp in some of the divots.
(13) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
(14) Labour’s promise of a stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers will lead to higher house prices.
(15) First class stamps prices are rising by 1p, while a second class stamp will rise by the same amount to 55p.
(16) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
(17) Committees too often rubber stamp these ingenious schemes with little real scrutiny.
(18) The final bill will most likely crack down on states that give recipients $1 in heating assistance in order to trigger higher food stamp benefits, a change that wouldn't take people completely off the rolls.
(19) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(20) Buy-to-let investors rush to complete before stamp duty rise Read more Even Osborne’s form of penalising the market, through higher stamp duty, makes no sense.
Stamper
Definition:
(n.) One who stamps.
(n.) An instrument for pounding or stamping.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
(2) In a recent murine study of 13 lymphoma lines, we found that lymphomas that bind well to high endothelial venules, in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay (an assay of lymphocyte binding to venules in frozen sections of peripheral lymph nodes or Peyer's patches), spread hematogenously to all high endothelial venule bearing lymphoid organs, whereas non-binding lymphomas did not.
(3) The investigation of sanitary working conditions of stampers and blacksmiths revealed that intense impulse noise of complex time and stochatic structure was a major health adverse factor.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy Sheriff David Stamper on patrol in Beattyville.
(5) Mononuclear cells isolated from paired blood and synovial fluid of seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis showed cytoadherence to porcine Peyer's patch high endothelial venules using the Stamper-Woodruff method.
(6) The most outlandish idea discussed by Stamper was to hire mercenaries to rescue Abacha's son Mohammed from a prison cell in Nigeria.The operation never got past the planning stage.
(7) Applications of these new microscopes to technology are demonstrated with images of an optical disk stamper, a diffraction grating, a thin-film magnetic recording head, and a diamond cutting tool.
(8) Metal stampers pressed against either side, and it was quickly cooled to 40C.
(9) The private eye A former member of the Territorial Army SAS, Jonathan Stamper was instructed by lawyers for the Abachas to "dig the dirt" on the legitimate Nigerian government's national security adviser and attorney general, and a Swiss-based financier working with them, who were seeking to have some of the looted funds from the frozen bank accounts returned in a London civil case.
(10) Quantitative neutrophil to lung adhesive interactions were examined using an adaptation of the Woodruff-Stamper frozen section binding assay.
(11) A modification of the in vitro "homing assay" described by Stamper and Woodruff (J Exp Med 144: 823) was used.
(12) Employing the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro adhesion assay, which measures lymphocyte attachment to HEV in cryostat-cut sections of lymphoid organs, we have previously shown that treatment of PN sections with two different sialidases inactivates HEV-adhesive ligands, whereas treatment of PP tissue sections has no effect on HEV-adhesive function.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy Sherrif David Stamper stops off at the Saturday local college basketball game.
(14) Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and member of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition , said he was very happy.
(15) Stamper and his partner William Biedleman decided to sub-contract much of the work to another private eye, telling him on the phone that the strategy was "to apply pressure to this subject ... to get him to back down in being so supportive in litigation against the client ... and that really comes down to anything we can find out about it so whether he has personal assets hidden away that he has squandered or fraudulently got from previous dealings in Nigeria ... whether he had any vices at all."
(16) The mother is then used to create several mirror-image “sons”, or “stampers”, which are taken to the presses to imprint the grooves on heated vinyl.
(17) It turned out that Stamper's phone calls were being taped by the other side, and his deeds eventually came out in court.
(18) In every way examined, lymphocyte attachment to PPME beads (measured by flow cytofluorometry) mimics the interaction of lymphocytes with PN HEV (measured in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay): both interactions are selectively inhibited by the same panel of structurally related carbohydrates, are calcium-dependent, and are sensitive to mild treatment of the lymphocytes with trypsin.
(19) In a judgment in February, Lord Justice Rix described the use of Stamper's firm Alpha Bravo as "unscrupulous and perhaps illegal".