(v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
(v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
(p. p.) Alt. of Stopen
Example Sentences:
(1) Marie Stopes estimates that , as a result of the reimposition of the global gag order, the loss of their services alone could result in 6.5m unintended pregnancies during Trump’s first term, 2.1m unsafe abortions, and 21,700 maternal deaths.
(2) But right now none of that is the problem: the problem is that this amendment expressly removes the right of organisations such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to impart information.
(3) Marie Stopes described the rise as small but warned that the figures sent a warning for the government's family planning strategy.
(4) An amendment that Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries and Labour's Frank Field have put forward to the health bill would strip abortion providers such as Marie Stopes of their pregnancy counselling roles, opening them up to tenders from "independent" organisations.
(5) The Dorries amendment would have stripped non-statutory abortion providers such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) from offering counselling to women.
(6) All but 10 are run by the charities Marie Stopes and BPAS which, under the Dorries amendment, could be stripped of their counselling role.
(7) The prime minister, David Cameron, was at first said to be sympathetic to Dorries's view that women should be offered independent advice, but he became persuaded by the view of campaigners that the planned amendment would prevent abortion providers such as Marie Stopes from giving counselling.
(8) Charities including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes offer the compulsory counselling women must undertake before they make a decision on termination.
(9) Tracey McNeill, the director of Marie Stopes UK and Europe, said: "We work very much within a legal framework; we comply with all the CQC regulations.
(10) The CQC, which sent officials to clinics including those run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Marie Stopes and the NHS, is expected to publish its findings within weeks.
(11) Dawn Purvis, director of Marie Stopes Northern Ireland, said: "We are hugely disappointed that the women of Northern Ireland, who are citizens of the UK, remain unable to access the same services from the NHS as their mainland counterparts.
(12) The results therefore suggest that an inward calcium ion current may play a role in the development of digitalis-induced increase in the stope of phase 4 depolarization in Purkinje fibers.
(13) Dr Paula Franklin, medical director of Marie Stopes, which like the BPAS has contracts to provide terminations on the NHS , said she was concerned that the heightened scrutiny was having an effect on "existing clinics and on doctors and nurses who come every day to the centres, many of whom have to navigate through sometimes angry – sometimes not – protesters.
(14) "Marie Stopes International and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service have similar interests.
(15) "The idea that BPAS or Marie Stopes are colluding to make a profit is wrong.
(16) Hundreds of young and vulnerable women seeking abortions are to be sent to other clinics after some services run by Marie Stopes International were suspended because of inspectors’ safety concerns.
(17) In a statement, the chief executive, Simon Cooke, said: “As of today Marie Stopes UK has agreed with the Care Quality Commission to voluntarily suspend some of its termination of pregnancy services.
(18) The government has announced a change in the rules to ensure that women are also offered counselling provided independently of the charity-run services, such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes.
(19) A statement from Marie Stopes said it fully supported "the desire of the Department of Health and others to ensure that women seeking termination of pregnancy from any provider - including the NHS - receive care which is appropriate and falls with the legal framework.
(20) Marie Stopes said none of its 19 units was found to have breached the rules, while BPAS said that to the best of its knowledge none of its clinics was involved.
Stove
Definition:
() of Stave
() imp. of Stave.
(n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
(n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(2) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
(3) We have attempted to develop the studies initiated by Poindexter,Stove and Stanier, and Schmidt and Stanier (16, 17, 20) with the Caulobacter genus so that these bacteria can serve as a model system for prokaryotic differentiation.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) Airborne particles from living rooms which were heated by stoves, or by fire places, and from outdoors were collected simultaneously.
(6) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(7) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(8) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(9) An increasing number of families in the United States are converting to woodburning stoves in an effort to reduce winter heating bills.
(10) These individuals have frequently reduced mobility and may risk falling while filling their stoves.
(11) Kelly said it was mostly up to governments to curb pollution levels, through legislation, measures such as moving power stations away from big cities and providing cheap alternatives to indoor wood and coal stoves.
(12) "I have a gas stove, so with a little bit of a flame the gas worked, and we are, we had dinner, we had our coffee, so we were ok." Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
(13) Stoves were the main specified ignition agent for nightclothes (36%).
(14) Backing an initiative by Merseyside-based kitchen appliance firm Stoves for a new Made in Britain mark, Miliband said they were "three words we don't hear enough, or see enough".
(15) A conventional stove, manufactured in the Boise area, was tested at altitudes of 90 and 825 m. A catalytic stove was tested only at the high altitude facility.
(16) Kerosene pressure stove accidents occurred commonly in the age group 16-35 years and were rare in other age groups.
(17) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
(18) He conceded that the flat was heated with coal stoves and said it was directly above a flat that a neighbouring tenant rented just for his dogs.
(19) ‘I hope the stove works’ Recent letters appear to show how militants are currently idealising elements of jihadi culture.
(20) They are minute, it's true – no amount of creative photography can conceal the proximity of the beds to the stoves or indeed the toilets.