(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
(3) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(4) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(5) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(6) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
(7) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(8) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
(9) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(10) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(11) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
(12) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(13) In just a week her life has been turned upside down.
(14) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(15) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
(16) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
(17) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(18) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(19) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(20) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
Turney
Definition:
(n. & v.) Tourney.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mrs Turney, who lives near Maidenhead, Berkshire, downloaded a model complaint letter from a website after watching a TV documentary about bank charges.
(2) The film included an interview with Faye Turney, the only woman among the group, who apologised for "trespassing" into Iranian waters.
(3) Mrs Turney says she has written to the manager who wrote the letter to say she thinks Nationwide is being "short-sighted".
(4) A Foreign Office spokesman tonight expressed "grave concern" at the way Ms Turney had been interviewed.
(5) It also showed a handwritten letter purporting to be by leading seaman Turney to her parents, saying she had "written a letter to the Iranian people to apologise for us entering into their waters".
(6) One study, said Turney, aimed to provide a new view of the entire planet's ocean circulation which could offer "a legacy of the expedition that will last years after our return."
(7) We have previously reported that rearward migration of surface particles on slowly moving cells is not driven by membrane flow (Sheetz, M. P., S. Turney, H. Qian, and E. L. Elson.
(8) Chris Turney, head of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, says in an article in the Observer that despite the rescue of those on board the Akademik Shikolskiy , the expedition's research ship that has been trapped in ice since Christmas Eve, there was a "growing sense of frustration over what appears to be a misrepresentation of the expedition in some news outlets and on the internet".
(9) "To me, that was admitting they were in the wrong," says Mrs Turney, who is still waiting for her money.
(10) Dressed in a headscarf and smoking a cigarette, Ms Turney said she had been well treated by "friendly and hospitable" people.
(11) Michele Turney incurred the wrath of Nationwide after she and her husband successfully claimed back £1,100 in bank charges going back six years.
(12) Earlier, Mr Mottaki had suggested that Leading seaman Turney, the only woman among the 15 captives, would be released "as soon as possible", although this is hardly likely to defuse a crisis which appeared to escalate by the hour yesterday.
(13) The Foreign Office reacted furiously to the video, calling it "completely unacceptable" and expressed "grave concerns" about the conditions under which Leading seaman Faye Turney was persuaded to admit on film that the 15-strong British naval patrol had strayed into Iranian territory last Friday.
(14) Nationwide's executive director, Stuart Bernau, says that, having seen the letters sent to Mrs Turney, he accepts that "this is not a co-ordinated way to deal with people.
(15) Iranian television also showed a handwritten letter, apparently from Ms Turney to her parents, in which she said she regretted being taking into custody by Iranian naval forces.
(16) A Foreign Office spokesman said of the video broadcast last night: "Given the nature of Leading seaman Faye Turney's statement and the apparent confession that the personnel were 'arrested after they trespassed into Iranian waters' we have grave concerns about the circumstances under which she made this statement."
(17) "Given the nature of Leading Seaman Faye Turney's statement, particularly the apparent concession that the personnel were 'arrested after they trespassed into Iranian waters', we have grave concerns as to the circumstances under which she made this statement," the spokesman said.
(18) Mr Mottaki however appeared to back away from suggestions that Leading seaman Turney was about to be released and said Britain must admit its personnel had made a mistake.
(19) Leading seaman Turney was shown wearing a headscarf and makeup, and smoking while giving an account of the incident, which was translated and voiced over in the broadcast.
(20) Even though Nationwide has shown her the door, Mrs Turney says she would have no hesitation in urging others to follow her example.