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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.

Turnkey


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.
  • (n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data from magnetic tapes written on a turnkey laboratory system are used as the basis for generating the archival tapes.
  • (2) The point we should derive from Snowden’s revelations – a point originally expressed in March 2013 by William Binney, a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician – is that the NSA’s Utah Data Center will amount to a “turnkey” system that, in the wrong hands, could transform the country into a totalitarian state virtually overnight.
  • (3) Although many hospitals subscribe to abstract or turnkey systems, others are leaving shared services to set up their own in-house systems.
  • (4) SMLMs are delivered as turnkey systems consisting of the microfiche collection, a reader-printer, four fiche readers, necessary furniture, and promotional and training materials.
  • (5) Major software advances have taken place through the availability of applications packages that are operated with menu-driven or point-and-click user interfaces, data flow languages, or complete turnkey applications.
  • (6) The third approach is to purchase a turnkey system, with some modifications provided by the manufacturer for a specific clinical application.
  • (7) It provides an effective shell for custom software prototyping and turnkey applications.
  • (8) Right now it’s designed for peak saving, so we charge them at night when the grid is stable and electricity is cheap and discharge during the day.” John Jung, CEO of Greensmith, a supplier of turnkey energy storage systems, says this application is the most common in energy storage, with the majority of large-scale customers being more interested in reliability and cost reductions.
  • (9) I have found that with the hardware and software described in this paper, I was able to obtain, in a much more cost-effective manner, as useful preoperative information for my practice as I could obtain with more expensive "turnkey" (only one use) computerized imaging systems.
  • (10) Hidden away in offices of various government departments, intelligence agencies, police forces and armed forces are dozens and dozens of people who are very much upset by what our societies are turning into: at the very least, turnkey tyrannies.
  • (11) Although turnkey systems may offer significant economies for single well-defined and repetitive tasks, they may not permit sufficient flexibility to achieve the diverse aims required by many research programs.

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