(v. t.) To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re not going to leave any stone unturned and the pressure will be on nationally and internationally.
(2) Julian Hall, who was protesting with others from Lambeth United Housing Co-Operative , said: "We want to leave no stone unturned in our campaign and tonight we wanted to make sure that Labour's frontbench and others got the message loud and clear."
(3) "[The ISI] will leave no stone unturned in helping to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice," it said.
(4) On a bid of this size… we wanted to leave no stone unturned and that is what we did."
(5) MacGillivray said the charity would leave no stone unturned in its investigation into how the nurse, who works in South Lanarkshire, contracted Ebola .
(6) "We expect to have a candid and open discussion with the US attorney's office and then we'll take it from there, but I promise you we will not leave one stone unturned."
(7) We will leave no stone unturned in our bid to get young people out to vote.” Opinium Research carried out an online survey of 1,966 adults from 29 Mar-1 Apr
(8) We have left no stone unturned to date and ... We believe it is an appalling miscarriage of justice for Indonesia to proceed with the execution of these men,” he told Sky News.
(9) It should have a remit broad enough to ensure no stone will be left unturned.
(10) No rock or backpack is being left unturned,” Dutton said.
(11) The title is No Stone Unturned but in fact the review delivers more of the same.
(12) Because of this very serious event, we’ve put in an extraordinary review to ensure that we do everything and leave no stone unturned to as far as is possible to identify the source of this infection,” he said.
(13) "They've left very few stones unturned in North Korea," said Anthony Brunello, a professor at Eckerd College in Florida, who has studied totalitarian propaganda methods.
(14) "The United States and the international community must leave no stone unturned to free the archbishops and halt sectarian violence."
(15) In a statement, Steven McCraw, director of the state's Department of Public Safety, said he would ensure that "no stone goes unturned" as investigators sought to discover what caused the explosion.
(16) As you may have read or heard, the former DPM's report to David Cameron – called No Stone Unturned; it's out today – wants a national growth council to promote long-term economic strategy.
(17) No stone was left unturned by the damning report outlining systematic and state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics .
(18) Paul Farrelly asked him to comment on the claim by former assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, who led the original inquiry, that they had left no stone unturned.
(19) Müller, who has been promoted from his role as boss of Porsche, pledged to leave “no stone unturned” and “maximum transparency” in an investigation into how the company cheated emissions tests on diesel cars.
(20) My most urgent task is to win back trust for the Volkswagen Group – by leaving no stone unturned and with maximum transparency, as well as drawing the right conclusions from the current situation,” Müller said.
Upturn
Definition:
(v. t.) To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Auto demand remains depressed and it is very difficult to predict an upturn in the market right now."
(2) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.
(3) The government’s upcoming National Innovation Plan needs to address this vital issue.” Month-on-month figures showed a slight improvement in activity, chiming with official data that shows a recent upturn in manufacturing output.
(4) The upturned two-party system was tired and prone to cronyism, but it had one major advantage: much like Britain, it almost always produced stable governments.
(5) Another passenger finally pulled her on to the upturned boat.
(6) "However, the upturn in the supply side of the market continues to lag far behind, with the number of new homes being built in England still around 40% below pre-crisis levels, and this was already insufficient to keep up with the increase in the number of households being formed."
(7) The Hamburg result marks a welcome upturn for the SPD, which has struggled nationally since the former SPD chancellor Gerhard Schröder dissolved his coalition government with the Greens in 2005.
(8) It was only by calling a temporary halt to austerity and pumping up the housing market that he was able to rescue his reputation and lay the ground for the upturn that saved his and David Cameron’s bacon last month.
(9) A tandem translocation of chromosome 13-46,XXdup13(q21 leads to qter)--occurred de novo in a patient with the following features: normal birthweight; early feeding difficulties; mild psychomotor retardation; low set hairline on the forehead; thick eyebrows; long, upturned eyelashes; pointed nose; micrognathia; large, flat, posteriorly rotated ears; multiple hemangiomata; normal hematological status.
(10) Findings common to both and typical for this chromosome aberration include a narrow protruding forehead, hypertelorism, non-horizontal position of the eyes, ptosis, strabismus, broad root, and short upturned tip of thenose, carp mouth, receding chin, misshapen ears, simian creases, and severe mental retardation.
(11) The weak UK trading comes despite a revival in the housing market and mortgage approvals, which usually signal an upturn for Carpetright's business.
(12) They focus people's minds and we're definitely getting an upturn in the number of inquiries."
(13) Just as Brown was basking in a rare upturn in the polls following Barack Obama's visit, he has been derailed.
(14) Christine Kasoulis, the chain's buying director for home, said: "John Lewis is well positioned to capture any upturn in the housing market."
(15) Lagarde was speaking hours after the IMF trimmed its growth forecast for the world economy in 2013, noting that the upturn was now expected to be more gradual than expected three months ago.
(16) Away from a largely house-price fuelled upturn in London and the south-east, another nation lurks behind the veneer of prosperity portrayed by senior ministers talking up recovery.
(17) The broad-base of the upturn across manufacturing output and services activity is encouraging.
(18) Young people are also failing to feel the benefit of the upturn, with youth unemployment 9,000 higher in May to July than three months earlier, at 960,000.
(19) "Clearly there is an upturn in the advertising market at the moment and of course that is helpful," he said.
(20) Adams continued the restructuring of Corus set in motion by his predecessor, Philippe Varin, and has been helped by the economic upturn this year.