(v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.
Example Sentences:
(1) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(2) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(3) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
(4) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
(5) The websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were brought down; so too the Swedish government's.
(6) (Incidentally, Australia had just revoked Blanc’s visa).
(7) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
(8) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
(9) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(10) And there are consequences for the more than 30,000 asylum seekers already here, whom the Coalition says will never get permanent visas and who, at the moment, are being denied any visas or work rights or certainty because of a political standoff over the Coalition’s policy to give them “temporary protection visas” instead.
(11) She feared her chances of being offered a place would be diminished by a Brexit vote, and the practical considerations like a visa and funding would be more of an obstacle.
(12) About 2,200 Syrians were granted offshore humanitarian visas to Australia in 2014-15, up from 1,007 the previous year.
(13) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.
(14) Demonstrations are planned in the capitals of Spain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Peru to demand Assange's release, the re-establishment of the WikiLeaks domain name and the restoration of Visa and Mastercard credit services to allow supporters to donate money to the whistleblowing site.
(15) It is understood that some labour agents pay kafeels as much as $500 per visa, in effect a kickback from the fee the labour agent charges the worker for their visa, which the worker raises by borrowing or selling assets in their home country.
(16) The American photographer Alec Soth was told he could risk two years in prison if he took any photos in the UK without a work visa.
(17) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(18) Once this visa had been received, the parents took their new babies home – to Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Japan, the US.
(19) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
(20) Childs said Castro told him Oswald "stormed into the embassy, demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him headed out saying, 'I'm going to kill Kennedy for this'."
Visor
Definition:
(n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
(n.) A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
(n.) The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(2) Visor osteotomies of various designs, supplemented with illiac bone grafts, were used to augment 63 cases of severely atrophic mandibles.
(3) This is a report on the long term results of Visor-Sandwich Osteotomy.
(4) I'm slightly annoyed that you can't wave at people or flash at them - we ought to be like bikers and raise our visors.
(5) Visor said the shooting victim spent his time collecting cans and kicking a soccer ball.
(6) Stricter enforcement of rules and more widespread use of visors would reduce the number of facial injuries.
(7) Rarely wearing hats, visors, or sunglasses while in the sun was a risk factor for the disease (relative risk, 1.9; 95 per cent confidence interval, 1.6 to 2.2).
(8) "The instruction came to put your visors down, and everyone's shields come up then," said a 35-year-old sergeant.
(9) Three hundred people literally came round the corner into the side street and started attacking us … Because I had my visor down, it was like watching a TV screen."
(10) One wears a flat cap, one wields a sledgehammer, one has a welder's visor.
(11) Outside, the din of ambulances would not be noteworthy until the driver and passenger appear in regulation yellow overalls, mask, goggles, hood and visor.
(12) Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.” Taking off the protective suits, gloves and visors at the end of a shift inside the high-risk red zone of the centre is the most dangerous time.
(13) The Central Security Forces – suddenly back on the streets as the "Anti-Riots Troops", with brand new visored helmets and longer, more supple sticks – opened barriers and let us pass through their Holy of Holies, the street that runs between the American and the British embassies.
(14) 92 patients, 31 with and 61 without signs of metabolic bone loss, were treated with a combined sandwich-visor osteotomy.
(15) A reduction of minor and moderate injuries should be possible by stricter enforcement of the hockey rules, and more widespread use of visors.
(16) Photograph: Warner Bros “For my first scene where I walk up to Tobey’s character in the party and take off my little visor and say, ‘I thought I’d see you here,’ there really were 400 extras, and seven cameras on cranes,” she remembers of her first day on The Great Gatsby set.
(17) A method is described in which the visor osteotomy and the vestibuloplasty are performed in one stage.
(18) Cafferkey was trained in the UK in the use of personal protective equipment, including a visor.
(19) Youths in hooded track suit tops and scarves over their faces were also shining laser pens into the faces of visored PSNI riot squad officers as well as the police helicopter hovering above, which was used on Saturday to identify a gunman in nearby Newtownards Road.
(20) Visor and Grant, a couple, said that they have been living in one of those tents for about a month, since moving to San Francisco from Colorado about a month ago.