(1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
(2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
(3) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(4) 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.
(5) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(6) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
(7) Each transducer head was wiped clean with a single alcohol wipe, allowed to dry, and then cultured.
(8) 'To returning forests we could reintroduce animals that have been wiped out across much or all of this land.'
(9) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
(10) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(11) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
(12) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
(13) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
(14) Hundreds of people, including a former politician seeking re-election, a paedophile and a doctor, have applied to have details about them wiped from Google's search index since the ruling last Tuesday .
(15) Coupled with the global decline in oil prices and a costly pipeline deal with Sudan that allows its northern neighbour to charge South Sudan a fixed rate of $25 a barrel, the bulk of government revenues – and the country’s sole source of foreign exchange – has been virtually wiped out.
(16) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
(17) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
(18) Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of global carmakers amid growing concerns that emissions tests may have been rigged across the industry.
(19) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
(20) Wipe tests were performed on designated areas for two 1-wk periods approximately 6 mo apart.
Wisping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wisp
Example Sentences:
(1) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
(2) The water layer (2 ml = 5 ml milk) was injected onto a Polymer Laboratories PLRP-S column using a WISP autosampler with the solvent, 0.01 M pH 7.0 phosphate buffer (A).
(3) Nutritional status was evaluated according to Gómez, intellectual performance according to Weschler's scale (WISP and WISC tests), psychomotor development according to the Denver Developmental Screening Test and PSAC according to a numerical scale constructed from maternal I.Q.
(4) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
(5) The structure stained is approximately spherical, but wisps of faint fluorescence also extend into the body of the spindle.
(6) Amyloid of the classical plaque periphery appears as amyloid wisps.
(7) Kewell looks like that kid from the TV show Third Rock from the Sun - he's an ineffective wisp of a player and they should rid themselves of his services next season.
(8) constant number of merozoites in mature schizonts,--the disposition of the pigment, well apart from the parasitic mass to which it is linked by a tiny wisp of cytoplasm,--the normal host erythrocyte, the shape, size and colour of which are unaltered.
(9) On my third day I was at the Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre with my sister Katie, a documentary film-maker who was accompanying me, when I reached out to tuck a wisp of her hair that had come loose.
(10) Her hands wave violently around wisps of Afro that have escaped her do.
(11) The glowing doors of megastores are drawing us in with Pied Piped muzak and will-o’-the-wisp Christmas deals.
(12) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(13) Most amyloid wisps are isolated between astrocytic processes proliferating and penetrating into the plaque.
(14) Filmy wisps of tissue, presumably intimal flaps, were commonly visualized after angioplasty.
(15) The scientists will not only look for wimps, but also weakly interacting slim particles, or wisps.
(16) Another option is a member of the wisp family of particles called an axion.
(17) They conjure up the skillet on the open fire; will‑o'‑the-wisps over a pitch black bog; the purple heath.
(18) Kicking off his own Twitter stream yesterday with a vintage image of himself and the words " hi im prince ", the Purple One proceeded to upload his very first selfie, which turned out to be a few wisps of smoke.
(19) Watch Kerry Godliman's routine here Jokes and standup routines are mercurial little will-o'-the-wisps.
(20) Normal collagen fibrils are infrequent; they are in part replaced by wisps of nondiscrete material, possibly immature collagen.