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Sentence Examples A spotlight appeared on all four screens and a shadowy figure walked into it. A King and Queen are chosen every six months in a crown tourney fought with sticks to decide the King or Queen, and consort. Ile des Chenes did not win a game at the tourney but came away with the experience of a lifetime. George Washington, which faltered after a brilliant start, will be a tough matchup in the league tourney. But in a tourney loaded with talent, anything can happen on the final day when pressure is at its peak. A perioperative success is freedom from a tourniquet injury, not just the task of applying the tourniquet. Use a microwave oven or counterop appliances instead of your stove top or oven. Drain blood from the finger and apply a tourniquet using a rubber band or a small Penrose drain at the base of the affected digit. The men in this novel are mostly shadowy figures who seem to appear at the right moment to fill out a necessary niche. Hackneyed, undisciplined and utterly rubbish, it ended with a shadowy stranger in black springing Myers from prison for no discernible reason. An alert Sailor called for someone to summon the corpsman and then he dropped to the deck to close off the blood loss by use of a tourniquet. Frequently he would return to the ward at night to check a plaster or that a tourniquet had not been left in situ inadvertently. Polonius becomes a shadowy figure, though he is openly identified as Claudius's co-conspirator in the murder of Hamlet's father. There is a lot of gambling on the tourney, but it's the friendly, friction free kind that even novices can get involved in. For limb wounds, a pneumatic tourniquet should be used if possible to reduce blood loss. Hence, the play-in game would be considered part of the tourney, and participants would receive a full share of tournament revenues. Actually he made just one bad move in the whole tournament and this wasn't exactly a short tourney. Not surprisingly, Bob and I immediately got into a pickup 1830 game in preparation for the 1830 tourney to begin that night. These days, you just might hear bloodcurdling screams coming from one of the shadowy side streets, where a grizzly murder is indeed taking place. It was Halloween, 1999, when a mysterious, shadowy figure appeared on the Montreal music scene. Show More Sentences Next door to the proposed site is a massive electrical substation with overhead power cables carrying 33,000 volts. Make a complete volte or turn about on the toe of the right, bringing the left foot well behind it. For example, the belief that radio waves or microwaves can be used to cause a person to hear voices transmitted to him seems unlikely. You will be questioned as to how often you invite guests for meals and whether you have a microwave oven, a refrigerator and a deep freezer. Soften the butter briefly in a warm place in the kitchen or in a microwave oven until very soft but not melted. I would also point out that many of our clients can't cook their own meals and don't own a microwave oven. Doctors warned today of the dangers of eggs exploding after being heated in a microwave oven and leading to serious injuries. Master Kit had shown up as usual, watching me from across a narrow, shadowy street, propped against the bins outside a shabby grocery. Many surgeons use a tourniquet around the thigh, which reduces blood flow around the knee. The doctor uses a hand or a tourniquet to temporarily block off the blood flow in the veins. Governors and headteachers will soon have a contractual duty of care to the work-life balance of teachers. There were two lamps hanging from the ceiling near the door that gave the place a strange shadowy glow. We take our responsibilities very seriously and must be seen to put safety first and exercise a proper duty of care. His hair is a shadowy shade of black and his eyes are a dark brown, nearly black. Laois County Council say they have a duty of care to house people, but they also have a duty of care to people already housed. The Prison Service has a duty of care to its prisoners and also a duty to protect society. You owe a duty of care to the ex-employee in providing a reference to a prospective employer. The rain had lessened to a drizzle, and an eerie, shadowy mist hung around the trees. Consumers should be aware that there is a duty of care imposed on each insurance policy holder. So, if you want to get ripped off, get your holiday money from a tour operator, travel agent or bureau de change. Show More Sentences He looked tired, his blond hair was tousled from sleep, and he had somehow found a loud orange shirt and green trousers. I saw a friend and she had tourtiere for dinner, except without meat and with seitan instead, so it actually tasted good. If booking your dives through a tour operator or travel agent in Britain, ask their advice for reputable dive centres. Similarly, bring any problems about a package holiday immediately to the attention of the tour operator's representative at the resort. The company is a tour operator and central reservation office for European tourists to Namibia. You have formed a contract with the tour operator or the airline, depending on whether you booked a package holiday or flights only. It's that overall volume that counts if you're thinking of travelling with a major tour operator. But that is not stopping any potential owner of a frost-free refrigerator or a microwave oven. Just like microwaves from a microwave oven, they pass right through the food and leave no direct contamination. Like most clays, bentonite is a hydrated compound of aluminium and silicon oxides, but it differs in ways that are useful to wine-makers. He has a few rounds of shadow-boxing with Ahriman, recites some metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, and that's it. Sedimentary rocks such as mudstones often contain a variety of clay minerals, including swelling clays such as bentonite. However, of late I've taken to using a bentwood chair on set, but I am writing my next film so I'll be getting the old chair out again. The old guy was still up, sitting on his bentwood chair, and gave me a knowing nod as I passed him. Later, a German designer started using bentwood rods to construct the frames of chairs and other furniture. Its curved frame suggests almost a modern reinterpretation of the bentwood chair. In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency. My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration. Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each. Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready. Show More Sentences The former Labour Chancellor may quit politics rather than take a Shadow Cabinet job. The new targets relate to a number of chemicals including benzene, carbon monoxide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Its most toxic ingredient is benzene, a volatile organic compound that increases the risk of cancer. City traffic is a significant source of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, benzene, and carbon monoxide. This species substitutes for a proton on an electron rich carbon in the benzene ring. A derivation of this technique is to use the silica in combination with a microwave oven. If you have cold leftover cooked potatoes, plain or mashed, reheat them in a microwave oven until steaming, then measure. Soften the palm sugar in a microwave oven at high heat for about 10 seconds. Like 220 volts of current being forced through a 110-volt kitchen appliance, the system is becoming overloaded, and the smoke is rising. This a distribution power line, and the utility crews have told me that these sorts of lines normally carry 7,600 volts of electricity. It is defined as the energy lost or gained by an electron as it passes through a potential difference of one volt. They created electricity running at 10 volts with a milliamp current, enough to power a small lightbulb. At the rear of the engine is a pair of rectangular metal grids that are charged with 6,000 volts of electric potential. The characteristic voltage is about 2 volts per cell, so by combining six cells you get a 12-volt battery. He could have written her an email, or sent her a text message, or opened a social media e-chat dialogue. Those are fighting words in a nearly half-Latino city where Tex-Mex restaurants outnumber all others. People can take what they can from 15 minutes with the object rather than 15 minutes with a textbook. Five years after this textbook was published, this result became a different result! In this study, over 1,200 people were texted five times a day over the course of three days. One artistic embrace of the textile comes with a specific political message. Show More Sentences Seriously, if a strange girl is texting you at midnight, how is your girlfriend crazy for asking who it is? I had recently attended a wedding because a text message had referenced some questionable behavior. The sounds of text message and voicemail notifications were a clear indictor that we were back to reality. The emblem of the Beijing Olympics, resembling a five-pointed star in the colours of the Olympic rings, represents a person doing traditional shadow-boxing. He refers to this picture as a shadowgraph rather than a mirage for there are elements of truth of the commerce and industry picture that partially explains its persistence. The most powerful image was of a dark, shadowy, dangerous city. I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees. Within a matter of five minutes, a shadowy figure appeared in the room. In real life the woman is a performance artist distinguished by her striking pallor, but in this portrait she exists as a shadowy and mysterious character. Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world. You know, it's easy for people, oh, he's a tout and informer. Everyone did a 200 meter time trial to seed for the tourney. Do not use a tourniquet or try to cut or suck the venom from the wound. The landowner has a duty of care to the community dependent upon him. We have a duty of care to our pupils and we can't put pupils at risk. We believe government has a duty of care to provide safe and efficient public transport for all the populace, and to properly maintain its infrastructure. Employers have a duty of care that extends beyond the workplace. If you're on a package, the first step is to consult your tour operator. The matsu bento features attractive tuna and salmon sashimi, accompanied by a butterfly shrimp and zucchini tempura with a side bowl of dipping sauce. In areas that have a limited clay source, bentonite can be mixed with certain soils and compacted into place, forming a free-swelling water barrier. Show More Sentences I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent. In 1933, while researching the effects of high pressure on chemical reactants, a fellow scientist managed to produce a waxy solid from ethylene and benzaldehyde. I have to take a drug called Klonopin, which is like a Benzedrine. It was soon after the job of running CNN Worldwide became available that Jeff Zucker got a text message. A few days later, he received a text message purportedly from Dawn explaining that she was leaving town. How a text messaging service is getting aid to the most remote areas hit by Sandy. All to see what kind of textual support might emerge, to endorse a reading of this dream. Bork's textualism was also not likely to overturn a ton of democratically created laws. What emerges is as complex and textured as any novel while providing a primer on the use of power in a democracy. But I think even a long, detailed, textured article would come in the end to two questions and two fairly clear answers. This was the perfect inspiration to create a hot chocolate so thick and textured the spoon was actually necessary. Electromagnetic radiation is a term that describes energy waves and includes microwaves, infrared and visible light, as well as ultraviolet light and X-rays. Plastic syringes can be heat sterilized in a microwave oven. Food cooked in a microwave oven does not present a radiation risk. If you have booked with a charter airline, contact the travel agent or tour operator through which you booked the flight to find out if it is still operating. His usual gelled hair was tousled into a mess, his skin pale and pallid. One boy with a shock of blond hair tousled her hair affectionately. The wind tousled his hair and it became a little messy, and I laughed. Typically the index and middle fingers move inward on nonparallel planes so as to approach the thumb in a three-jaw chuck fashion. But in text messaging and chat, this is a harder thing to pull off. Show More Sentences Our goal is to bring global awareness to a Peruvian textile industry. The lengths of the lesions were measured using Biovis image analyzer software and summated to give a total lesion score. Graphically, the estimated survival curves for a particular scheme will be nonparallel to that of the reference Federal-CSS scheme. In a short statement early today by Chairman of the Alliance Ibrahim al-Jaffari, the conferees evaluated the first parliamentary meeting. The Senate last week named 12 conferees who will have the task of finding agreement with the House on a new five-year farm bill. John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, mentions Grosseteste's struggle to create a similar device. Now, the conflict between the Arabs using sectarianism and confessionalism as a pretext. The nonoxygenated samples were exposed to a headspace of pure nitrogen for 30 min. They're not near as likely to let you get that close, but if you get them in a summer-fallow field, you can run them down on a horse sometimes. The shop is an agent for Anna French, Nina Campbell, Nono and a number of other high-quality wallpaper manufacturers. The reader got a virus, possibly from downloading it at a nonofficial site, but it's hard to be sure. Rallying a bit, he asked me and his two middle-aged, nonobservant children to sing the Nunc Dimittis. We used a hemocytometer with trypan blue exclusion to obtain total cell counts. Camelina sativa is a non-food, low-input energy crop that can be grown as a rotation crop in place of summer fallow to generate new farm income. Out of 194 students who appeared for the Summative Assessment, 39 scored a perfect 10 CGPA and 53 students got CGPA 9 and above. A series of works on paper and encaustic summating a year of resolving relationships with my creativity, family relationships and moving forward. One textual arrow might seem to point in a different direction. House and Senate conferees are putting the final touches on a compromise budget plan, and Congress is expected to quickly enact the final budget agreement. Platelets are small nonnucleated blood cells that have a vital role in hemostasis and thrombosis and are produced in the bone marrow from megakaryocytes. If banks continue holding bad loans that have become nonoperational, Japan's economy will be unable to begin a full recovery, Hubbard was quoted as telling Yanagisawa. Show More Sentences Some of us were taught that anger was a confessable sin, and as one of the Seven Deadlies you really didn't want to die with this one on your soul. Examples from Classical Literature She had more than three miles of testimonials, if all had been written out in a line in text hand and measured. Not fifty feet away lay a blue dory, heavy and loggy with water, and in the bottom the unconscious figure of a man. There was no sign of any damage to the boat, but the loggy way in which it moved showed that it had shipped a lot of water. In that case we have a good illustration of the use of the logia in Matthew and Luke. The learned Dean has been sneered at for a supposed sentimental and effeminate attachment to the textus receptus. And, logically, why could there not be a state of being not all Death, but only with some of its elements? I lie wakeful in the dark and try to reason out a logicalness or poetry in a thing so artfully pestilential. Which ideal simplicity and logicalness has become such a fish-bone stuck in our throats. This, however, was not felt as a want, at least not to the extent of inspiring a textile. It went against his grain to imagine that a mathematician could be a logician. The cattle were lazy and logy from water, often admitting of riding within a rod, thus rendering the brands readable at a glance. The canvas is rather a logy, limp sort of craft, to my thinking, and liable to drown her crew if swamped. The fish are runnin' smaller an' smaller, an' you've took baout as logy a halibut's we're apt to find this trip. In the shifting breeze it swayed sluggishly, heavily, as if riding at anchor like a logy ship of the air. What a change for logistic which talks only of classes and classes of classes! This, however, is a point of textual criticism, which leaves the general sense the same in any case. Imagine how a page of logistic would look upon suppressing all the propositions where it is a question of class. That disputed territory is only a small part of what the texian cession would be. Readers who want to see the corrections can do so by looking at the html code in a text editor. For that, a transformation of logistic was necessary, and Russell in particular has modified on certain points his original views. Show More Sentences Later, it was raised to a more eminent dignity by conferring on it the title of logistic. Passepartout could not behold without a certain fright these women, charged, in groups, with conferring happiness on a single Mormon. Whether you have a mini Michelangelo in the making or a footballer of the future, you can help them put their skills to good use at summer camp. We have summer camps, created a century and a half ago by professional educators to bolster classroom education. All those shacks I saw only a month or so ago dotting the lakes are already put in storage, the summer cottage for many a spider. David and Jenett Wilne say that their pub shed, Hartley's Bar, is built from a converted summer house. Yobs broke into a summer house at the Rowley Lane Pre-School, behind Rowley Lane Junior and Infant School, and smashed up toys and equipment. We started from the Cape in a Dutch ship, making sail for the Texel. The nearest approach to a true texian form of speech is the Attacapa. Lowell as a textile center has long been surpassed by other cities. Tezcatlipoca is supposed to have changed himself into a jaguar. An 'Only' is a nonpareil, the feller that does one kind of a turn better'n any other feller. So complete and clinical was his demolition of his rivals from around the globe, that he deserves the utmost respect as a horseman nonpareil. I might strike something a little easier than logging there. Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. De Quincey has been highly praised, both as a humorist and as a logician. I am going abroad on that date, married or not, to attend a conference at Geneva, and I want you to come with me. Guests felt that they were receiving, not conferring, a favour when they stayed at her house. In one respect it was better, as it gave him the means of conferring a kindness where he wished to oblige. The cap of a gnome confers invisibility, and causes one to behold invisible things. Show More Sentences It is Harvard which, first among New England colleges, confers an honorary degree upon a black man. Both Jessie and Christie were obliged to confess to a certain disappointment in the aspect of the civilization they were now reentering. Sometimes when I read the papers from the old country, I pretty near run away,' he confessed with a little laugh. I am now about to sketch a brief report of the first of these conferences. Versoy himself confesses that he dropped his tall hat with a crash. When cookies are cool, frost with a knife and sprinkle with nonpareils. This distinct beginning provided her with a nonpareil understanding of the consumer brand experience, along with the complexity of the luxury department store system. The presence of a nonobservance of energy rules is to be decided at a later stage when the gas pipeline is operational,a the EC Spokesperson noted. The fact that Lady Wetherby, as she had been informed by the grocer in friendly talk, had rented a summer house in the neighbourhood made Eustace's identity positive. He appreciated the arrangement of Science Summer Camp and said it is a very timely and relevant activity to encourage the students to learn the new things. Seminars are concluded with a culminating activity, which may include a brief writing assignment or other means to summate, extend, or apply learnings. It is a wretched, damp, nay, even horrible spot, more especially when we consider the agonizing conferences which have taken place between those iron bars. Find more words! 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