Many of the nominees have been attending a flurry of pre-Oscar events and screenings in and around Los Angeles.
that more were feared trapped under rubble.
stepped up its attacks in the area
Eyewitnesses described seeing people blown apart and body parts in the street.
Boko Haram has been blamed for a spate of attacks in recent weeks.
The former England defender makes the claims in an authorised biography serialised by the Sunday Times.
The final countdown to the Oscars has begun, with space thriller Gravity expected to scoop multiple awards at Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles.
1 Cuaron tipped for best director.
2 A coroner pronounced the 78-year-old dead after finding no pulse.
3 Mr Williams was taken to Porter and Sons Funeral Home and was being prepared for embalming.
4 a hospice nurse, who said the man had passed away.
5 overdose of a mixture of drugs including heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, and benzodiazepine, officials have said.
6 After 23 years of sobriety, he reportedly checked himself into a drug treatment programme for 10 days last year after relapsing in 2012.
7 Search Results
so·bri·e·ty
the state of being sober.
"the price of beer compelled me to maintain a certain level of sobriety"
synonyms:
soberness, clearheadedness; abstinence, teetotalism, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, temperance
"she noted his sobriety
4 so·ber
adjective
1.
not affected by alcohol; not drunk.
synonyms:
not drunk, clearheaded; teetotal, abstinent, abstemious, dry; informalon the wagon
"the driver was clearly sober"
antonyms:
drunk
serious, sensible, and solemn.
"a sober view of life"
synonyms:
serious, solemn, sensible, thoughtful, grave, somber, staid, levelheaded, businesslike, down-to-earth, commonsensical, pragmatic, conservative; More
antonyms:
frivolous
free from alcoholism; not habitually drinking alcohol.
"I've been clean and sober for five years"
muted in color.
"a sober gray suit"
synonyms:
somber, subdued, severe; More
antonyms:
flamboyant
verb
verb: sober; 3rd person present: sobers; past tense: sobered; past participle: sobered; gerund or present participle: sobering
1.
make or become sober after drinking alcohol.
"that coffee sobered him up"
synonyms:
quit drinking, dry out
1 .
publish or broadcast (a story or play) in regular installments.
"sections of the book were serialized in The New Yorker"
2.
arrange (something) in a series.
MUSIC
compose according to the techniques of
4 At the chaotic height of Egypt's revolution against the brilliantined autocrat Hosni Mubarak, every single member of the uniformed security forces suddenly disappeared from the streets.
5 You can watch as officers allow a teenager balancing a huge wooden tray of fresh flatbreads on his head to cycle the wrong way down a one way street with his hands in his pockets.
Then a motorcyclist will follow - presumably on the grounds that a motorcycle is just a cycle with a motor on it.
5 How Aborigines solved the bushfire problem
March 2, 2014 06:36
By Jim Carey
Sydney, Australia
Strong winds and soaring temperatures have led to dozens of bushfires in southern Australia. Could Aboriginal "gardening" techniques be used to control them in future?
I am only an hour into visiting a retired couple just north of Sydney when I realise Bill Plant has left the room and not come back.
"Must have smelt smoke," his wife Julie suggests.
Bill's compunction is a lifetime in the making, an olfactory fire alarm he shares with many of his fellow compatriots.
"If you find fire, you phone neighbours, get buckets and go help," Bill explains upon his return.
Largely ascribed to global warming, average temperatures are increasing in Australia.
The land dries crisp and tinderbox very quickly. One careless cigarette butt, bolt of lightning, or piece of broken glass can instigate voluminous bushfires which race and rage across the land, incinerating everything in their path.
The most prolific tree in the Australian bush is the iconic eucalyptus, nicknamed the "gum tree" and described to me by one fireman as "a living firebomb".
The bark of the tree falls away in thin flammable sheets - a touch paper to any passing spark - whilst the air in and around a eucalyptus forest hangs with the oil for which the tree is renowned. It creates an incendiary haze which sometimes causes the air to burn by itself.
The Blue Mountains are a vast carpet of heritage listed forest in the state of New South Wales, so named because, from a distance, this cloud of oil gives the mountains a slate blue hue.
At the end of last year, ferocious fires here burnt 200 homes to the ground. On my way to view the damage three months on, the car radio warns of another fire alert in the neighbouring state of Victoria with the ominous words: "It is now too late to leave the area. Ready yourself."
When I arrive at Yellow Rock, the scorched valleys are a surreal sight. Heavily blackened trunks stand stubborn in the burnt dust. But sprouting from their spiky tops are iridescent explosions of green shoots.
"Everything about the eucalyptus tree is designed to catch fire, spread fire and then grow back once its competitors have been destroyed in that fire," observes Bill Gammage.
I am crouched on a heat-cracked rock overlooking a valley of burnt bush as I talk to Bill, a semi-retired history professor from the Australian National University.
"What people have forgotten is that a lot of these trees were not here when the Europeans first arrived," he asserts.
The highly flammable eucalyptus tree
As a historian, Bill examined thousands of old eyewitness testimonies, paintings and drawings and found that, before the Europeans arrived, places like the Blue Mountains once contained significant amounts of grass pasture. His book on the subject won the Prime Minister's Literary Award.
Having lived and evolved on the continent for millennia, Aborigines managed the land almost like a garden - effectively using expertly controlled fires to keep the flora in check.
The resulting grasslands not only attracted animals which the Aborigines could hunt, they also provided massive firebreaks preventing the kind of destructive fires Australia is increasingly suffering.
When the Europeans arrived they kicked the gardeners out of the garden. And the garden went wild.
The common notion, fought for by the powerful green lobby, is that eucalyptus forest is the natural state of Australia and that every tree must be protected. Hence you have to apply for a licence to chop down even one tree growing near your house.
"It is too late to reverse the clock back to 1788," says Prof Gammage. "But the kind of damage we are looking at today could be lessened if we employed Aborigines to do something they spent tens of thousands of years perfecting."
Jack Saunders, a 17-year-old New South Wales firefighter, is keen to show me his copy of the official Bushfire Fighting Manual. The chapter on fire prevention acknowledges that controlled burning may be used "to maintain the natural condition of the environment and imitate the use of fire by its traditional owners over tens of thousands of years".
But there is an odd tension here, which rather unusually pitches conservation groups against an ancient knowledge. What exactly is the "natural" environment of Australia?
Is it the massive forests which have proliferated since 1788? Or is it the Australia gardened by the Aborigines for the tens of thousands of years prior to that?
Aborigines were once the 'gardeners' of the land, expertly controlling fires
Local residents thank fire fighters for their work fighting the bushfires
A banksia bush seed pod only opens in the heat of a flame
In the burnt Blue Mountains bush I reach down to pick up the charred husk of a seed pod. It comes from the banksia shrub, the seeds of which are only released by the heat of flames.
Another timely reminder of how, along with the gum tree and the human being, Australia has evolved with, and been forged
3 Expeditious Sentence Examples
1 Expeditious manner.
2 Expeditious movement of all air traffic operating under the jurisdiction of the ATC facility.
3 Expeditious adjudication procedure for disputes arising under construction contracts.
4 Expeditious way.
5 Expeditious disposal of the proceedings.
6 Expeditious complaint handling for customers.
7 The definition of expeditious is done with speed and efficiency.
An example of expeditious used as an adjective is the phrase "expeditious clean up," which means clean up that was done very quickly and well.
1 standstill=a stop, halt, or cessation
=Complete cessation of activity or progress.Work came to a standstill.
5 come to a halt (standstill).
6 Complete cessation of activity or progress
7 Standstill Sentence Examples
1 Any animals added to the isolation unit from outside the holding would trigger a 20 day standstill on the isolation unit.
2 But a huge deterrent for live sales of prime cattle has been the 20-day standstill.
3 Standstill budget would require a 9.7 % increase in the precept.
4 Mark Ballard ( Green ) said that the problem is clearly that councils are expected to do more on almost standstill funding.
5 But are the findings relevant to January 2003 as the farm standstill regulations are shortly to ease from 20 days to 6 days?
6 Standstill in 3 seconds or less.
7 The Bank's view for some time has been that house price rises will slow down to the point where they reach standstill.
For example, say, the rising point of the major lunar standstill.
Standstill periods made under b apply.
What this means is that any sovereign debt standstill would need to be orderly, efficient, equitable and expeditious.
This month's Cycle Forum revealed a virtual standstill for major cycling projects by the Council.
Standstill season.
And they provide ultimately for capital controls, as part of payments standstills, in conjunction with IMF programs.
May 1954 Strikes brought the banana industry in the country to a near standstill.
Standstill rule, which is applied differently in England & Wales, compared to Scotland.
The decision is based on the findings of the Cost Benefit Analysis of animal movement standstills.
The following is a diagram showing a major and minor lunar standstill of the Full Moon.
Standstill funding.
Earlier this year the Alaskan pipeline network was almost brought to a complete standstill by a stray bullet from a hunting rifle.
Standstill agreement with the defendant, which stopped the clock ticking on the limitation period.
7 circumpolar= Located or found in one of Earth's polar regions.
Denoting a star that from a given observer's latitude does not go below the horizon during its diurnal motion. The closer an observer is to one of the poles, the greater the portion of the sky that contains circumpolar stars. At the pole itself, all stars are circumpolar.
6 Circumpolar Sentence Examples
So terrestrial latitude would have to be north for a lunar standstill north to be truly circumpolar today.
Circumpolar stars stopping ' Set ' getting upto any mischief.
In other higher latitudes, it would become circumpolar, never setting the land of the midnight moon, one could say.
Circumpolar regions were in fact inhabited during the Ice Age.
Circumpolar current is a flow of water that runs west to east in a giant circle around Antarctica.
Circumpolar distribution, a much larger number of fungi have been recorded with dwarf birch.
Circumpolar north.
Circumpolar today.
1 snick=
a small cut or notch=nick.
2 Cricket a glancing blow=
to cut slightly; nick
Cricket to hit (the ball) a glancing blow
noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
click
snicked, snick·ing, snicks verb, transitive=
To cut with short strokes;= snip:= snicked off a corner of the material.=
To make a small cut in; nick.=
To cause (something) to click: I snicked the door shut.
verb, intransitive
=To snip: snicked with the shears.
=To make a nick or nicks.
To click: The latch snicked open.
noun
=A cut made by snicking.
A clicking sound: “I heard a little snick and a flashlight came on” (Anthony Hyde).
4 Fang Sentence Examples
sentence.yourdictionary.com
Fang marks may suggest the presence of snake venom anticoagulant.
This poison fang is supplied with venom from a gland in the head.
How does the shape of a mountain remind you of a wolf's fang?
Fang of rock then up into the crack on the right.
Its eyes glowed bright green in the headlight, and he bared tiny fangs as he hissed at me.
In werewolf form, however, he bas sharp, white fangs, silver fur, a short, black tail.
Smiling at the camera we can see the vampire fangs of his teeth.
Its eyes glowed bright green in the headlight, and he bared tiny fangs as he hissed at me.
In werewolf form, however, he bas sharp, white fangs, silver fur, a short, black tail.
Smiling at the camera we can see the vampire fangs of his teeth.
The creature has huge, deadly fangs that give +2 on the combat dice roll.
In werewolf form, however, he bas sharp, white fangs, silver fur, a short, black tail.
It stands as a stark salutary warning to the world: Uncle Sam has grown fangs and he must be kept at bay.
The hulking brutes fingered their weapons and showed long fangs at such insolence from a female; but they did not detain her.
Some people even go so far as to have cosmetic dentistry to get fangs - but then whatever floats your boat!
Inside, Lyle begins to transform, showing large fangs.
Fangs sunk into Beowulf's neck.
The creature has huge, deadly fangs that give +2 on the combat dice roll.
Inside, Lyle begins to transform, showing large fangs.
Insert the syringe or dropper into the side of the mouth behind the canines ( the big fangs ).
that more were feared trapped under rubble.
stepped up its attacks in the area
Eyewitnesses described seeing people blown apart and body parts in the street.
Boko Haram has been blamed for a spate of attacks in recent weeks.
The former England defender makes the claims in an authorised biography serialised by the Sunday Times.
The final countdown to the Oscars has begun, with space thriller Gravity expected to scoop multiple awards at Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles.
1 Cuaron tipped for best director.
2 A coroner pronounced the 78-year-old dead after finding no pulse.
3 Mr Williams was taken to Porter and Sons Funeral Home and was being prepared for embalming.
4 a hospice nurse, who said the man had passed away.
5 overdose of a mixture of drugs including heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, and benzodiazepine, officials have said.
6 After 23 years of sobriety, he reportedly checked himself into a drug treatment programme for 10 days last year after relapsing in 2012.
7 Search Results
so·bri·e·ty
the state of being sober.
"the price of beer compelled me to maintain a certain level of sobriety"
synonyms:
soberness, clearheadedness; abstinence, teetotalism, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, temperance
"she noted his sobriety
4 so·ber
adjective
1.
not affected by alcohol; not drunk.
synonyms:
not drunk, clearheaded; teetotal, abstinent, abstemious, dry; informalon the wagon
"the driver was clearly sober"
antonyms:
drunk
serious, sensible, and solemn.
"a sober view of life"
synonyms:
serious, solemn, sensible, thoughtful, grave, somber, staid, levelheaded, businesslike, down-to-earth, commonsensical, pragmatic, conservative; More
antonyms:
frivolous
free from alcoholism; not habitually drinking alcohol.
"I've been clean and sober for five years"
muted in color.
"a sober gray suit"
synonyms:
somber, subdued, severe; More
antonyms:
flamboyant
verb
verb: sober; 3rd person present: sobers; past tense: sobered; past participle: sobered; gerund or present participle: sobering
1.
make or become sober after drinking alcohol.
"that coffee sobered him up"
synonyms:
quit drinking, dry out
1 .
publish or broadcast (a story or play) in regular installments.
"sections of the book were serialized in The New Yorker"
2.
arrange (something) in a series.
MUSIC
compose according to the techniques of
4 At the chaotic height of Egypt's revolution against the brilliantined autocrat Hosni Mubarak, every single member of the uniformed security forces suddenly disappeared from the streets.
5 You can watch as officers allow a teenager balancing a huge wooden tray of fresh flatbreads on his head to cycle the wrong way down a one way street with his hands in his pockets.
Then a motorcyclist will follow - presumably on the grounds that a motorcycle is just a cycle with a motor on it.
5 How Aborigines solved the bushfire problem
March 2, 2014 06:36
By Jim Carey
Sydney, Australia
Strong winds and soaring temperatures have led to dozens of bushfires in southern Australia. Could Aboriginal "gardening" techniques be used to control them in future?
I am only an hour into visiting a retired couple just north of Sydney when I realise Bill Plant has left the room and not come back.
"Must have smelt smoke," his wife Julie suggests.
Bill's compunction is a lifetime in the making, an olfactory fire alarm he shares with many of his fellow compatriots.
"If you find fire, you phone neighbours, get buckets and go help," Bill explains upon his return.
Largely ascribed to global warming, average temperatures are increasing in Australia.
The land dries crisp and tinderbox very quickly. One careless cigarette butt, bolt of lightning, or piece of broken glass can instigate voluminous bushfires which race and rage across the land, incinerating everything in their path.
The most prolific tree in the Australian bush is the iconic eucalyptus, nicknamed the "gum tree" and described to me by one fireman as "a living firebomb".
The bark of the tree falls away in thin flammable sheets - a touch paper to any passing spark - whilst the air in and around a eucalyptus forest hangs with the oil for which the tree is renowned. It creates an incendiary haze which sometimes causes the air to burn by itself.
The Blue Mountains are a vast carpet of heritage listed forest in the state of New South Wales, so named because, from a distance, this cloud of oil gives the mountains a slate blue hue.
At the end of last year, ferocious fires here burnt 200 homes to the ground. On my way to view the damage three months on, the car radio warns of another fire alert in the neighbouring state of Victoria with the ominous words: "It is now too late to leave the area. Ready yourself."
When I arrive at Yellow Rock, the scorched valleys are a surreal sight. Heavily blackened trunks stand stubborn in the burnt dust. But sprouting from their spiky tops are iridescent explosions of green shoots.
"Everything about the eucalyptus tree is designed to catch fire, spread fire and then grow back once its competitors have been destroyed in that fire," observes Bill Gammage.
I am crouched on a heat-cracked rock overlooking a valley of burnt bush as I talk to Bill, a semi-retired history professor from the Australian National University.
"What people have forgotten is that a lot of these trees were not here when the Europeans first arrived," he asserts.
The highly flammable eucalyptus tree
As a historian, Bill examined thousands of old eyewitness testimonies, paintings and drawings and found that, before the Europeans arrived, places like the Blue Mountains once contained significant amounts of grass pasture. His book on the subject won the Prime Minister's Literary Award.
Having lived and evolved on the continent for millennia, Aborigines managed the land almost like a garden - effectively using expertly controlled fires to keep the flora in check.
The resulting grasslands not only attracted animals which the Aborigines could hunt, they also provided massive firebreaks preventing the kind of destructive fires Australia is increasingly suffering.
When the Europeans arrived they kicked the gardeners out of the garden. And the garden went wild.
The common notion, fought for by the powerful green lobby, is that eucalyptus forest is the natural state of Australia and that every tree must be protected. Hence you have to apply for a licence to chop down even one tree growing near your house.
"It is too late to reverse the clock back to 1788," says Prof Gammage. "But the kind of damage we are looking at today could be lessened if we employed Aborigines to do something they spent tens of thousands of years perfecting."
Jack Saunders, a 17-year-old New South Wales firefighter, is keen to show me his copy of the official Bushfire Fighting Manual. The chapter on fire prevention acknowledges that controlled burning may be used "to maintain the natural condition of the environment and imitate the use of fire by its traditional owners over tens of thousands of years".
But there is an odd tension here, which rather unusually pitches conservation groups against an ancient knowledge. What exactly is the "natural" environment of Australia?
Is it the massive forests which have proliferated since 1788? Or is it the Australia gardened by the Aborigines for the tens of thousands of years prior to that?
Aborigines were once the 'gardeners' of the land, expertly controlling fires
Local residents thank fire fighters for their work fighting the bushfires
A banksia bush seed pod only opens in the heat of a flame
In the burnt Blue Mountains bush I reach down to pick up the charred husk of a seed pod. It comes from the banksia shrub, the seeds of which are only released by the heat of flames.
Another timely reminder of how, along with the gum tree and the human being, Australia has evolved with, and been forged
3 Expeditious Sentence Examples
1 Expeditious manner.
2 Expeditious movement of all air traffic operating under the jurisdiction of the ATC facility.
3 Expeditious adjudication procedure for disputes arising under construction contracts.
4 Expeditious way.
5 Expeditious disposal of the proceedings.
6 Expeditious complaint handling for customers.
7 The definition of expeditious is done with speed and efficiency.
An example of expeditious used as an adjective is the phrase "expeditious clean up," which means clean up that was done very quickly and well.
1 standstill=a stop, halt, or cessation
=Complete cessation of activity or progress.Work came to a standstill.
5 come to a halt (standstill).
6 Complete cessation of activity or progress
7 Standstill Sentence Examples
1 Any animals added to the isolation unit from outside the holding would trigger a 20 day standstill on the isolation unit.
2 But a huge deterrent for live sales of prime cattle has been the 20-day standstill.
3 Standstill budget would require a 9.7 % increase in the precept.
4 Mark Ballard ( Green ) said that the problem is clearly that councils are expected to do more on almost standstill funding.
5 But are the findings relevant to January 2003 as the farm standstill regulations are shortly to ease from 20 days to 6 days?
6 Standstill in 3 seconds or less.
7 The Bank's view for some time has been that house price rises will slow down to the point where they reach standstill.
For example, say, the rising point of the major lunar standstill.
Standstill periods made under b apply.
What this means is that any sovereign debt standstill would need to be orderly, efficient, equitable and expeditious.
This month's Cycle Forum revealed a virtual standstill for major cycling projects by the Council.
Standstill season.
And they provide ultimately for capital controls, as part of payments standstills, in conjunction with IMF programs.
May 1954 Strikes brought the banana industry in the country to a near standstill.
Standstill rule, which is applied differently in England & Wales, compared to Scotland.
The decision is based on the findings of the Cost Benefit Analysis of animal movement standstills.
The following is a diagram showing a major and minor lunar standstill of the Full Moon.
Standstill funding.
Earlier this year the Alaskan pipeline network was almost brought to a complete standstill by a stray bullet from a hunting rifle.
Standstill agreement with the defendant, which stopped the clock ticking on the limitation period.
7 circumpolar= Located or found in one of Earth's polar regions.
Denoting a star that from a given observer's latitude does not go below the horizon during its diurnal motion. The closer an observer is to one of the poles, the greater the portion of the sky that contains circumpolar stars. At the pole itself, all stars are circumpolar.
6 Circumpolar Sentence Examples
So terrestrial latitude would have to be north for a lunar standstill north to be truly circumpolar today.
Circumpolar stars stopping ' Set ' getting upto any mischief.
In other higher latitudes, it would become circumpolar, never setting the land of the midnight moon, one could say.
Circumpolar regions were in fact inhabited during the Ice Age.
Circumpolar current is a flow of water that runs west to east in a giant circle around Antarctica.
Circumpolar distribution, a much larger number of fungi have been recorded with dwarf birch.
Circumpolar north.
Circumpolar today.
1 snick=
a small cut or notch=nick.
2 Cricket a glancing blow=
to cut slightly; nick
Cricket to hit (the ball) a glancing blow
noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
click
snicked, snick·ing, snicks verb, transitive=
To cut with short strokes;= snip:= snicked off a corner of the material.=
To make a small cut in; nick.=
To cause (something) to click: I snicked the door shut.
verb, intransitive
=To snip: snicked with the shears.
=To make a nick or nicks.
To click: The latch snicked open.
noun
=A cut made by snicking.
A clicking sound: “I heard a little snick and a flashlight came on” (Anthony Hyde).
4 Fang Sentence Examples
sentence.yourdictionary.com
Fang marks may suggest the presence of snake venom anticoagulant.
This poison fang is supplied with venom from a gland in the head.
How does the shape of a mountain remind you of a wolf's fang?
Fang of rock then up into the crack on the right.
Its eyes glowed bright green in the headlight, and he bared tiny fangs as he hissed at me.
In werewolf form, however, he bas sharp, white fangs, silver fur, a short, black tail.
Smiling at the camera we can see the vampire fangs of his teeth.
Its eyes glowed bright green in the headlight, and he bared tiny fangs as he hissed at me.
In werewolf form, however, he bas sharp, white fangs, silver fur, a short, black tail.
Smiling at the camera we can see the vampire fangs of his teeth.
The creature has huge, deadly fangs that give +2 on the combat dice roll.
In werewolf form, however, he bas sharp, white fangs, silver fur, a short, black tail.
It stands as a stark salutary warning to the world: Uncle Sam has grown fangs and he must be kept at bay.
The hulking brutes fingered their weapons and showed long fangs at such insolence from a female; but they did not detain her.
Some people even go so far as to have cosmetic dentistry to get fangs - but then whatever floats your boat!
Inside, Lyle begins to transform, showing large fangs.
Fangs sunk into Beowulf's neck.
The creature has huge, deadly fangs that give +2 on the combat dice roll.
Inside, Lyle begins to transform, showing large fangs.
Insert the syringe or dropper into the side of the mouth behind the canines ( the big fangs ).