How To Use Domestic In A Sentence

Interior spaces may also be gendered: the author explores both the activities particular to women, such as needlework or lace-making, and the objects related to female and maternal domesticity.
One page of the menu is devoted to cheeses (domestic and imported), another to charcuterie, salads, meat and fish, the third to items from the wood-burning oven.
More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause. Times, Sunday Times
As for the problem…one wonders if the africanized honeybee is having similar problems or if it is limited to the “domesticated” variety. Bees still alive and buzzing | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.

They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. Preface to Shakespeare
Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two.
His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.
The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies.
While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
The national monetary sovereignty fully belongs to domestic affairs of a state, and the nation has the right of exerting its monetary sovereignty independently.
The single-sided fish defects of KFC copper alloys applied to lead frame produced by domestic corporation were studied and analyzed by energy spectrum analysis, SEM and metallographic analysis.
She said: 'I felt very safe in my little bubble of motherhood and domesticity. The Sun
The ruling dynasties and aristocracies required an essential stability in international as well as domestic affairs.
Many coffee farmers sell their beans to domestic traders for between 27 to 31 cents a pound, Robinson says.
It is perfectly coherent from a pure domestic viewpoint. Georges Ugeux: It's the Dollar, Stupid
When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market. The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The taste is slightly milder than domestic garlic. Times, Sunday Times
There are also short-haired cats and they sometimes call them domestic short-hairs. The Kitchen Daughter
The place had been a quiet country house in his books. Domestic bliss and all the rest.
Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
You can ask your butcher to mince the thigh meat or use a domestic food grinder. Times, Sunday Times
Labourers were found in the docks, railways, factories and domestic spheres, many of them employed on a casual basis.
As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
Millner, keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc behind his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under young Draper's indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, and read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life? The Blond Beast
Note 62: TNA SP 10/1, no. 38 abstracted in CSP Domestic Edward VI, 36. back From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
And another bankruptcy, involving Braniff Airlines, reminded everyone of the stranglehold the Big Eight carriers have over the domestic market.
From those two virtues derive the tranquillity, comfort, and content of domesticity.
For many people the tour also includes restaurants (a key influence on domestic interiors) and museums. Times, Sunday Times
The silver made in Mexico during the viceregal period is legendary, yet most of the surviving examples are ecclesiastical rather than domestic.
Or if I want to see a police officer in a time frame where the person concerned might be caught, I report a couple having a domestic, who called me a derogatory name ref my Race, Religion, or sexual preference (underline the relevant option) and just out of interest they broke the wing mirror on my car. Norfolk Constabulary. Pants On Fire. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Misuse of alcohol and drugs are key factors behind offending by veterans and a high proportion of crimes are linked to domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
“Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright,” said the domestic, “an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, Edie.” The Antiquary
In theory, this could be a smart strategic move but it is likely to "domesticate" Julian Assange; running such an NGO would require too many boring meetings with potential funders many of whom have already been alienated by the organisation and a nine-to-five office routine - the exact opposite of the glamorous nomadic lifestyle that the founder of WikiLeaks has become famous for. The Guardian World News
He said low genetic diversity is a natural part of the domestication process and that Dukha reindeer are selected for traits such as passiveness and strong backs that support saddles and riders.
Domestic policy is drifting leftward, but there are sharp limits on how far it will go.
Domestic shipbuilders along with cold-rolled steel companies last week asked Posco to produce a combined 600,000 metric tons steel products for "possible emergency needs" in the coming months, a Posco spokesman said. South Korean Shipbuilders Ask Posco to Raise Output
What is left in ‘her’ wake, however, is an acerbically astute representation of a social environment in which mothers are routinely erased, undervalued, and ‘trapped’ within the domestic milieu.
Violence victims face homelessness Social workers need more training in housing legislation to protect victims of domestic violence being made homeless.
As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats.
It is utter nonsense to say it is domestic rubbish. The Sun
She cleared the table as they were eating, following, as always now, her own weird domestic schedule.
The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy. The Times Literary Supplement
To deepen his predicament, because he is single, his advisers and confidants are generally undomesticated guys just like him. Where Have The Good Men Gone?
Under the heavy market competition pressure, domestic engineering machinery manufacturer want to explore and launch the new credit sales mode.
Other rodents might also be suited to domestication; for instance, the potentially tamable, clean-living species of South American fields and woodlands - agouti, capybara, hutia, mare, coypu, pace, and vizcacha. Chapter 3
For the cordwainer, a family to feed and educate in the domestic realm was as vital a component of the performance of his manly workplace duties as a hammer and a leather apron. 14 There was no perceived separation between his duties stitching leather and his duties feeding and educating his family. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
The city council has to find a better way of dealing with domestic waste. One answer is to burn it.
An advertising campaign has been launched to raise awareness of domestic violence in teenage relationships. How Did It Come To This? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
This product will fill up vacancy of domestic 3 D information acquirement system.
It is declining because of interbreeding with domestic cats and exposure to disease. Times, Sunday Times
Domestic issues are dominating in the hope the electorate have short memories and limited concentration.
The display has a domestic character and the floorboards creak slightly. Times, Sunday Times
Your domestic scene seems to have encountered some minor problems. The Sun
In this regard, offshoring is likely to show up more in the compensation trends of our domestic workers in affected sectors than in their employment trends.
Chrysler is the only domestic automaker increasing production in the first quarter.
Preyed upon by hawks, foxes, and weasels, they may also fall victim to domestic cats.
In 1985-86, the domestic FA ordered the final round of league fixtures to be replayed amid accusations of match-fixing.
We will run on the principal areas of concern to ordinary Australians, both in terms of the international agenda and the domestic agenda.
Some ethnobotanists and anthropologists are convinced that root and tuber crops were among the first plants to be domesticated.
The DVD case insert calls it a screwball comedy, but it's really more of a domestic one.
Cause national industry decline, because of domestic corporation unable to contend with international big company, .
If we ignore such factors as selection, panmixia, correlation, and the effects of use and disuse during lifetime, and still regard the case of the domestic duck as a valid proof of the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse, we must also accept it as an equally valid proof that the effects of use and disuse are _not_ inherited. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
Of the 15 cases following exposure to domestic cats with plague, 4 were primary pneumonic plague.
There has been controversy over whether international trade affects domestic price level.
An industry that is faring poorly in relation to other parts of domestic manufacturing may still be performing better than competitors in other countries. Competing in a Global Economy
It meant participation in an expanding repertoire of domestic rituals made possible by creamware teacups and saucers, decanters, wine glasses, pickle plates, and forks of all sorts.
Edinburgh had practically no textile workers, men or women; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants.
Still, with the movie ringing up millions in the domestic market, local film-makers are scrabbling to replicate its success.
Telephone system: excellent domestic and international facilities; automatic system domestic: coaxial and multiconductor cable carry most voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional telephone channels international: 5 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - The 2000 CIA World Factbook
That would put domestic political pressure on the Bundesbank to engage in expansionary policies, and German central bankers like nothing less than expansionary monetary policy. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman on Europe
Types of workers thus ranged from peasants who supplemented their income with domestic industry, usually in textiles, to highly skilled craftsmen in towns and cities who concentrated on luxury items.
Especially the partial person cropland in them at duty, domesticity also appeared temporary difficulty.
The OTCBB provides access to more than 3300 securities, includes more than 230 participating market makers, and electronically transmits real-time quote, price, and volume information in domestic securities, foreign securities and adrs. WN.com - Financial News
Within the October total, the value of re-exports shrank 13.5% to HK $120.2 billion and the value of domestic exports by 18.1% to HK $13.1 billion.
As Diana Archibald has argued, station houses in the bush utilized spatial patterns unlike those found in a British town house or country home, thus necessitating new cultural practices and domestic routines.
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
I called my grandma to ask her domestic questions until the day she died. Christianity Today
Andre Berry switches on a standard domestic vacuum cleaner powered by a petrol generator to collect material to repair an historic mound.
It is an instinctive action on the part of the dog and it applies equally to the domestic situation. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
An outline of some of the domestic chores undertaken by Mr and Mrs McGill will help to answer this question.
The bailout billions will not save domestic jobs. Times, Sunday Times
You rolling stones are best off investigating the pleasures of domesticity this week.
The gamy flavor and superior texture of the wild turkey over a domestic bird argues for its use.
These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
What he did was wrong, but ok, its over, let them move on. rihanna is constantly saying how she wants to be a role model for these girls, buttruth is that if the get out of the situation of domestic violence, theyll sink right back in. she dresses half naked (her white bandaged body @ the award show) and she has gun tatoos and has guns in her her music videos. so shes promoting fire arm then. shes tryign to make him look like a monster, he is just a man. she played her part in the situation, and i just think its time people stop talkin about this. theres no progress in regressing! ABC Yanks Chris Brown “Good Morning America” Performance
But now, with the discovery of Sally Buckland’s body in the master bedroom closet, the house had become a crime scene, its warm domesticity destroyed by everything the term entailed. Tough Customer
A foreign nonprofit corporation may become a domestic business corporation if the domestication and conversion is permitted by the organic law of the foreign nonprofit corporation.
Wood provided fuel for domestic heat and cooking, and for industrial processes such as brewing beer or smelting iron.
Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain. Saudi King to Return Home as Turmoil Sweeps Region
Sixteen standing commissions were also created to advise on domestic and foreign affairs.
People hold domestic deposits despite the higher interest rate on offshore deposits because they associate greater political risk with offshore deposits.
Domesticated grain contains less crude protein than its wild counterpart, and a higher percentage of carbohydrate.
Behold the domesticated guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Nevertheless, he sees strong economic fundamentals in Germany, such as its solid labor market, domestic demand and filled order books constituting "antirecession insurance. Investment Drives German Growth
While French domestic exports to Europe tripled, their colonial re-exports increased eightfold.
It is not true that domestic chores are shared. Times, Sunday Times
Many young girls became domestic servants .
Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
The only and best way to tide over the difficulties is to improve the technological competitiveness of domestic enterprises.
Seeing it at the cinema is always both more powerful and ‘easier’ than watching it at home on video or DVD: it's far harder to summon the conditions for entrancement in a domestic space full of distractions and business.
Their domestic reforms did nothing to solve the problem of unemployment.
It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security.
The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl.
By 2002 it was the biggest domestic carrier. Times, Sunday Times
Once the figures were fed into the ONS mincer, construction made up almost a third of growth in gross domestic product (GDP). Construction gives UK economic recovery an unstable foundation
Russian and Chinese officials likely have found it easier to interact with each other than with their Western interlocutors, who constantly importune them to improve their human rights and other domestic practices.
Congress could not even pay the interest on its domestic debt and was financing its foreign debts only by contracting additional loans.
In a subsequent passage, "I am as melancholy as a gibb'd cat" -- we are told that _cat_ is not the domestic animal of that name, but a contraction of _catin_, a woman of the town. Famous Reviews
A government split would have dire consequences for domestic peace.
Domesticated donkeys can be bred at any time of year, wild asses generally breed in the wet season.
Although domestic auto producers may not be enamored of it, it is good for consumers.
IT is well understood that genetic change provides the basis for adaptation processes in natural and domesticated populations.
I am in no doubt that the 10,000 foreign students we have at Nottingham make university a more enriching experience for our domestic students. Times, Sunday Times
COSCO Group's tanker fleet development is also confronted with challenges from domestic same trade .
For most purposes the floor of a canal boat may be considered stable, like that of a domestic interior.
This Dr. Who cake by Domestic Scientist with a flying Dalek is pretty freakin’ awesome. Planet-x.com.au » Dr. Who Birthday Cake
Neither slap-happy comedy nor aggressive action fare, The Beaver is a somber, sad domestic drama featuring an alcoholic in acute crisis.
First, in the form of domestic legislation to determine for fishing island has undisputable sovereignty.
Sundaram says that their confidence again stems from the differentiated strategy that Shanghvi has put in place even for the domestic market. India's Pharma Contrarian
These animals are only partly domesticated.
Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
That lady, having discovered that her guest's gloves needed mending, was working over them with pieces of Indian-tanned buckskin and beeswaxed thread, the picture of domestic content. The Ranch at the Wolverine
Even domestically grown wasabi is a rare treat, and should be used sparingly. December « 2008 « Off The Broiler
A person employed to help , especially a farm worker or domestic servant.
That same year, Independence Township in Michigan lost $2 million through its misuse of domestic swaps.
If I can't find a domestic angle to your death, it's a shutout. THE LAST PLACE
It's believed that the Botai people of modern-day Kazakhstan were the first to domesticate the horse some 5,000 years ago. Tracking Equine Evolution
Unlike cacao and coffee, yerba mate was not a domestic plant when first encountered by Europeans.
Critics of Reich say his appointment as the State Department's top Latin American policymaker has more to do with domestic politics than foreign affairs. The Right Man For Latam?
When multiple premises are held under the control of one ownership, the inspection fee shall be based on the accumulated total of all domesticated cervine animals on all premises.
It all sounds rather blissful in a contented, domestic way that would have seemed unimaginable some years ago.
Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
They had to reflate with a view to stimulate their domestic economy.
domesticate oats
He said capital flight and stock market losses highlight an extremely low - level of Russian domestic investment.
Hence their scramble to divert domestic rubbish anywhere but landfill. Times, Sunday Times
You can also use a twin needle on most domestic machines.
Small domestic appliances were brought in for mechanics to repair. Critical Social Research
The last three years have been a successful time for them, and success does tend to domesticate people.
Despite the short duration of the outage, restrictions on the number of aircraft entering UK airspace or taking off from domestic airports quickly created delays.
They called the police domestic abuse unit and asked for an officer to visit. Times, Sunday Times
Until now the emphasis was more on luring foreign tourists to the country and the domestic travellers have been missed out.
The FFs surely had a distrust for foreign entanglements that was not evident in delegating to Congress the right to legislate domestically (hence the 2/3rds requirement for treaties). The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
Domestic donkeys interact well with other livestock animals such as horses, cows, goats, sheep, and llamas.
Use a domestic firelighter to get it started - don't use petrol or other flammable liquids.
The A allele was the dominant allele in the most domestic pig populations investigated, while the B allele was the dominant allele in Meis-han pigs, Wuzhishan pigs, Tibetan pigs and Rongehang pigs.
In other international box office news, it has already outgrossed its domestic run by about $7 million and it still has many territories to open.
The gross domestic product of most industrial countries dropped by about 30 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
Jo Spence began by using the snapshots of her childhood to draw attention to the codes of domestic photography.
Apparently, Irish cows are not Irish either, but relations of the first domesticated wild oxen to be brought to this part of the world from the east by the first farmers.
As well as those mentioned, there are others too that have been domesticated over the centuries providing food, clothing and transportation.
The wild ancestors of our domestic cats liked to eat freshly killed prey - they were not scavengers.
It acquires and keeps domestically-raised stags.
It's so thrillingly undomestic in the hotel room, or the smart restaurant, or after hours up against the filing cabinets. Times, Sunday Times
Tolstoy tried to mix domesticity and family life, but he would come downstairs after writing and see his family playing and his eyes would well up.
Nowadays there is more sharing of domestic chores.
More so due to being free from the shackles of domestic unrest. The Sun
Countries may tax energy consumption at radically different rates without seeing all their domestic industry disappear offshore.
Beijing Aotaihua Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Equipment Company is a domestic leading supplier of professional air conditioning and heat exchange equipment.
The domestic space and the urban environment generate a fair amount of music and sound in their own right.
Rosenthal said Barneys has received no domestic goods shipments since it filed for bankruptcy protection last Wednesday night.
The domestic goddess was no match this year for the cuddly Englishman. Times, Sunday Times
Sources said that global insurers have begun once again re-evaluating the risk ratings of the domestic insurance market.
English football has just about exhausted its room for manoeuvre in the domestic market.
It was not until foreign and domestic investment was encouraged in shoreside processing of groundfish in the late 1980s that these communities were transformed. Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)
But it also puts downward pressure on domestic inflation, strengthens consumption and burnishes the yuan's case for becoming a more global currency—something Chinese officials see as key to reducing Beijing's dependence on the U.S. dollar. China Central Bank Sets Yuan Post at Record
If the characters are domesticated, if they never act impulsively and if they are almost sexless and sterile, then they represent no threat to the system.
The demonstration was in opposition to government plans to levy a new tax on those employing guest workers as domestics, and to cut the minimum wages of maids.
It has a number of attractive old domestic buildings, schedule for preservation, and some interesting antique shops.
Transaction costs may be higher than in the domestic economy.
The latter sentiment underlines just how big a threat international races are to the domestic programme. Times, Sunday Times
Glenn served as a policy analyst in the White House Office of Domestic Policy during the presidency of George H.W. Bush.
He received his B.S. degree from Utah State University in Wildlife Management, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Veterinary Science and Wildlife Ecology, with emphasis in the epizootiology of infectious diseases of domestic and wild animals. Contributor: Thomas Yuill
John Muir envisioned national parks as pristine wilderness, without domesticated animals.
There is a guy in Bedfordshire who has sold the world's most expensive cat - a cross breed between a domestic cat and a feral one.
Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides.
However, the domestic life of the imperial family was, considering their status, not ostentatious.
Alongside the advance of the domestic "progressive consensus" that New Labour has created, victory in the referendum will be the third term fulfilment of the Blair premiership and we would, in the process, achieve an irreversible shift towards a more social-democratic Britain. The great "democrat" writes
The company offers domestic and imported mouldings, including wood, metal, polystyrene and box.
Domestic opinion had turned against the war.
The loss of his high-paying job caused enormous domestic upheaval.
In 1989 Midland increased its domestic banking division's bad-debt charges by 53%, from ￡51m in 1988 to ￡78m.
Water in all the boreholes that were sunk in the area had turned salty and the commodity could not be used for domestic purposes, not even for irrigation because the crops were drying.
The bank's monetary policy committee raised the borrowing cost to 2.25 percent in July amid solid growth prospects for the domestic economy and inflation concerns.
She is certain that cruelty could never be apprehended from the Gentleman to whom this is addressed; and the poor animal would have suffered more as the victim of domestic economy, than of philosophical curiosity. Poems
Taiwan should only agree to the torch route on the condition that Taiwan is seen as an international route and not a domestic route and leave it to China to accept or refect this offer...of course China will reject it but this will make China look uncompliant rather than Taiwan and also publicize Taiwan's quest for official independance. IHT: Taiwan Refuses Olympic Torch
What broke the ice, he found, were small workshops where sharecroppers and domestics talked about practical issues that bothered them, brainstormed about what to do, and took steps to do it.
If interest rates were at their equilibrium level, domestic investment would equal savings; and the current account would be balanced.
The wheat is one of the most important plants to be domesticated.
The challenge was to find domestic workers who would help the supplier set up an assembly line for fishing rods.
The Arab countries devote the highest percentage of gross domestic product in the world to arms.
But the service does not only deal with businesses, as big problems can arise in domestic situations too.
Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes (Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there) -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity? Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes.
We question simplistic quantitative measures-based on Gross Domestic Product-of which countries are to qualify for debt cancellation.
A quick Google search provided over a dozen domestic websites scattered across Iran from Rasht, a coastal city in the north, to the southern city of Ahwaz. A Craze for Pooches in Iran Dogs the Morality Police
Ill would it beseem my habit and my calling, to thrust myself into match-making and giving in marriage, but worse were it in me to see your lordships do needless wrong to the feelings which are proper to our nature, and which, being indulged honestly and under the restraints of religion, become a pledge of domestic quiet here, and future happiness in a better world. The Monastery

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