How To Use Naming In A Sentence

  • Bond No.9, the perfumer known for naming their scents after various New York neighborhoods, is about to get high...lined. Now You Can Smell Like The High Line!
  • Since Active Directory can scale to hundreds of thousands or even millions of objects, it's necessary to carve up the Active Directory database into sections, called naming contexts.
  • For example, a condom campaign in India in the 1970s involved renaming the product Nirodh from a Sanskritic word meaning “protection”. Diffusion of Innovations
  • On the walls to the left of the path were calligraphic inscriptions naming each city and to the right were extensive labels that provided background information for each city.
  • It expands on his concerns over the intimate relationship between the fund and private financiers, but now regrets naming a particular person to illustrate them.
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  • attributive: -s/-l directive: -is locative: -eBy renaming the genitive case as "attributive", we make it clearer that these endings are not just restricted to mere "possessives" or "ablatives" but rather we recognize their many other usages. Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
  • Stephen Colbert, the host of the parody talk show “The Colbert Report, ” urged his fans to vote for naming the station segment after him, and they did in large numbers.
  • The New Yorker wondered why they had not gone for broke, naming these two universitium and offium so as to reserve berkelium and californium for the next two elements.
  • Cindy began naming all the fish and those that were her favorites.
  • And, as do many manifestos, ultraism embraced many other writers prior to the naming of this movement.
  • In the end, James concedes that modern Celts exist as a legitimate ethnic group on the grounds that they are self-naming and have a shared sense of difference and history.
  • Others stress that rapid automatized naming is part of a more general phonological ability and poor readers are considered to be less adept at retrieving phonological codes from long-term memory.
  • I'm yet to discover a way to convert a top to a body outfit/part, which would address the above problem partially, despite a few token efforts at file renaming (the .bmps exported are preceded with top~ or body~) and hex editing (the .package file refers to the file names it expects to find for the .bmps). Galactic North
  • We should not limit these honours to renaming landmarks, but should come up with still more meaningful instruments, such as bursaries and other interventions that directly benefit our people. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Anticipate the need for granular SSLPEER filtering by designing a naming convention for certificate distinguished names that contains useful organizational unit fields.
  • The process of naming plants and classifying them into those groupings is called nomenclature; the study of trees themselves is called dendrology.
  • At a minimum, we wonder why the SEC didn't insist that Mr. Mozilo cooperate in naming the politicians and others in government or at Fannie and Freddie who benefited from Countrywide's mortgage largesse. Angelo's Ashes
  • Rwanda held a traditional naming ceremony for some of its rare mountain gorillas on Saturday in an effort to attract tourism and help to preserve one of the world's most endangered species.
  • In terms of "Name the _____" polling and voting contests, the fact that the poll/voting may or may not have a full influence on the naming is the norm. Gerst Does Colbert Report (With Video) - NASA Watch
  • Object-naming tasks employ pictures, and kanji characters are ideographic and sometimes pictorial in nature.
  • After all, white folks are the dominant ones in society and have all of the advantages that have been built up over hundreds of years of racial preference toward whites; so when a group of Native American students name their intermural basketball team "The Fightin 'Whites" in order to point out the stupidity of naming a team "The Fighin 'Reds" white people find it funny and laugh it off because it is not a real threat to whiteness. SeeLight:
  • I also considered renaming this "The Cisgendered Privilege Knapsack," because I like the word "cisgendered" and would like to propagate it, but the original author whoever it is called it the non-trans privilege checklist, and who am I to change that? The Non-Trans Privilege Checklist
  • Not that any sex talks are pending with a five-month-old baby; the issue came up for me when I realized that our bathtime body-part-naming song was, um, lacking in pedagogical rigor when it came to certain body parts. The Vagina Dialogues | Her Bad Mother
  • Needless to say, I have a special place in my heart for onomatopoeias 1: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2: the use of words whose sound suggests the sense (thank you Merriam-Webster). Blog – syllable studio
  • We have much pleasure in naming this noble Physa after Dr. Newcomb, the distinguished American conchologist, who has contributed so much, by his researches in the Sandwich Islands, to our knowledge of the genus Helicter or Achatinella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • Bentley composed the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist credited with isolating and naming aluminum. And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
  • He caused a diplomatic incident by renaming the dog Dougal; the French deemed this a slur on Charles de Gaulle.
  • Fraser-Moleketi was reluctant to list any such "duplicated" entities, naming only "some smaller research and related institutes" within land affairs, and social development's National ANC Daily News Briefing
  • One of the most profoundly beautiful reggae songs ever made, Fisherman bathes the daily grind in a spiritual light, naming its titular anglers after four of the disciples (dubbed Fishers of Men by Jesus), though it's not known whether the original apostles also stopped off to see the local collie man. Expecting Rain
  • Examples of this kind of national restoration of local names are the renaming of Stalinabad already mentioned and the renaming of the capital of Kyrgyzstan. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
  • Yes, well, and if a tumble distorts our ideas of life, and an odd word engrosses our speculations, we are poor creatures, he addressed another friend, from whom he stood constitutionally in dissent naming him Colney; and under pressure of the name, reviving old wrangles between them upon man's present achievements and his probable destinies: especially upon Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Theophylaktos gives a false date for the adoption of Tiberius, naming December in the ninth indiction - that is, 575.
  • The stench has become a simple fact of life for those who work here in eight-hour shifts as they carry out their grim task of naming the victims.
  • Since I was not naming one person, it was clear I had not resolved the matter.
  • These areas are the title elements, meta descriptions, and URL naming conventions found within the site, but also within the search engine results. Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
  • The custom of naming the days may then have arisen, he says, (1) by regarding the gods as originally presiding over separate _days_ assigned by the principle of the tetrachord (I.e., skipping two stars in your count each time as you go over the list) so that you get this order: the day of Saturn, of the Sun, of the Moon, of Mars, of Mercury, of Jupiter, of Venus Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
  • Naming and shaming was also being considered. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mark mentions the sisters without naming them, but early Christian tradition says there were two—a Mary and a Salome Mark 6:3.1 Matthew, who followed Mark as his source, includes the same list, though he spells “Joses,” a nickname akin to the English “Josy,” in its full form “Joseph.” The Jesus Dynasty
  • And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding. The Night Land: Chapter 7
  • Prepare to be told about sailing routes and prevailing weather conditions in the North Atlantic; pagan Norse baby naming traditions; Icelandic domestic life, including details of clothes, furniture, diet and agriculture; Norse witchcraft (seidr) and prophetesses (volva); Norse ship design; Irish social structure, monastic organisation, medicine and law. Archive 2006-07-01
  • I'm going to skip, for the sake of brevity (and fairness), the naming and blaming of the person who let me know that Obama asking for dijon mustard is the source of a right wing fanatical frenzy. Obama and dijon mustard: the history behind the headlines.
  • Then there is his long-running and mysterious insistence on naming muscles.
  • Some questions have already led to research papers naming both the asker and "answerer" as co-authors. Snipr/SnipURL - Most interesting snipped URLs
  • The resettlement process was still agonizingly slow in Magude in the mid-1990s, but naming memoriesnot "garbled" at allwere serving the generation of interviewees rather well. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Most of those rebirths were the result of mergers and acquisitions, but the fancy new naming keeps the companies fresh in the crowded marketing space.
  • Cooper has repeatedly refused to reveal his confidential sources, sources for an article he wrote about the naming of the secret CIA operative.
  • On the far side, beneath the bow of Vivacity, workmen were erecting a platform for the naming ceremony. THE BOOK LADY
  • But this intrigue of the antient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed affects to disbelieve: as she does also some puisny gallantries of her foolish brother; which, by way of recrimination, I have hinted at, without naming my informant in their family. Clarissa Harlowe
  • The legalities of the situation didn't prevent the tabloid doorstepping his distraught mother and naming the housing estate where his parents live.
  • Maria and her father lay out under the stars, naming the constellations.
  • I would have to go back to my notes to be totally accurate here, but of her 'successes' in all her years in the Senate, which I defined as sponsoring and shepherding legislation through to law, almost all [78%] of her success was in re-naming buildings or roads in NY or resolutions to honor specific individuals [resolve to have the Library of Conress accept a statue of Sojourner Truth, for example]. Happy Hour Roundup
  • ‘I believe you get the honor of renaming it then,’ Terelf said pryingly, ‘what will you name her?’
  • Intending to describe the spring of the yeare, which euery man knoweth of himselfe, hearing the day of March named: the verses be very good the figure nought worth, if it were meant in Periphrase for the matter, that is the season of the yeare which should haue bene couertly disclosed by ambage, was by and by blabbed out by naming the day of the moneth, & so the purpose of the figure disapointed, peraduenture it had bin better to haue said thus: The Arte of English Poesie
  • Glenn Hoddle won't be naming his side, until he's given himself a fitness test on a calf strain.
  • The judge said that naming and shaming him has a clear deterrent effect. The Sun
  • They have, however, argued that when this system is extended to refer to the naming of species, nomenclatural stability will be improved because the unfortunate existing relationship between genera and species will be removed.
  • Perhaps the latter is a way of rendering solitude bearable and of naming the coldest objects that enclose it. Salvatore Quasimodo - Banquet Speech
  • The council will not initiate a wholesale naming of roundabouts, but will consider any request to have one named.
  • First, territoriality consists of commonly accepted spatial concepts and methods of areal delineation, from oral traditions and place-naming practices to cadastral registers backed by state power.
  • When you're naming a squad you are looking at current form and potential. The Sun
  • That means they are eyeing you up for credit value before naming their price.
  • For those of you in the process of naming your bambino, Korwitts offers a few bits of wisdom: Leslie Goldman: The Baby Name Whisperer
  • The futurity of God's self-naming- ‘I shall be what I shall be’ leads to the profound reflection that redemption is an episodic phenomenon.
  • I noted the use of "interethnic" in this article several times, which seems to offer another way of naming the differences between people of different backgrounds who marry outside the set of individuals their families might have expected them to choose from. Wired Campus
  • Well, the public has spoken and given a clear verdict in the cat naming poll.
  • It is time to take a stand against these youngsters and start by naming and shaming them.
  • In the last century some divines advanced a modification of this ancient theory, naming it the Kenotic or Self-emptying Theory, from the Greek word used by St. Paul in the phrase, "He _emptied_ Himself. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
  • The cave dwellers equate the shadows with reality, naming them, talking about them, and even linking sounds from outside the cave with the movements on the wall.
  • Newborns are sanctified by prayer and undergo head-shaving and naming ceremonies.
  • However, naming a rose after a well-loved public figure can give it a head start.
  • Last year in Scotland, 27 weddings, three naming ceremonies and 233 funerals were conducted by humanist officiants.
  • Crispin is at the table almost from the get-go, from naming products to developing packaging," says Klein. Fewer ads entered at Cannes Lions as fewer people attend
  • The first parts of these Latin names used to be used in naming cations.
  • Leixlip wanted to remember Matt Goff, a famous footballer from the 1920s, by naming a bridge after him. There Was No Beating Gough
  • This is unconnected to the naming policy, but roundabouts could obviously become known by whatever company name appears on its billboards.
  • One might understand espial which is itself a troubling hapax to refer to the father of Laris Thefarie, which is the traditional way of naming people in Etruscan inscriptions. Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993
  • The recognition, naming or guessing of a supernatural being is one of the examples of traditionary control.
  • If they start naming off non-fiction books by journalists, I ask them about fiction.
  • The literary essays chronicle a bibliomaniac's passion and obsession with naming and collecting.
  • Only if they're not commited sic 100% to winning the Race," Keoghan wrote, without naming names. CBS Tweet Week: What Amazing Race Teams Get on Phil Keoghan's Nerves?
  • I'm yet to discover a way to convert a top to a body outfit/part, which would address the above problem partially, despite a few token efforts at file renaming (the .bmps exported are preceded with top~ or body~) and hex editing (the .package file refers to the file names it expects to find for the .bmps). Galactic North
  • Some in the garages are nicknaming the stiffer tires, “restrictor tires”. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1209
  • Instead of disappearing into the caricature of shadows of what they are supposed to be, by tagging, graffiti artists are defiantly re-naming themselves.
  • For example, maybe you really hate typing underscore characters, so you don't use them when naming database tables or named constants.
  • Rather than naming the full team at trials, the five-man selection committee asked seven gymnasts to come to this week's camp and compete for the remaining two spots.
  • The England manager will be naming a new captain, to replace the injured David Beckham.
  • At least in some orthographies, semantics play a larger role in single-word naming than previously thought.
  • A court has gagged the Wandsworth Guardian to prevent it naming two boys accused of terrorising and vandalising their neighbourhood.
  • In a bizarre and questionably legal move prior to the city's mega-merger, a bunch of outgoing Côte-St-Luc city councillors bade adieu to their burg by naming their city's parks after themselves.
  • After being dropped by Maverick, the original band once again reforms, renaming themselves the Soul Brains.
  • Not being a particle physicist, I shall leave the complete renaming process to people who are better qualified.
  • Elizabeth II" as an article title outweigh the disadvantages of the inconsistent naming - sigh. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • But culinary naming rights are nothing new in New York, where a Derek Jeter can be a sandwich with roast beef, turkey and muenster (Stage Deli), or a chicken cutlet hero with ham, bacon, melted swiss and Russian dressing (Othello's Deli). I'll Have One Jeter To Go
  • He said the anger of the renaming was genuine and there was "no rent-a-crowd". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • But today, today we have naming of dishes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wide acceptation of the term brown has occasioned much confusion in the naming of colours, since broken colours in which red, &c. predominate, have been improperly called brown. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • In this case, naming a charity as a direct beneficiary will qualify as a donation credit on the final income tax return of the deceased.
  • Mayo County Council will encourage the use of the Irish language and the use of native Irish spelling of place names in the naming of housing developments.
  • Oh, and how is naming General David Petraeus 'worser' person in the world putting a spotlight in 'big-picture issues'? Big-Picture Issues
  • Naming the new species Mastacembelus reygeli after scientific illustrator Alain Reygel, the authors distinguish the new species from Lake Tanganyika congeners by the following combination of characters: postanal length 37. 5-43.1% standard length, length of pectoral fin Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
  • As government funding dwindles and the competition for charitable donations heats up, several facilities have turned to corporations and exchanged naming rights for cash.
  • Many Guajiro infants are not only baptized into the Catholic Church, but also given a private Guajiro naming ceremony.
  • Accessing Palin’s account required naming the location where she met her husband Todd (Palin recounted meeting him at ‘Wasilla High’ in her RNC speech). Revealed: The Amazing Hacking Palin’s Account | Disinformation
  • The twin kitten is doing fine, though he does like to wear his food. i never got around to naming them. suggestions? at Archive 2008-10-01
  • But eponymy doesn't necessarily involve the conscious act of naming. NPR Topics: News
  • Nor would the Virgin Queen oblige by naming a successor, but left her ministers to do it in defiance of English laws and at some risk to themselves.
  • In the wake of the BP spill, the Obama administration overhauled the Minerals Management Service, renaming it the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and separating its conflicting responsibilities for both policing the oil and gas industry and collecting billions in royalties from it. AP: Big Oil Hasn't Learned Lessons Of BP Oil Spill
  • Muir wi 'Mr. Frank here; and if I canna mak Rob hear reason, and his wife too, I dinna ken wha can --- I hae been a kind freend to them afore now, to say naething o' ower-looking him last night, when naming his name wad hae cost him his life Rob Roy
  • A similar kind of onomastic matrilineage is established through a practice Junod, around the turn of the century, described as the most frequent method of infant-naming among the Tsonga, and through which many of the eldest interviewees had received their birth name: consulting the divining bones to obtain the name of an ancestor so as to kupfuxa (wake up) that ancestor's spirit in the person of the child. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • When you're naming a squad you are looking at current form and potential. The Sun
  • In time, the political establishment scrambled to respond, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Lewis did indeed tend to lean toward concepts that were prevalent in classical music and had rarely been translated into jazz terms, like fugal form and baroque counterpoint, and he also made his music seem more formal by naming many of his compositions after European cities—"Milano," "Afternoon in Venice," "A Day in Dubrovnik. The Modern Sounds of Yore
  • That would be a better name, rather than misnaming it the Families Commission Bill.
  • Depending on the student's learning style, a teacher might ask a student to play the chord while naming the next chord in the chorale.
  • The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming scapegoats, but the prevention of future tragedies.
  • The national mycologist once described a new fungus that occurs on melon, so she had the honor of naming it.
  • The trinomial naming system has been abandoned in favor of the usual binomial naming convention.
  • The semantic job of sentences is to say something, which is not to be confused with naming or denoting some thing.
  • Even when Bird ramps up the wattage, as on the hammily Beatle-esque ‘Opposite Day’ and the grandly theatrical ‘The Naming of Things,’ Eggs rarely causes a fuss.
  • Paleontologists and biologists have the honor of giving a two-word name, or binomial, to any new species they formally describe in the scientific literature, and the rules for naming are relatively few.
  • NDP again blames party staffer in latest overinflation of MP credentials Public service dedication should keep ex-senator from jail: defence Liberal brass rejigs rules to delay naming Ignatieff's permanent successor Disclaimer The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • First of all, in the history of naming a Person of the Year we've only had five women.
  • _I_ -- to approach the point in question -- if _I_, writing a poem the end of which is the extolment of what I consider to be Christian truth over the pagan myths shrank even _there_ from naming the name of my The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • Linnaeus, known as the father of modern Taxonomy, was born on 23 May 1707 and is credited with the development of the Latin binominal naming system for all living organisms
  • The word surreptitious has appeared in 42 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 29 in "French Broadcasters Told to Avoid Naming Social Media Sites," by Eric Pfanner: NYT > Home Page
  • If Obama wanted to hypothesize to make a point, why not make up an organization name as well instead of naming an actual and opposing political group and "hypothesize" about those danged furriners controlling their message? Jihad Monitor
  • What I do know is that naming these people before they've been charged is a very bad idea.
  • The New Yorker wondered why they had not gone for broke, naming these two universitium and offium so as to reserve berkelium and californium for the next two elements.
  • In time the political establishment scrambled to respond, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • I really went through a lot of deliberation on naming the company something I felt was what the company did or what I did to the company, and “inspirit,” the verb, means to infuse, to encourage, to invigorate. Buzzine » Christal Brown Interview
  • At another dinner one of the guests of the prince suddenly shot at me across the table the startling question: "Do you know certain American heiresses" -- naming them -- "now visiting London? My Memories of Eighty Years
  • In January 2009 it became the Lamex Stadium in a seven-figure sponsorship deal – no problem with naming rights there – but the hardwood trees that lend it charm beyond the stands may prove more prized by the council than all-seater stands. Steely Stevenage aim high in their quest for a unique hat-trick | Jeremy Alexander
  • My personal quirk aside, "mp" is right -- street renaming should begin with the affected community. BlueOregon
  • England gambled in naming a reserve wicketkeeper this time who is also a back-up frontline batsman. Times, Sunday Times
  • The naming conventions of Intel processors has kept me a bit fuddled for the last few years.
  • Maley takes us through punning, naming, etymological wordplay, versification and other features of the poetic language.
  • The brownish autumn color of a dying Georgia cotton field was the inspiration for Brownfield Copeland's naming.
  • As government funding dwindles and the competition for charitable donations heats up, several facilities have turned to corporations and exchanged naming rights for cash.
  • Some are not being well-managed as there is massive speculation and price manipulation, while some have their shareholders directly taking part in transactions, which has led to the embezzlement of clients' funds and prompted some managers to abscond, the statement said, without naming specific companies or individuals. Beijing Cracks Down on Trading Houses
  • At the Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu, western Kenya, Barack's ancestral homeland, several mothers were naming their babies after the U.S.'s first African-American president.
  • Unlike the classical planets, which telescopes revealed as little disks, both these bodies appeared as mere pinpricks of light. English astronomer William Herschel proposed naming them "asteroids.
  • Timm et al. (2005) argued that the lack of a type specimen means that Lophocebus kipunji ‘is not an available name and has no formal standing in zoology’ (p. 2163) and Landry (2005) argued that the authors should have published ‘all of the excellent descriptive material and their quite convincing case for calling it new, without, however, naming it’ (p. 2164). Archive 2006-06-01
  • There is much to show that naming practices were carefully considered and raised issues of protocol and diplomacy as well as propaganda.
  • Regan quickly says she has received news of Edgar's villainy and has come to repudiate her father's naming of Edgar as his godson.
  • Recently, controversy has arisen from the song, renaming the words, “Barack, The Magic Negro”, which has been played on the Rush Limbaugh talk radio show and was distributed at Christmas of 2008, by Chip Saltsman, Republican National Committee chairman candidate. Remembering Mary Travers | myFiveBest
  • Does the state have a compelling interest in protecting her by imposing naming standards? The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law
  • In many families naming tarantism was taboo, reflecting this ambiguity between condemnation and belief.
  • Landlords say the Residential Tenancy Act is biased against them and they run websites naming bad tenants and their sins.
  • Why not court them, he suggested, if not by naming an anti-choicer as the vice presidential candidate, then by having an anti-choice speaker at the convention?
  • Rather, the naming system complements the kinship system in that it provides people with an easy tool to establish their relationship even with distant kin.
  • It is a simple naming task with pictures from a children's lotto.
  • Those whacky gardening folk and their uproarious naming schemes!
  • The company decided to honor the grandson of their long time employee by naming their newest vessel for him.
  • Though I do admit that what people are naming their kids these days can be strange.
  • His government stooges, the same bunch Obama is naming, lined up in goose stepping order to defend his calumnies, perjuries, and deceptions. Bringing Sperling Back - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • There are other examples of naming deals gaining solemnity and acceptance over time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meantime her relationship with her screen love-interest Richard Gere turned arctic as he grew impatient with her erratic behaviour, calling her unstable and nicknaming her ‘Nervous Nellie’.
  • With shining mien and naming sword earthward St. Michael came Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales
  • Southend await a late fitness test on Andy Ansah before naming today's side.
  • An EBI or REBI is almost a proper subset of a ballot file -- that is, you create an EBI simply by removing non-selected choices from a ballot file and renaming the root element from to .
  • The aircraft's squat appearance compared with contemporary aircraft at the time resulted in many of United's pilots nicknaming the airplane "guppy". HEADLINES
  • Wood also discusses onomastics - the meanings of names, and the practice of naming - and, very importantly, the notion of fictiveness. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It is unquestionable that in future years UW will undoubtedly see the reshaping or even renaming of this student hub.
  • Tag naming can be independent of RIM class and attribute names.
  • Probation officers said naming and shaming offenders was counterproductive and would lead to more re-offending.
  • Though modern occultism is interesting, it is (a) not unanimous in its naming conventions (nor in its theology or cosmology), (b) largely a Modern synthesis anyway, so not archetypal, and (c) apparently ineffective by standards of most fantasy and legend, so - unlike, say martial arts - has no firm claim to objective validity. Why you can call your fantasy mages what you like
  • Obviously, naming our privates is a matter of personal taste.
  • In the above family, the two kids would be named Jón Guðrúnsson and Siga Guðrúnsdottir if matronymic naming was followed. Matthew Yglesias » The Bjork Fund
  • Several villages contested the payment by taking their case to the parlement, and other villages followed suit by convoking general assemblies, naming syndics to represent their interests, and refusing to pay the full amount.
  • The original title of Proteus (now changed because Miramax is doing a submarine story with the same title) involves the naming of the Protea flower in 1735 when it was given its correct Latin binomial.
  • They're pretty awful in retrospect, but they got me interested in collies, and before the dust had settled Carol and I bred and exhibited 23 collie champions (naming most of them after science fiction stories and characters). MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
  • He created another strange device which, with his talent for naming things awkwardly (starting with himself), he called the zoopraxiscope. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground
  • Those talons would be used by the Farworlder during a Naming to mark an Avatar, to inject the secretion to complete the joining of minds. WATER TRILOGY # 1: ASCENSION
  • Textbooks of hematology give credit for the description and naming of the hematoblast to Georges Hayem, from France, often addressed as the father of hematology.
  • At the summit meeting, the leaders discussed renaming the group to better reflect its new initiatives and composition.
  • The argument of those who opposed the naming was that the countries named would decrease their efforts to carry out reforms to meet membership criteria.
  • Instead of naming and shaming laggards, the European Commission is urging national governments and parliaments to take charge of the economic reform agenda and appoint national bodies to accelerate change.
  • She seldom knows, before the act, how much money she can expect from a client; by naming a price, she says, you can lose out, as he might want to show his appreciation.
  • The delay in naming an Administrator is due to making sure that the relationship between the nominee and key NASA players is not broken after confirmation. Gration's Chances Fade Away - NASA Watch
  • Twelfth day the fiddler lays his head in the lap of some one of the wenches, and the _mainstyr fiddler_ asks who such a maid, or such a maid, naming all the girls one after another, shall marry, to which he answers according to his own whim, or agreeable to the intimacies he has taken notice of during the time of merriment, and whatever he says is absolutely depended upon as an oracle; and if he couple two people who have an aversion to each other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth; this they call "cutting off the fiddler's head," for after this he is dead for a whole year. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
  • My noble Emperor generously offers me the right of naming what he calls my recompense; but let not his generosity be dispraised, although it is from you, my lord, and not from his Imperial Count Robert of Paris
  • Now would be a perfect chance to get the kids excited about Kuiper Belt and Trans-Neptunian Objects, and maybe the whole celestial object naming business. Planet-x.com.au » 29.04.10-Name a Minor Planet! : Astro Guyz
  • They all go home after killing a ram and renaming the mountain.
  • The spruit is considered by some to be the longest tributary of the Limpopo, usually the criterion for sourcing and naming a river.
  • The text gave detailed descriptions of ‘the channels,’ naming the points on each, and listing their locations and how deeply each should be needled.
  • I wouldn't mind renaming the launchers Colbert I and Colbert V if that's what it takes for them to be developed (and work, of course) on the existing budget. Another Administrator Candidate Says No Thanks - NASA Watch
  • Congress by the Act of June 11, 1878 … in naming a part of the Seat of Government “the Federal Capital,” which it constituted by the Consolidation of ancient Georgetown with the city of Washington under the latter name, has left the people who reside in the portion of the seat of government, outside of that city, mere District of Columbians …. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why “Washington, DC”?
  • Siguro dahil nga naman sa sobrang abala niya bilang ina, hindi na niya magagawa pang matuto nang bagong kaalaman na sa tingin naman niya e hindi niya mapapakinabangan sa pang-araw-araw naming buhay Global Voices in English » Philippines: An Internet-Savvy Grandmother
  • While not naming individual states, GCHQ, which is responsible for cyber defence, has been concerned for some time that states such as China and Russia are unlikely to use conventional or nuclear weapons in an attack on Britain and are more likely to attempt to shut down essential systems used to run the country. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • These freed slaves formed an elite group in Liberian society, and, in 1847, formed a government based on that of the United States, naming their capital city after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States . Clinton in Liberia for meeting with president
  • The naming of a culprit by a police force which has not amassed enough evidence to warrant an arrest, never mind charges, is so damaging to fairness and due process that it boggles the mind.
  • Ferrell2010, why the heck are you insulting one of the funniest people in showbiz ever by naming yourself after them? Think Progress » At Beck event, Perry says anti-Obama conservatives are an ‘army’ that can ‘take their country back.’
  • The England manager will be naming a new captain, to replace the injured David Beckham.
  • Renaming Creationism as "Intelligent Design Theory" gives it a respectability it doesn't deserve, since it does not meet any of the criteria of a scientific theory - there is no POSITIVE evidence of a creator or designer (all they have is a kind of dumbstruck awe: "isn't the world complex?" and a lack of imagination "We can't imagine how this came to be", followed by an illogical step "it must be a designer"). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Husbands are divorcing their wives, naming Noor's fictional husband as co-respondent. Noor
  • Three sepals, three petals, twice three stamens, three styles, a three-celled ovary, the flower growing out from a whorl of three leaves, make the naming of wake-robins a simple matter to the novice.
  • The close relationship between Sylvia and babblers leads to the nomenclatural problem of naming the babbler and warbler families.
  • This just in: IN light of news that British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been spared the lash and sentenced to 15 days in a Sudanese choky for naming a teddy in an improper way, Anorak looks at the position of teddy bears in society. The teddy bear teacher is sentenced to 15 days in prison.
  • We recommend a receiver-oriented, empirical approach to naming an innovation, so that the word symbol for a new idea has the desired meaning for the intended audience. Diffusion of Innovations
  • She immediately started naming the ways that Ten 2 was not very interested in Rose ... and her fanon then made HIM the "true Doctor. Doctor Who: This just in...The PONY is Old School Part 2

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