How To Use Ob In A Sentence

  • He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
  • The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
  • A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
  • Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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  • I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.
  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
  • Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
  • He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
  • Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
  • Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with. The Sun
  • The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
  • A second problem is damage caused by the buildup of excessive electrical charges in the plate from the unwanted ions.
  • On the other hand, a blazer and slacks would probably be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
  • That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
  • The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
  • The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
  • The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
  • I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
  • Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
  • Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
  • Unless the radar signal is normal to some surface (extremely low probability) the radar receives no return.
  • An AFTRA statement confirmed the issues' importance, calling the 1% increase the union's "primary objective" in the bargaining. Jonathan Handel: AFTRA, Networks Reach New Three Year Deal
  • Kids at one Connecticut school don't like a new rule, but you probably won't hear them expressing themselves by using profanity: the rule to keep kids from cussing.
  • If Obama runs for President, he'll need a good nomenclator. Sound Politics: Marcy Burner?
  • 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
  • The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
  • They missed it because they are too busy bootlicking ObamaCare, on their hands and knees. Political Instability and the Coming Defeat of ObamaCare | RedState
  • I again affirm that I need make no apology for attaching my name to that of one so worthy the esteem of his co-dogs, ay, and co-cats too; for in spite of the differences which have so often raised up a barrier between the members of his race and ours, not even the noblest among us could be degraded by raising a "mew" to the honour of such a thoroughly honest dog. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
  • But for the watermark, the thickness of the paper and the missing security thread, the note, reportedly obtained from a private bank, looked like genuine currency for all practical purposes.
  • A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
  • So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
  • It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
  • The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
  • A lot of people moaned about the parking problems.
  • His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
  • Clinton will fight for the American people, and Obama will sit in a racest church for another 20 years where The "rev" is preaching hate, racism, and black seperatism. Clinton: Put down the Blackberry at home
  • It will probably work out cheaper to hire a van and move your own things.
  • The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
  • There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
  • It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
  • Applicants for the job must have previous experience.
  • There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
  • At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
  • Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
  • There is another dimension to this problem which you haven't considered.
  • There are no problems, either, in regard to fuels and lubricants, that is, in the refining industry. The Speech
  • You need infinite patience for this job.
  • Antifascist groups have had their objections rejected because they live outside the area. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such changeable weather can pose problems for wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
  • None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.
  • No, Jack won't have nobody tell him what he can't ever be, even if he weren't born with a silver spoon in one end and an Harley Street hooter up the other. Jack Scallywag
  • Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
  • The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
  • Hillary's woman problem is that her reach among women over 30 I don't want to use the term older women is unlikely to change much. Hillary's Woman Problem Part II
  • 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.
  • It had multiple shooters, multiple locations, mobile threats, willingness to fight the first responders and follow-on SWAT/commando units, well-equipped and well-trained operatives, and a willingness to die. Cliff Schecter: The Terrorist and the Terror Watch List
  • He presided over the job placement blackboard beside the trading floor.
  • Those cuts included 11,000 production jobs and 2,000 salaried jobs. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
  • It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
  • And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
  • My job was often actually throwing the dart out of sight, since they were hopeless at aiming. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've got a terrible string of fruity obscenities building up inside me.
  • This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
  • Philips is also exploring the potential of applying LED to help 'declutter' city streets increasingly obscured by a variety of elements, including lighting fixtures. WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • The diverse problems of succession and authority which face the brothers, the audience, and the poet reflect upon one other throughout, and this self-awareness renders nugatory the traditional criticism of Statius as derivative.
  • This is due to the then nonexistent mobilization of what is called today the "civil society."
  • It also emerged on Tuesday that actress Sienna Miller had obtained a court ruling ordering phone operator Vodafone to disclose data relating to other users - so-called third party disclosure.
  • Coined by Colorado physician Dr. Steven Bratman, the term orthorexia applies to people who obsess over eating healthy food. Lead Stories from AOL
  • Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb. Diary
  • The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
  • Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • I thought I wouldn't get another chance to munge the name "I, Robot" again. June 2007
  • The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story. Peter Orszag's Move From The White House To Citigroup Should Definitely Trouble You
  • When the toughest of the problems strike me, I just remind myself that God is on my side. RVM 
  • CALLS for firefighters to move obese people are up by a third in just three years. The Sun
  • These positions are frequently referred to respectively as objectivism and constructionism.
  • Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
  • There have been a number of situations with the young Belgian where had he not taken evasive action he would have been clobbered. The Sun
  • It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
  • Probably the trickiest green on the course. The Sun
  • Another level could be called "agile big data," whose concern is solving a different class of problems and allows more experimentation. Forbes.com: News
  • Homeobox genes encode transcription factors involved in many aspects of developmental processes.
  • It was like an algebra problem. Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
  • In other cultures he might be described as effeminate and, therefore, be an object of derision. The Kaisho
  • Some people might object to the word, and say that he only "snickered," or made faces. Jarwin and Cuffy
  • Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
  • From there the year had its high points - two Masters Series titles in Miami and Rome helped with that - but the Grand Slam events continued to pose a problem.
  • _ -- The dotted lines in Fig. 60 represent isacoustic lines -- that is, lines which pass through all places where the percentage of observers who recorded their perception of the sound is the same. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
  • She probably didn't appreciate that the master was without jurisdiction to make that order since her predecessor had obtained it.
  • CNN ... why arent you covering all the "handpicked," townhalls for Obama and theliberal dems? No media allowed at Palin speech in Missouri
  • Much derided, but with an unenviable job. Times, Sunday Times
  • Responsive phylotypes were mostly proteobacteria in the subarctic and California HNLC areas, but no changes were noted in the subantarctic experiments.
  • A country which once conquered the commercial world now fails to make the most of the global market place.
  • Look, if you want a descending obligato, do it in the privacy of your own home away from us normal people.
  • One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
  • Currently, 30 percent of Americans are obese, compared with the 4 percent who meet criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating disorder.
  • Mr Ireland claimed that the case had cost him his job as a school bus driver. Times, Sunday Times
  • Objective:To observe the effects of transurethral vaporization for prostate (TVP) and suprapubic prostatectomy (SPP) on sexual function of the patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
  • Although alcoholism remains the number one dependency problem among judges and lawyers, the face of addiction continues to change.
  • The 22-year-old arrived without huge fanfare or any of the media lobbying that normally accompanies the promotion of a fresh face.
  • The preoccupation with the problem of evil, asserts Nietzsche, enervates the human spirit.
  • She needs to work on her interview technique if she's going to get a job.
  • Objective:To observe the effects of to integrate acusector concussion with suggestible dialogue treat 530 patient with hysteria spasm.
  • The contours show combinations of mimic phenotypes that are attacked by predators with equal probability.
  • I'm pleased I didn't get that job, in a funny sort of way.
  • Allegheny Technologies Incorporated manufactures titanium, hafnium, tungsten, and cobalt. Eric Lotke: Steel City: Forgotten but Not Gone
  • And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
  • Jobs 'mention that developers can begin submitting programs to the Mac App Store by next month made it clear that this, like the iPhone's App Store, will be a curated environment, subject to Apple's sole control. Apple updates: iLife '11, FaceTime on the Mac, Mac OS X Lion, Mac App Store, new MacBook Air models
  • It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
  • Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
  • The mobile service is designed to bring the marriage bureau to the doorstep of the customer.
  • He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
  • Then there were the curling sessions, saunas, card games and his hobby of star-gazing. The Sun
  • This is the obedience of faith to which personal conviction leads.
  • And this also involves, crucially, the identification of areas where there are disagreements between agencies over objectives or methods.
  • The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
  • The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
  • They point out that, for customers, obsoleting an investment is not an ‘escape’ but a ‘closed door.’
  • HARRIS: Or maybe I'll get -- it's what I would do with a lemur is the problem. CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2006
  • Too much is made of work defined as a job, anyway. Love, Medicine and Miracles
  • I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
  • So there is one problem he did not face - wondering if his bride is a gold-digger.
  • She talks to doctors and parents about the risks, finding that a number object to the jab and fear it will promote promiscuity. The Sun
  • Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
  • Laplace called probability theory ‘the calculus of inductive reasoning.’
  • The company is closing down two of its factories, leading to 430 job losses .
  • Listen to them now, whining about unfairness as the problem is put right. The Sun
  • Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa. D. Africa, 500-1500
  • 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 pitahaya season in San Diego goes from October 1 to around mid-November.
  • She's obviously much more interested in the process than in the finished work.
  • Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
  • Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. The Titan
  • These frank statements suggest that he is sincere and serious about exposing the problems and proposing solutions.
  • Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
  • Finding a job should have been an occasion for rejoicing.
  • We will probably start telecasting them by the first week of August.
  • We're trying to solve the difficult problem by ourselves.
  • I believe it has its own atmosphere because it is built in what you call a caldera, but I may have picked that information up from like a Syfy TV movie about the Coming Global Superstorm, or invented it in my own mind. Television Without Pity
  • Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
  • Patients received a conditioning regimen that consisted of total body irradiation (1375 cGy in 11 fractions) with partial lung shielding, thiotepa (10 mg/kg), cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg), and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (1.5 mg/kg). EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • In a healthy pregnancy, cells that come from the embryo's placenta-called trophoblast cells-move into the walls of the uterus and help to open up maternal arteries, thereby increasing the available blood and nutrient supply. Slate Articles
  • RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
  • Indeed, so many of us now possess a handset that mobile phone sales have collapsed.
  • Minister for Defence Robert Hill talks with an Australian Army captain and warrant officer at a Middle East base.
  • We obtained a loan from the government.
  • Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
  • Your Manager will probably also want to comment on how you prepare for, accomplish and present completed tasks.
  • Probation officers were supposed to have been keeping a close watch on him. The Sun
  • Trained by Mark Tompkins and ridden by Philip Robinson, Babodana made his move about three furlongs out.
  • I have been to more than 50 of his concerts over the years and changed my name to Robert George Dylan Willis by deed poll
  • Olivia notes the direction of his gaze, and realizes her robe has fallen open again.
  • The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege.
  • That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby. Times, Sunday Times
  • She will be nobody's stooge, least of all Washington's.
  • The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher. Canada.com Top Stories
  • This is the very definition of obstructionism: To delay a foregone conclusion for the sake of a petty protest.
  • Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
  • Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
  • The lobby and restaurant are in the original castle building. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the absence of a clear express intent to abrogate rights and obligations - rights of the highest importance to the individual - those rights remain in force.
  • The Global Communications Group links ecological and other political activists via the Net.
  • These are based on the observation that expenditure is typically necessary to partake in such recreational activities.
  • There is also a small genus of orchids, called coralroots, that obtains the majority of its nutrition from a mycorrhizal association with soil fungi.
  • The face muscles set differently when we think we are observed; it becomes habitual. Times, Sunday Times
  • The jobs are ideal for stay-at-home parents as you can earn from 150 per week working just three hours a day. The Sun
  • The best adequacy for EA was obtained by combinations of imipenem/cilastatin or piperacillin/tazobactam, amikacin and a glycopeptide, with values reaching 99% and 94%, respectively. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • As it stands, Earle is today probably best known more as a radical than as a rocker.
  • And they sing and play oboes and clarinets and violins and cellos and recorders on through the late afternoon in a warm, close auditorium.
  • When the cupel shows signs of the presence of these metals in objectionable quantity, it is well to repeat the assay and scorify so as to remove them before cupellation. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
  • I'd like see them cope on jobseeker's allowance. The Sun
  • My Mom took a job as a nursing orderly in a mental hospital where sleeping pills and tranquillisers were easily obtainable.
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Grim, sure, but true - not to mention ruthlessly egalitarian, which is why people rarely lob the P-word at those whose answer to life is, "Who knows? Why I love Carolyn Hax
  • No one questions her fitness for the job.
  • Similarly, when the starter button is pressed, along with the clutch pedal, the system recognises the transponder signal, releases the engine immobiliser and the steering lock, and the engine starts.
  • Ruling was in a sense a job, a calling, the only thing he knew how to do and could conceive of doing.
  • Rising up off a stone bench that stood in a shadowy area out of the torchlight was a dark, robed figure. Dragons of Winter Night
  • The problem of environmental pollution roots in the characteristic of public goods and negative externality.
  • Fitness functions include a simple linear problem for binary strings and classification of data sets which are dynamically loaded from a specified data file.
  • He had been trying to persuade me to disregard what he termed the obstinacy of the old folks, and said impatiently: Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches
  • Here, we take a whirlwind global tour of foods that can help keep us healthy. The Sun
  • The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
  • What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
  • A gob of crimson pouring from his lips, he spat it out, wiping the excess with the back of his hand.
  • It's probably good to keep some of the nonverbal aspects of my mind sharp.
  • I don't see the point of waiting for her, she is probably not coming.
  • One of the problems with this kind of pricing is that it has a tendency to hammer the less profitable stores or chains, such as Borders. September « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
  • VARIOUS LEATHER PICTURE, It's a high classic decoration , made by hand, use nature color and veins of leather to make design, it shows obvious stereoscopy like relief sculpture but softly .
  • Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.
  • If I command him to put the newest posts at the top like every other bleeding blog in the world - are you listening boyo - will he obey?
  • She's doing the equivalent job in the new company but for more money.
  • Another friend showed his great sense of humor in dealing with the obvious statements.
  • He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.

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