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Docking
noun
The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
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In a further transfer of money from the children of the middle classes to their needier contemporaries, Mr Brown has indicated that he will pay some sixth-formers an allowance to stay on at school by docking child benefit for 16-to-18-year-olds 16-to-18-year-olds 16-to-18-year-olds 16-to-18-year-olds 16-to-18-year-olds
American warships, loaded with combat materiel, began docking at Turkey's south-eastern port of Iskenderun.
The only ships docking at Tobruk's jetties are tankers, and despite the energy flow there are blackouts.
Docking stations were deliberately placed away from big railway terminals.
Foreign airlines have already withdrawn, while ships bringing food and fuel think twice before docking at Libya's ports.At least the hotel attack might prove "a wake-up call," says the UN envoy, Bernardino León, who is shepherding talks on reuniting the country's splintered factions in Geneva.
Alternatively, the Bank could boost its income by docking various interest-rate reductions that most borrowers tend to receive as a matter of course.
Early signs are that the new agency will reduce its workload by encouraging parents to enter into voluntary agreements, put more energy into prising open the wallets of deadbeat dads (or non-resident parents) and create incentives for them to pay up by docking less from mothers' welfare payments if they do.
Anaesthetics might achieve this either by making the shape of a protein so stable that it cannot flex in response to docking and undocking molecules, or so unstable that the docking port loses its shape.
AS THE world gathers in Copenhagen over the coming weeks to discuss how much carbon dioxide people should be putting into the atmosphere, the Benguela Stream will be docking in the Windward Isles to bring bananas to Europe for Christmas, and doing her bit to help ascertain where a large part of that CO2 ends up.
As it was making its final approach, an unmanned launch was docking with Russia's Mir space station.
Take that cosy, cliched history of black Britain that begins with the Pathe newsreel of Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury.
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