She has combined two instruments that serve different purposes in Malian music and aren't normally heard together: the balafon, a wooden xylophone, and the n'goni, a banjolike instrument.
Mr. Negrin then bought credit-default swaps — instruments that serve as insurance policies on the bonds, in the case of default — and profited when the deal was announced a week later, the S.E.C. said.
Many analysts predicted that use of that clause would lead to payouts on credit-default swaps, the financial instruments that serve as a sort of insurance on bonds, which could create turmoil in financial markets.
Oroville Dam was designed to withstand the strongest possible earthquake for the region, and was fitted with hundreds of instruments that serve to measure water pressure and settlement of the earth fill used in its construction, earning it the nickname "the dam that talks back".
Many Americans believe, not unreasonably, that far from acting always as an instrument that serves their interests, government often acts as if citizens' lives and labour are instruments to the special interests that control government.
The twanging tremolo of the dan bao, a Vietnamese string instrument that serves as leitmotif for V's wife (who was killed by American soldiers), contrasts with the guttural monologues in Vietnamese spewed by V.
On Thursday, North Korea's ambassador, So Se Pyong, rejected the resolution as "an instrument that serves the political purposes of the hostile forces in their attempt to discredit the image" of his country.
The North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, So Se Pyong, rejected the commission as "an instrument that serves the political purposes of the hostile forces in their attempt to discredit the image" of North Korea, and denied that any human rights abuses existed in his country.
I give you Ethereum, "a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications," which is no longer vaporware, and has raised some $15 million, not from venture capitalists, but by selling "ether," the Bitcoin-like instrument that serves as Ethereum's "cryptofuel".
An astronomical instrument that served as a clock, it was discussed in a contemporary text as follows: [It] was made in the image of the round heavens and on it were shown the lunar mansions in their order, the equator and the degrees of the heavenly circumference.
The MAAS-Global is a validated observation and assessment instrument, that serves as a guideline for patient-centred medical communication [ 31].
