Sentence examples for kic from inspiring English sources

The independent Kyrgyz Inquiry Commission (KIC) was tasked with investigating bloodshed between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in which around 470 died.

With glass, an extremely brittle material, having a KIc value of 1, all other materials can be assigned values relative to that of glass.

Other governments have flatly rejected calls for similar investigations for example, after the government's shooting of hundreds of people in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley in 2005.The seven-member KIC, a Nordic initiative accepted by Kyrgyzstan's president, Roza Otunbayeva, found that some military people were at the least complicit, and at the worst took part, in the events.

It is given the symbol KIc and is measured in units of megapascals times the square root of the distance measured in metres (MPa√m).

However, in the case of KIC 8462852, which is 1,500 light years from Earth, its starlight dimmed by as much as 20 per cent with a mysteriously irregular timing – as if by design.

A scientific survey of a star system called KIC 8462852 has ruled out the existence of two types of radio signals which could indicate the presence of aliens who are either trying to communicate across space or who may be using spacecraft powered by intense microwave beams.

Milan countered as Liverpool appealed for a spot-kic and the red defence was rent asunder by Andriy Shevchenko, who eschewed an opportunity to shoot from a narrow angle.

With teams posting more than 5,000 updates about their work to social media accounts, the Climathon was soon trending on Twitter – and Climate-KIC created a dedicated digital wall to amplify the conversation, both for external audiences and its own staff.

Climate-KIC, a European Union-funded knowledge and innovation community, launched the event as part of its larger campaign to raise awareness about climate change ahead of the Paris climate talks in December 2015.

ADFerTech has gained grant funding totalling nearly £600,000 from government agencies such as Innovate UK, Invest NI, Waste Resources Action Programme and Climate-KIC, and is set to start selling its prototype model this year.

Climate-KIC is the 2016 winner in the communicating sustainability category of the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards.