Sentence examples for or spate from inspiring English sources

The bill dubbed Mutual Funds Integrity and Fee Transparency Act, which passed after 40 minutes of debate, was said in various news reports to "address" or "respond to" the scandal or "spate of scandals" that have "rocked" the mutual fund industry in recent months.

We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

The return to full-length workdays is a shock to a population used to "forced vacations" when street fighting or spates of shelling shut down the city.

"There seems to be a trend or a spate of incidents that seems to be happening at an alarming rate now," said Michael Clendenin, a spokesman for Con Ed.

But partisan labels such as left-wing and right-wing are not much help when assessing this Supreme Court, or the spate of historic rulings that it issued in the usual end-of-term rush before the justices headed off for their summer breaks (conferences, the odd opera festival, a spot of teaching in some agreeable foreign spot).

That's the thread, from which are strung just a few loose, lurid sketches – about a repressed Somerset schoolteacher visited by swaggering Manc performance poet Jackie Cooper Clarke, or a spate of cannibal killings in Wetherby under investigation by macho, mullet-toting cop Dick and his bubble-permed, sexually frustrated secretary Diane.

But the criminal justice reform project remains, it seems, one drug crisis or a spate of urban shootings away from a major setback at the hands of prosecutors, a hammer that sees almost any social problem as a nail.

In these strains, only genes encoding adhesins cah, ehaA, ehaC, and espI could be detected, but not AAF/II encoding genes (unpublished data) or other SPATE genes [ 23].

The next few months could determine whether the optimism surrounding Myanmar's president is justified-or whether the spate of reforms was just a momentary blip in Myanmar's tragic history.

There are several series on and coming on TV with Jersey-centric settings, and they are spinning off or inspiring a spate of marketing and promotional campaigns.

Yesterday's announcement was unrelated to such criticism or to the spate of accounting scandals in the last year, said Vicky Mayer, a P.& G. spokeswoman.