Sentence examples for rsb from inspiring English sources

With biofuels, standards such as those of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) provide requirements that land deals must follow to guarantee local environmental and cultural sustainability.

Last year a similar competition organised by the RSB saw the buff-tailed bumblebee being named the nation's favourite insect.

The RSB, who will now "spend some time celebrating the buff-tailed bumblebee", are hoping people will get behind the victor by planting "bee-friendly" plants, avoiding mowing flowers until late summer and asking MPs to create a national programme to monitor numbers.

Entomologist and RSB member Dr Rebecca Nesbit, who helped to organise the poll, put the bee's popularity down to its hard work, visibility and gentle sound: "Wasps interrupt your picnic, but there is something quite appealing about sitting in your garden and seeing a bumblebee hard at work.

The letter - signed by Reporters Without Borders (RSB), Index on Censorship and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) - also highlights the case of Nazeeha Saeed, a Bahraini journalist who was prosecuted for "illegal reporting" after her licence renewal was refused.

The RSB launched the competition to raise the profile of the insect population which is suffering from the impacts of climate change, use of pesticides and loss of habitats.

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Yet a show of firepower is increasingly necessary because pirates are getting blasé about "non-lethal" defences like water hoses and sonic blasts, says David Schewitz, whose California-based company, RSB International, helps protect ships.Navies are also starting to deploy seamen on merchant ships, something hitherto rare unless the cargo was military.

A Royal Society of Biology RSBB) poll, launched on Sunday, will seek to pinpoint which non-domestic creature – found within our shores and coastal waters – is closest to the nation's heart.

More than 7,500 people from across the UK placed their vote in the ballot organised by the Royal Society of Biology RSBB).

With characteristically sharp but unmalicious wit, Mount describes Goodwin as "the roi soleil of Gogarburn [RSB's Edinburgh HQ]" before concluding that he is "the model of a modern oligarch".