About a year later, on April 16, 1987, Swedish Radio alleged that Bofors paid kickbacks to top Indian politicians and key defence officials to seal the deal.

It was so named in 1902 by the Swedish surveyor Johan Gunnar Andersson who found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site.

On that occasion, the name Grytviken (" The Pot Cove ") was given by the Swedish archaeologist and geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson who surveyed part of Thatcher Peninsula and found numerous artifacts and features from sealers ’ habitation and industry, including a shallop ( a type of small boat ) and several try-pots used to boil seal oil.

A corresponding creature existed in Swedish legend, and the Chinook people of North America have a similar tale of a boy who changes into a seal ( see the children's story The Boy Who Lived with the Seals by Rafe Martin ).

By the Instrument of Government of 1974 the Supreme Court discontinued the practice to award sentencing in the name of the Swedish monarch ( Kungl Maj: t ), as well as announcing them at the Royal Palace where they were adorned with the royal seal.

The earliest example of Swedish civic heraldry is the city arms of Kalmar, which originated as a city seal in 1247.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Carnivorans are the most diverse in size of any mammalian order, ranging from the least weasel ( Mustela nivalis ), at as little as and, to the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), which can weigh up to, to the southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ), whose adult males weigh up to and measure up to in length.

The Chinese characters in the original versions were probably written in zhuànshū ( seal script ), while later versions were written in lìshū ( clerical script ) and kǎishū ( regular script ) styles.

The three overlapping seals on the left are the seal of the U. S. Department of State ( similar to the Great Seal of the United States ), the seal of the U. S. Department of Justice, and the seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He met their leaders along with their French and Scot allies at Runnymede, near London on 15 June 1215 to seal the Great Charter ( Magna Carta in Latin ), which imposed legal limits on the king's personal powers.

An especially interesting discovery was a seal ring from the Late Minoan period ( 1500-1400 BCE ), which could indicate some interaction between Mt.

Though no other visual details are given, a comment made by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel " Bear " Malloy in Rainbow Six indicated that at least some of the Ryanverse Special Operations community had heard of the red seal tattoo and understood that it was associated with the Third Special Operations Group ( SOG ), with whom Clark served during the Vietnam War.

An example from the latter is sxs " seal fat " ( pronounced, as spelled ), and a longer one is ( pronounced ) " he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant ".

7 / 2 / 62 ), and slightly " crowned " apex seals ( Different height in the center and in the extremes of seal ).

The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.

In the United States, the word " seal " is sometimes assigned to a facsimile of the seal design ( in monochrome or color ), which may be used in a variety of contexts including architectural settings, on flags, or on official letterheads.

The first courtyard, the Base Court, ( B on plan ), was his creation, as was the second, inner gatehouse ( C ) which leads to the Clock Court ( D ) ( Wolsey's seal remains visible over the entrance arch of the clock tower ) which contained his private rooms ( O on plan ).

The statue used to be on the seal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons ( ASPS ), one of the oldest associations of plastic surgeons in the world.

For example, he correctly trusted the faithful Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin, so much so that he made a duplicate imperial seal and left it with Lu Xun ; whenever he would correspond with Shu's emperor Liu Shan or regent Zhuge Liang, he would deliver the letter to Lu Xun first ( as Lu's post was near the Shu border ), and then if, in Lu's opinion, changes were needed, he would revise the letter and then restamp it with Sun's imperial seal.

* Stopper ( plug ), also known as a cork, a plug or a bung used to temporarily seal a bottle opening

Although he was rejected by the French Academy three times ( 1867, 1868, 1869 ), Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the most influential critic of the day, set the seal of approval on the poet by devoting no less than three major articles in 1863 to reviews of Gautier's entire published works.

Although in principle the flaps can be held in place by securing the topmost flap at a single point ( for example with a wax seal ), generally they are pasted or gummed together at the overlaps.

A Leopard seal ( Hydrurga leptonyx ), a member of suborder Pinniped ia of order Carnivora

Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, " and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore ; but the goddess saved us ; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils.

Unlike traditional adhesives, UV light curing adhesives not only bond materials together but they can also be used to seal and coat products.

A thin strip of seal intestine was also used and was twisted to form a thread.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

* Steve-Mentally deficient co-worker, gives a crayoned " X " as a seal of approval, used as a scapegoat for projects doomed to failure

That design was used widely and, like Dwiggins ' seal, had its date changed from " 1770 " to " 1769 " around 1958.

Initially, the Ramsay family coat of arms was used to identify Dalhousie but over time, the seal evolved with the number of amalgamations the university went through.

The shield and eagle of Dalhousie's seal has been used as the logo of the university since 1987, with the present incarnation in use since 2003, which includes the tagline, " inspiring minds ".

This image has been used to acknowledge a previously disputed theory that the cross found in Valdemar Atterdag's coats of arms located in his Danælog seal ( Rettertingsseglet ) from 1356 is indeed the cross from the Danish flag.

Much of the material from their vaudeville act, including Lucy's memorable seal routine, was used in the pilot episode of I Love Lucy.

The seal, designed by William Barton, contains an unfinished pyramid with a radiant eye, an image used by Hopkinson when he designed the continental $ 50 currency.

When the mask is used in a real scenario, or as part of a drill, there is 9 seconds to put the gas mask on and clear and seal.

Some players used to soak wooden-combed harmonicas ( diatonics, without windsavers ) in water to cause a slight expansion, which they intended to make the seal between the comb, reed plates and covers more airtight.

Clement of Alexandria, in his Paedagogus ( The Pedagogue ) 3. 59. 2-3. 60, writes that Christians may wear a seal ring for the sealing of documents, and he specifies permissible depictions: " And let our seals be either a dove, or a fish, or a ship scudding before the wind, or a musical lyre, which Polycrates used, or a ship's anchor, which Seleucus got engraved as a device ; and if there be one fishing, he will remember the apostle, and the children drawn out of the water.

This effect can be used to seal pistons and shafts.

Since they will still be working with scopes and other laparoscopic instruments, CO2 will have to be maintained in the patient's abdomen, so a device known as a hand access port ( a sleeve with a seal that allows passage of the hand ) must be used.

The gold starburst seal was first used by Nintendo of America, and later Nintendo of Europe.

It can also be used to block and seal stains, or to hide a color that is to be painted over.

So 气 plus 米 formed 氣, and that is the traditional character still used today ( the oracle bone character, the seal script character and the modern " school standard " or Kǎi shū characters in the box at the right show three stages of the evolution of this character ).

While the tiny gap between cylinder and barrel on most revolvers is insignificant to the internal ballistics, the seal is especially effective when used with a suppressor, and a number of suppressed Nagant revolvers have been used since its invention.

* Security seal, a device used to show whether a locking device has been opened

They used woven straps to lash the planks together, and reeds or grass stuffed between the planks helped to seal the seams.