Used, hubcap-free tires are well known to sequester standing water—a perfect breeding ground for the next generation of mosquitos.
The statement was solely focused on spending levels under the omnibus and their increase over the sequester.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 and the sequester have cut discretionary spending across the board.
And the overall funding levels, while better than the sequester, are still awfully low.
It provides $63 billion in sequester relief, which is partially offset by a $23 billion mix of spending cuts and “fees.”
An undertaking of such scope was too big to sequester in any man's back yard.
And would not every one be able to assign the reason why Clarissa Harlowe chose solitude, and to sequester herself from the world?
But beyond the pledgee and the sequester (a receiver appointed by the court) these exceptions are unimportant and disputed.
They could bequeath their goods without having him sequester an outrageous part.
He seemed rather peculiar, and perhaps it would be just as well to sequester him as far off as possible.
late 14c., "remove" something, "quarantine, isolate" (someone); "excommunicate;" also intransitive, "separate oneself from," from Old French sequestrer (14c.), from Late Latin sequestrare "to place in safekeeping," from Latin sequester "trustee, mediator," noun use of an adjective meaning "intermediate," which probably is related to sequi "to follow" (see sequel). Meaning "seize by authority, confiscate" is first attested 1510s. Alternative sequestrate (v.) is early 15c., from Latin sequestratus. Related: Sequestered; sequestering.
