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- noun Plural form of
ambulance .
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Examples
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Also, central planning at times creates strange problems, such as people expiring in ambulances because hospitals refuse to accept them.
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There's a reason why we call ambulances at the first sign of chest pain and a reason why those of us with the market power to do so demand health insurance as part of our compensation.
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The ICRC facilitated the transfer of ten ambulances from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.
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Yes they leave the patients sitting in ambulances outside the A&E department until they are pretty sure they can get them treated within four hours.
Government targets - yet another example of the "Law of unintended consequences" Not a sheep 2008
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Yes they leave the patients sitting in ambulances outside the A&E department until they are pretty sure they can get them treated within four hours.
Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008
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I knew that several people were taken away in ambulances - some injured, many suffering from hypothermia and there was talk of deaths, but no specifics.
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Dlamini said violence erupted when one of the groups object to the other calling ambulances to help striking workers assaulted while on their way to the square from the railway station.
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Ask the people who were being driven around Toronto recently in ambulances looking for an emergency room with an empty bed.
Health Care: We Cant Go On Like This. Is There a Way out of our Health-Care Dilemma? 1998
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For the admission and evacuation of patients fourteen motor ambulances from the British Red
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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You also have learned certain associations with color, such as red making your heart race since it's linked with fire trucks and ambulances in other words, alarm or yellow having positive association simply because it was the color of your beloved grandmother's kitchen.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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