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Abigail


Definition:

  • (n.) A lady's waiting-maid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
  • (2) Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway return with their cinema experience Every Minute Always and Coney offers the experience of The Loveliness Principle.
  • (3) Abigail Davis, one of the report's authors, said a growing number of people were falling below the minimum income standard and were unable to afford basic goods.
  • (4) Asylum data breach: immigration unlawfully disclosed personal details Read more In an statement, the former deputy commander of the border protection command (BPC) Abigail Bradshaw said: “If Australia cannot effectively manage who can enter the country and the circumstances and conditions under which people enter then the security of the commonwealth is compromised.” She continued: “Current operations would be compromised by the release of this information.
  • (5) Get past its use by Mike Leigh in Abigail's Party – which made it an icon of bad taste thanks to it being played by the awful Beverly – and Love to Love You Baby is charged with feelings of liberation, a pre-Aids world of pansexual freedom and adventure.
  • (6) Mother Abigail's dreams come courtesy of God; she is his prophet, and she assembles her own biblical-type followers.
  • (7) Abigail Herron, head of corporate governance at Co-operative Asset Management, said: "It follows the letter of the law but not really the spirit.
  • (8) Wartime Farm's sincerity and enthusiasm will make you want to pick up Abigail, carry her to Television Centre and plonk her on the desk of BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow stapled to a note that says MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING PLEASE BECAUSE IT'S NOT AWFUL.
  • (9) "You've built up a real rapport," he says, peering at Abigail's matted cow hair and uncomprehending cow face.
  • (10) He persuaded a young white woman named Abigail Fisher to sue the University of Texas on the grounds that she was not admitted while "less qualified" minority students were, a suit the supreme court is expected to rule on later this year.
  • (11) Mike Leigh, whose TV drama Abigail's Party began life at Hampstead , returns to the theatre this March with a revival of Ecstasy, his 1979 play about a recession-hit Britain.
  • (12) Lady Hollins, a crossbench peer, whose daughter Abigail Witchalls became of interest to the press when she was paralysed after being stabbed in the neck in 2005, called for Cameron to implement a press law recommended by Leveson in his report.
  • (13) A white woman, Abigail Fisher, is suing the university for discrimination after she said she was denied a college place because African American and Hispanic students were favoured in order to ensure diversity.
  • (14) But the study, carried out by Abigail Aiken and her colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin, found that many of the women who went online for help could not afford to travel or to take time off work or the costs of childcare.
  • (15) Abigail Disney, grandniece of Walt, has backed up Meryl Streep following the actor's recent comments about Walt Disney where she referred to him as a "gender bigot" and a member of an antisemitic lobbying organisation.
  • (16) Acting fast to cut methane pollution from oil and gas operations is one of the single most important steps we can take to slow temperature rise and protect the climate,” Abigail Dillen, EarthJustice climate campaigner, said in a statement.
  • (17) Aviva Investors’ head of responsible investment engagement, Abigail Herron, said the asset manager had recently “sought assurances” from Standard Chartered, the UK bank which subsequently withdrew from its advisory role to Adani over the project.
  • (18) The Call is a welcome little late summer treat, a juiced-up B-movie kidnap thriller from regular Fringe director Brad Anderson, admirably succinct at 87 minutes, constructed around the conversations between an abducted girl (Abigail Breslin) and the responder (Halle Berry), who picks up when the girl calls 911 from the trunk of the kidnapper's car.
  • (19) Back row, left to right: Sam Middleton, 19, Jasmin Stone, 19, with Safia, Keira Josephs, 20, with Rashae, Adora Chilaisha, 18, Jessica Harper, 20, with Abigail, Gemma Cole-Patrick, 22, with Kyreece-Jayden.
  • (20) This is not just a coastal or marine problem,” said Abigail Barrows, principal investigator of the Global Microplastics Initiative, part of the research group Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation.

Aby


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Abye

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
  • (2) While it has been possible to readily produce large numbers of such templates from M13 or other single-stranded vectors for several years, the sequencing of double-stranded DNA templates using the ABI 373 DNA Sequencer has had a considerably lower success rate.
  • (3) Postoperative APR improved to 86.3 millimeters of mercury and ABI to 0.63 (p less than 0.05).
  • (4) And I would make sure that any news report included critics of his language.” We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men | Abi Wilkinson Read more Damien McGuinness, a BBC Berlin correspondent, observes that Germany’s media, reconstructed after the war with a strong “moral component”, is struggling with the same journalistic challenge.
  • (5) By contrast, resting ABI measurements alone are unable to identify reliably a failing graft; they are useful primarily for confirming technical adequacy and relief of ischemia.
  • (6) This stress-related accumulation of the rab18 mRNA is markedly decreased in the ABA-synthesis mutant aba-1, the ABA-response mutant abi-1 or in wild-type plants treated with the carotenoid synthesis inhibitor, fluridone.
  • (7) The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is proposing that all homes continue to be covered, but with a cap on the annual premium they would pay.
  • (8) Molecular genetic analysis of PALL-I cells revealed neither bcr rearrangement nor 8.5-kb abI-related mRNA that is characteristically seen in Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
  • (9) Huw Evans, deputy director general at the ABI, said: "The review of the Riot Damages Act is overdue, but government proposals to drastically cut back compensation are at odds with its intention to retain the principle that the state is responsible for the costs of riot damage, that has proved its worth for taxpayers for over 100 years.
  • (10) Bound CGP-ABY was cleared first from the tips of the projections and subsequently from the entire pseudopod surface.
  • (11) Tonight, Abi Alton has to pretend to be Sammy Davis Jr. Next week, Abi Alton has to sing next to an out-of-control pneumatic drill.
  • (12) The induction by ABA is abolished in the ABA-insensitive mutant abi-1 indicating that the abi-1 mutation defines a component in the ABA response pathway.
  • (13) In the alternative (ABI-constant) method, intensity at the two ears was varied symmetrically about a constant base intensity, in a manner roughly approximating the pattern of changes that occur when a free-field stimulus is moved in azimuth from the median sagittal plane.
  • (14) The genetic determinant for abortive infection of bacteriophage (Abi) from the lactococcal plasmid pCI829 was cloned on a 6.2 kb StuI fragment in Escherichia coli using the shuttle vector pSA3.
  • (15) DSA and routine assessment of graft flow velocity (GFV) and ankle pressure indices (ABI) during the first postoperative year.
  • (16) The ABI also issued an amber alert on Barclays last year when one in 10 investors failed to support the remuneration report at an annual meeting, when private shareholders hit out against the pay deals.
  • (17) On the eve of the third anniversary of the outbreak of rioting in Tottenham , north London, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said that had the planned changes to compensation been in place in 2011 only £1 would have been paid out for every £10 worth of damage.
  • (18) Eighty-six femoropopliteal bypass operations were performed for ischemic ulceration, gangrene or rest pain in 77 patients whose mean preoperative ABI was 0.35.
  • (19) ABI exhibited the highest IL-6, and the cytokine level was lower in RAS, PMC, HGS and OLP in this order.
  • (20) Plasma C3d levels and iC3b in asthmatic patients were both comparable to those observed in normal controls, whereas patients with ABI had significantly higher iC3b levels than both other groups.

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