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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.

Buy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
  • (v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
  • (v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (3) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.
  • (4) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (5) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
  • (6) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (7) But it [Help to Buy] is the right policy instrument to deal with a specific problem."
  • (8) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (9) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (10) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (11) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
  • (12) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (13) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
  • (14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (15) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
  • (16) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
  • (17) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
  • (18) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
  • (19) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
  • (20) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.

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