(n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
(n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course we did hold meetings of the party when we were putting this coalition together, but we did that in five days and there was support by acclamation.
(2) He put the edit to the convention floor, seeking to approve the change via acclamation.
(3) Blogger Yomi Adegoke said: "Thinly veiling vanity as philanthropy more than irks … the pretence these images are for anything other than an onslaught of 'natural beauty' acclamations, coupled with pats on the back for 'fighting the cause' makes the no makeup selfie mania even harder to stomach."
(4) In a message to Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski, Clinton wrote of then Maryland governor Martin O’Malley: “He should be elected by acclamation for steering the ship of state so well.” But perhaps the most mysterious message of the roughly 7,000 emails released on Monday was one sent by Clinton with the subject line “Gefilte Fish” which simply asked “where are we on this?” Controversy over the Democratic frontrunner’s use of private email while secretary of state has raged for months after the New York Times first reported in March that Clinton did not even have a government email address.
(5) But at Fifa's congress in Zurich on Wednesday he will be returned by acclamation.
(6) Won a third term in office by acclamation in 2007 and re-elected unopposed in 2011 after his opponent, Mohamed bin Hammam, withdrew in face of corruption claims.
(7) MPs voted in favour of the motion by acclamation, meaning that there was no opposition from parliamentarians on the chamber floor when the speaker put it to them.
(8) There was little meaningful internal debate, simply the acclamation of the charismatic leader.
(9) Brendan Rodgers thumped his chest in pride and responded to the unreserved acclamation of the Kop with applause of his own.
(10) But when the rejuvenated world No6 steps on to Rod Laver Arena to what will no doubt be a rapturous acclamation, it will not be with the best wishes of Murray.
(11) Sixty years and two days after she was crowned, to "loud and repeated acclamations", the ruler of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, the Queen will return to Westminster Abbey on Tuesday for a service of thanksgiving for her reign.
(12) The uprising was inspired in large part by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and, while it has moved on since then to look increasingly like a civil war, some of the same acclamations are heard in Benghazi as in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
(13) Outside the airport he transferred to an open car and throughout most of the journey he stood up receiving the noisy acclamations of hundreds of thousands of Moslems who lined the route.
Consensus
Definition:
(n.) Agreement; accord; consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(2) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(3) All members of this family contain consensus sequence elements consistent with GTP binding near their amino termini, although none has been shown to have GTPase activity.
(4) The C4 and C4b models are compared with possible structures for the C1 component of complement to show the importance of the surface accessibility of the protease domains and short consensus repeat domains in C1 for C4 activation.
(5) For dyslexia, schizophrenia, and depression, there is a considerable volume of research reports but still no consensus about how to use quantitative EEG tests for care of individual patients.
(6) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(7) Since the N-terminal amino acid of the coat protein of PVA was blocked, the position of the putative coat protein cleavage site has been deduced by searching for consensus sequences and by the analogy to other potyviruses.
(8) Study 2 provides evidence that an innovative weighted scoring approach, based on current medical consensus, can be used to produce a reliable, general index of pathology that is independent of the number of procedures used to evaluate patients.
(9) However, a purified recombinant fragment of the GR which contained essentially only its DNA binding domain was unable to bind at the GME although it interacted strongly with a consensus GRE sequence.
(10) And there seems to be party consensus that this is a good thing; a poll released this week by NBC News and Survey Monkey found that 57% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want Sanders to stay in the race until the convention.
(11) A consensus promoter sequence was found immediately 5' to the first ORF.
(12) The nucleotide sequence of the E3 promoter region revealed consensus sequences for several DNA binding proteins but no apparent TATA box or Sp1 sites.
(13) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(14) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
(15) Curbelo said that the caucus is an “ideas factory” but there are no consensus solutions to go with the group’s name.
(16) For now, given the group's perceived correlation with consumer confidence, consensus opinion continues to denote a sell [on the shares]."
(17) The inhibitory properties of these peptides depend mainly on the presence of the QxVxG consensus sequence.
(18) Several promoter elements in the correct orientation for the transcript are present including consensus TATA and CAAT boxes and an SP1 site.
(19) Op72a matches the consensus sequence, whereas Op72b contains two mismatches.
(20) Previous observations have shown that three out of the four major sites of polyadenylation do not display consensus hexanucleotide (AATAAA, ATTAAA) signals.