(n.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
(n.) One who attends; an assistant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
(2) The Nixon acolytes called themselves “ratfuckers” in a self-congratulatory reference to their proficiency at the darker arts of politics.
(3) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
(4) Macmillan and Thatcher paid with their jobs for being too brutal; Blair's downfall at the hands of Brown's acolytes was, to some extent at least, a consequence of him not being brutal enough.
(5) He was Bin Laden’s acolyte, his accomplice, his stooge.
(6) The London Sivananda centre’s contribution is a boat trip from Putney to Westminster for 300 acolytes and a mass yoga class on the South Bank.
(7) The NHS was Britain's Lourdes, its staff priests and acolytes (with consultants as bishops).
(8) Boulter said he was "frustrated and upset that Fox issued a statement that said we didn't discuss Acolyte because it made me look like a liar to the world".
(9) If you are truly concerned about the problems of pollution, waste, energy depletion, land, water, air and biological conservation, poverty, segregation, intolerance, population containment, fear and disillusionment,” read the sign at the entrance the 25-acre site, “join us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paolo Soleri and acolytes study his plans in the mid-70s.
(10) Only Dunst's Justine exists, shrouded in solipsism and selfishness, the sort of bubble that allows you to think you make your own rules (such as decreeing a Dogma declaration) and say dumb things and that all your acolytes will still think you're wonderful.
(11) He has survived accusations of inactivity and personnel scandals, with one acolyte, a deputy mayor, convicted of fraud.
(12) But I was also terrified by her, but she had this elegance and grace," she said during a brief appearance in front of 7,500 Disney acolytes.
(13) Polling in the run-up to Christmas suggested a modest bounce in Iowa after several months where he had slipped far behind Clinton, but the numbers look erratic and much depends on whether Sanders can persuade his young acolytes to turn out to the caucuses on 1 February.
(14) One of Churchill’s former acolytes, Robert Boothby, was an enthusiast for the United Europe movement, and in 1949 became a delegate to the Council of Europe.
(15) The plot plays out a in turbulent late-60s LA inhabited by Manson family acolytes and "counter-subversive" agents at the LAPD.
(16) In the meantime, our societies must be resilient enough to absorb “inspired” or “directed” attacks from the Islamic state and its DIY acolytes for the foreseeable future.
(17) Doctors, teachers and public service workers have had to pretend that money is more important than patients or pupils - as it all too manifestly is to Blatcher and his acolytes, personally and politically.
(18) Even as the terrorists were preparing their attack on Istanbul’s famous Sultanahmet tourist district , Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s prime minister and loyal Erdoğan acolyte, was looking the wrong way.
(19) I'm aware that this confession might make me seem like an acolyte of Nadine Dorries.
(20) This is the third time Cameron and his acolytes have rashly, thoughtlessly and emotionally rushed to judgment on significant constitutional issues.
Follower
Definition:
(n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
(n.) A sweetheart; a beau.
(n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
(n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
(n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
(n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(3) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
(4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(6) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(7) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(8) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(10) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(11) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(12) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(13) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(14) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(15) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(16) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(17) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(18) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.