(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.
Lights
Definition:
(n. pl.) The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(4) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(5) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(6) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(7) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(8) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
(9) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(10) A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
(11) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(12) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(13) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(14) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(15) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(16) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
(17) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(18) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(19) These results are discussed in the light of the mode of action of the substances used.
(20) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.