(1) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
(2) Not via muttering idiots, but upfront, with an acrid twist.
(3) Beijing has issued its first pollution red alert as acrid smog enveloped the Chinese capital for the second time this month.
(4) The acrid taste left by the election was heightened by the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks which revealed Amano's assiduous courting of American support .
(5) The controversy became so acrid that in April, more than 100 prominent members of the local church took out a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle asking the pope to remove Cordileone from his position for fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance”.
(6) Moscow was veiled in acrid smoke from such fires this morning as landmarks disappeared from view and commuters clutched handkerchiefs to their faces.
(7) As MPs inside debated the draconian economic reforms that eurozone nations and the IMF have demanded in return for the biggest bailout in history, riot police outside fired off rounds of acrid teargas to keep the crowd at bay.
(8) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(9) A thick acrid smog enveloped Moscow today as scores of fires blazed and peat bogs smouldered outside the city.
(10) The sun was directly overhead and the acrid smell of burning plastic stung the back of her throat.
(11) Bumper-to-bumper traffic, much of it stationary, the acrid steam of a thousand exhausts hanging in the cold winter air.
(12) Look at the garbage fire right here,” he adds, pointing toward a thick cloud of acrid smoke across the street.
(13) The elder sister, who is 19 and pregnant with her second child, squints but sits still in the acrid air.
(14) The wind carried the acrid smell of several burned vehicles across town, and most Muslims hid in their homes.
(15) The Finns like to have it in everything from drinks to soap and as I drank the sweet, slightly acrid concoction, Eveliina recited a Finnish saying: “If sauna, vodka and tar don’t help, the disease will kill you.” In the sauna itself, there were other treatments.
(16) Acrid plumes of smoke – produced by forest fires triggered by drought and other factors –are already choking cities across south-east Asia.
(17) Its acrid smell and particulate matter irritate the eyes, nose, and lungs and cause nausea; it is also a suspected vector for transmitting infectious materials, such as the human papilloma virus (HPV) associated with condyloma (a wartlike lesion) and cervical cancer.
(18) When the Guardian visited Monywa earlier this week, the air around the plant was filled with the acrid stench of sulphuric acid.
(19) In minutes thick, acrid smoke engulfed the house, swiftly taking the lives of six children, aged five to 13.
(20) Amid this sea of shacks, many constructed from corrugated iron haphazardly bolted together, piles of rubbish go uncollected and acrid water runs down unpaved dirt tracks.
Pungent
Definition:
(v. t.) Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.
(1) While his organising framework was Marxian (beginning as "an attempt to understand the arts", as he said himself), the subjects included mountain-climbing, opera, jazz and sartorial and eating fashions as well as work patterns, class solidarity and the movements of international finance – all delivered in a marvellously flexible and pungent style.
(2) Capsaicin is a pungent irritant present in peppers of the Capsicum family.
(3) This variety is not considered in this series of reviews covering primary processing, production, international trade, chemistry, and biochemistry of functional components--the red keto carotenoids, the aromatic volatiles and the pungent capsaicinoids in Parts I to III.
(4) It has a metallic, pungently sweaty kick to it, as if someone has absorbed the fluids of a gym changing-room floor into a lump of gluey cheese-like matter.
(5) Administration of capsaicin (CAP) and its related pungent, nonanoyl vanillylamide (NVA) produced significant dose-dependent hypothermic response in mice at an ambient temperature of 24 degrees C. CAP was approximately equieffective to NVA in producing hypothermia.
(6) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(7) Capsaicin is the main pungent principle of hot pepper, which is consumed in high quantities by humans worldwide.
(8) An increase in catecholamine, especially epinephrine, secretion was observed not only on capsaicin infusion but also on piperine (a pungent principle of pepper) and zingerone (ginger) infusion.
(9) After 170 years, his rehabilitation is complete, and for Toledo his elongated figures and pungent colours are now an object of civic pride, as Gaudí is for Barcelona.
(10) It is anxiety at the great acceleration of social, economic and demographic change wrought by the age of globalisation, expressed most pungently in resentment of mass migration.
(11) Measurement of a reflex, transitory apnea produced upon inhalation of pungent chemicals holds promise as an objective indicator of the functional status of the CCS.
(12) The pain-mediating function of SP can be blocked selectively by capsaicin, the pungent component of red pepper, which leads to desensitization of the receptors and degeneration of the afferent C fibers without affecting other sensory qualities.
(13) Capsaicin, the pungent principal in red pepper, has been shown to damage small-diameter peptide-containing sensory neurons.
(14) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
(15) And yet the country has some of the most pungent views on immigration on the continent.
(16) Results show that the characteristics of the mutual effects of tastant and pungent stimulus depend on the particular tastant employed.
(17) This wasn't the usual loveless EastEnders bouquet – a sickly-sweet accompaniment to the ever-present stench of batter mix, rotting market produce and Phil Mitchell's blouson runoff – but a pungent, altogether denser concoction.
(18) Among the three new compounds, hazeleamide (3) was found to show a pungent taste and to exert a moderate antimalarial activity in an in vitro test system.
(19) While, sulfur-containing and volatile pungent principles, allylisothiocyanate (mustard, etc.)
(20) The non-pungent nonenoyl benzylamide produces neither hypothermia nor desensitization.7.