What's the difference between alma and amma?

Alma


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Almah

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
  • (2) He was slated to give a commencement speech at his alma mater in 2013, but withdrew after controversy arose in wake of his remarks comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia.
  • (3) The world was caught by the phrase which emerged from this conference, "Health For All by the Year 2000" and many have examined the articles of the Alma-Ata declaration and tried to implement them in their corner of the world.
  • (4) Primary health care has developed well since the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978, but basic lifesaving interventions have received scant attention.
  • (5) Drawing upon data collected from a comprehensive field survey of community health activities in Hiketa, in Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku, and other similar surveys carried out in Japan, as well as references such as the Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care (Alma Ata), and the World Health Organization Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000, this background paper will outline the critical aspects to be considered in implementation of primary health care in comprehensive health systems, as a context for further discussion.
  • (6) The territorial-geographical character of migration also changed: so, in 1954 the basic flow of migrants came from Siberia and the European part of the USSR, while in 1984 they came from neighbouring regions of Alma-Ata.
  • (7) Like many Eurovision competitors, Inga and Anush are professionally trained; on this occasion their alma mater being the jazz-vocal department of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan.
  • (8) 2,530 patients with chronic destructive tuberculosis, registered at the antituberculosis institutions of the Alma-Ata and Guriyev regions, were followed up for a period of three years.
  • (9) Clegg also signalled his disapproval at the behaviour of his alma mater.
  • (10) Five years have passed since the Alma Ata meeting, and with 17 years remaining in this century, one has to ponder whether the goal of health for all by the year 2000 through primary health care is achievable.
  • (11) 414 patients registered under O-group, 149-under VIIB and 129-under IA were observed by the antituberculosis dispensary of Alma-Ata.
  • (12) This approach contradicts the Declaration of the Alma-Ata Conference, which states that primary health care is an integral part of the socioeconomic development process and that health sector activities must be coordinated with nutrition improvement, increases in production and employment, a more equitable distribution of income, antipoverty measures, and protection of the environment.
  • (13) Active intervention aimed at preventing the mentioned risk factors, carried out in Kharkov (2 years) and in Alma-Ata (1 year) led to a decrease in the prevalence of arterial hypertension and smoking, and to an increase in the degree of the student's physical activity, but did not have a demonstrable effect on the development of overweight.
  • (14) A dedicated sequence editor, ALMA, was developed for aligning many sequences of proteins or RNA molecules or longer DNA fragments.
  • (15) "Health for all by year 2000" was the subject of the WHO Conference at Alma-Ata in 1978.
  • (16) Now the ombudsman at the University of Bayreuth, his alma mater, is investigating allegations of plagiarism made against Zu Guttenberg by a law professor.
  • (17) What has become clear in the 10 years since Alma-Ata is the global split between the health of the "haves" and the "have nots".
  • (18) In designing country health care programs to achieve the goals of the Alma Alta declaration of 'Health for All', developing countries have been confronted with the problem of increased health care needs and decreased available resources.
  • (19) Arguably, more than anything, you can detect in MYD's almost exhaustingly frenetic music the influence of early-80s Bristol and the skronking-sax-fuelled manic funk-pop of Neneh Cherry 's alma mater, Rip Rig and Panic.
  • (20) It is unlikely that the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata goal of health for all by the year 2000 will be realized by the turn of the century.

Amma


Definition:

  • (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wondered whether Amma felt like more of a mother to her than her real mother.
  • (2) Backed by big names such as Jessica Chastain, Juliette Binoche, Queen Latifah, Freida Pinto and Amma Asante, it will announce its first project at Cannes in May.
  • (3) We've seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven't been – what they've been is industry fads Amma Asante “At this time last year a lot of questions I was getting from the press and people in the industry was ‘do you think we’ve hit a turning point?’ And it was a question that was nagging at me as well: have we finally hit a point where we’ve made a breakthrough?” “I was worried because we’ve seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven’t been – what they’ve been is industry fads.
  • (4) A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance Read more The former, in which he stars as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir for marrying a white woman from London in the late 1940s, comes from Amma Asante , whose mixed-race period romance Belle also debuted at Toronto.
  • (5) This piece was amended on 23 February 2015 to correct the spelling of Amma Asante’s name.
  • (6) The effects of acetylethylcholine mustard and its aziridinium derivative (AMMA) on acetylcholine (ACh) release and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) binding were studied in rat cortical synaptosomes.
  • (7) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
  • (8) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi - "mother of immortal bliss", otherwise known simply as Amma, or "mum" - is said to be the divine embodiment of pure, selfless love.
  • (9) I've been to many hospitals," he said, gesturing to his shoulders and knees, "but once Amma is hugging me, all my problems will be gone, for sure."
  • (10) Since then, she had spent everything she had on Amma's organisation, taking summer jobs and using money left to her by her grandparents to pay for trips to Amritapuri, before moving here permanently four years ago.
  • (11) Devotees buy apples, oranges and bananas from stalls next to the stage to give Amma as an offering when they go up to get a hug.
  • (12) There's a cafe that serves perfect cappuccinos, lattes, pizzas and burgers, an in-house travel agent, an internet centre and a souvenir stand that sells everything from books, posters, DVDs and CDs to Amma dolls, calendars, fridge magnets and soap.
  • (13) It was shown that solutions of 3-AMMA were rather stable in weak acid and neutral media and degraded at pH greater than 9.0.
  • (14) She was 22, but hadbeen a devotee since she was 12, after she had her first hug on one of Amma's European tours.
  • (15) But for Amma Attar, who has spent more than a month living with 36 family members in a UN school in Gaza after fleeing her home amid shelling and shooting, it is close to a miracle.
  • (16) AMMA and oxotremorine both reduced the basal and 30 mM K+-induced release of newly synthesized [3H]ACh in dose-dependent manners over a 2.5-min period.
  • (17) My hug with Amma felt like an intimate experience, but it's one she has already shared with more than 30 million people around the world.
  • (18) AMMA (50 microM) reduced high-affinity choline uptake and ACh synthesis by greater than 90% in this tissue, but these effects did not account for the [3H]ACh release inhibition, because they were not atropine sensitive and hemicholinium-3 had no effect on [3H]ACh release under the conditions used in these studies, i.e., after extracellular [3H]choline was washed out.
  • (19) For Pikser the makeup of the academy is an extension of the industry as a whole: “Hollywood has created an audience and an expectation and the racism of society is built into the business model.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amma Asante, right, directs Sarah Gadon and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle.
  • (20) The inhibition of basal and 30 mM K+-induced [3H]ACh release by AMMA (10-250 microM) was blocked by 2 microM atropine during a 2.5-min release incubation, but not during a 30-min release incubation.

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