(1) Ambler's last novel, The Care of Time (1981), is about a career criminal who's decided to retire; the parallels with Ambler's own career as a writer hardly need spelling out.
(2) Ambler started working for congresswoman Giffords five days before she was shot in the head in a surprise attack at a political event, but it was the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 that spurred the creation of Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS).
(3) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(4) However, Ambler never intended to be a thriller writer.
(5) Basing the film on Walter Lord's meticulously researched book (adapted by Ambler), Baker opted for a documentary approach that focused on the human interest without recourse to melodrama, making it both moving and exciting.
(6) Graham wasn't the first of Ambler's protagonists to be trained, as Ambler was, as an engineer.
(7) Ambler was by then an ex-Marxist, but when presented with such a rich encapsulation of the pre-1914 Anglo-American class system, he couldn't help himself.
(8) We had no idea how integral the digital space was going to be to our efforts.” Ambler said ARS is using digital technology in four ways to disrupt the NRA and other elements of the gun lobby.
(9) A modification of the spectrofluorometric propranolol procedure of Shand and associates and Ambler and colleagues is presented.
(10) Looking back on his youthful radicalism in Here Lies, Ambler wrote: "If the term fellow-travellers had been used in its present pejorative sense at the time I think that many of us could well have been described in that way."
(11) With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould.
(12) The tautly directed suspense drama, written by Ambler, starred John Mills as an amnesiac who believes himself responsible for an accident in which a child is killed.
(13) It is suggested that this enzyme belongs to class A, according to Ambler (1980).
(14) Most of the heroes of Ambler's subsequent novels are in the same mould: a journalist, a teacher or an engineer rather than a professional spy, short of money, not straightforwardly a member of any one nation-state (Kenton's father was from Belfast, his mother French), and slightly disreputable.
(15) By the time reviews of The Dark Frontier were coming out, Ambler was already deep into his next book, a straight - or at least non-parodic - thriller with the working title Background to Danger.
(16) From behind the keys of his supercharged typewriter, Ambler produced an astonishing four more novels in the next three years: Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear.
(17) From these results, the Ambler and Scott sequence can be attributed to TEM-2 and the Sutcliffe sequence to TEM-1.
(18) - but hardly surprising in a memoir written both at and in a more conservative age (Ambler was by then living in tax exile in Switzerland).
(19) He then transferred to Army Kinematograph, where he was able to make a number of military documentaries under the supervision of the novelist Eric Ambler.
(20) The four enzymes were chromosomally encoded and related to the Ambler's class A plasmid-mediated SHV-type enzymes.
Mule
Definition:
(n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
(n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
(n.) A very stubborn person.
(n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
Example Sentences:
(1) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(2) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(3) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(4) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(5) Leucocytes from the blood of adult and young donkeys (Equus asinus L.), adult horses (Equus caballus L.), adult mules (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) and adult pigs (Sus scrofa L.) were obtained in a high degree of purity (99.9%) using Na2-EDTA-dextrans mixtures.
(6) Like domestic sheep and goats, mule deer may be highly susceptible to infection, and it is unlikely mule deer can survive infection with large numbers of F. magna.
(7) The problem now is to explain how mules and hinnies can occasionally produce spermatozoa or ova.
(8) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
(9) But she is in fact a semi-legal data mule in the country’s “offline internet”.
(10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
(11) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
(12) Cafe Mule was overflowing with visitors in the opening hours of Leipzig's art weekend.
(13) While hoverboards have been around for only a few years, they are banned from pavements under a section of the 1835 Highways Act , which says people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description”.
(14) We report here the immunolocalization of scrapie amyloid (PrP27-30) in plaques observed in brain tissues of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) and hybrids of mule deer and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) naturally affected with CWD.
(15) The transferrin system indicated that the foal was not born to the mare mule but was the offspring of one of the Shetland mares.
(16) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(17) Fifteen coyotes (Canis latrans) shed sporulated sporocysts in their feces after eating freshly ground skeletal muscles from a mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) infected with microscopic-sized cysts of Sarcocystis.
(18) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
(19) We captured 10 free-ranging desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki) (five males and five females) by net-gun from a helicopter and immobilized them with xylazine hydrochloride (HCl) (100 mg) and ketamine HCl (300 to 400 mg) injected intramuscularly.
(20) Experiments were conducted to study the germ cell of testes in the domestic drake (Tsaiya drake) and the mule drake.