(n.) A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variation was found in only three of these, but was sufficient to provide stron evidence that the Ambo divided into two main ancestral groups prior to their subsequent fissions.
(2) Some preparations of all-rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate compared with 2-ambo-alpha-tocopheryl acetate had a mean RP of 0.81, and compared with RRR-alpha-tocopheryl acetate had a mean RP of 0.52.
(3) The most trusted professions in our community standing up the ambos, the firies, the nurses and teachers, and saying we deserve and we want a government that puts people first.” The result will be inevitably interpreted as sending a strong message to Canberra that many of its budget policies are angering voters.
(4) RRR-alpha-tocopheryl hydrogen succinate compared with 2-ambo-alpha-tocopheryl acetate had a mean RP of 1.125, significantly lower than the currently accepted value of 1.21.
(5) The parent compound is Ac-Leu-ambo-Phe-CF2H (1) (Ki = 25 X 10(-6) M).
(6) Compared with 2-ambo-alpha-TOH, RRR-alpha-TOH was more active by a factor of 1.34 (resorption-gestation) or 1.45 (myopathy).
(7) Replacement of one fluorine atom of 2 by a residue (-CH2-CH2-COLeuOMe) (6) which can interact with the S'1 and S'2 subsites decreased Ki 30-fold for HLE and 150-fold for alpha-LP compared to Z-L-Ala-L-Ala-L-Pro-ambo-AlaCF2H (3).
(8) An exception is Z-L-Ala-L-Ala-L-Pro-ambo-ValCF3 (8) where kon = 9 X 10(7) M-1 s-1, which is nearly diffusion controlled.
(9) Their traditional historical and cultural affinities appear to be with the peoples of southern Angola and south-western Zambia; the suggested relationships with the Ambo further west are not linguistically tenable, though there is evidence of gene exchange.
(10) This study presents the results of the investigation of the seven closely interrelated Ambo peoples of South West Africa, for variation in four recently described red cell enzyme polymorphisms.
(11) These metabolites have been identified as 25-hydroxydihydrotachysterol2 and two epimers of formula 1-ambo,25-dihydroxydihydrotachysterol2 by means of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and ultraviolet absorption spectrometry.
(12) The acetyl group was replaced by the tripeptide Z-L-Ala-L-Ala-L-Pro to yield the tetrapeptide trifluoroketone (TFK) Z-L-Ala-L-Ala-L-Pro-ambo-AlaCF3 (2).
(13) RRR-alpha-tocopheryl acetate compared with 2-ambo-alpha-tocopheryl acetate had a mean relative potency (RP) of 1.66, significantly higher than the currently accepted value of 1.36.
(14) RRR-alpha-tocopherol compared with 2-ambo-alpha-tocopherol had a mean RP of 1.31, not significantly different from the currently accepted value of 1.36.
(15) Around 90 miles west of Addis Ababa in Ambo, off a bustling high street, torched cars are stacked outside a police station compound.
(16) Taking advantage of the peptide transport strategy, we have designed and synthesized several new peptides containing 2-aminopimelic acid (Apm), an inhibitor of the diaminopimelate pathway in bacteria: L-Lys-ambo-Apm, ambo-Apm-L-Lys, L-Lys-L-Ala-ambo-Apm, ambo-Apm-L-Ala-L-Lys, L-Ala(Cl)-ambo-Apm and ambo-Apm-L-Ala(Cl).
(17) Ac-ambo-AlaCF3 (1) inhibits HLE and alpha-LP with Ki's of 2.4 and 15 mM, respectively.
(18) March 5, 2013 Updated at 11.58am GMT 11.40am GMT Ian Traynor (@traynorbrussels) #bankerscaps french ambo speaking, not moscovici.said very little March 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) #Poland 's finance minister #Rostowski uncharacteristically brief in his intervention on new EU bank rules.
(19) The measurements were performed at different times after the rats, placed for one month on a basal diet containing nondeuterated, natural alpha-T acetate, were switched to a diet containing the same total quantity of deuterated forms of either natural alpha-T acetate or a mixture of the acetates of the 2R- and 2S-epimers (i.e., ambo-alpha-T acetate).
(20) En el primer año de implementación, el ingreso total por ambos impuestos excedió el pronóstico de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público por 76%, recaudando casi 32 mil millones de pesos.
Pulpit
Definition:
(n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
(n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
(n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
(2) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(3) So everything I do from the pulpit comes out of what I did as a librettist."
(4) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
(5) "We are disappointed that he hasn't talked or used his bully pulpit.
(6) This new pope seems to have genuine concern for the most challenged members of society and better still seems to be prepared to use his pulpit to help them.
(7) He used his presidential bully pulpit to help elevate gun control from a fringe issue to a central policy priority for the Democratic party.
(8) And at the Globe theatre in central London on Sunday – even as Catholics were being urged from thousands of pulpits across the country to oppose gay marriage – there was no shortage of same-sex couples ready to heed his encouragement.
(9) An encyclical raises the prospect of speeches on climate change from the pulpit of more than 17,000 Catholic parishes.
(10) It would be disingenuous to use its problems as a bully pulpit for basic income.” He has also highlighted the risk that removing the obligation for those on benefits to look for work might encourage some people to drift into long-term worklessness .
(11) From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit but no church, it was associated with dissenters — as Bunhill Fields later became.
(12) "If he can use his bully pulpit like this I think the American people are going to get it."
(13) The Roman Catholic church provides constancy and many analysts claim Law and Justice will win the election thanks to its support from rural pulpits.
(14) "Even in the church, the priest will announce from the pulpit not to shake hands or touch," he says.
(15) The packed pink-walled church was attentive and welcoming of his message about El Señor, delivered not in the pulpit, but standing just in front of the first pews.
(16) This article deals with a type of pulpit spectacles which have been specially developed for emmetropic presbyopes.
(17) A dedicated fanbase absorb the virtues of a movie from the pulpit – Mission Pictures have close ties with ministries worldwide and provide worship packs to accompany releases – and they won't be shy about spreading the word.
(18) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(19) "Back then, at a time when there was barbed wire outside and police were not at his side, he stood at this pulpit and dared speak truth to power, truth to evil.
(20) I was lucky that my family, although poor, was enlightened enough to know that the hatred preached from the pulpits or espoused in the tabloids, was utter rubbish.