(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.
Sambo
Definition:
(n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heads of WHO country offices in Africa are “politically motivated appointments” made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency’s chief in Geneva, Dr Margaret Chan, it said.
(2) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(3) According to Lewin, Burnside had also hoped to win a lucrative contract to promote sambo in the UK.
(4) New Century Media envisaged Putin handing the cup to the winning sambo team as well as a "prestigious black tie evening reception" afterwards.
(5) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
(6) This was acknowledged in a March speech by the national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in which he outlined the federal government's new "soft approach" to counter-terrorism .
(7) Depictions of black people, like Sambo, the piccaninny and many others , were manufactured and sold to the public – often to sell consumer products – as foils for whiteness.
(8) The national security adviser Lt Colonel Sambo Dasuki appointed Dr Fatima Akilu, a psychologist, to work as the director of behavioural analysis and strategic communication in his office.
(9) The Sambo market was once the place where shopkeepers from across the capital came to stock up their stores.
(10) Authorities in the northern state of Kaduna imposed a 24-hour curfew after protesters set fire to the residence of vice-president Namadi Sambo in the town of Zaria and forced their way into the central prison, releasing inmates.
(11) A photo on the sambo federation's website shows Cameron chatting to Putin's close friend , with Alex Nekrassov – who works for Burnside's PR consultancy firm New Century Media – translating.
(12) In Kaduna, home to the vice president Namadi Sambo, young men burned tyres in the streets and threw stones at police and soldiers trying to restore order, according to witnesses.
(13) Sambo Dasuki rejected suggestions that the Nigerian garrison in the town of Baga, overrun by the Islamist group at the beginning of the month, had been under-equipped, citing the substantial arsenal seized by the attackers that was displayed by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video claiming responsibility posted online on Tuesday .
(14) In June Shestakov hosted a sambo event at Kensington Palace, where he read out a message from Russia's president.
(15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : University of Leeds Runner-up : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Wolverhampton International projects ( Sponsored by IELTS ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jude Collins, IELTS communication advisor, presents the international projects award to Dr Katie Hampson, Maganga Sambo and Joel Changalucha from the University of Glasgow for the Boyd Orr Centre.
(16) Two mature elite Sambo wrestlers were studied during a 22-day pre-European Championship period, during which they were to lose weight and maintain their top physical performance characteristics.
(17) He is head of FIAS, the international federation for sambo, a Russian variation of judo.
(18) Boko Haram - the Guardian briefing Read more He severely criticised comments made by Nigeria’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, at the same venue in January, in which he blamed the army’s defeats at the hands of Boko Haram on cowardice in the ranks .
(19) The scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr even calls what he terms “the everyday racism of American popular culture “Sambo Art” .
(20) I’m going to buy larvae-eating fish for the tanks today, and I’ll go to the clinic, and talk to my neighbours.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sambo fish are being distributed for mosquito control as they are believed to eat mosquito larvae.