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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.

Mama


Definition:

  • (n.) See Mamma.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (2) The minimum audible movement angle (MAMA) thus defined was observed to increase as the source velocity increased.
  • (3) Between January 1, 1989, and April 7, 1989, 2,237 blood donors were enrolled in the study at the transfusion centre of the Mama Yemo Hospital.
  • (4) Ninety-eight (40%) of 243 acquired immune deficiency syndrome inpatients at Mama Yemo Hospital, Kinshasa, Zaire, presented with a history of diarrhea for at least 1 month.
  • (5) Urea derivative recovery by the sampling system, isocyanate-MAMA reactivity, and linearity of the calibration curve were evaluated in the laboratory.
  • (6) Of 207 online perpetrators of anti-Muslim abuse, 63 followed Nigel Farage’s Twitter account, according to Tell Mama analysis.
  • (7) With a back catalogue including Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, dystopian near-future parable Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuarón has been nominated for Oscars before, but not in this category.
  • (8) In the seven days before the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris on 7 January, in which 12 people were killed, there were 12 incidents reported to Tell Mama, but there were 45 in the seven days that followed.
  • (9) MAMAs were higher for a 3000-Hz tone than for tones of lower or higher frequencies, as has been previously reported [D. R. Perrott and J. Tucker, J. Acoust.
  • (10) The possible associations between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) seropositivity were investigated in 1986 at the Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire.
  • (11) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
  • (12) system was used to develop a rapid, sensitive, and quantitative kinetic-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (k-ELISA) for detecting antibodies against Schistosoma mansoni adult microsomal antigens (MAMAs).
  • (13) Between July 1973 and December 1974, 304 autopsies were done at Hopital Mama Yemo, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire.
  • (14) Fiyaz Mughal, from Tell Mama , an organisation that monitors Islamophobic incidents, said about 60% of victims were women who wear a headscarf or hijab.
  • (15) And tensions in the town, which elected two BNP councillors in 2008, have been reflected in a spike in reported instances of Islamophobic abuse nationally, according to the monitoring group Tell MAMA .
  • (16) In addition, 5 (19%) of 27 controls admitted to Zaire's Mama Yemo Hospital for causes unrelated to AIDS were found to be positive for antibodies to HIV.
  • (17) Mughal said Tell MAMA had recently submitted research into far-right networks’ use of Twitter to the company but nothing was done.
  • (18) In August 1984 an ORT service was established at Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire.
  • (19) A former rebel who uses a pseudonym, Colonel Mama, said ex-combatants emerge scarred from the invasive treatments of witch doctors.
  • (20) Hits like Fujiyama Mama and Let's Have a Party appealed to a wider audience, and she was inducted into the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame in April 2009.

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