(n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(2) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
(3) PCAb and ANNA-I are not species-restricted in their specificities.
(4) Brodetsky, Anna M. (University of California, Los Angeles), and W. R. Romig.
(5) The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus.
(6) Annas reviews the 6-to-3 decision in which a majority of the Court concluded that a prisoner's right to avoid the unwanted administration of antipsychotic drugs must yield to the state's interest in treatment and in maintaining prison order.
(7) & I'm like, babes, listen, I think Anna really is going to come & he's like, so I'll have what she's having, boom :(
(8) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(9) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(10) His second marriage, in the mid-1950s, was to the Russian Anya Bostock (nee Anna Sisserman); they split up in 1970s.
(11) Anna Gautheron only learned what the term "street harassment" meant when she read about it online.
(12) Lyle Shelton, the head of the vocal conservative ACL, locked horns with his fellow panellists, particularly the health advocate, author and civil rights activist Dr Kerryn Phelps and the former federal Labor speaker Anna Burke.
(13) Former Labor speaker Anna Burke, a non-aligned party member, said Shorten should have allowed the debate on the floor of the Labor conference rather than stating a fixed preference for boat turnbacks before members had a chance to debate.
(14) The profile was published on the Schools Week website at 5am on Friday; at 6.29am Young had received a call from Anna Davis, the education correspondent of the London Evening Standard.
(15) One witness, Anna Branthwaite, a photographer, described how in the minutes before the video was shot, she saw Tomlinson walking towards Cornhill Street.
(16) In an interview, Dr Annas said the force-feeding went against international standards of medical ethics.
(17) Freelance reporter Anna Therese Day and her camera crew were charged with illegally assembling with intent to commit a crime.
(18) Anna Rosso, a research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and editor of the review's special issue on immigration, said: "The result has been a reduction in the pool of talent available to businesses in the UK.
(19) In IBD the titre of ANNA was significantly higher in patients with recently active disease.
(20) That was the verdict of Anna Ford on Buerk's advance publicity for a Channel Five programme in which he bemoaned the fact that men have become mere "sperm donors" in a female-dominated society.
Anta
Definition:
(n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Example Sentences:
(1) by oxygen or assisted ventilation was accomplished by members of a recently created national organisation (ANTA-DIR, 1980).
(2) Treatment with LHRH-anta produced a significant decrease in thymus wt, an alteration of the maturational pattern characterized by a cellular monomorphism, reduced thymocyte volume, reduction of the cortical area, and depauperation of the epithelial microenvironment.
(3) ANTA is shown here to be an intermediate of normal astrocyte metabolism and to display appropriate kinetic characteristics compatible with its proposed role in inducing part of the delayed neuronal loss that occurs after a brain injury (secondary neuronal death).
(4) Kinetic studies showed that ANTA induces a slow (greater than 12 h) degeneration of cultured granule cells.
(5) When LHRH-anta-treated adult (3-month-old) rats were challenged with an antigenic stimulus (multiple sc injections of complete Freund adjuvant and BSA) and antibody (anti-BSA antibodies of the immunoglobulin G class) production measured in the serum after 15 days, a marked and significant decrease in immunoglobulin G levels was observed, compared to the values measured in untreated control.
(6) "The greatest unfairness is that the poor are the victims of our archaic legislation," said Camara, a law professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
(7) The specificity of such effect was demonstrated by 1) the failure of LHRH fragments [LHRH-(1-6)] to mimick the LHRH stimulatory effect; and 2) the complete reversal produced by simultaneous addition of a potent LHRH-ANTA on IL-2 receptor expression induced by LHRH.
(8) The marked modulation of lymphocyte function exerted by the hypothalamic decapetide LHRH prompted us to study the possible involvement of the neuropeptide in one of the major steps of lymphocyte proliferation, namely the expression of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor during in vitro treatment of rat lymphocytes with LHRH agonists (LHRH-A) or antagonists (LHRH-ANTA).
(9) Moreover, a reduced percentage of the T-helper lymphocyte subpopulation followed LHRH-anta administration.
(10) Astrocytes were also found to inactivate rapidly isobutanol-extracted ANTA in normal K+-containing growth medium.
(11) An isogenic nhaA (formerly antA) deletion strain, however, is not significantly different from wild type in this respect.
(12) A low-molecular weight astrocyte-derived neuronotoxic activity (ANTA) was detected, using a colorimetric bioassay of cell survival, by its effect on cultured granule cells.
(13) Moreover, basal and lectin stimulation of IL-2 receptor-positive cells were significantly inhibited by treatment with the LHRH-ANTA.
(14) The described immune deficiencies in LHRH-anta-treated rats were associated with a clear inhibition of sexual maturation.
(15) A similar effect of the LHRH-anta treatment on splenocyte cultures was measured.
(16) Whereas in control animals the maturation of mitogenic potential in thymocyte cultures showed a progressive and age-dependent increase, reaching a maximal activity at 30 days of age and then decreasing after puberty onset, in LHRH-anta-treated rats, the thymocyte's proliferative response was completely blocked at 7 days of age and remained very low at each time interval studied, until 3 months of age.