(n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(2) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
(3) Other sources were monosodium methylarsenate (4 cases), dodecyl ammonium methane arsonate (5 cases), and other compounds (12 cases).
(4) It was found that 2-3% of splenic T cells from arsonate-immune mice specifically bound the hapten using immunofluorescent keyhole limpet hemocyanin as a carrier.
(5) | Chibundu Onuzo Read more Eva Lohse, the president of the German Association of Cities, said on Thursday: “We’re reaching the limits of our capacity.” As tensions mount in some communities over locals’ fears of being overrun, there have been several arson attacks on a number of refugee shelters in recent weeks, with reports at the weekend of a home near Leipzig being shot at on two consecutive nights.
(6) While some politicians have sought to condemn the intolerance, such as President Joachim Gauck, who called the arson attacks “repulsive”, and warned that xenophobic attitudes had “hardened”, others, such as Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union party, have been accused of helping to fuel anti-foreigner feeling with repeated references to “en masse asylum abuse”.
(7) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(8) Locke and Wood are also accused of arson of a bench in Parliament Square.
(9) First, three out of four arsonate-reactive T cell clones tested (two I-Ad-and one I-Ak-restricted) utilized V alpha 3.
(10) Friday’s arson attack is thought to be an act of revenge for the Israeli security forces’ demolition of two buildings in the settlement of Beit El earlier this week, which were deemed illegal by the Israeli supreme court.
(11) His family broke up amid arson, death, poverty and madness, and he left his Oklahoma home at 18 to begin a lifelong habit of taking to the open road.
(12) The most common crimes were those against life and health--62.5%; predominantly homicides, assaults and assaults on public functioning, as well as arson--10%.
(13) She was later sentenced to an additional 20 years for crimes against abortion clinics and practitioners, including arson and acid attacks.
(14) We have used polyclonal antisera raised against an azobenzene arsonate (ABA)-specific TABM secreted by an ABA-specific T cell hybrid or against TNP-specific polypeptides produced by immunoregulatory T cells to identify the expression of soluble (secreted) or membrane-associated TABM.
(15) Loyalists involved in targeting the cross-community Alliance party in a series of arsons and attacks on homes have been accused of putting the life of a young child at risk.
(16) Coulter said that following the arson attack on her home, Northern Ireland's first minister, Peter Robinson, should consider withdrawing all funding to UDA-related community projects.
(17) The beheading of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr triggered demonstrations and an arson attack at the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
(18) The approach is based on the analysis of T cell populations required to induce B cells to secrete anti-arsonate antibodies that are marked by a cross-reactive idiotype (CRId).
(19) Recent studies implicate disturbances of central serotonergic functions in impulsive homicide and arson.
(20) Two suppressor T cell hybridomas studied (34s-18 and 34s-704) are specific for keyhole limpet hemocyanin, a protein antigen, and the other suppressor T cell hybridoma (51H7D) binds specifically to the arsonate hapten.
Magnitude
Definition:
(n.) Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.
(n.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.
(n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.
(n.) Greatness; grandeur.
(n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(3) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(4) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(5) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(6) The kinetic parameters for the hydrolysis of type I, II and III collagens have been measured and are similar in magnitude to those for the tissue collagenases.
(7) The second order rate constant for the association of Meumb-glycosides follows a pattern consistent with the magnitude of the activation energies involved therin.
(8) 3) The magnitude of K+ release is the ratio of two opposing mechanisms, a passive efflux and an active reuptake.
(9) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
(10) The junctional currents were already constant 1 ms after step changes in the junctional voltage; this was three orders of magnitude faster than the other known examples of voltage-controlled gap junctions between embryonic cells.
(11) The magnitude and pattern of the acute-phase protein response was then compared with the local inflammatory reaction, assessed histologically, and with changes in the circulating concentration of interleukin-6, which is an important mediator of the acute-phase protein response.
(12) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(13) The magnitude of erythropoietin-induced [Cai] increase, however, was insufficient to open Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels.
(14) The relationship existing between the magnitude of the stimulus and that of the response has been carefully studied for all the parameters.
(15) ODC attained maximum activity in controls on day 11, increasing by more than an order of magnitude above the activity found on day 9.
(16) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
(17) The infusion of sodium acetoacetate resulted in a 10- to 15-fold increase in circulating concentrations of ketone bodies, which were similar in magnitude in normal subjects and diabetic patients.
(18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(19) The magnitude of the consequent inflammatory response was assessed by counting numbers and types of leukocytes in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.
(20) The program can produce solutions identical to those derived by a model-based expert system for the same domain, but with an increase of two orders of magnitude in efficiency.