(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(3) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
(4) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(5) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
(7) More than a million white women between the ages of 50 and 64 were recruited between 1996 and 2001, alongside nearly 6,000 south Asian women and almost 5,000 black women.
(8) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(9) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(10) The summary adjusted relative risk for a Down syndrome livebirth for all those of North African or Asian origin, compared to those for women of European origin, was about 1.56.
(11) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(12) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
(13) Omeprazole 40 mg therefore was found to produce rapid healing and symptom relief in Asian patients with H2-antagonist-resistant peptic ulcers.
(14) This was also true of the Asian population (Trafford dmft = 4.49.
(15) But many inside these Asian nations are wary of efforts to make emerging economies break ranks.
(16) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(17) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
(18) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(19) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(20) This article reports how the Staying Healthy After Fifty Program, designed for the general United States population, was introduced into the State of Hawaii, how it was adapted for use with two Asian-American groups, the Japanese and Filipinos, and on the benefits reported by participants.
Chopstick
Definition:
(n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take that into consideration and it's actually rather refreshing that a 22-year-old from the suburbs of Detroit will pick up her chopsticks and at least try the shar pei .
(2) A chopstick or something similar will keep the bag from resting on the leaves, which can cause scorching.
(3) The case of a 53-year-old man who attempted suicide by introducing a wooden chopstick through his nostril into his brain is reported.
(4) 3 Then the whole table joins in; everyone dips in with their chopsticks and tosses the ingredients together, lifting them high and crying "lo hei" – Cantonese for "tossing luck".
(5) After about 2 minutes, turn the fish and poach for another 2 minutes, by which time it should be just tender to the bone: poke a chopstick into the thickest part of the flesh to make sure (it should come away easily from the backbone).
(6) Case 2: This 6-year-old female could not grasp chopsticks and had neck pain 10 minutes after being pulled up by the right arm by her father.
(7) We are talking in Faulkes's lab at Queen Mary University in the East End of London, surrounded on all sides by his home-made rat-run of Perspex tubing in which 70 or so naked mole rats – each between 10cm and 20cm long – are scurrying, climbing over and under one another, backing up and beetling forward, worrying at anything in their path with their protruding incisors, teeth that they can move independently like chopsticks, all to apparently urgent purpose.
(8) They blame weak law enforcement in Africa and growing demand for ivory products like chopsticks and ivory jewellery mostly in China, Thailand and other Asian countries.
(9) For convenience, Gt was initially measured in culture dishes using a commercially available "chopstick" electrode system.
(10) aliettedb via GuardianWitness Serves 4 3 tbsp nuoc màu (caramel sauce) 400g pork belly, skin on 400g pork shoulder 2 tbsp nuoc mam (fish sauce), or to taste 1 onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped ½-1 tsp salt 1 tsp ground pepper 330ml coconut water 4 eggs Sugar, to taste Rice and pickled vegetables, to serve 1 Cut the pork into small, chopstick-sized chunks.
(11) She had great difficulty in buttoning, unbuttoning, using chopsticks and writing, because she was no longer able to feel her fingers in space.
(12) The dishes we had at the Farming Family Happiness were meant to be shared, and as the pretty woman with the broad face brought them to the table, the man across from me beamed and reached for his chopsticks.
(13) The discrepancy was due to a nonuniform current field produced by the chopstick electrodes.
(14) The patient had contact with his dog such as he kissed it frequently, gave it food with his chopsticks et al.. From the mouth of the people who kiss one's dog, we detected Pasteurella of the same character of bacteria as from the mouth of the dog.
(15) "I don't think of myself as a musical actress… but I think the good thing about Roxie Hart is that she's a wannabe, so even if your leg doesn't come up to here" – she signals with her chopsticks to a point halfway up the wall – "it's OK." Now that Borgen has come to an end, she's looking forward to getting back on stage.
(16) I took five years of piano and I still can't play Chopsticks – I just didn't have the discipline.
(17) The passage which was removed in the Chinese translation read: "While on camera during the banquet honouring Gorbachev, Deng, hands shaking, let a piece of dumpling drop from his chopsticks."
(18) And then it happens again, on screen this time, to a man whose all four limbs have been skewered to his chair with steel chopsticks.
(19) Chinese diners who enjoy bear bile, tiger bones and pangolin meat now have a new reason to lay down their chopsticks.
(20) We all need people to purchase things they don’t need; to buy things that, while not necessary, are fun – like chocolate, toys, booze, DVDs – and then, to keep the economy growing, also to buy things that vaguely seem like they might be fun if you don’t think that hard about it, like Darth Vader showerheads and lightsaber chopsticks.