(n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.
(n.) The publishing of banns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(6) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(7) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(8) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(9) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(10) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(11) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
(12) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(13) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(14) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(15) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(16) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(17) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(18) In each of the clinics I visit I ask how much the surrogates are paid.
(19) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(20) A subgroup of 40 patients was asked to complete a brief survey on medical care information and satisfaction.
Aswing
Definition:
(adv.) In a state of swinging.
Example Sentences:
(1) The addition of 10 microM 5-HT to 0-Na, 4-AP, TEA ASW produced a slight depolarization and increased excitability and input resistance.
(2) Ca-Mg-free ASW inhibits beating of dissociated macrociliary cells, and return to Mg-free ASW activates motility, allowing one to activate macrocilia on isolated cells simply by addition of Ca.
(3) Those jumps were not altered significantly by the removal of both Na and Ca ions from ASW except for the duration of the plateau after the cessation of current.3.
(4) The results established that C-ASWS from mycelia or spherule cell walls is heterogeneous in composition, containing two distinct antigenic components.
(5) Exposure of the spines to a saturated solution of EDTA in Ca-free, unbuffered ASW reversibly blocks their electrical activity.
(6) All the clones proliferate in response to both WI-1 and B-ASWS but not other fungal antigens, and some mediate potent cytolytic effects on WI-1- and B-ASWS-labeled targets.
(7) Fibres soaked in Ca(2+)-free ASW had ruptured mitochondria and mitoplasts, whereas those additionally treated with 10 mM caffeine had relatively intact mitochondria.10.
(8) The biological activity of B-ASWS was compared with that of blastomycin KCB-26.
(9) There are several basic structures upon which anorexia nervosa could develop: hostility between mother and daughter, feministic protest, abandonnism, the ascetic structure, the reluctance against the being-thrown-on-the-world, asw.
(10) The absence of alkalosis in eggs activated in ONaASW can be counterbalanced either by adding NH4Cl 10 mM or by transfer into ASW at pH 9.0 at activation.
(11) Increasing the [Ca2+] in the artificial seawater (ASW) bathing medium reduced the amplitude of the entire LED, and omitting Ca2+ increased it.
(12) Cultured lines of three newly established methylcholanthrene-induced tumors, MBK and MBL in CBA and MC57M in C57BL mice, and two mammary tumors, SBfnHC in CBA and S3W in ASW mice, were superinfected in vitro with Moloney sarcoma or leukemia virus (MSV, MLV).
(13) However, the induration responses (diameter in millimeters) elicited by the C-ASWS fraction of one strain were significantly less than those elicited by the C-ASWS fractions of the other two C. immitis strains.
(14) The amounts of endogenous serotonin (5-HT) released into the medium by the cerebro-buccal ganglionic ring of Aplysia californica incubated in artificial sea water (ASW) were measured.
(15) The depolarization was slower, and the fertilization potential was about 10 mV more negative in eggs of both F. vesiculosus and Pelvetia fertilized in 45-mM Na+ ASW; many of these eggs were polyspermic.
(16) Social workers based in Emergency Duty Teams and Hospital Teams are compared, and a distinctive profile of their work emerges, the hospital-based ASWs being more likely to be assessing 'known' people, often already in hospital, and referred for assessment by consultants.
(17) The Ca current in the standard artificial sea water (ASW) was produced at the critical membrane potential of -10 mV after inactivating the Na current by conditioning depolarization, -30 to -15 mV.
(18) The C-ASWS polymer is characterized by having a small cathodal precipitin peak connected to a large anodal peak, whereas coccidioidin antigen 2 is characterized by a predominant cathodal peak.
(19) The saturable component of binding followed a similar time course to the inhibition of the Na efflux and the rate of binding was reduced in choline-ASW and in fully poisoned axons.9.
(20) Oocytes in which spontaneous maturation was inhibited (ASW at pH 4.7 TO 5.4) underwent germinal vesicle breakdown with the addition of 1-methyladenine.