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Aye


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Ay
  • (n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."
  • (a.) Alt. of Ay

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Digestion of aye-aye fixed metaphase chromosomes with the restriction endonuclease HaeIII produced G-banding.
  • (2) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
  • (3) 'Aye,' Moyes says, eyes fixed firmly on the road, 'it'll be hard.'
  • (4) While the government has seemingly taken steps to address the issue, a Rakhine inquiry commission set up in August raised eyebrows after it emerged there was not a single Rohingya representative on the commission, yet its chairman, Aye Maung, heads the RNDP, and another of its representatives, Ko Ko Gyi, has previously stated that Rohingya are "invading" Burma.
  • (5) In the "Aye, naw, mibbe" discussion, I was a definite "mibbe".
  • (6) These teeth are not much wider or thicker than those of the extant aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), but their arc of curvature is noticeably greater.
  • (7) I'd reply "aye right" using respectful Japanese logographs, but this computer doesn't have the character set.
  • (8) Updated at 3.31pm BST 1.54pm BST 49th over: England 91-5 (Root 11, Ali 26) I wonder if Sri Lanka are beginning to wonder - Mathews getting stuck into Root suggests mebbes aye, and according to Bumble, the middle is nurturing a pleasing and increasing heat.
  • (9) The quote "To be or not to be, aye there's the point" originally said "I there's the point."
  • (10) However, we would feel a betrayal very deeply when we were promised time after time by Nicola, by John Swinney, by all her MSPs, MPs, MEPs and councillors that this was ‘once in a generation’ and we were told by the end of the campaign it was ‘once in a lifetime’.” Jim Murphy joked that Sturgeon had gone from leader of the yes campaign to head of the “maybes ayes, maybes naws” campaign.
  • (11) Part of NLD’s policy is to defend human rights and democracy,” said Mya Aye, a rejected Muslim candidate from NLD, “but rejecting Muslim candidates from their party is rejecting the rights of five million Muslim minorities.” In her first trip ever to Rakhine, Suu Kyi will campaign for three days in Taungup, Thandwe and Gwa towns in southern part of the state, where the NLD support is the strongest.
  • (12) No player or players have been involved in any mutiny" 11.20am BST Luis, Luis, aye-yi-yi-yi ...
  • (13) The history of the aye-aye in captivity outside Madagascar is briefly reviewed.
  • (14) Two of the three drilled aye-aye incisors collected in 1901 by Grandidier at the subfossil site of Lamboharana were recently rediscovered in uncatalogued collections of the Institut de Paléontologie in Paris.
  • (15) These observations of the aye-aye in a forest of higher altitude suggest a still much wider distribution of this species than previously thought.
  • (16) One of the letters was start-to-finish in Scots, and made me grin: “Aye, ah wis fair taen wi this mairvellous ‘word hoard’ ye hae dug up!!
  • (17) "Aye, but he has," said a growly Labour voice, referring to Cameron's jolly social sessions with the News Corp bosses.
  • (18) AYED's external consultation at the National Institute of Ophthalmology.
  • (19) The karyotype of a prosimian primate, the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), is described.
  • (20) Her approval has seemed likely since at least two weeks ago, when her nomination was passed out of the judiciary committee with 12 “aye” votes, including three from Republicans.

Nye


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Nigh.
  • (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alcohol and drug use were measured by means of the Delinquency Checklist (DCL), a self-report measure of delinquent behavior first developed by Short and Nye.
  • (2) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
  • (3) Science has always been political but we don’t want science to be partisan,” Bill Nye, a prominent engineer and TV personality, told the Guardian .
  • (4) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
  • (5) He’ll get Cristiano Ronaldo, no problem.” Cymru v Gwlad Belg – fel digwyddodd Read more There are already some striking statues in Cardiff – the architect of the NHS, Nye Bevan, musician Ivor Novello and rugby star Gareth Edwards to name but three.
  • (6) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
  • (7) Nye Bevan famously said that "the religion of socialism is the language of priorities" and there were echoes of this in David Cameron's recent remark while responding to the flooding crisis – "Money," he declared, "is no object in this relief effort.
  • (8) When it comes to North Korea, I tend to be a little bit sceptical about these sorts of things,” Nye said, recalling the much-heralded trip that the New York Philharmonic made to Pyongyang in 2008 , which did nothing for US-North Korea relations.
  • (9) It was seen in Nye Bevan's shift from "no first use" to deriding disarmament as an "emotional spasm" that would send Britain " naked into the conference chamber ".
  • (10) Last year, Austin Mitchell MP, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, accused the prince's private secretary, William Nye, of " dodging around for tax purposes ".
  • (11) In this article, Anthony Pinching and Keith Nye suggest that HIV or HIV proteins can sabotage transmembrane signalling and that this is of primary importance to the alterations in immune responsiveness.
  • (12) Soft power, a term first coined by the academic Joseph Nye, is the ability to harness international alliances and shape the preferences of others through a country’s appeal and attraction.
  • (13) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
  • (14) Then came Nye Bevan at the Labour conference in 1957, attacking a unilateralist resolution as “an emotional spasm” that threatened to send British statesmen “naked into the conference chamber” .
  • (15) Zak Kelly says that many of his friends, in what is Nye Bevan’s old constituency, voted Ukip.
  • (16) Never forget the Labour party's passion for unity, Nye Bevan famously said.
  • (17) More than once I catch her throwing winning glances at the massed ranks of newspaper sketch writers – they're all here, sniffing the air for jokes – and she does an awful lot of snickering behind her hand, something that makes her seem complacent and a little rude (especially given Nye's exquisitely courtly manner).
  • (18) A modified version of the Nye-Short self-reported delinquency scale and measures of normative oreintation which we constructed were used in a mail-out questionnaire to public school students (N = 351).
  • (19) It was inaugurated when Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the health minister who was its far-sighted creator, visited Park hospital in Davyhulme, Manchester.
  • (20) I often feel that some of the oddest questions faced by our arguments now would be like listening to Nye Bevan outline the case for the NHS, healthcare for all free at the point of need regardless of means, would have been challenged by the politics of now with questions like: “That’s all very well Mr Bevan but how many bedpans will you need in Wishaw and who is going to pay for them”?

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