(n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
(n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.
(n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am taking part in the [Barilla] boycott and invite other MPs – at least those who are not resigning – to do the same."
(2) The interview started by asking Barilla what he thought of an appeal made on Tuesday by the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Laura Boldrini, to change the often stereotypical image of women in Italian advertisements.
(3) In response, Aurelio Mancuso, chairman of Equality Italia, accused Barilla of being deliberately provocative.
(4) Barilla responded by saying Boldrini did not understand the advertising world and women were fundamental to adverts.
(5) "Accepting the invitation of Barilla's owner to not eat his pasta, we are launching a boycott campaign against all his products," he added.
(6) Guido Barilla, who controls the fourth-generation Barilla Group family business with his two brothers, sparked outrage among activists, consumers and some politicians when he said he would not consider using a gay family to advertise Barilla pasta.
(7) The negative reaction to Barilla reflected the gradual change in public opinion in Italy, where conservative views have made way for more liberal voices.
(8) Asked what effect he thought his attitude would have on gay consumers of pasta, Barilla said: "Well, if they like our pasta and our message they will eat it; if they don't like it and they don't like what we say they will … eat another."
(9) Guido Barilla initially said people could pick another pasta brand if they didn’t like his views, but issued an apology following the furore.
(10) Within hours, the hashtag 'boicotta-barilla' was trending on Twitter.
(11) The Barilla chairman issued a statement saying that he was sorry if his remarks had caused offence and that he had only been trying to draw attention to the "central role" played by women within the family.
(12) Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over 'classic family' remarks Read more The country’s leading pasta company, Barilla, faced a boycott in 2013 when its chairman said he would never use a gay family in an advert.
Soda
Definition:
(n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aerobically, the gyrase inhibitors increased the expression of sodA::lacZ in the presence or absence of either paraquat or the iron chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl.
(2) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
(3) It is hard to determine the impact on obesity and disease, in part because so few sugar taxes have been passed The World Health Organisation calls soda taxes the most effective strategy for improving diet (along with subsidising fruit and vegetables).
(4) Beliefs best differentiating among the three groups were: (1) superiority of taste of their "own" sodas, (2) perceived efficiency to quench thirst, and (3) perceived compatibility with other menu items.
(5) An Australian walked into a bar in Edinburgh and asked for a scotch and soda.
(6) The precise location of the rhaT gene, encoding rhamnose permease, has been established between sodA and rhaC at 3605-3607 kb of Kohara's physical map, which corresponds to 88.4 min on the Escherichia coli chromosomal map.
(7) This procedure employed a column chromatography on DE-52, followed by three steps of HPLC procedures with threonine-Sepharose (prepared as described in this report), TSK gel Phenyl-5PW (Toyo Soda), and TSK gel G3000SW (Toyo Soda) columns.
(8) DNA minor components were not found in haloalkalophilic microorganisms from soda saline soils in contrast to those from soda lakes.
(9) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
(10) As obesity and diabetes rates soar around the world, a soda tax is one of the top recommendations of global health experts.
(11) In Mexico, the soda industry responded with more than arguments about exercise – it responded with money.
(12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
(13) The proper name of this panel is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."
(14) Fast "inactivation" of the potassium current is seen with patch pipettes fabricated from soft glass (soda glass or potash lead glass), and is probably caused by block of the potassium channels by di- or multivalent cations released from the glass.
(15) Serves 2 100ml bourbon or whisky 250ml soda water 2 lemon slices 2 sprigs of rosemary For the syrup (makes about 250ml) 225ml lemon juice (5-6 lemons) 120g sugar 4-6 sprigs of rosemary 1 Combine all the syrup ingredients in a medium saucepan, then heat until just boiling.
(16) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
(17) Detection limits of 0.063 ng of As(III), 0.037 ng of As(v), 0.032 ng of DMA and 0.080 ng of MMA in club soda were achieved using the He-Ar plasma source.
(18) People no longer huddled together where they worked but had to drive out of town to the oil and gas fields and the mine that extracted trona (a mineral used to make baking soda, glass, detergents and textiles).
(19) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
(20) Consumption of 0% mustard meal and 15% soybean meal, 7.5% mustard meal and 7.5% soybean meal, or 15% mustard meal and 0% soybean meal rations did not differ in palatability studies with 10 group-fed lactating cows when the mustard meal was treated with 3% caustic soda.