(n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
(n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank seems to want to solve the problem by changing its label on business as usual to sound climate-friendly Elizabeth Bast, OCI OCI considers “fossil fuel” lending to include oil, gas, and coal projects, as well as policy loans, transmission and distribution, and financial intermediaries that have been found to be directly linked to or to support oil, gas or coal development.
(2) They said that, at the network’s most recent meeting in Dallas, the president of the rightwing Heartland Institute Joseph Bast led a workshop in which a presentation was made that denounced the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced some of the most authoritative accounts of global warming, as “not a credible source of science and economics”.
(3) Cover with a lid and return to the oven for 2½–3 hours, basting the pork regularly with the liquid in the pot.
(4) The bioactivation of HMBA by pure BAST I was dependent on the presence of 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) in the reaction and was inhibited by dehydroepiandrosterone, a physiological substrate for BAST I. Glutathione, a cellular nucleophile with important protective properties, decreased DNA adduct formation in the HMBA sulfation reaction in the absence of glutathione S-transferase activity.
(5) Higher levels of BAST I activity and immunoreactivity as well as HMBA-DNA adduct formation were detected in female rat liver cytosol than in male rat liver cytosol.
(6) As shown by immunoblotting analysis, the main reactive antigen recognized by anti-BAST was a non-glycosylated 32-kDa placental protein which was antigenically related to SSAV p30.
(7) There was no one around, it was a weekday, and the locals were at work and the tourists were in Copacabana, basting on the beach.
(8) Though Pope Francis’s heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate,” Joseph Bast, Heartland’s president, said in a statement.
(9) These results indicate the usefulness of BAST I to investigate the sulfation and activation of HMBA and probably other hydroxymethylated polyaromatic hydrocarbons to electrophilic and mutagenic metabolites under defined reaction conditions.
(10) The data suggest that BAST I is the same protein as hydrosteroid sulfotransferase 2 (Marcus, C. J., et al.
(11) The mouse liver showed BAST activity for lithocholic acid, taurolithocholic acid and taurochenodeoxycholic acid, whereas the rat liver and kidney had the activity for taurodeoxycholic acid in addition to these compounds.
(12) The dental health care system and dental education as presently structured do not appear to be serving the bast interest of the public.
(13) A non-glycosylated 19-kDa protein was also considered to be one of the anti-BAST-corresponding antigens.
(14) Optimal pH of liver BAST in the two species was different from that of the rat kidney.
(15) Although maximum activity occurs with 5 mM MgCl2, Mg2+ is not essential for BAST I activity.
(16) The roast prime rib – up to an 18oz cattle baron’s cut (a whopping $50, if you will) – is a hunka rosy, fat-basted prime beef.
(17) BAST was inactive towards taurocholic acid, 7 alpha- or 12-monohydroxy-5 beta-cholanoic acid.
(18) com Fennel basted pork chops with rhubarb British pork chops and pink rhubarb make a glorious and surprisingly quick spring supper.
(19) This paper describes a simple technique for inserting basting sutures to secure full-thickness skin grafts.
(20) Its most popular item ordered online so far is a basted turkey breast with a smoked bacon lattice.
Beast
Definition:
(n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
(n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
(n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
(n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
(n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
(n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(3) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
(4) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
(5) The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done.
(6) What was shocking about the first Wall Street was how close it came to being a wildlife documentary, with the director bringing us rare footage of the strange new beasts now stalking Gotham City.
(7) The Daily Beast asked the Trump campaign about a story from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, in which Trump allegedly tore out clumps of then-wife Ivana Trump’s hair before allegedly sexually assaulting her in a way that, according to Hurt, she characterized to friends as “rape,” later clarifying that she felt “violated” but not in “a literal or criminal sense.” It’s depressing to consider how little difference this might make in the GOP race.
(8) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
(9) But he warned that the BBC’s in-house production department was an “unwieldy beast” and said it would have to adapt if it was going to compete head to head with independent producers.
(10) 12 May 2015 The federal government delivers its second federal budget, a totally different beast from its first.
(11) While Umunna, 36, may not quite have reached the heights of a Hezza political big beast, he is certainly one of the most prominent members of Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet and on first-name terms with senior political figures in the EU and the US.
(12) Now the beast of full-blooded Euroscepticism is unleashed | Matthew d’Ancona Read more Fallon told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: “I don’t know of any member of Nato that wants us to leave the EU, because the EU can do things Nato can’t.
(13) A sign around its head reads: "I am the climate beast and I am hungry."
(14) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
(15) He and Farook were close, according to a friend who spoke with the Daily Beast , and liked to work on old cars and practice shooting together.
(16) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.
(17) This kept the biggest beasts out of the race, and thus made him unstoppable.
(18) At the other end of the scale, festival indie favourite Beasts of the Southern Wild, and its child star Quvenzhané Wallis, came away empty-handed.
(19) If the beast has now been tamed to the point where it can be put to sleep quietly (albeit over a decade or so), the government has a chance to address its next problems.
(20) At the same time in serological examination (in the antibody neutralization test) of bird pellets, 52 mummified cadavers, and 34 excretion samples of mammalian beasts of prey collected in Armenia (its central and North-Western part) in 1973 the antigen of tularemia microbe was revealed in 73, 8, and 3, and of plagye--in 42, 5, and 1 cases, respectively.