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Bast


Definition:

  • (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.

Vast


Definition:

  • (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
  • (superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
  • (superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
  • (superl.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
  • (n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
  • (4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
  • (6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
  • (7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
  • (10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
  • (11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
  • (12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
  • (14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
  • (16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
  • (17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
  • (18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
  • (19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
  • (20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.

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