(1) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(2) If bitter, pour it out and measure 1.4 litres of water.
(3) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(4) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(5) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
(6) At the interview those with conventional ileostomies expressed better preoperative comprehension of the procedure and more satisfaction about its life-saving nature; nevertheless, they experienced more negative emotional reactions, such as bitterness, after the operation.
(7) The higher analogues of the cycloalkane series containing alpha-aminocycloheptanecarboxylic acid methyl ester and alpha-aminocyclooctanecarboxylic acid methyl ester are bitter.
(8) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(9) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
(10) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
(11) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
(12) Denatonium, a very bitter substance, caused a rise in the intracellular calcium concentration due to release from internal stores in a small subpopulation of taste cells.
(13) I see myself in exactly the same situation as I saw myself yesterday, though obviously with the bitter disappointment of the failure of being knocked out.
(14) Stephen Joseph, its chief executive said: "This is bitter news for everyone who relies on the train to get to work, not least the large number of commuters in marginal constituencies who will be a key group at the next election."
(15) Lewis Wind Power, the joint venture company set up by Amec and British Energy, said it was "bitterly disappointed" by the decision.
(16) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
(17) The present alternative model of health care in China has evolved after prolonged and often bitter debate extending over twenty years.
(18) It is much less soluble and bitter and poses few stability problems when capsulated or tableted with aspirin.
(19) "They have given Mexicans the most bitter Christmas," Armando Martínez, the president of the College of Catholic Attorneys, told reporters.
(20) He says he is not bitter but his words are laced with hostility.
Sulphurous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sulphur.
(a.) Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the sulphuric compounds.
(a.) Having the characteristic odor of sulphur dioxide, or of hydrogen sulphide, or of other sulphur compounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) That suggests they are being replenished by sulphur dioxide, most probably from volcanoes.
(2) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(3) Liver scintigraphy with 67-Ga citrate and alphafetoprotein (afp) determinations in the serum were carried out in 84 patients with liver mass lesions in the preceding sulphur colloid scans.
(4) The use of sulphur-containing amino acids and 2-deoxyglucose in growth media led to impaired cell wall synthesis and rendered cells very susceptible to treatment with mercapto-ethanol and various lytic enzymes.
(5) The molecular mass (5988 Da) of the native rubredoxin has been measured by electrospray-ionization m.s., thus establishing the applicability of the technique to this type of iron-sulphur protein.
(6) Attention is drawn to the shortcomings in our current knowledge of the scale of turnover of the sulphur cycle and of our understanding of the microorganisms involved in specialized environments.
(7) N-Methylformamide extracts of acid-treated precipitated VFe protein of the V-nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum are yellow-brown in colour and contain vanadium, iron and acid-labile sulphur in the approximate proportions 1:6:5.
(8) Here we show that a farnesyl moiety is attached to a sulphur atom of the C-terminal cysteine of T gamma-2 (active form), a part of which is additionally methyl-esterified at the alpha-carboxyl group.
(9) Erabutoxin a was partially hydrolysed with enzymes and sulphuric acid and the resulting peptides were separated from each other by column chromatography and paper electrophoresis.
(10) NADH:ubiquinone reductase, the respiratory chain complex I of mitochondria, consists of some 25 nuclear-encoded and seven mitochondrially encoded subunits, and contains as redox groups one FMN, probably one internal ubiquinone and at least four iron-sulphur clusters.
(11) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
(12) Bacteriophage mu2 is inactivated by both mono- and di-functional sulphur mustards at relatively low extents of alkylation.
(13) The study of amino acid pattern shows that sulphur containing amino acids are limiting to almost the same degree in meat and meat soy blend.
(14) In a case in which ovarian biopsy at laparotomy revealed typical actinomycotic "sulphur granules" and Actinomyces israelii was diagnosed, standard Actinomyces israelii cytoplasmic antigens and circulating C1-binding immune complexes were found in the patient's serum when it was tested by counterimmunoelectrophoresis.
(15) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
(16) The results obtained indicated that both the sulphydration and trans-sulphuration pathways were operating.
(17) This effect may add to other factors decreasing sulphur availability in critically ill patients, and simultaneous administration of thiosulphate is therefore recommended to ensure a safe SNP treatment during and after coronary bypass operations.
(18) (4) There is no specific therapy for poisoning by sulphur mustard.
(19) Among various acetylated proteins, proteins insoluble in 0.1m-sulphuric acid have the highest radioactivity.
(20) Desulfovibrio africanus ferredoxin III is a monomeric protein (Mr 6585) containing seven cysteine residues and 7-8 iron atoms and 6-8 atoms of acid-labile sulphur.