(1) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(2) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(3) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
(4) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(5) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(6) In contrast, BTEB repressed the activity of a promoter containing BTE, a single GC box of the CYP1A1 gene that is stimulated by Sp1.
(7) The protein sequence of the homoeo domain is identical to that encoded by Hu-1, one of a the pair of closely linked homoeo boxes in the human genome.
(8) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(9) But as an entertaining family experience, it ticks almost every box.
(10) Piedmont’s research, which was conducted among 3,000 filmgoers and weighted to the demographics of the cinemagoing public, is not the same as the Hollywood tracking system, which delivers predictions of box-office success.
(11) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(12) Although the islet promoter was found to lack a TATA box, a major transcript from the islet promoter was mapped 486 nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation site.
(13) We conclude that the activity of the gamma-subunit gene is determined largely by E boxes, which in vivo are likely to be activated by MyoD family proteins; in addition, other transactivators such as the M-CAT binding protein presumably play a role.
(14) There was an upstream "HTF" island (Hpa II tiny fragments) followed by four direct repeats of the "chorion box" enhancer.
(15) While there would inevitably be some interaction, Gibbs said, "I do not think the president approaches it like a boxing match."
(16) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
(17) LU, a branch of the London mayor's Transport for London authority, claims that Aslef is seeking triple-time pay and an extra day off for members working on Boxing Day.
(18) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
(19) The spacing between the G-box sequences proved to be important for the full induction of gene expression.
(20) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
Gangster
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Example Sentences:
(1) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(2) We acted in Sierra Leone for similar reasons, though frankly even if that country had become run by gangsters and murderers and its democracy crushed, it would have been a long time before it impacted on us.
(3) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(4) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
(5) "These kids aren't gangsters," he says, but they face the same pressures that drove him into crime.
(6) Equally popular was the stylish Borsalino, starring Belmondo and Alain Delon as insouciant gangsters in 1930s Marseilles.
(7) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
(8) Blatter is suspended now, but the Blatter regime is still in place, even if it is beginning to resemble a scene from a gangster movie, where the dons gather around their boardroom table in ever-depleting ranks, empty chairs marking those now in the hands of the law.
(9) He'll play Sweets, a junior gangster with an amphetamine addiction.
(10) De Niro and Scorsese, of course, were paired together on a string of crime and gangster films including Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Cape Fear, and their reunion as been much speculated on since their most recent film together, 1995's Casino.
(11) Detectives were so sure that the perpetrators of the "Doner murders" were foreign gangsters, probably from Turkey, that they codenamed the investigation Operation Bosphorus.
(12) Scott drove the deal after seeing the Red Riding trilogy and taking it to Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian, with whom he previously collaborated on American Gangster and Hannibal.
(13) But I want to talk about The Wire , which to my shame I came to somewhat late, despite the fact that Michael K Williams [who plays shakedown artist Omar in The Wire ] and I are both in Boardwalk together [Williams plays nightclub owner and gangster Chalky White].
(14) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
(15) Spurred on by his scheming wife, who, with her gangster son Marko, sought refuge in Russia, Milosevic betrayed and abandoned almost everyone who served him - from Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the political and military masterminds of the war in Bosnia, to his patron Stambolic, the former Yugoslav president Dobrica Cosic, Jovica Stanisic and his long-time secret police chief - not to mention the Serbs of Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo whom he used and encouraged for the wars before simply dropping them when the going got tough.
(16) An offshore company connected to David Hunt , reported in 2011 by the Sunday Times to be a gangster, is also named in the files.
(17) She said she hoped the inquest would discredit competing theories about her husband's death, which have flourished with Kremlin encouragement in Russian media: that her husband killed himself, was murdered by MI6, or was targeted by Chechen gangsters.
(18) He critiques Gangster No.1 like an Oxbridge intellectual (the direction, he says, is "very Nic Roeg-ish"), remarks that one of his favourite film-makers is Robert Bresson, and relates how he once enraged inmates while working in the prison library by screening Monte Hellman's radical art-house classic Two Lane Blacktop at his weekly film show.
(19) In Hugo's list of Parisian gangsters active in the 1830s, there is a stowaway: "Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, or Hotwhack, Springlike, Golightly Brujon.
(20) That's a higher tally than has been achieved so far by the similarly self-distributed London gangster film All Things to All Men , aggressively marketed and released the same day at over 100 cinemas.