(v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
(v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(2) During the growth of Azotobacter vinelandii in batch culture in Burk's 2% glucose medium supplemented with 50 mg EDTA per litre, water-insoluble capsular polysaccaride material accumulated in cultures prior to the appearance of water-soluble polysaccharide in the culture medium.
(3) In our studies of the 131I-labeled anti-Thy 1.1 antibody treatment of murine lymphoma we have used cell binding assays with a combination of Lineweaver-Burk analysis to determine immunoreactivity and Scatchard analysis to determine antibody avidity.
(4) The Guardian’s Jason Burke ( @burke_jason ) has insights into AQAP and al-Qaida in his frequent reportage for the Guardian.
(5) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(6) The cardiovascular pharmacology of two Chinese herbs, Salvia miltiorrhiza (SM) and Panax notoginseng (Burk) F. H. Chen (PNG) were studied both in vivo and in vitro.
(7) A Lineweaver-Burk plot, as well as a Dixon plot, indicated that the nature of inhibition is noncompetitive with a Km value of 0.134mM and a Ki value of 1.58mM at 37 degrees C. An Arrhenius plot showed that the transition temperature is significantly reduced in the presence of tetrabutylammonium ion.
(8) The federal opposition’s finance spokesman, Tony Burke, said the GST was a regressive tax.
(9) Lyle Shelton, the head of the vocal conservative ACL, locked horns with his fellow panellists, particularly the health advocate, author and civil rights activist Dr Kerryn Phelps and the former federal Labor speaker Anna Burke.
(10) Former Labor speaker Anna Burke, a non-aligned party member, said Shorten should have allowed the debate on the floor of the Labor conference rather than stating a fixed preference for boat turnbacks before members had a chance to debate.
(11) It seems, therefore, that the kinetic parameters derived from initial uptake rates of glucose in intact cells 1-5, 11 using single flux analysis, such as Eadie-Hofstee- or Lineweaver-Burk-plots, are in error.
(12) Lineweaver-Burk plots for butyrylthiocholine were obtained at different times during the course of inactivation.
(13) The pure enzyme shows non-linearity in the Lineweaver-Burk plot, thus indicating the presence of two enzyme forms with Km values of about 0.65 mM and 8.5 mM.
(14) The Km value for CTP was calculated as 0.0156 mM, by Lineweaver-Burk analysis.
(15) By plotting Lineweaver-Burk plots of the rates of transport of the galactose derivatives, the apparent V and K(m) values were obtained.
(16) Lineweaver-Burk analysis of microsomal phenol UDP-glucuronosyltransferase activity suggested that MC-treatment induced a high affinity isozyme (KM = 0.14 mM), in addition to the low affinity isozyme (KM = 3.1 mM) present in liver microsomes from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(17) The murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) 5A8, which is reactive with domain 2 of CD4, blocks human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and syncytium formation of CD4+ cells (L. C. Burkly, D. Olson, R. Shapiro, G. Winkler, J. J. Rosa, D. W. Thomas, C. Williams, and P. Chisholm, J.
(18) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
(19) For the investigation of intramitochondrial transport of cholesterol, measurement of free cholesterol (FCh) of Mt and the Lineweaver-Burk plotting for cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (CSCC), prepared by osmotic shock and sonication of Mt, were carried out.
(20) Lineweaver-Burk plots for insulin as varied substrate were linear, whereas those for the thiol substrates were nonlinears: the plots for low molecular weight monothiols (GSH and mercaptoethanol) were parabolic; those for low molecular weight dithiols (dithiothreitol, dihydrolipoic acid, and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol) were apparently linear modified by substrate inhibition; and the plots for protein polythiols (reduced insulin A and B chains and reduced ribonuclease) were parabolic with superposed substrate inhibition.
Smother
Definition:
(v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
(v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
(v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
(v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.
(v. i.) To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
(v. t.) Stifling smoke; thick dust.
(v. t.) A state of suppression.
Example Sentences:
(1) As attorneys who practice asylum law, we believe deeply in our nation’s obligation to provide real protection to refugees, but the Obama administration’s willful disregard of existing asylum laws and procedures – and its smothering of due process with detention and rapid deportation – is truly appalling.
(2) Brad Guzan produced a superb save to deny Ayew, rushing off his line to smother a left-foot shot from six yards out, and 33 seconds later the Swansea forward’s brother had the ball in the net at the other end.
(3) Conveniently, it is not far from the Via Algarviana , allowing us to leave the car and hike the stretch to Alte (16km), passing shuttered houses smothered in creepers in old, abandoned villages.
(4) Buffon's understudy Marchetti gets down brilliantly to smother the cross.
(5) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
(6) Later, when it was realised that pieces of aluminium and magnesium among this waste could catch fire and cause widespread contamination, inert argon gas had to be pumped in to smother potential blazes.
(7) Updated at 5.30pm BST 5.13pm BST Game and second set to Roger Federer Rewind the clocks and smother the future , the venerable Roger Federer isn't Wimbledon history yet.
(8) Our descent into Delhi was delayed because of fog, we were told, but the nicotine-coloured blanket smothering this dynamic Indian city was a malignant smog.
(9) Bayern are braced for their visitors to employ similar tactics to those that deflated Barcelona in their semi-final, a smothering defence and bite on the break game-plan that has drawn local criticism in print from Günter Netzer and Matthias Sammer.
(10) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
(11) The decision by the MP for Mid Bedfordshire to become the first serving MP to take part in the show, which features famous faces performing in stunts that in the past have included being smothered in insects and eating a kangaroo's penis, could keep her from parliamentary and constituency business for a month.
(12) Hazard is sent off for kicking the ball under a ballboy attempting to smother the ball rather than return it.
(13) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
(14) He's never quite in control, though, and his attempted lift into the net is smothered by the outrushing Ospina.
(15) Before he came to the UK, Darius trained in Poland, learning how to perform a cut-throat shave by smothering an inflated balloon in shaving foam and then removing it with a single blade.
(16) Sediment can smother seagrasses, which are the key food source of dugongs and sea turtles, and damage corals.
(17) White supremacy in America won’t let our black young children be kids, swim or receive congratulations while graduating without having the breath, light and life smothered right out of them.
(18) Liverpool had threatened only sporadically, although Kasper Schmeichel did make a decent save to smother Coutinho’s shot.
(19) The Quagga mussel ( Dreissena rostriformis bugensis ), which was found in the river Wraysbury on 1 October and can cover boat hulls and smother native mussels to death, is just one of a group of freshwater species that has been spreading westward from the Ponto-Caspian region in south-east Europe in recent years and which risk causing a “meltdown” as they invade Britain.
(20) It added: "We have long argued that stamp duty is a tax on aspiration that smothered the natural demand of the market.