What's the difference between burke and suffocation?

Burke


Definition:

  • (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.

Suffocation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his only specific growth measure, he said Britain's planning laws would have to be scrapped so more housing could be built, vowing to scrap "the suffocating bureaucracy" that he said was holding economic growth back.
  • (2) Because of inspiration into the tracheo-bronchial aireays, regurgitation from purely oesophageal diseases can provoke various respiratory affections: acute broncho-pulmonary blocking broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary suppuration, night cough, fits of nocturnal suffocation, chronic bronchitis sometimes hemoptic.
  • (3) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
  • (4) If any of them is neglected or isolated from the rest, the whole will be impoverished-the student will suffocate in disconnected, empirical facts; fanciful theories will be spun from tenuous evidence; well established theory will be neglected by the practitioner; the best-intentioned schemes will have disastrous long-term consequences.
  • (5) But his growing band of critics fear the suffocation of democracy and human rights.
  • (6) There is nothing he said which could be understood as an incitement to violence, and nothing which is not obviously true, and commonplace outside the squalid little dogma that suffocates the human spirit in Saudi.
  • (7) On day one, we were almost stampeded by elephants, and I had to suffocate a goat and then drink its blood directly from the jugular.
  • (8) I marvel now at how he learned to anchor himself – physically and mentally – in that suffocating darkness.
  • (9) This trip to Basel should, in theory, be as tough as it gets and that layer of insurance may have helped Hodgson’s team to play without feeling too suffocated by external pressures.
  • (10) In sum, we will render impotent the government's efforts to use its coercive pressure over corporations to suffocate not only WikiLeaks but any other group it may similarly target in the future.
  • (11) Every weekend ... you end up getting suffocated by what happens on the football field.
  • (12) "We are so used to seeing one idea of what a young man or woman is in the popular media," she says, adding that it is "suffocating" how homogeneously young people are represented on screen.
  • (13) Patients with advanced esophageal carcinoma with tracheobronchial obstruction usually present with severe dyspnea or hemoptysis or both and may die of suffocation.
  • (14) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
  • (15) The notoriously suffocating tone of the 50th anniversary in 1966, when veterans of 1916 were still alive and the all-Ireland republic was treated as unfinished business, has been replaced by a more open and inclusive approach today, as the rising recedes into history, though without diminishing its narrative potency.
  • (16) From 1 January, residents in India’s capital city, which had been suffocating under a blanket of smog in recent days, will only be able to drive on alternate days based on their licence plate number; odd numbers on one day, even on the other.
  • (17) Some were related to age group specific behaviour, such as drownings and falls in young children and suffocations in infants.
  • (18) But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?
  • (19) She died of the suffocation caused by bronchopneumonia at the age of 60 years.
  • (20) With Greece suffocating under capital controls and the banks fighting for survival under a mountain of bad debt, a main focus of the bailout programme is saving and reviving the banking sector through the recapitalisation of ailing financial institutions.

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