(n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’re most at risk of being killed when you leave,” Burnet says.
(2) They could be upstairs or even behind the door,” says Burnet.
(3) In some cases, our staff can be more approachable.” The focus on domestic abuse started six years ago at Peabody, when Burnet was hired, and in that time the number of new cases reported has increased by 825%.
(4) You need to think about the fact it could be masked as something else.” If an employee spots the signs of domestic abuse, they report their concerns to the organisation’s specialist team, led by Burnet.
(5) According to the authors, although in a few cases the tumour may induce development of a clone secreting Igmc, usually carcinoma and Igmc are independent from one another and are due to a common mechanism : reduction in cell immunity, according to Burnet.
(6) The age dependence and the anatomical distribution of the lesions of such disorders imply a Burnet type 'forbidden clone' theory of ageing.
(7) Burnet spent three years working at domestic abuse charity Refuge before moving to Peabody, a large provider of social housing in London.
(8) The first, proposed by Cunningham, holds that clonal deletion as viewed by Burnet operates in early life; however, later in life all autoreactive B cells not eliminated during ontogeny are prevented from expanding and secreting anti-self antibodies by a compensatory suppressor mechanism.
(9) The discovery of the 'one cell - one antibody' dogma and the demonstration that only a small minority of B cells possessed receptors specific for a given antigen were consistent with Burnet's clonal selection hypothesis, which was later formally proven by preparing antigen-specific lymphocytes and inducing clonal activation in vitro.
(10) Burnet says the aim is to get the leaders in the community to act.
(11) I believe that Wally Rowe would have been interested, for every case I have described presents problems in the ecology of viruses, and like my mentor Macfarlane Burnet, Wally approached virology from an ecological point of view, whether he was thinking about the DNA provirus of retroviruses and the host chromosome, the pathogenesis of disease, or the spread of viruses in animal populations, all topics to which he made major contributions.
(12) Circulation of the Q fever agent with different virulent properties has indicated the necessity of purposeful diagnosis of this sickness both among the acute fever diseases and among flaccid course, subclinical and chronic ones not excluding the etiological role of the Burnet rickettsia.
(13) If the Burnet's hypothesis of the antieoplastic "immunological surveillance" is strictly interpreted, it would result unappropriate to speak of "immunosuppressive therapy" in malignant hemoblastoses and allied neoplastic diseases, although the treatment of such affections consists of the administration of mostly immune system-depressing agent.
(14) The model describing the reaction of the immune system to infectious agent invasion is constructed on the bases of Burnet's clonal selection theory and the co-recognition principle.
(15) By splendid irony, the unexpectedly available space in the vault at Westminster Abbey was soon filled ‑ with the bodies of a troop of illegitimate offspring of Charles II and their families, including the Earl of Doncaster, son of the king and his mistress Lucy Walter, and Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Cleveland and Southampton, his son by Barbara Villiers, the woman described by Bishop Burnet as "a woman of pleasure ... vastly expensive and consequently very covetous".
(16) Many problems still remain unsolved, but now as ever, the basis of most experimental studies is still formed by Burnet's clonal selection theory.
(17) Initially scheduled for only 13 weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, it went on to become the most popular news show in Britain, launching the careers of some of our beest known newsreaders such as Alastair Burnet, Reginald Bosanquet, Sandy Gall, Alastair Stewart and Trevor McDonald.
(18) According to the Burnet's immune surveillance theory the T-lymphocytes eliminate malignant cells in an early stage.
(19) Burnet's clonal selection theory suggests that each B lymphocyte is committed to a single antibody specificity.
(20) The action of polyphenols of great burnet is more effective as compared with venoruton.
Pimpernel
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if Clegg's ideas are proving changeable, the party faithful will ensure he remains a yellow rather than a scarlet or blue pimpernel – any decision that affects party independence will have to be agreed by three-quarters of their MPs.
(2) She had secret interviews with Nelson Mandela , then known as the "Black Pimpernel", while he was underground in 1961.
(3) Though Mandela shares little with master spy George Smiley, he earned the nickname "the Black Pimpernel" as he evaded the authorities, Irvin noted.
(4) In the new BBC mockumentary W1A he is known as "his Tonyship, Lord Director General'' and is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
(5) Political commentators such as David Marquand have dubbed him the Scarlet Pimpernel.
(6) Straight after the verdict, Mandela went underground, earning himself a reputation as the "black pimpernel" as he stayed one step ahead of the authorities.
(7) An attempt to pin down the Pimpernel by asking him to define his enemies and allies is only partially successful.
(8) Snowden, the most significant whistleblower of modern times, briefly amused London when he turned scarlet pimpernel in the summer; then the capital was intrigued when David Miranda was seized by Heathrow police on bogus "terrorism" charges.
(9) Pimpernel) exhibits a low specificity for the organic moiety of synthetic pyro- and triphosphates.
(10) He was the pimpernel, the odd man out, the great escaper, the prisoner of Rio, the lovable rogue on the run.