(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) Validity of the fructosamine assay allows its potential use as a mass screening test for diabetes in these populations (USA, Africa, Caribbean...).
(3) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(4) The countries of very high mortality include the least developed Caribbean, Central American, and Andean countries: Haiti, guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Peru.
(5) It is there that Clar runs a Caribbean restaurant and their children receive the best schooling money can buy.
(6) Autoantibodies to the intermediate filament proteins vimentin and keratin were studied in sera of 50 Caribbean patients with Schistosoma mansoni infection and 50 control subjects.
(7) Each was accused of giving Caribbean officials $40,000 in cash to gain support for Bin Hammam's presidential campaign against Blatter last summer.
(8) The discrepancy was largely accounted for by the influx into Camberwell of individuals of Afro-Caribbean origin, who showed rates of schizophrenia between four and eight times that of their Caucasian counterparts.
(9) The reports, by the Guardian and others, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son and son-in-law of the former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family members of current or former leaders using offshore companies in the Caribbean .
(10) Six healthy relatives of 3 adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma (ATLL) patients and 6 members of a Caribbean family immigrant to the UK have been investigated for the presence of HTLV-I and expression of interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptors.
(11) Intermediate risk is found in Southern Europe, most islands of the Caribbean, Japan, Israel and Southern Africa and high risk in developing countries.
(12) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
(13) Ciguatera poisoning is the most common foodborne illness caused by a chemical toxin in the United States and is endemic in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific.
(14) He has led the successful opposition to the death penalty in the courts of the Caribbean and is a member of the foreign secretary's death penalty advisory panel.
(15) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(16) Although the concerns of British Afro-Caribbean and Asian women are similar to those of the Caucasian women, there may be ethnic differences in the relationship between feelings about eating, weight and shape and mood.
(17) But others point out that Freeh and Clinton were in well-publicised dispute for most of the president's time in office and that Miami is the main transport hub for most countries in the Caribbean, and so the most obvious venue for the interviews.
(18) The Edinburgh-born actor Lindsay Duncan, 58, who played Baroness Thatcher in a recent BBC TV film, was appointed a CBE, as was Welsh-born Jonathan Pryce, 62, who has recently appeared in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
(19) The Caribbean islands may constitute another geographical area where the population is at risk for the development of membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava and subsequent hepatocellular carcinoma.
(20) The heights of Caucasian, Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Pakistani children in this study were compared with those of children in an existing surveillance study, who were chosen to be representative of the English population.
Voodoo
Definition:
(n.) See Voodooism.
(n.) One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
(2) The winners of all three Edinburgh comedy awards (best show, best newcomer, panel prize) performed at non-big four venues (the Stand, the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe and Bob's Bookshop).
(3) She talks passionately about dancing in Haiti: "When Win and I were staying in this place that had windows but no real doors and some drummers started playing, and more drummers came and more drummers came, and they were playing these roots, voodoo rhythms, and we just danced til 5am, and when we were too hot, we just ran and jumped in the ocean."
(4) The present paper reviews recent attempts at analyzing some of the most lethal Voodoo poisons which appear to induce catalepsy.
(5) Also, this would have probably required some sort of voodoo, as Smith and Jennings are the same type of maddening player that should never be on the court together.
(6) Voodoo illness is one of several culture-bound syndromes that nurses need to be familiar with, for an inability to understand voodoo illness may result in the client's death (voodoo death).
(7) At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans in October 2012, 21-year-old Clayton Otwell was offered a single drop of 25I-NBOMe up his nose as a gift from a grateful stranger whose phone he had found.
(8) Phrenology, best described as a pseudo or even voodoo science "of the mind", had created its own prolific market for the body parts – especially heads – of Australian and other indigenous people since the late 18th century.
(9) Korine is currently putting the finishing touches to a little project that involves him performing a Haitian "voodoo tap-dance" that sends people into a trance.
(10) Haitian Voodoo priests control two major practices which might be of interest to toxicologists: healing and poisoning.
(11) He describes the psychological mechanisms of voodoo as practiced in West Africa to provide insight into similar practices in the United States.
(12) Voodoo is a folk religion that emerged from the interaction of West African ethnotheologies with European Christian rituals.
(13) When they heard primitive British electro tracks such as A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray, they decided to make their own music, creating a bleepy track called Dextrous using a bedroom-based sampler.
(14) He dismissed as "voodoo economics" the idea that cutting taxes for wealthy people would generate more revenue.
(15) He said there was now a “much more rigorous approach to growth; no more seat of the pants, voodoo management.
(16) His low-tax mantra will appeal to Republicans who think Trump’s economic plan is voodoo, to use an old Geroge HW Bush word.
(17) The clone encodes the gene for Arabidopsis alternative oxidase, whose deduced amino acid sequence was found to have 71% identity with that of the enzyme from the voodoo lily, Sauromatum guttatum.
(18) If White City were Altman's LA, one might imagine Christine Langan getting her voodoo dolls out over the recent high-profile Oscar success of FilmFour , whose Slumdog Millionaire took eight Oscars in February.
(19) That he was wholly wrong should, perhaps, give the armies of the offended pause, even if other cartoons – like the filth in Der Stürmer – have misused the voodoo.
(20) She regards the coalition's £500m bailout for A&E units in England as "voodoo med-economics" and wants equivalent investment where, in her view, it is needed more – in general practice.