(n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Example Sentences:
(1) So it’s a huge pressure.” As with managing England, a posting to Newcastle has long been regarded as one of football’s prime poisoned chalices.
(2) Read more By not doing so, the theory is, and by bequeathing the responsibility to whoever succeeds him, Cameron has handed the next prime minister a poisoned chalice.
(3) Nerve chalices of type I vestibular hair cells contained SP and GAD, but not consistently.
(4) Later in the conversation, Morsi expresses surprise that Sisi plans to run for the presidency, which is seen by many as a poisoned chalice.
(5) Is "The Chalice" actually the Copenhagen Police Headquarters, affectionately referred to by its denizens as "The Chalice" (could this be "The Chalice"?)
(6) So Rock is to take another sip of the poisoned chalice.
(7) Many feared this was a poisoned chalice but it proved not to be the case and social workers played a significant part in managing residential care until the bureaucracy of case management took over.
(8) Whether hair cell degeneration can best be explained on this basis (indirect atoxyl effect) or by a direct action of atoxyl on the hair cells and the nerve chalices of type I hair cells is discussed.
(9) The nerve chalice as it settles into place breaks this contact and simultaneously a synapse is created between the efferent endings and the afferent chalice.
(10) The presence of synapsin I in sensory endings such as the afferent nerve chalices was unexpected and is under investigation.
(11) Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities: While the debacle on Capitol Hill will remain up front and central to markets, there is the added bonus of digesting Yellen's nomination as the next Fed Chairman ( 'are you really sure that you want this poisoned chalice, Janet?'
(12) Images of the chalice form of the enzyme were computer-averaged by the method of single particle averaging.
(13) The following pertinent observations are reported: (1) the formation of stereocilia begins prior to the 15th day and continues to approximately the 18th day, (2) the formation of the stereocilia suggests a mechanism of gradual transformation of existing cell surface microvilli, (3) the onset of the genesis of stereocilia precedes neuronal contact and cuticular plate formation, (4) stereocilia rootlets are forming before cuticular plate formation, (5) utricular sensory hair cells have undergone significant ultrastructural differentiation prior to the development of synaptic contacts, and (6) nerve chalice formation of type 1 sensory cells begins on the 18th day and is still incomplete at birth.
(14) While Khamanei has said Tehran won’t renege as long as Washington doesn’t, both those who accepted the deal as a positive step and those who did so reluctantly as a ‘poisoned chalice’ are losing enthusiasm.
(15) In the months before the agreement, many hardliners warned that moderates were forcing Khamenei to drink from the “poisoned chalice”.
(16) Taking on a stately home can prove a poisoned chalice for those who lack the necessary enthusiasm, discipline and, above all, bank credit.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Craig always knew the Bond role could prove a poisoned chalice.
(18) We found 70 patients with urinary tract malformations, the most frequent of which was pyelo-chaliceal dilatation, accounting for 47.1% of all the malformations found.
(19) The nerve chalices of type I hair cells disintegrated.
(20) The noise coming from the footballing authorities has been confusing and guessing the name of the person who will inherit this poisoned chalice from Scolari has never been this difficult – especially because Scolari used to be the name everybody would throw into the ring ever since he won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002.
Vase
Definition:
(n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
(n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
(n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
(n.) The calyx of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digitized images of objects (a face and a vase) were submitted to two-dimensional Fourier analysis.
(2) "They've got 22 games left (18 league games, the two-leg Vase semi, the Durham Challenge Cup final, and a League Cup quarter-final), all to be played by 4 May – 22 games in 45 days.
(3) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(4) Neovascularization of malignant tumour tissue was successfully displayed by colour Doppler in the vases of endometrial and ovarian cancers but no abnormal blood supply was observed in the cases of early cervical cancers.
(5) Overall, immature mosquitoes were found in more than 60% of the vases lacking liners and in more than 50% of the vases with aluminum liners.
(6) "Let us sit here," she suggests, ushering me to a window seat beside a vase of flowers.
(7) Water-holding stone vases were sampled in 4 central Florida cemeteries to compare the prevalence of mosquitoes in containers with and without metallic liners.
(8) (3) Correct item recognition decreased after 1 week for those items (faces and vases) seen in the inspection series only and not in the first test after 1 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(9) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
(10) VASe correlated linearly with VI and VO2 in all subjects in all trials.
(11) Given a choice of six colours, both sides chose blue for their respective vases.
(12) Other nervous system regions express significant quantities of NCAM both with and without VASE.
(13) Nick Flynn was visiting the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last month when a loose shoelace, a lack of handrails and a bit of bad luck brought about the destruction of the Qing dynasty vases, thought to be worth £100,000 in total.
(14) High mortality and a lack of development were observed in a field test involving the introduction of Aedes aegypti larvae into stone vases with copper liners.
(15) I went into a marble windowsill and collided with a vase which shattered into thousands of razor-sharp shards and I was unhurt.
(16) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(17) Eye movements and perspective reversals were continuously recorded on film for 9 subjects who fixated a central point on black line drawings of the Necker cube and Rubin vase figure.
(18) She also came bearing a limited edition Tiffany sterling silver honeycomb and bee bud vase.
(19) Within the limits of the PCR methodology, no evidence for any alternative exon other than the previously identified VASE was obtained.
(20) During development of the rat central nervous system, neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) mRNAs containing in the extracellular domain a 30-bp alternative exon, here named VASE, replace RNAs that lack this exon.