(5) ChAT activities of the iris, adrenal gland, and superior cervical ganglion were similar in all groups.
(6) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(7) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
(8) In an interview on Jonathan Ross's chat show on ITV1 in September 2011, Adele had said: "I'm going back in the studio in November, fingers crossed.
(9) Since the striatal response began to be detectable at a similar concentration as that required for the full maintenance or restoration of ChAT and NGF receptor positivity it could be seen as an unwanted side-effect.
(10) In the ganglion cell layer, 40% of the cells were immunoreactive for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT); these cells were very homogeneous in size, had an average diameter of 12.6 microns, and appeared to represent a single class of cholinergic amacrine.
(11) There was also local reduction in choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity and significant losses of 55-kDa protein in the soluble fraction and of 50-kDa protein in myelin and synaptosomal fractions in the hippocampi of colchicine-lesioned rats.
(12) Cholinergic expression, as assessed by activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), responded differentially to neuropeptide treatment.
(13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(14) Frankly, an unconfrontational, off-the-high-horse chat is in order but it's not coming soon.
(15) Intraocular injections of colchicine did not result in the appearance of a population of ChAT-immunoreactive neurons in the ganglion cell layer.
(16) In addition, ChAT activity was enhanced by anti-Met, and TH activity by both anti-Met and naloxone.
(17) In both species, ChAT-IR somata in the GCL outnumbered those in the INL at all retinal locations.
(18) The neuropil of this nucleus was free from any distinctly ChAT-positive structures.
(19) On the train journey to court I will usually chat to the family to try and help them remain calm before the day ahead.
(20) Since arriving in Moscow, Snowden has been keeping late and solitary hours – effectively living on US time, tapping away on one of his three computers (three to be safe; he uses encrypted chat, too).
Chattel
Definition:
(n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women to Philpott were slaves and sexual chattels, to be used for sex and to prove his virility by having his children.
(2) The judge added: "Canadian courts have moved away from the legal view that animals are merely chattels, to a recognition that they play an important role in the lives of their owners and that the loss of a pet has a significant emotional impact on its owner."
(3) She detailed his history of violence, abuse and controlling women, whom he treated as "chattels".
(4) Whether they provoke envy, indignation or aspiration, these unscientific attempts to put a pricetag on the chattels of the world's wealthiest heirs and tycoons can always be relied upon to cause a stir.
(5) Despite what Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio says, America is not “the first power in history motivated by a desire to expand freedom rather than its own territory.” But America was the first power in history to use chattel slavery to develop modern capitalism.
(6) When he did so, he surrendered the documentary chattels that accompany citizenship for most of us – a bank account, drivers’ licence, Medicare card, superannuation and a passport.
(7) When you treat women as chattels – when you mutilate them, abuse them, force them to marry early, lock them out of school or stop them entering the workforce – you fail to function as a society," said Malcolm Bruce, the committee chairman.
(8) But from European colonialism to American chattel slavery, the idea that race is an immutable characteristic is a social and historical construct – one that has real economic and mortal consequences which have already lasted for generations, but one that is a mass delusion all the same.
(9) Women were your chattels, there to look after you and your children (for that is how you describe them all).
(10) They had transmuted from being male chattels, said Veblen, to becoming lead players in driving conspicuous consumption.
(11) Black America is quite familiar with the complex fluidity of racial and ethnic identity within our families, because we live most directly with the legacy of four centuries of intergenerational chattel slavery in the United States.
(12) The father-only certificate is the irritating hangover of that long tradition of women-as-chattel.
(13) Under the old rules “chattels” had an archaic and arguably ambiguous definition, which included “carriages”, “linen” and “scientific instruments”.
(14) Under the new rules “chattels” are now defined as anything that is not monetary, business assets or “held as an investment”.
(15) Treated as chattel, many Yazidi women and girls are locked in homes to perform household tasks, and are denied adequate food and water.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling book The New Jim Crow, explains in the film how in the post-civil war south, petty offenses were used to recapture newly freed blacks and force them into free labor under convict lend-lease programs that functionally reconstituted chattel enslavement.
(17) Making a gift of an asset – which includes property, land, shares and "chattels" worth more than £6,000 such as antiques and valuable paintings – counts as a disposal for the purposes of capital gains tax in the same way that selling an asset does.
(18) However, as Jim pointed out, as men no longer own their wives, women are not part of men’s chattels, we now have autonomy, our own jobs and legal, independent lives, should we start questioning whether a woman automatically gives up her name.
(19) Earlier this year a senior Ikea executive warned that the appetite of western consumers to own ever more goods and chattels was probably waning.
(20) The definition of what is personal property or “chattels” also changes from 1 October.