(1) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(2) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(3) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The most promising addition is the under-construction National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by the British architect David Adjaye and scheduled to open in 2015, which cloaks a modernist structure with shimmering bronze-coated decorative panels.
(6) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
(7) "The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy.
(8) We, and the public, cannot meaningfully evaluate execution protocol cloaked in secrecy.
(9) There's the odd scene where he's scrambling around naked, but it's cloaked in a more intelligent context.
(10) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
(11) Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
(12) His small frame could be seen following the tree line until eventually it was swallowed by the dense forest cloaking the border.
(13) The hypothesis is advanced that while the Hawaiian Islands contain one of the world's largest percentages of endemic species in the flora, only a few of these species were used for illnesses, though many endemic species were used for building, tapa making, and the foundation of the elaborate and renowned feather cloaks.
(14) However the value of training at altitude for competition at sea level appears on the one hand to lack total acceptance amongst sports scientists; and on the other to hold some cloak of mystery for coaches who have yet to enjoy first hand experience.
(15) It’s like bike sharers are given a cloak of visibility when they set out on a journey.
(16) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
(17) We acknowledge the complexity and elegance of the theoretical substance and program algorithms of existing work in these disciplines, while simultaneously observing that many presentations of this material cloak the essential facts and concepts in unnecessary jargon and hyperbole.
(18) No mention of UK Muslim women who are unhappy with this antisocial black cloak.
(19) Ermine cloaks the coalition's first post-local election test on Wednesday.
(20) Those sentiments had been echoed in the seemingly very different context of Qom, the centre of Shia religious studies, where most women move about in full-length black cloaks – the chadors that are the ultimate expression of Shia modesty.
Happed
Definition:
(p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked.
Example Sentences:
(1) And HAP has shown that the key finding that debt slows growth was driven overwhelmingly by the exclusion of four years of data from New Zealand.
(2) a. Preadsorption of HWSM onto HAP for 24 h, followed by 4 h coadsorption with phytate, resulted in at most a 25% decrease in HWSM binding.
(3) In spite of angiography showing "proper" position of the Infusaid catheter, HAPS showed preferential perfusion to the right lobe of the liver.
(4) As calcium influx is thought to contribute to the depolarizing phase of the TTX-insensitive spikes, we suggest that the decrease in HAP duration by clindamycin results from a decrease in the somal calcium current.
(5) At a pH above 6.0 already minimal HAP concentrations proved to be a suitable substrate for heterogeneous nucleation and growth of calcium oxalate.
(6) Most particles in Class III and IV lesions exfoliated until 2 weeks after implantation, and the junctional space between recipient bone and particles could not be distinguished, probably as a result of incorporation of HAP and osseous tissue.
(7) c. Simultaneous incubation of HWSM and phytate with HAP resulted in a 50% decrease in HWSM binding.
(8) In this study, the adaptation of HAp and alpha-TCP as a pulpotomy agent was studied histopathologically.
(9) With regard to HAP in the elderly, severe underlying disease, poor whole body state, aspiration, bacterial resistance to drugs, superinfection and polymicrobial infection were the factors predisposing difficulty in treatment of pneumonia in the elderly.
(10) There was a significant difference in affinity index between HAP-coated implants and control implants (P less than 0.001), while TiO2-coated implants showed no significant difference in comparison to the control.
(11) HAP had no effect on aggregation of chick embryo neural retina, kidney, or heart cells.
(12) Two layers of Dacron fabric were laid together, stitched to the rib with nylon thread, and the resulting tubular cavity packed with HAP filler to create an artificial rib.
(13) Investigations into the effects of relative molecular mass (RMM) and structure of poly(alkenoic acid)s on their adsorption on to hydroxyapatite (HAP) were carried out with a view to establishing factors that influence the adhesion of glass-poly(alkenoic acid) cements to tooth material.
(14) Two mouse lines carrying the hAP-c-kitW42 transgene show an effect on pigmentation and the number of tissue mast cells.
(15) Staining thus demineralizes early deposition sites of CaP; at the same time lead (Pb) and uranium (U) bind to the organic components of the extracellular matrix formerly associated with Ca and P. This substitution phenomenon alters the overall fine structure of mineral sites by depleting the amorphous density of Ca and P, and by creating isolated rodlike structures that have formerly been interpreted as representing hydroxyapatite (HAP) crystals.
(16) There were no clinical problems in the sites receiving HAP implantation.
(17) Taking our previous data into consideration, it was suggested that Resin-HAP had bio-compatibility both in soft tissue and bone, although its long-term stability as well as its stability under function should further be examined.
(18) No differences were found for the restriction enzymes Bam HI, Hap II, Hind III and Hpa I.
(19) Another important area of research that is just emerging concerns the ability of lipopolysaccharide and other components of HAP bacteria to stimulate or modulate macrophage release of inflammatory mediators such as interleukin-1.
(20) DNA from the chicken genome was analysed both by isopycnic centrifugation in cesium salt density gradients and by reassociation analysis using hydroxyapatite (HAP) chromatography.