(n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(2) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
(3) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(4) Between 1981 and 1983, 29 States (includes the District of Columbia) conducted one-time telephone surveys.
(5) The first Jacques Monod Conference was held in Roscoff, Brittany on 1-5 June 1987 and dealt with the topic of 'Selection of Lymphocyte Repertoires' (organizers F. W. Alt, Columbia University, New York.
(6) Four formulations of an insect growth regulator, Bay Sir 8514 (a benzoylurea compound), were tested against 2 species of riceland mosquito larvae, Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Psorophora columbiae.
(7) Unlike the plateau projected for the nation, AIDS incidence for the District of Columbia was projected to increase by 34% between 1990 and 1994.
(8) "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he told a jeering audience at Columbia University in New York during his UN visit.
(9) The Research Diagnostic Criteria (RCD) and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) were developed in the mid-1970s by researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and at Columbia University.
(10) The University of British Columbia Model for Nursing provided an innovative and holistic means to attain perceptions in the health teaching assessment process and facilitated the development of a learning needs assessment tool.
(11) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine the predominant microflora in hepatic abscesses of cattle slaughtered in British Columbia.
(13) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
(14) The numbers aren't strictly sequential: the first few million are segmented by university, so that Harvard users were assigned 0-99999, Columbia users 100000-199999, Stanford users 200000-299999, and so on.
(15) Pairs of great blue heron eggs were collected from three British Columbia colonies with low, intermediate, and high levels of dioxin contamination: Nicomekl, Vancouver, and Crofton, respectively.
(16) Last year, he was invited to participate at a conference at Columbia University law school in New York.
(17) The group’s trip to Rome is designed to coincide with a workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Tuesday called Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity, which will feature speeches by Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.
(18) Utilizing a framework developed by the Faculty of Law, University of Dakar, Senegal, and the Development Law and Policy Program, Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University, the Sahel Institute undertook a comprehensive study of the legal and social status of women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.
(19) Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David Peace on which it was based.
(20) Student protesters in Berkeley and Columbia cheered their TV sets as footage from the Paris barricades made the American news in May, while French students took heart from images of the huge anti-war demonstrations now occurring across Europe and America.
Columbine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
(n.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.
(n.) The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(2) Congress almost acted in April 2013 in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in which Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults, a moment when voters wanted gun control more than at any point since the Columbine shooting of 1999.
(3) The shooting happened eight miles from Columbine high school, where in 1999 two students killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves .
(4) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(5) The anti-inhibitory effect of the cytosolic factor was blockaded by addition of columbinic acid or gamma-linolenic acid to the factor.
(6) The four weapons used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to kill 12 students and a teacher at Columbine high school in April 1999 were bought by a friend of the shooters from unlicensed sellers at a gun show.
(7) Topical application of the major lipoxygenase product to paws of essential fatty acid-deficient rats resulted in nearly as complete resolution of the scaly dermatitis as did the application of columbinic acid itself; the cyclooxygenase product was not at all effective.
(8) The alteration, championed by Michael Moore, who made the anti-gun film Bowling for Columbine , means small committees of the documentary branch are no longer making the decisions.
(9) It is concluded that columbinic acid produced a change in the pattern of total fatty acid composition of the different tissues studied which induced a favorable effect on the physical properties of the liver microsomal membranes (rs), leading to an improvement on the fatty acid deficiency in those membranes.
(10) The ethyl esters of linoelaidic and gamma-linolenic acids, the methyl ester of linoleic acid and free columbinic acid were administered to rats maintained on a fat-free diet.
(11) Over and over she asked herself, “Did we hug him enough?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Students are led from Columbine high school on 20 April 1999.
(12) Topical applications of either linoleate or columbinate (but not PGE2), normalized barrier function, HMG CoA reductase activity, and protein content.
(13) In 2005, he vowed he'd kill Michael Moore if the documentarian ever showed up at his house, the way he had doorstepped Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine.
(14) A month later, after the murders at Columbine high school in Colorado, he wrote a paper saying he wanted to repeat the attacks - an exercise he would repeat in the spring of 2006 with a fictional tale that hinted at what was to come.
(15) The high school is about 15 minutes from Columbine High School, the site of a 1999 shooting in which two gunmen killed 12 pupils, a teacher and themselves .
(16) If there's even one step we can take to save another child or another parent or another town from the grief that's visited Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek and Newtown and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that, then surely we have an obligation to try.
(17) Columbinic acid and its cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase metabolites were applied topically to the skin of essential fatty acid-deficient rats and their transepidermal water loss was measured.
(18) Here, we treated EFAD hairless mice with linoleic acid, columbinic acid (C18: 3, n-6, trans; not metabolizable to known regulatory eicosanoids), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), or latex occlusion, and determined transepidermal water loss (TEWL), epidermal protein content, and epidermal HMG CoA reductase activity.
(19) Each time he signed a bill, applause erupted from lawmakers and their guests, who included Jane Dougherty, whose sister was killed in the attack at Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown, Connecticut; Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in Aurora; and Tom Mauser, whose son was killed in the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado.
(20) Since the Columbine school shooting in 1999 school districts have increasingly participated.