(1) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(2) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(3) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(4) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
(5) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
(6) My father was a very important role model in my life and in his own way helped me to set high expectations for myself, to stand on my own two feet and to not take crap.
(7) Star Wars , it turns out, is the most ambitious, enterprising and impressive exercise in the marketing of crap ever conceived by man.
(8) "Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.
(9) Our respondents explained why: "At the employment office, they look at you like you're crap."
(10) Tory rhetoric on the burden of renewable energy to bill payers has been relentless ever since David Cameron infamously referred to the levies as “green crap” .
(11) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
(12) Because people tend to treat social media as conversational,” says internet psychologist Graham Jones , “they get the feeling they are just chatting with their friends, hence many of the apparent online death threats could be nothing more than the non-realistic conversational expressions of anger.” “Crap!” tweeted 28-year-old trainee accountant Paul Chambers in 2010 to his 690 followers.
(13) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
(14) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
(15) November 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Draghi has incentive to make sure he doent have "crap in his hands" after EU bank asset review next year, says #Rehn November 5, 2013 Matthew Dalton (@DJMatthewDalton) The incentive not to have crap on one's hands is universal.
(16) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
(17) Here (at least on the night I watched; the acts vary nightly), the joke is comedians performing crap circus acts.
(18) How do you cleanse the palate after watching a soul-destroyingly crap movie?
(19) The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The prime minister is going round Number 10 saying: 'We have got to get rid of all this green crap'.
(20) He didn't have to give a crap about me but he arranged for me to go on stages.
Lpc
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) CCK-OP and PMA activated phospholipase A (PLA) which liberated lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free fatty acids from membrane phosphatidylcholine.
(2) Quantitative studies show that the amount of compound solubilized is proportional to the LPC concentration and that solubilization increases in the order ethyl, n-propyl and n-butyl ester.
(3) This study was designed to investigate the incidence, intensity, and duration of postoperative airway symptoms with special emphasis on cuff construction (low-pressure-high-volume cuff (LPC) vs high-pressure-low-volume cuff (HPC)).
(4) Cells are incubated with cold glycerol, then transiently made permeable with L-alpha-lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) in the presence of test compound to be loaded into cells.
(5) Among the constituent fractions of phospholipid, only lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) was significantly increased both in absolute amount and its percentage in relation to total phospholipids.
(6) Both PLA2 activity and LPC levels showed overall negative correlations with the log dose of histamine producing a 35% fall in specific airway conductance (PD35 histamine) when the patients and the normal subjects were examined together (rs = -0.77 and rs = -0.83, respectively).
(7) The concept of LPC can also be used to interpret two factors which have been proposed to select for the Hamiltonian sex ratios: local mate competition is LPC acting through sons; and sib mating is LPC acting through daughters.
(8) It was found that almost all the LPC in the villous core of the small intestine express Ia antigen, and that in this area IgA-containing B cells also occur in unexpectedly large numbers.
(9) Using a rat experimental model, we determined the gastric permeability to sodium fluorescein (molecular weight 376 dalton) and to fluorescein-labeled dextran 3000 (molecular weight 3000 dalton) in the absence or presence of LPC.
(10) As RT increased, the LPC became increasingly differentiated so that by Q3 3 components in the latency range of P300 were visible: two constant-latency peaks, P286 (fronto-central), P341 (parietal); and one variable-latency deflection, P539 (parietal), whose peak latency lengthened as RT increased.
(11) The results indicate that LPC relaxes vascular smooth muscle through a non NO-mediated pathway.
(12) The influence of lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) on macromolecular permeability in the distal ileum has been studied.
(13) 2-Lysophosphatidylcholine (2-LPC) showed the lowest activity.
(14) The administration of 'acetylglyceryl ether phosphorylcholine' (AGEPC, also known as platelet-activating factor) and L-alpha-lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) to rat livers perfused with media containing 1.3 mM-Ca2+ was followed by a concentration-dependent efflux of Ca2+ from the liver.
(15) The effects of lysolecithin (LPC) on aggregation, serotonin release, shape, and lysis of rabbit, pig, or human platelets in platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or Tyrode albumin solution were examined during prolonged incubation.
(16) With type IV LPC, cytopathological changes were more extensive at 1 h. A minority of Schwann cells showed swollen hydropic cytoplasm and degradation of organelles.
(17) Freeze-dried leaf protein concentrate (LPC) contained 18% lipids in which linolenic acid (61.5%) was the major component.
(18) The depressant effects of LPC on contractility are potentiated by acidosis and superoxide radical.
(19) These LPC's were effective at 100 microM levels in attaining 50% inhibition of the enzyme activity.
(20) We studied the radiation sensitivity of eight immunophenotypically distinct B-lineage lymphoid precursor cell (LPC) lines of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or fetal liver origin corresponding to discrete developmental stages of human B-cell ontogeny.