(n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Crone spoke to someone in London, who also had no knowledge.
(2) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(3) The News Group Newspapers head of legal, Tom Crone, told the committee in July that he was 20.
(4) It accused Colin Myler, a former editor of the News of the World, and the paper's ex-head of legal, Tom Crone, deliberately withheld crucial information and answered questions falsely.
(5) Relationships deteriorated between Brooks and her team and Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, and the paper's chief lawyer, Tom Crone, both of whom were no longer involved in internal inquiries relating to phone hacking.
(6) The then News of the World editor, Colin Myler, and legal counsel, Tom Crone, are also understood to have seen it.
(7) Tom Crone, legal manager for News Group, told the committee Mulcaire, jailed for six months in January 2007 for hacking into voicemails of royal aides and others, had received a settlement, though it "bore no relation" to the £200,000 suggested by one MP.
(8) Tom Crone, the legal manager for News Group, the News International subsidiary that publishes the News of the World, said Mulcaire had earned rights as a contracted employee with a annual deal with the worth more than £100,000.
(9) Neville Thurlbeck claimed Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the newspaper, had left him "to dangle as a suspect for the next two years" after he first told them in July 2009 that he had "final proof" that phone-hacking at the paper went beyond a single "rogue reporter".
(10) Murdoch, also the chairman and chief executive of News International parent company News Corporation's businesses in Europe and Asia, was told about the Taylor claim, and Crone continued negotiations with the PFA boss until a settlement was agreed last year, Myler told the committee.
(11) In July 2009 the News of the World's editor, Colin Myler, told MPs that he and the paper's top lawyer, Tom Crone, briefed James Murdoch over a proposed £700,000 payment to Gordon Taylor, of the Professional Footballers' Association, to settle a case over alleged hacking of his phone.
(12) Crone responded that Mulcaire apparently did have such rights.
(13) The News International head of legal, Tom Crone, and the News of the World editor, Colin Myler, took the settlement figure to Murdoch for his approval, MPs on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee hearing into privacy, press standards and libel heard.
(14) This feat he proudly recorded: “One cackling young crone claimed loudly that I had no evidence.” As well as limiting access to abortion and excluding women from company boards and any other careers where they might take men’s jobs, Mr Buchanan hopes, with his election campaign, to inflict especial damage on the Labour party, to which end he is standing against Gloria de Piero .
(15) "Every single case against us from breach of privacy, unless information is out there in public domain, results in very strict confidentiality clause," Crone said.
(16) In the brain, the reference molecule was an intravascular marker (Crone's method) whereas inthe salivary gland the reference was an extracellular marker of similar size to the test molecule.
(17) Today, Labour MP Paul Farrelly, a member of the culture select committee, put these comments to Crone and asked how the company could continue to maintain that it had no evidence of wider evidence of phone hacking.
(18) MPs said that Myler and Crone deliberately withheld crucial information and answered falsely questions put by the committee.
(19) Temperature effects on the permeabilities of the structured endothelium and epithelium to antipyrine (AP) have been determined with the indicator dilution technique in isolated rat and dog lungs perfused between 38 and 8 degrees C. Permeability coefficients of the endothelium to AP [Pendo(AP)] from the Crone equation are smaller than values for isolated endothelial cells but close to the permeability coefficient of the interstitial epithelial plasmalemma [Pepi(AP)] obtained from physical and mathematical models.
(20) The committee is due to hear evidence from Colin Myler, the current editor of the News of the World, and Tom Crone, the paper's lawyer, next week.
Hag
Definition:
(n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
(n.) An ugly old woman.
(n.) A fury; a she-monster.
(n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
(n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
(n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
(v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
(n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
(n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hag gene and adjacent regions of the B. subtilis chromosome were restriction mapped, and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
(2) (i) The hag gene was expressed constitutively in Fla+ cells.
(3) Group B mutants were segregated from the hag locus and appeared closely linked to the phage adsorption site gene (gtaA), and group C was only loosely linked to hisA1 and thus far contains only one mutant.
(4) The addition of 3M KCl-extracted donor antigen (HAg) to immunosuppressive therapy with 16 Gy total lymphoid irradiation produces a significantly higher fraction of Wistar-Furth (WFu) recipients displaying indefinite survival of heterotopic buffalo (BUF) heart allografts, namely 80 versus 20%.
(5) The atherometric system proved to be useful to distinguish between HAG and LAG.
(6) Lowering the extracellular Ca2+ concentration to 6 or 50 microM attenuated markedly the glycogenolytic and haemodynamic responses to HAG; efflux of Ca2+ from the liver was not observed in response to HAG.
(7) The chromosomal locus containing the wild-type flagellin allele was replaced with a defective allele of the gene (delta hag-633) that contained a 633-base-pair deletion.
(8) (iii) The hag gene was expressed in mutants with flaS, flaT, flaU, and flbC defects.
(9) HAG and HAgC were observed to collect in coated pits whereas wild-type HA was excluded from those structures.
(10) lambda pflaL1 carries all nine fla genes at 43 min, and lambda pflaH14 carries hag and two fla genes at 42.5 min.
(11) Data derived from the responses of 69 adults to the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) indicate that there are no significant differences in psychological or physical illness complaints between adults who have experienced the Old Hag and adults who have not had this experience.
(12) In the presence of chloroquine, which inhibits the exit of receptors from endosomes, HAG and HAgC accumulated in intracellular vesicles.
(13) The positive inotropic responses and coronary perfusion pressure effects elicited by PMA and PDBu were largely prevented by the addition of the PKC inhibitors H7 (6 nM) or HAG (10 nM); however, these drugs were without effect on the negative inotropic response to higher concentrations of both PKC-activating (PMA, PDBu) and non-PKC-activating (alpha PDD, 4 alpha-phorbol) phorbol compounds.
(14) The patients were classified according to the primary cause of death, as high atherosclerotic (HAG) or low atherosclerotic groups (LAG), comprising 1,171 and 872 cases, respectively.
(15) The mononitrobenzylidene-HAGs were more active than the dinitrobenzylidene-HAG compound.
(16) Heat aggregated human (HAG) IgG pretreated with total rheumatoid factors isolated from the serum of rheumatoid arthritis patients showed decreased superoxide generation enhancing activity as compared with HAG pretreated with buffer alone.
(17) Sequencing of this hag gene revealed that it encodes a protein of 272 amino acids (M(r) 29,995).
(18) These results suggested that 5-HT does not release PRL through a direct pituitary action, and that the effect observed in HAG animals could be mediated through the release of a PRL-releasing factor after 5-HT administration.
(19) Of eighteen such transductants sixteen failed to show phase variation, and on transduction back to Salmonella each structural gene for a phase-2 flagellin (or at least for its antigenically determinant part) now behaved as an allele of H1, presumably in consequence of incorporation in the hag region of the K12 recipient, in place of H1-i ah1.
(20) It was shown that at HAg greater than or equal to 25% the strains used for antigen and antibody generation were closely related and at HAg less than or equal to 6.25% belonged to different subtypes.