(n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Rubinfeld, B., Munemitsu, S., Clark, R., Conroy, L., Watt, K., Crosier, W.J., McCormick, F., and Polakis, P. (1991) Cell 65, 1033-1042), it appears that the membrane-associated (Mr 85,000-95,000) and cytosolic forms of GAP-3 are derived from equivalent, or closely related, genes.
Rosier
Definition:
(n.) A rosebush; roses, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Well, if our economic future was tied to the coat tails of Germany it might look rosier, but there is a strong argument that a central bank with a consistently over-optimistic forecasting record and a newly minted OBR with no track record to speak of, are not the best guides.
(2) NHS England sought to paint a much rosier picture of how hospitals had been coping recently.
(3) The buyer of Monet’s Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, les Rosiers for $20.41m, meanwhile, was China’s Dalian Wanda Group.
(4) There is no perfect way to measure the labor market slack and the headline unemployment rate is looking rosier than some other indicators now, but this doesn’t mean it’s a flawed measure or that something else is the ‘real’ rate,” Bivens said.
(5) Suzanne Rosier is project coordinator of climateprediction.net and research scientist at Oxford University.
(6) Economists are awaiting that assessment and also anticipating that data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday will paint a rosier picture of the economy from 2012 onwards than previously thought.
(7) We expect French GDP to have remained flat in the third quarter and prospects for the fourth are not much rosier with business confidence indicators that seem to have peaked.
(8) However, on Friday an email was sent out by Whitehall press officers that served as a reminder of one area of public life where the picture is rosier for women: the senior civil service.
(9) The picture for the public finances is also looking rosier compared with Hammond’s maiden autumn statement in November.
(10) The minister argued that even the normally profitable Sunday Times was struggling – although he was challenged in the Commons that the investment bank Warburgs (which drew up the prospectus) had painted a rosier picture when it was trying to squeeze cash out of would-be buyers.
(11) But judging from the euphoric reception given to Sanders on his competing tour of the midwest in recent days, it is far from clear that struggling voters in the rustbelt will warm to Clinton’s rosier view of life.
(12) The picture was even rosier once you looked past how much it cost to bailout General Motors and insurance giant AIG.
(13) Internal surveys conducted for candidates like George Allen in Virginia, Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Josh Mandel in Ohio draw much rosier conclusions than polls conducted for their Democratic counterparts Tim Kaine, Joe Donnelly and Sherrod Brown.
(14) The picture is rather rosier in Madrid at the moment.
(15) Regional glucose uptake rates were measured using positron emission tomography-derived 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose kinetics and the three-compartment model described by Sokoloff (Sokoloff, L., M. Reivich, C. Kennedy, M. C. Des Rosiers, C. S. Patlak, K. D. Pettigrew, O. Sakurada, and M. Shinohara.
(16) However, October to December is traditionally a flat one for digital – last year its growth went into reverse – and the picture was rosier year on year, with digital listening up from 20.9% in the same period in 2009.
(17) There's no doubt that the backdrop to the autumn statement is far rosier than anyone, not least Osborne himself, could have hoped six months ago.
(18) The analysis of mass isotopomer patterns recently offered by C. Des Rosiers, B. R. Landau, and H. Brunengraber [Am.
(19) New forecasts, to be published alongside Osborne's statement, are expected to be rosier and the chancellor is likely to repeat his claim that the UK is now set firmly on the "path to prosperity".
(20) The devil, as ever, will be in the detail: but for the arts in schools, the situation looks considerably rosier than it did 48 hours ago.