(n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
(n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
(n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the subtle nature of histological changes in DAI, awareness and intentional search for the lesion is essential.
(2) The same phosphorylation is catalyzed by a different enzyme (DAI) which, while constitutive in reticulocytes, is induced by interferon in other cells.
(3) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(4) The experimental proof that two types of dopamine receptors--the excitation-mediating (DAe) receptors and the inhibition-mediating (DAi) receptors--exist in the snail brain is put forward.
(5) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
(6) Xishuang Banna is ethnically very diverse; the largest group is the Dai followed by the Hani (Aini) and various smaller national minorities.
(7) We synthesized DAI in vitro and located its RNA-binding domain within the amino-terminal 171 residues.
(8) Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, SD, and Many Farms, AZ--and one nonremote site--Lapwai, ID--were scored for the DAI.
(9) Dai said this was a hope, though it was a wild card.
(10) The range from 25.99 to 40.50 per cent LAac with minimum in the duodenum and maximum in the ileum was observed on the 3rd DAI.
(11) Pretreatment with the DAi receptor antagonist ergometrine (10, 20 mg kg-1 i.p.)
(12) Greater improvement of memory, learning, and visuomotor speed occurred after DAI.
(13) Access to prenatal care is severely limited, and the majority of rural births are attended by local dai.
(14) We investigated the effects of the traditional Chinese herbal drugs, Dai-saiko-to (D) and Saiko-ka-ryukotsuboreito (S) on blood pressure, pulse rates, serum lipids, lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in 30 patients with mild to moderate hypertension in an open, randomised trial.
(15) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(16) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
(17) Thus, this newly identified substrate of DAI appears to have affinity for dsRNA structures and may be involved in dsRNA-regulated processes in the reticulocyte.
(18) For asymptomatic cirrhosis the risk was lower than for chronic hepatitis, especially at high DAI, probably because high consumption carried a high probability of liver decompensation.
(19) Tokyo Electric Power Company came under fire for underestimating the risk of a tsunami and building a seawall that was less than half the height of the wave that hit its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and caused multiple meltdowns and massive radiation leaks.
(20) But one of Liu Xia's invitees – well-known dissident Dai Qing – is already outside China and has said she will attend the ceremony.
Deis
Definition:
(n.) See Dais.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Eurostoxx banking index was up 1.7% Shares in Italy’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, were suspended after falling 15% after the EBA revealed it was one of nine Italian institutions to fail the tests.
(2) The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus.
(3) Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which is already in the midst of a restructuing exercise, said it had been penalised by the methodology used by the regulators and appointed UBS and Citigroup to advise it of its options and “explore all strategic alternatives for the bank”.
(4) In 1500, though, he unveiled two paintings in the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome – the French church – showing Christ calling St Matthew and his martyrdom.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Amphibious camels returning to Africa’ at Bamba Issa in Forte dei Marmi, 1969.
(6) To enjoy the square, either sit on the stone benches which run along the façade of the palace, or take a cup of coffee in the Caffè Farnese at the corner with Via dei Baullari.
(7) The group also studied Caravaggio’s three paintings in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome to try to replicate the exact tone of colours the painter used.
(8) Two hundred and sixty two patients with gallbladder stones were prospectively evaluated at the Biliary Lithiasis Treatment Unit of the Mater Dei Hospital, Belo Horizonte, MG., and 45 (17.5%) were selected for extracorporal shock wave lithotripsy (ECSWL).
(9) The idea of modern banking was born in Siena in 1624, when the Medici Grand Duke decided to guarantee accounts held at Monte dei Paschi, the world’s oldest bank, with the proceeds of pasture he held in the Maremma in south-western Tuscany.
(10) Maltese citizens were urged to send bouquets of flowers for the victims to the mortuary of Mater Dei hospital by the hospital’s chief executive, Ivan Falzon.
(11) At the weekend, the film's director Ron Howard turned down requests by the Catholic organisation Opus Dei to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the film while a leading cardinal called for legal action against the film and the book, saying that they were offensive to Jesus Christ and the Catholic church.
(12) Nearly 400 years later, the principle established by the Tuscan ruler – that account holders and investors are protected by the state – lies at the heart of a crisis at Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) that is worrying financial markets around the world.
(13) Hizmet, which has relatively moderate Islamist views, also has some of the characteristics of a cult or of an Islamic Opus Dei.
(14) The comparison between this new variant and correspondent standard of the "Comitato Italiano per la Standardizzazione dei Metodi Ematologici e di Laboratorio" (CISMEL) allow some remarks upon classification of variants based on the electrophoretic mobility.
(15) Monte dei Paschi mulls rescue bids as EU banks await stress-test results Read more Monte dei Paschi’s poor showing in the tests – which predicted its capital would be wiped out if there was a severe economic downturn – came despite it tapping investors for cash twice since 2014.
(16) The Italian government is laying the groundwork for a potential €20bn rescue of the country’s most troubled banks, including Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS).
(17) At the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori of Milan during the period 1970-1976, 718 patients with malignant lymphomas were staged with laparosplenectomy; 444 of them received radiotherapy on the abdominal area.
(18) Monte dei Paschi bailout: what you need to know – the Guardian briefing Read more MPS announced that Quaestio, which manages the government-orchestrated bailout fund Altante, is concerned about the terms of a loan to support the parcelling-off of bad debts.
(19) Antonio Vigni, Banca Monte dei Paschi's managing director, said: "There has been a speculative attack on Italy in the past few days which is not justified by the fundamentals of either the country or the banks."
(20) In an attempt to reduce car use, protect ruins from traffic fumes and enhance the sight for tourists and locals, one of Marino's first plans as mayor is to partially pedestrianise a stretch of the via dei Fori Imperiali, the traffic-clogged road built under Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, which cuts through some of the most precious archaeological sites of ancient Rome.