(a.) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(2) There is a disparity between the number of reported cases of poisoning and the number of chemical analyses performed for the identification and quantitative determination of a particular poison.
(3) When there was disparity, gene-probe-positive isolates gave negative results in the corresponding bioassay.
(4) Previous work in our laboratory has shown that neural trauma results in a disparity between oxidative and glycolytic rates.
(5) I said ‘ periodista, no dispare ’ – it means ‘journalist, don’t shoot’ – ‘ por favor ’.
(6) The bone marrow derivation of dThy-1+EC is now well established: dThy-1+EC carry Ly-5 determinants whose expression is restricted to cells of the hemopoietic differentiation pathway, and studies using Thy-1-disparate radiation bone marrow chimeras have revealed the presence of donor-type Thy-1+ cells within the epidermis; by immunoelectron microscopy, these cells represent dThy-1+EC.
(7) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
(8) Iraq's beleaguered prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, no longer has the authority to unite the country's disparate sects.
(9) A retrospective study was performed to evaluate the effect of recipient-donor trephine disparity on refractive error and corneal curvature post-suture removal in keratoconus.
(10) In MCIC the addition of methanol to the mobile phase had disparate effect on protein retention, whereas addition of histidine or glycine, which acted as competing ligands, reduced the retention.
(11) Insights into how these seemingly disparate functions may be integrated have emerged from studies that have demonstrated that the mammalian striatum is composed of two compartments arranged as a mosaic, the patches and the matrix, which differ in their neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties.
(12) Prism fixation disparity curves were determined in three different experimental situations: the routine method according to Ogle, a method to stimulate the synkinetic convergence (Experiment I, with one fixation point as sole binocular stimulus) and a method to stimulate the fusion mechanism (Experiment II, with random dot stereograms).
(13) These results combined with absorption studies suggested a close relationship between fox and dog, but different number and morphology of chromosomes, immunoelectrophoretic patterns of serum proteins, and disparities of the transplantation antigens proved that the fox is a species quite separate from the dog.
(14) This study has been carried out by five therapists representing three widely disparate cultures, but all working together in Tanzania.
(15) In the majority of the pairs, we found a DPB1 disparity.
(16) In 50 young adults, it was found that fixation disparity increased under inadequate illumination and that this was accompanied by symptoms in the form of visual discomfort.
(17) Overall surgical case complexity was relatively high in teaching hospitals in 1972, and the disparity with nonteaching hospitals increased during the decade.
(18) Comparison of MHC-matched or MHC-disparate rat strains on a PVG background suggested that non-MHC genes determined the principal adult worm rejection characteristics of a given strain.
(19) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(20) The disparity between a single measured diastolic pressure and the mean of many pressure values also leads to errors in identifying individual subjects with mild hypertension.
Shibboleth
Definition:
(n.) A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.
(n.) Also in an extended sense.
(n.) Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the former foreign secretary does narrowly win after all, he will take over a party where the ground has shifted decisively against New Labour shibboleths, where his rivals now command powerful constituencies and where the battle over cuts will shape the political agenda.
(2) One camp might allege Islamophobia while the other makes reference to extremism and radicalisation, and claims that the great shibboleths of diversity and multiculturalism excuse no end of sins.
(3) They make a shibboleth of a single tax rate and allow symbolism to trump real reform.
(4) Trump ends California swing marked by bold remarks, criticism and violence Read more “So tonight,” he said, “to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support.” Nixon had created a cultural shibboleth: the silent majority , the conservative masses, appalled at the cultural and political advances of the 1960s, ready to reel them back in.
(5) But as one New Labour shibboleth after another, from nationalisation to higher taxes on the rich, has fallen under the pressure of the crisis, it has certainly underlined the price of the corporate embrace that has been its lodestar from its inception (and the Conservatives', naturally, long before that).
(6) Labour, he says, is in danger of turning high marginal tax rates, a large state, and "snapshots of income inequality" into shibboleths.
(7) The shibboleths would indeed be disregarded and, by 2002, the not much better Network Rail had replaced Railtrack.
(8) Huhne was making enemies by his willingness to challenge Tory shibboleths in public and in his confident, abrasive way.
(9) Essentially, her committee was saying, by 1998, what a subsequent transport minister, Stephen Byers, would be admitting in 2001, that Railtrack was no good, that partial renationalisation at least was a very strong option and that shibboleths should be disregarded.
(10) They will also have to work out where they sit in a new political system that will take shape free of no end of shibboleths – not least the 20th-century assumption that the centre-left should be led by Labour.
(11) But what he called "the fight against bad English" is too often understood, thanks to the perversities of his own example, as a philistine and joyless campaign in favour of that shibboleth of dull pedants "plain English".
(12) He dumped liberal shibboleths to cast himself as pro-business and -trade, tough on crime and welfare.
(13) Entire papers, conferences, consultancies and even startup businesses, can be spun out of those shibboleths.
(14) Yet inegalitarian shibboleths such as balanced budgets and corporate tax relief will be retained.
(15) It is a classic example of old progressive myopia, making a shibboleth of one aspect of the tax system rather than looking at it in the round.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Shibboleth’, by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo.
(17) It will be stripped of "liberal shibboleths" – all that namby-pamby stuff about children expressing their creativity, presumably – in favour of no-nonsense drilling in literacy and numeracy, lots of sport and "martial values" of self-discipline and respect.
(18) For reasons that remain obscure the rejection of climate science has become a shibboleth for rightwing culture warriors, whose views drive not only Abbott himself, but the majority of his backbench.
(19) America Magazine and the Tablet : America Magazine, published by the Catholic Jesuit order, has already begun reporting on moves to resist immigration raids, and regularly features opinion contrasting the teachings of Pope Francis with the shibboleths of American conservatism.
(20) A mere tax "shibboleth", he said, at a time when real reform would focus on taxing unearned wealth and pollution.