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Dobbin


Definition:

  • (n.) An old jaded horse.
  • (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
  • (2) Karinda Dobbins : ‘Love will keep me going’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I survived election night because I was on a show in Oakland with four wonderful female comedians and we got to vent on stage and afterwards comfort each other.
  • (3) The seat became vacant on Sunday after backbencher Jim Dobbin died aged 73 .
  • (4) Although Ukip polled just 2.6% in the 2010 general election, which Dobbin won with a 5,971 majority, the party performed well in this May’s local elections.
  • (5) Paul Nuttall, the party’s deputy leader, said he was certain Bickley would have triumphed had Labour waited for the funeral of its former MP, Jim Dobbin, before moving the writ.
  • (6) Speaking first in Pashto, followed by Dari, Ghani said: “We believe that the formula of winner-takes-all will not serve our national unity,” echoing arguments by James Dobbins, the US special representative to Afghanistan.
  • (7) Ambassador James Dobbins, Obama's special representative for Afghanistan, now has thrice-yearly meetings with his Chinese counterpart to discuss future areas of co-operation.
  • (8) Liz McInnes won for Labour with 11,633 votes which was well down on the 18,499 votes (40.1%) the late Jim Dobbin won at the 2010 general election.
  • (9) "We are still in discussion with the Afghan government about the appropriate next steps," said state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who confirmed Dobbins would remain in the US for now.
  • (10) "I don't think [the] state [department] has ever operated on its own, independent of the US military, in an environment that is quite as threatening on such a large scale," James Dobbins, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo and Somalia, told the paper.
  • (11) Brantly arrived in the US at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia, and was driven by ambulance to the hospital, about 15 miles away.
  • (12) It is understood that a senior Labour figure will seek the consent of Dobbin's family before any attempt to begin the process of setting a timetable for a byelection.
  • (13) The election is due to be held on 9 October and Ukip hopes to overturn the 6,000 majority of the late Labour MP Jim Dobbin, who died last week aged 73 .
  • (14) Ambassador James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
  • (15) First, the hypothesis that low SE influences behavior more than does high SE (Wallston, Wallston, Smith & Dobbins, 1987) was evaluated.
  • (16) Broadband providers should act to protect themselves and customers, said Roland Dobbins, Senior ASERT Analyst at Arbor Networks.
  • (17) The average internet user has little recourse other than to ask their provider to scan their systems to see if they have this feature switched on, Dobbins added.

Robbin


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.
  • (n.) See Ropeband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Antibodies were raised against a component specific for Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma of mol.
  • (2) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
  • (3) Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, said: "It's also troubling because it is consistent with perhaps the most aggressive administration ever against reporters doing their jobs – providing information that citizens need to know about our government."
  • (4) There is an ebola of Isis in your Baskin Robbins right now.
  • (5) 96:1064-1071; Robbins, A. R., C. Oliver, J. L. Bateman, S. S. Krag, C. J. Galloway, and I. Mellman.
  • (6) Three classes of non-histone proteins were obtained from hamster Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma and liver nuclei following separation of nucleic acids with the polyethylene glycol-dextran mixture and fractionation of nuclear proteins on hydroxylapatite in a salt-glycerol-phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride system at increasing concentrations of Na+ and K+ phosphate buffer, pH 6.8.
  • (7) Having not just one do so well is a big deal, but having so many – Heaven is for Real, God’s Not Dead and Son of God – all come along and do well in the space of this year is unprecedented,” says Shawn Robbins, an analyst at boxoffice.com .
  • (8) Networks future The key to this expansion – and a phrase that's over-used at TV industry conferences – is "good content", but Robbins added a twist to the familiar claim that quality is what will separate winners from losers in the entertainment world.
  • (9) The most senior officials coordinating the negotiations, Sabine Weyand, who is the European commission’s deputy chief negotiator, and Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, will also meet in the afternoon.
  • (10) Robbins said the paintings reflected Pérez Simón's tastes.
  • (11) It was tested in Syrian hamster 6 days after heterotransplantation of Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma.
  • (12) The above metabolic changes associated with cell wall components followed rapid kinetics similar to those involved in the formation of the phytoalexin kievitone in the elicited cultures [Robbins, M. P. et al.
  • (13) Robbins says the workforce has welcomed the initiative warmly: "There's a lot of emphasis on making people feel comfortable coming to work.
  • (14) 'All I know,' concludes Robbins 'is that there isn't a day when I'm not approached about that film - approached by people who say how important that film is to them, who tell me that they've seen it 20, 30, 40 times, and who are just so...
  • (15) With a DNA probe derived from the cloned CHS1 gene that codes for chitin synthase I [Bulawa, C. E., Slater, M., Cabib, E., Au-Young, J., Sburlati, A., Adair, W. L. and Robbins, P. (1986) Cell 46, 213-225] a Northern analysis was conducted of CHS1-specific transcripts.
  • (16) For Tim Robbins, the true significance of The Shawshank Redemption has nothing to do with religion, but resides in the fact that 'it's a film in which you actually see a relationship between two men which isn't based on car chases, or scoring some women, or some kind of caper'.
  • (17) Malcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire, attacks the Browne review , on which the government has based its new policy: "David Willetts has said that the Browne review will rank alongside the Dearing report and the Robbins report as one of the landmark policy reviews in British higher education.
  • (18) The purified mitochondrial enzyme is similar to the cytosolic glutamine transaminase K whose beta-lyase activity with S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC) is regulated by concurrent transamination (Stevens, J. L., Robbins, J. D., and Byrd, R. A.
  • (19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
  • (20) "Kids really don't care where the content is coming from, just as long as it speaks to them," said Robbins.

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