(1) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(2) We evaluated the ability of the screening tests to detect drug use disorder (DUD) according to the research diagnostic criteria.
(3) A dud mutant, strain FA660, lacked DNA-binding activity at the 11-kDa protein in BI.
(4) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(5) Sam Tree, 68, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, claimed the dud devices, which he made in his shed, could track down explosives, drugs and people.
(6) We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud.
(7) And he will touch on private training colleges, suggesting “too many institutions have been allowed to chase profits and dud students – at taxpayer expense” in a reference to the VET fee rorts – though the fees system was expanded by the former Labor government and allowed to flourish in the first years of the Abbott government.
(8) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
(9) Normal copulators (Studs) exhibited significantly less WDS than did noncopulators (Duds).
(10) It should be a good series, at least I hope so after yesterday's playoff game duds .
(11) I even got the requisite clench of nostalgia at the new trailer , seeing Harrison Ford in his old duds and the Millenium Falcon jumping to hyper space with new clunky special effects mimicking the old clunky special effects.
(12) That was a great night's football, rounded off by a penalty shoot-out of epically comical proportions, with Sergio Ramos's horrendous effort being the pick of the many duds.
(13) The pilin mRNA sequence changes that accompanied pilus transitions in these nontransformable dud and P- gonococci represent insertion of pilS stretches into their respective pilE, apparently via intragenomic recombination.
(14) The best thing about the age of the DVR and the internet is on Sunday afternoon you could fast forward through the duds (and the seemingly endless commercial breaks) to get to the good stuff or, better yet, wait for the one or two good sketches of the night to be posted on Hulu and let various blogs curate them for you.
(15) Almost as quickly as the lens cap is removed and the cameras roll, everything can change, making a film look like a square dud to it's target teen audience.
(16) Both sides are kitted out in the duds with which they are most readily associated.
(17) IDU was degraded to 2'-deoxyuridine (dUd) in control experiments, but during corneal penetration experiments IDU was degraded to a mixture of dUd and iodouracil (IU).
(18) There’s also a free box of Milk Duds (chocolate caramels) at your table and Route 66 memorabilia on the wall.
(19) A decision to flood the EU’s carbon market with dud credits “was partly because of hurt feelings from having had no proper compensation,” the UN source said.
(20) (1965), an interesting comedy that never lived up to all its starry contributors; How to Steal a Million (1966), a dud with Audrey Hepburn – viewers asked which star was thinner and more wide-eyed; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – as several angels – for John Huston; The Night of the Generals (1967); Great Catherine (1968); Murphy's War (1971); Under Milk Wood (1972) – with Burton and Taylor; Man of La Mancha (1972); Rosebud (1975); Man Friday (1975).
Dup
Definition:
(v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxazolidinone compound E3709, which contains a 4-pyridyl group, was found to be more active in vitro than other members of this series, such as DuP 721.
(2) The effects of A-II on inhibition of cortisol secretion in response to ACTH and the activation of phosphoinositidase-C in response to A-II alone were both fully antagonized by DuP 753, but not by PD 123319.
(3) However, the DUP will decide on support for the Conservatives on other issues in parliament on a vote-by-vote basis.
(4) DuP 753 at 10(-6) M, added before or after EXP3892, reversed partially the depressed AII maximal response caused by 10(-9) M EXP3892.
(5) Five children have the derivative chromosome 2 resulting in del (2)(q31q33) and one individual received the derivative chromosome 6 leading to dup (2)(q31q33).
(6) Nine of the 12 fetuses had either bilateral cystic hygroma of the neck (7 cases) or nuchal bleb (2 cases: trisomy 13 and dup 6q).
(7) In addition, this condition appears to be milder than other duplications of the short arm of chromosome 17, namely trisomy 17p and dup(17)(p11.2----cen).
(8) Creasy said Green “did not deny abortion has been discussed” in negotiations with the DUP.
(9) To determine if chronic treatment with DuP 753 was able to inhibit the pressor response to angiotensin II, a single i.v.
(10) The in vitro binding properties of 1-(cyclopropylmethyl)-4-(2'-(4''-fluorophenyl)-2'-oxoethyl)pipe ridi ne HBr, [3H]DuP 734, a novel sigma receptor ligand, were examined in homogenates of guinea pig brain.
(11) 6i (DuP 734), 6q, 18a, and 18n) have the best in vivo potency.
(12) Normal rats and three groups of clipped rats were studied: an untreated group (HYP), a group treated with captopril (CEI), and a group treated with DuP 753 (DuP) 5 days before micropuncture.
(13) Northern Ireland is the only remaining part of the UK where same-sex marriage is not legal after the DUP used a controversial veto mechanism to block any change to legislation.
(14) Chromosome analysis from peripheral blood of the patient showed a recombinant chromosome 16 [46, XY, rec (16), dup (p13.1----p13.3) del (q22----q24)].
(15) There’s not going to be a summer budget or anything like that.” Pressed on whether the government would have to change direction, particularly if it did a deal with the DUP, which is opposed to cuts to the winter fuel allowance and the end of the triple lock on pensions, he replied: “We will look at all these things.
(16) Furthermore, Dup 721 did not cause phenotypic suppression of nonsense mutations suggesting that DuP 721 did not inhibit peptide chain termination.
(17) Higher morbidity in controls than in DuP 753-treated rats was also suggested by body weights.
(18) But hardline Traditional Unionist Voice leader, Jim Allister, accused Robinson and the DUP of a U-turn on their threats on Wednesday that they would all resign from the executive.
(19) And its leader is married to Iris Robinson, the former DUP health spokeswoman who said gay people could be cured .
(20) Addition of AII to the submucosal but not the mucosal side increased the release of prostaglandin E2, an effect that was abolished by DuP 753.