(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).
Hud
Definition:
(n.) A huck or hull, as of a nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The simulated HUD speedometer produced generally superior performance on the experimental tasks; most important, it enabled subjects to respond significantly more quickly to the salient cues.
(2) In the first experiment, words from two "hood"-"hud" continua were synthesized with different F0.
(3) This article examines the role of formal support services in the lives of elderly residents of HUD-subsidized buildings.
(4) A hordeivirus isolated from horsemint (Mentha longifolia Huds.)
(5) In the first experiment, Formants 3-5 were manipulated in both a "hid"-"head" continuum (in which F2 and F3 are within 3 Bark of each other) and a "hood"-"HUD" continuum (in which F2 and F3 are not within 3 Bark of each other).
(6) For example, doing the 3DS port of Retro City Rampage, I explored potential touch screen additions to the existing game by prototyping new aiming methods, shooting methods, HUD features and so forth.
(7) Advanced Warfare bears some familial resemblance: there is almost no HUD on screen.
(8) The time elapsed between a HUD signal and the simple response to the HDD was approximately 1600 ms.
(9) No one would tell an architect they can’t have a view on HUD [the Department of Housing and Urban Development].
(10) Experiment 3 involved the presentation of vowels from the "hood"-"hud" continuum in two different intonational contexts which were judged to have been produced by different speakers, even though the F0 of the test word was identical in the two contexts.
(11) Implications for the effects of HUDs on automobile safety are discussed.
(12) In the second experiment, F3 alone was manipulated in a "hood"-"HUD" continuum.
(13) In the moonscape of the Bab Hud neighbourhood, on the frontline by the Homs Citadel, a commander signed himself Issam Abu al-Mout – a nom de guerre that is a chilling reference to a man boasting of facing death.
(14) Four multiple-channel cochlear implant patients were tested with synthesized versions of the words "hid, head, had, hud, hod, hood" containing 1, 2, or 3 formants, and with a natural 2-formant version of the same words.
(15) The ratio of ED50 to HUD, the single usual dose for human cancer chemotherapy, were smallest for doxorubicin (2.23), cyclophosphamide (2.59) and CDDP (5.19).
(16) From the explantats of the fruitbody of Naematoloma fasciculare (Huds ex Fr.)
(17) A neuronal antigen (HuD) recognized by the sera of patients with antibody-associated paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis has been isolated by screening a lambda cerebellar expression library.
(18) This study compared the effects of simulated head-up display (HUD) and dashboard-mounted digital speedometers on key perceptual driving tasks in a simulated driving environment.
(19) The HuD protein shows a remarkable homology to the Drosophila proteins Elav and Sex-lethal and is likely to play a role in neuron-specific RNA processing.
(20) Concentrations of 0.4 ppm in manufactured homes as targeted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), may not be adequate to protect occupants from discomfort and from acute effects of HCHO exposure.