(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).
Rud
Definition:
(n.) Redness; blush.
(n.) Ruddle; red ocher.
(n.) The rudd.
(v. t.) To make red.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining ESD parameters (i.e., mean values for the translation, the direction angles of the ESD axis, and the intercepts of this axis with the planes of motion), the minimum separation between the FEM and RUD axes, and the coordinates of the midpoint of this separation were not statistically different (p greater than 0.05) among the normal, rheumatoid, and implant groups.
(2) The motion of the hand segment relative to the forearm segment, corresponding to the positions exhibited during flexion-extension motion (FEM) and radial-ulnar deviation (RUD), was described using the equivalent screw displacement (ESD) concept.
(3) The neuroichthyosis with hypogonadism must be considered Rud's syndrome.
(4) Live snails were found in 4 foci, namely, the main focus, the upper Karun River, the lower Karkheh River, and the Bala Rud watershed; in addition, dead snails were found in 3 other foci.
(5) It’s perhaps that that encouraged Musk to use an acronym, RUD, which might be unfamiliar to most rocket scientists, but significantly more recognisable to some gamers.
(6) Dynamics of the infection with pathogen trematodes of Brachyphallus crenatus (Rud., 1802) and Lecithaster gibbosus (Rud., 1802) in larvae and juvenile herring reared in experimental conditions and in those which were caught in the sea has been observed.
(7) The formation of cysticercoids of the diplocyst type in three species of cestodes of the genus Aploparaksis: A. bulbocirrus Deblock et Rausch, 1968, A. furcigera (Rud., 1819) and A. groenlandica (Krabbe, 1869) at the experimental infection of oligochaetes (Lumbriculus sp.)
(8) Histochemical studies on the body wall of Haemonchus contortus (Rud.)
(9) Rud's syndrome is a neuroichthyosis with hypogonadism, associated with mental deficiency and epilepsy.
(10) Rud syndrome is a rare disorder of childhood characterized by ichthyosis, mental retardation, epilepsy and hypogonadism.
(11) The mean magnitudes of ESD rotation for both FEM and RUD were statistically different (p less than 0.05) among the normal, rheumatoid, and implant groups.
(12) Most of the DRG cases (15 out of 20) and half of the RUD (eight out of 16) presented reflux greater than 1.5%, while of the 11 Moynhihan, ten presented reflux less than 1.5% and all the asymptomatic volunteer subjects less than 1%.
(13) Fifty-four patients were divided into groups according to their clinical presentation; seven asymptomatic volunteers, 20 patients with duodenal-gastric reflux gastropathy (DRG), 16 patients with recurrent ulcers of the duodenal bulb (RUD), and 11 patients with Moynihan's disease.
(14) Endoscopy revealed the presence of bile in the stomach of 16 out of 20 DRG and four out of 16 RUD, while ten out of 11 patients with Moynihan's disease had clear gastric juice.
(15) Most of the characters tally with Raphidascaris chirocentri Yamaguti, 1935, Paranisakis pastinacae (Rud., 1819) Baylis, 1936 and Paracamallanus theraponis Kalyankar, 1970, but differs from it body measurements, oesophagus length, location of the nerve ring, length of the tridents, possession of striations, shape and position of the vulvar process and size of the eggs.
(16) sp., fourth species of the genus, is frequent and associated with the morphologically similar species, D. gracile (Rud., 1809); D. robini differs from D. gracile by structure of caudal lappets of female, vagina, microfilaria and area rugosa.
(17) The authors report a family with this autosomal recessive disorder, review the clinical and dermatopathological findings, and contrast Rud syndrome with the other major neuro-ichthyosiform dermatoses.
(18) The growth and development curves and the sexual development of our patients (with exception of a patient with Rud's syndrome) have been normal.
(19) The spermatogenesis, spermatozoon differentiation and fine structure of Acanthobothrium filicolle benedenii Loennberg, 1889 and Onchobothrium uncinatum (Rud., 1819) were studied by means of light and electron microscopy.
(20) Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk , euphemistically referred to as “RUD” – that’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”.