(a.) Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(2) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(3) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(4) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(5) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(6) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(7) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(8) The 20-year-old now holds two world records after he broke the 50m best at the European Championships in Berlin during a 2014 season which saw him burst on to the international stage.
(9) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(10) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(11) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(12) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(13) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(14) At least any notion that this tournament had meant little to the European champions can be dispelled.
(15) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(16) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(17) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(18) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(19) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(20) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
Quin
Definition:
(n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further evaluation of the range of activity of several of these compounds, both in terms of the dose inducing a half-maximal response and the LHRH-releasing effect at that particular dose, indicated that AMPA greater than HCA greater than QUIN greater than PYR, suggesting that non-NMDA receptors are primarily involved in EAA-induced LHRH release at the level of the AN-ME.
(2) Unilateral infusions of quinolinic acid (QUIN) into the rat striatum led to an increase in cholecystokinin octapeptide sulfate-like immunoreactivity (CCK8S-LI) in the striatum and substantia nigra 4 days later.
(3) Intraplatelet free calcium (Ca2i+) was measured in 25 patients, using the fluorescent indicator Quin-2.
(4) By examining in parallel the digitonin-induced release of exogenous fluorescent or luminescent indicators, a granule location was demonstrated for the pH indicator 9-aminoacridine, while the calcium probes aequorin and Quin 2 were released coincident with release of the cytosolic enzyme lactate dehydrogenase.
(5) Fluorescent indicator Quin-2 was used for the determination of free calcium (Ca2+in) in synaptosomes incubated in the normal medium and media where sodium is replaced by potassium or choline.
(6) The same neuronal populations were also selectively killed by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) but the toxic potency of NMDA was 40-fold higher than that of QUIN.
(7) Phorbol 12-myristate, 13-acetate, the calcium ionophore A23187 in the presence or absence of EGTA, and the fluorescent calcium chelator quin-2 also cause an increase in cytoskeletal actin.
(8) Amylase secretion, but not the Quin 2 fluorescence response, was attenuated at higher secretagogue concentrations.
(9) Ca2+ transport by DECYL-2E (I, R = n-decyl) - monitored by measurements of the fluorescence of an intracellular dye, quin-2 - occurred at a rate comparable to that produced by electroneutral Ca2+ ionophores ionomycin and Br-A23187.
(10) [13C6]QUIN was detected in the incubation medium of both unstimulated and stimulated cultures.
(11) Adrenaline and collagen had no effect in promoting intracellular Ca2+ increase as measured with Quin-2 and little effect when measured with Fura-2.
(12) Under these conditions, phospholipase A2 activity, as detected by the release of [14C]arachidonate and of its metabolites, or by the hydrolysis of [14C]phosphatidylcholine, was severely impaired in quin 2-loaded platelets upon removal of external Ca2+.
(13) We have used intracellular Quin 2, and extracellular Ca2+ without the use of EGTA or ionophores to manipulate the levels of intracellular Ca2+.
(14) Since the cytosolic calcium concentration may mediate the effects of extracellular calcium on PTH release, we have employed the calcium-sensitive intracellular dye QUIN-2 to examine the relationship between extracellular calcium, cytosolic calcium, and PTH secretion in adult, neonatal, and cultured bovine as well as pathological human parathyroid cells.
(15) We conclude that sustained moderate increases in CSF QUIN occur in viremic simian retrovirus type-D macaques.
(16) Br-A23187 is shown to saturate Ca2+ sites in quin-2-loaded rat thymic lymphocytes in a manner essentially identical to ionomycin.
(17) Gill Quine, senior solicitor, says: "Our campaigning as a team has helped to keep morale up, but in the next few days we lose three valuable staff members whose qualifications, experience and commitment will be a great loss to the residents of Rochdale.
(18) It was observed that the D-2 receptor agonist quinpirole (QUIN) produced biphasic effects on cell firing rate.
(19) Using simultaneous analyses of cell function and Quin 2 fluorescence, we find that at least two aspects of cellular responsiveness (degranulation and O2- production) depend upon the level of available Ca2+.
(20) A comparison between the fluorescent indicator quin 2 and the bioluminescent indicator aequorin was performed in the same smooth muscle cell type.