(n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
Example Sentences:
(1) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(2) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
(3) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
(4) Here, we show that Ultrabithorax and even-skipped homeo domain proteins (UBX and EVE) of Drosophila melanogaster exert active and opposite effects on in vitro transcription when bound to a common site upstream of a core promoter.
(5) The warning was issued as Miller held negotiations with the industry on the eve of an agreement by the three main parties over a royal charter, which was announced on Friday.
(6) These results provide evidence that the eve protein acts combinatorially with other transcription factors to enhance its own expression.
(7) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(8) "If nothing is done … the government will be demoralised on the eve of Rio+20."
(9) On the eve of the latest suicide data for the UK, Madeleine Moon, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for suicide and self-harm prevention (APPG), said a third of local authorities in England had no suicide action plan.
(10) 1.49pm GMT RobertNeville asks: RobertNeville 14 February 2014 10:11am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate Eve, I sometimes get the feeling that women's issues are cherry picked depending on where they live.
(11) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
(12) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
(13) Later on Monday, Obama made a eve-of-convention visit to the flooded Louisiana coast to console victims of hurricane Isaac.
(14) The 69-kDa ttk protein has been shown to bind multiple sites within important regulatory elements of the pair-rule genes even-skipped (eve) and fushi tarazu (ftz), and it has been suggested that this protein may function as a repressor of ftz transcription.
(15) We suggest that the establishment of parasegment borders, a consequence of eve expression and witnessed by subsequent en expression, is a necessary precondition for homeotic gene expression in the visceral mesoderm.
(16) Adam and Eve sound like the original simple nuclear family, one plus one for life.
(17) Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the system under proposals unveiled by Gordon Brown on the eve of today's Queen's speech .
(18) The eight people in the dock had been arrested following clashes between protesters and riot police at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012, the eve of Vladimir Putin's third inauguration as Russian president.
(19) The announcement comes on the eve of his departure from Downing Street tomorrow and is privately welcomed by Gordon Brown.
(20) The announcement came on the eve of the speech by the shadow chancellor, George Osborne , to the Conservative party conference in Manchester today.
Neve
Definition:
(n.) The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet mid-afternoon on June 12 2000, Lopes Neves embarked on the most traumatic bus journey of her life.
(2) The municipal secretary of environment, agriculture and fisheries, Ivana Neves Couto, said: "Itaguaí is a model municipality.
(3) Zinc protoporphyrin levels, low in non-anemic infants, were slightly higher in 1st graders from all three neighborhoods; higher levels were found in both 3rd and 6th graders from Kiryat Yam, but only in 6th graders from Neve Shaanan.
(4) All of a sudden, Lopes Neves realised that she and a dozen other passengers were trapped inside - hijacked by an extremely agitated, apparently drugged-up young man.
(5) The secreted forms were cleaved from the full-length beta APP in a manner analogous to the cleavage of beta APP during constitutive secretion in mammalian cells (Weidemann, A., König, G., Bunke, D., Fischer, P., Salbaum, J. M., Masters, C. L., Beyreuther, K. (1989) Cell 57, 115-126; Oltersdorf, T., Ward, P. J., Henriksson, T., Beattie, E. C., Neve, R., Lieberburg, I., and Fritz, L. J.
(6) We have previously described a cDNA which encodes a binding site with the pharmacology of the D2-dopamine receptor (Bunzow, J. R., VanTol, H. H. M., Grandy, D. K., Albert, P., Salon, J., Christie, M., Machida, C., Neve, K. A., and Civelli, O.
(7) Ohio Windsor College (Scream 2, 1997) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neve Campbell got the point in Scream 2.
(8) ‘I hope we’ll offer a good time for everybody who comes’ Zepa Neves Zepa Neves is an artist and therapist who has lived most his life in Rio de Janeiro before settling in Belo Horizonte.
(9) Lopes Neves, now 27 and still living in Rio, says that at first she was convinced she would die.
(10) In lesions of both nerves, especially in combination with lesions of the arteries, the skin temperature is lower than that in an isolated damage of one of the neves.
(11) US officials must obtain special permission to meet Israelis at the IDF’s central command headquarters in the Jerusalem settlement of Neve Yaakov or at the Justice Ministry in the heart of downtown East Jerusalem.
(12) The distribution and pharmacology of the binding of [125I]epidepride, a substituted benzamide with high affinity and selectivity for dopamine (DA) D2 receptors in rat brain (Neve et al., J. Pharmacol.
(13) Janaina Lopes Neves moved to Rio de Janeiro four years ago to study administration at the city's Catholic university.
(14) [Bunzow, J. R., Van Tol, H. H. M., Granoly, D. K., Albert, P., Salon, J., Christie, M., Machida, C. A., Neve, K. A.
(15) A D2 receptor has recently been cloned (Bunzow, J. R., Van Tol, H. H. M., Grandy, D. K., Albert, P., Salon, J., Christie, M. D., Machida, C. A., Neve, K. A., and Civelli, O.
(16) [Bunzow, J. R., Van Tol, H. H. M., Grandy, D. K., Albert, P., Salon, J., Christie, M., Machida, C. A., Neve, K., & Civelli, O.
(17) The passengers listed Princess Beatrice Howard Donald Sam Mendes Jason Orange Charlize Theron Coleen Rooney Matt Lucas Paul Merton Russell Brand Richard E Grant James May and Jeremy Clarkson Debbie Harry Jeremy Kyle Kate Winslet Denise van Outen Michael McIntyre Matt Le Tissier Yasmin Le Bon Lennox Lewis Julia Ormond Lily Cole Rihanna Colin Farrell Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Rupert Grint Anna Friel Daniel Radcliffe Glenn Hoddle Amanda Holden Belinda Carlisle 'Madonna's kids' Madonna Alan Carr Michael Madsen Eva Longoria Len Goodman Nigel Havers Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen Joan Collins Fergie (Black Eyed Peas singer) Taio Cruz Hugh Dancy Jared Leto Mel B Graham Norton Rob Brydon Ross Kemp Trevor and Sharon Eve Jonathan Ross Tamer Hassan Kelly Osbourne Dom Joly Amanda Redman Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) Serena Williams Jack Osbourne Katherine Jackson Neve Campbell Ralph Fiennes
(18) Carlo Ancelotti: I want to manage a club in the Premier League again Read more Back at Anfield, Jürgen Klopp is reported to have told his new employers that he wants to sign the Porto midfielder Rúben Neves , who Chelsea fans will remember as the 18-year-old who shone when the Portuguese side beat their team in the Champions League at the end of September.
(19) Our purpose was to determine the effects of chronic electrical stimulation on the structure and function of neve-intact grafts in rats.
(20) Two representatives of subgroups A and B were compared to 3 representatives of Neve's subgroups I, II and III (Neve et al, 1989) by Southern blot experiments.