(n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(2) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(3) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(4) And there were moments when the ferocity of the disease made some clinicians wonder if anything would stand in its way.
(5) The ferocity of the battle, once the results of the prime minister’s negotiations with his EU partners had been announced, has taken Downing Street aback.
(6) Dozens have been injured on either side; the ferocity of the attacks has shocked the nation.
(7) "Dislike" is, in fact, far too mild: there's a depth of contempt, a cold ferocity of detestation, that can shock.
(8) The Huffington Post reported that some in the CIA have been pushing for the US to make a secret pact with Bashar al-Assad, the same dictator we almost went to war with a year ago – the same man who has suddenly stepped up his country’s ferocity of attacks on the US-backed rebels , ahead of the expected air campaign.
(9) In explaining his opposition to Adani’s plans, Ian Chappell said “you don’t need to be Einstein when you see the frequency and the ferocity of some of the weather events that we’ve been having”.
(10) June 8, 2014 2.34pm BST First set: Djokovic* 3-2 Nadal Djokovic goes 40-15 up with a flying crosscourt forehand from deep behind the baseline that lands perfectly on the line, a shot of beauty and ferocity.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Slowing his words in a way some viewers interpreted as patronising, Kellerman continued: “But he had to be hitting you with something because you weren’t attacking him with the same kind of ferocity that we sometimes see you attack.
(12) Now that ally is showing as much ferocity in striking at the "moderates" of the Free Syrian Army as against the regime.
(13) Most were still reeling from the ferocity and speed of the attacks.
(14) Slater has run scores of posts attacking the German, increasing in frequency and ferocity since Dotcom’s founding of the Internet party.
(15) You should not use bad language any time to police officers and I should not have used it.” He accepted that it was said that a chief whip had to have a mixture of charm and menace, and that he could be abrasive, but said: “I strive not to be abrasive.” He said: “I don’t believe any of my colleagues who knew me well would have believed I would call a police officer a pleb.” He added: “When there is a media storm of the ferocity which hit me – the extraordinary tsunami of vitriol which descended on my head over a prolonged period of time led by the Sun – it is not surprising that very few people would put their head above the barricade and defend me, although a certain number did.” Mitchell agreed that he had a temper, but not that he was quick to lose it.
(16) But as the equipment inspected the bathroom, Mohamed Merah burst out, apparently armed with several weapons, and fired with extreme ferocity … Raid officers returned fire.
(17) She once took on Nigel Farage on Question Time with a ferocity that impressed colleagues, but later prompted slightly different reactions when she said that Farage looked like “somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it”.
(18) She had never seen him play with such energy, such ferocity.
(19) The before-and-after photographs of Doron Baga, which lies 1.5 miles from Baga, reveal the ferocity of the onslaught, with more than 3,100 structures damaged or destroyed by fire.
(20) Certainly she struggled to keep up with Bouchard’s sustained ferocity from the baseline.
Wildness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
(9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
(12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
(17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.