(n.) Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) In all bona fide FA patients in whom testing was successful, hypersensitivity to MC was readily demonstrated by the striking deficiency of FA metaphases (0.9% to 14.9%) in the MC-containing co-cultures.
(2) This includes "all your academic bona fides, your Ucas ID and additional personal information that shows motivation.
(3) As does the bona fide protein, the recombinant calreticulin binds calcium and undergoes changes in its conformation upon Zn2+ binding.
(4) The government’s bona fides in this issue matter.
(5) Expression studies in Xenopus oocytes have indicated that alpha 7 subunits are able to form cation channels that are sensitive to nicotinic ligands, and therefore represent bona fide nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits.
(6) These results demonstrate that the folate of E. coli DNA photolyase is a bona fide cofactor and does not decompose or dissociate during multiple turnovers of the enzyme.
(7) Today, David Miliband said: "If one of the candidates … shows, bona fide, that they've got 32 and they need a 33rd nominee I've still got my nomination to make and that's the nomination I can control.
(8) It was concluded that nodules showing trabecular and the more anaplastic solid sheet type of growths represented bona fide hepatocellular carcinomas in the mouse.
(9) We previously have shown that in BFA-treated rat pancreatic lobules, there is no detectable relocation of Golgi proteins to the ER and, although Golgi cisternae are rapidly dismantled, clusters of small smooth vesicles consisting of both bona fide Golgi remnants and associated vesicular carriers persist even with prolonged BFA exposure.
(10) These data suggest that the submaxillary gland is a target for glucocorticoid action and that at least part of the glucocorticoid effects on this tissue are mediated by bona fide glucocorticoid receptors.
(11) The insert of the pGRM-B11 plasmid was used as a bona fide nucleic acid probe to screen mouse and human cDNA libraries prepared in the lambda gt11 or in the lambda gt10 vector.
(12) For much of the 80s, Young was a bona fide movie star, a poised brunette with a fragile edge.
(13) An XI that showed only Morgan Schneiderlin as a bona fide central midfielder meant the manager was shifting shape from his usual 4-2-3-1 to a loose 4-1-4-1, in which the middle quartet formed a diamond with Wayne Rooney at its tip behind Marcus Rashford.
(14) Otherwise, it consisted of an almost identical DNA sequence to that of the bona fide calmodulin gene (lambda SC4), including the 3'-non-coding region down to the poly(A) recognition signal, A-A-T-A-A-A.
(15) CM rarely recur but no bona fide metastasis has been reported.
(16) Many on the right have been slow to warm to Trump, wary of his conservative bona fides.
(17) In the adult testis, low levels of the bona fide 72-kD heat-inducible (hsp72) were induced in response to elevated temperatures.
(18) The Age Discrimination in Employment Act has raised the issue of Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications for employment in the public safety sector.
(19) Based on morphology and the presence of ZO-1, the altered junctions seen in PAN and PS rats appear to represent bona fide tight junctions.
(20) People who have a “bona fide relationship” with someone in the US are exempt from the ban but Hawaii has already challenged what this means.
Gobble
Definition:
(v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
(v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
(v. i.) To eat greedily.
(v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
(n.) A noise made in the throat.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
(3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
(6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
(7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
(8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
(9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
(10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
(11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
(12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
(15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
(16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
(17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
(18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
(19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
(20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.