(1) Thousands took to the streets to protest, with many hurling rocks and firebombs at police.
(2) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(3) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
(4) Three Malaysian churches were attacked with firebombs, causing extensive damage to one, as Muslims pledged today to prevent Christians from using the word "Allah", escalating religious tensions in the multiracial country.
(5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
(6) The offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed last November after it published an edition entitled Charia Hebdo, supposedly guest-edited by Muhammad.
(7) Guy Shennan and Rupert Franklin-Lester Palestine-UK Social Work Network • It may be true as Adam Levick writes ( Letters, 14 October ) that Israel is under attack by waves of Arabs armed with rocks, knives, firebombs and automatic rifles.
(8) This whole time we were praying for her … but after all attempts to save her failed, she died a martyr.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A mourner examines the crib where Reham Dawabsheh’s 18 month-old-son Ali died in the firebomb attack.
(9) Authorities have banned motorcyclists from carrying passengers in an attempt to halt a spate of drive-by firebomb attacks.
(10) The Tokyo firebombing killed more people than either.
(11) Four clinics have been the victims of arson, including two similar firebombings in Washington state and California.
(12) Several hundred demonstrators pelted police officers with homemade firebombs and threw rocks and flaming bottles at the embassy as a series of events were held in Argentina and the UK on Monday to commemorate the 1982 conflict.
(13) In April 1989 Collets, the left-wing bookshop, and Dillons were firebombed for stocking the Rushdie novel.
(14) Charlie Hebdo’s offices were firebombed in 2011 after a spoof issue featuring a caricature of the prophet Mohammed on its cover.
(15) Queues formed on Wednesday outside polling stations as they opened at 9am under the same heavy security that had guarded the vote on the first day , when pro-Morsi protesters burned tyres and pelted police with rocks and firebombs, creating just enough tension to keep many voters at home.
(16) The Israeli military said he was hurling a firebomb at a car.
(17) Germans greet influx of refugees with free food and firebombings Read more On Sunday, the Social Democrat prime minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft joined in increasing calls for an EU-wide asylum policy, arguing that many countries were failing to contribute enough to the crisis.
(18) In the first attack, the ground-level office of the three-story Metro Tabernacle church was destroyed in a blaze set off by a firebomb thrown by attackers on motorcycles soon after midnight, police said.
(19) Police say it followed shootings, firebombs, looting and, crucially, an attempted attack on the area they are using as a command centre.
(20) The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media, said police confiscated home-made grenades and guns, along with firebombs and knives from the detainees.
Nil
Definition:
(v. t.) Will not.
(n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have examined the presence of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin; 5-HT) in the intermediate lobe of the frog pituitary and investigated the effect of exogenous 5-HT on alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) release from the perifused neurointermediate lobe (NIL).
(2) Two injections of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor blocker prazosin 45 and 90 min before sacrifice, alone or together with the beta-blocker propranolol, prevented the increase in plasma AVP found in SCGx rats 6 h after surgery, and the decrease in plasma AVP and the increase of NIL-AVP found 16 h after SCGx.
(3) The incidence of G-6-PD varied from nil to 17.3%, while that of Hb-S varied from nil to 22.3%.
(4) The basal release of beta-END from NIL was 180% of that from HNC (p less than 0.01), which provides further support for the presence of hypothalamic factors that inhibit beta-END release from the intermediate pituitary.
(5) Hamster (nil) cells maintained overnight in culture medium containing cyclohemiximide and either glucose or fructose exhibit strikingly different rates of hexose transport and metabolism (i.e.
(6) Regardless of the sort of driving force, ATP synthesis was optimum at the intravesicular pH of around 6.5 and almost nil at 8, where ATP syntheses by F0F1 type ATPases in other organisms are most active.
(7) Only the private bank is willing to accept personal guarantees.” Deutsche Bank's $630m Russian fine reflects badly on banking | Nils Pratley Read more In the years since then, Deutsche Bank has been hit by scandal after scandal.
(8) He will not have to buy the shares – they are what are termed in the City "nil cost options" – but they will be awarded depending on the firm's financial performance.
(9) The amount of apo TC II produced by six lines of cultured human cells ranged from abundant to nil.
(10) 14C galactose incorporation into the TCA-precipitable material of cultures of fibroblasts deficient in galactokinase (GALK-) was nil.
(11) There were 8 black patients and 5 white; 10 had a biopsy diagnosis of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and 3 nil lesion.
(12) Between December 1981 and December 1988 we treated 160 patients in this way, the mortality in the series being nil.
(13) The opiate receptor antagonist naloxone (1 microM) had no effect on the evoked release of 5-HT from the NIL or NL.
(14) The distribution of the gestagen given with EE revealed by the whole body autoradiography in normal mice were essentially consistent with the radiometric results in rats and that in the pregnant mice showed that the gestagen in fetus was virtually nil under the present conditions.
(15) 5-HT release evoked by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk from the NIL, but not from the isolated neural lobe (NL) was enhanced in the presence of the dopamine receptor antagonist sulpiride (1 microM).
(16) Fertility (fertile eggs per 100 set) and hatchability (live chicks per 100 fertile eggs) were both nil in the borate-treated hens, compared with 57 and 95 and 59 and 100 for the control and aluminate-treated hens, respectively.
(17) In all three cases, jejunal secretion rate of immunoglobulin A was nil and secretion rates of albumin and immunoglobulin G were increased as compared to controls.
(18) Oxytocin levels increased in the paraventricular nucleus and median eminence following NIL-X, whereas vasopressin concentrations were relatively unaffected by NIL-X.
(19) Severe undernourishment was not as effective as diabetes to reduce beta-END stores in the hypothalamus and NIL.
(20) Measurement of anterior and neurointermediate (NIL) pituitary BE-LI, alpha-MSH and ACTH and plasma corticosterone confirmed earlier results showing NIL depletion of all 3 peptides at 24 h and increased plasma corticosterone concentrations at 72 h in ethanol-exposed mice.