(1) On 2 June 2011, Smith wants to let Michel know he is taking a lot of flak for News Corp.
(2) Yorkshire swine were anesthetized and their flanks were protected by flak jackets.
(3) One theory is that he saw the direction of travel of the talks, and did not want to receive the flak from the press for agreeing to the terms of the regulatory regime, including the legislative lock on the charter.
(4) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(5) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
(6) Gwynnie may come in for constant flak from the media, but when she's peddling a £200 coat for kids and claiming to be intolerant to dairy, gluten, wheat, corn and oats, you can start to see why.
(7) Gareth Johnson: ‘Tourism can change perceptions and prejudices’ We get a lot of flak for taking tourists into North Korea, criticism we’ve received online ranges from reasonable debate to name calling and threats.
(8) Bumpy flight for Mr Airfix as he encounters blue-on-blue flak Read more Fallon was also warned by the senior Tory backbencher Alan Duncan that he needed to do more to inform parliament of his intentions, implicitly suggesting Fallon should not have tried to circumvent parliament.
(9) While fracking has the clear support of the prime minister, the UK's renewable power industry faces more flak than support from the Tory half of the coalition.
(10) Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, who works for the Hong Kong-based Initium media group, was held briefly on 23 August after trying to leave from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport with a flak jacket and helmet in his hand luggage.
(11) Thus far, Spotify has been fielding most of the flak on this issue, but the entry into the market of Google – given that separate debate on its approach towards piracy sites in its search rankings – may draw some of the fire.
(12) But it will earn him a lot of flak from pensioners and other savers relying on fixed incomes.
(13) I remember how much flak Helen Kirwan-Taylor got for admitting to being bored by her kids [in a piece for the Daily Mail in 2006].
(14) Met officers worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service during the investigation, which went to the heart of Tony Blair's administration, and as they dodged the flak flying their way, became increasingly confident there would be charges.
(15) Maxim, a pro-Russian activist who refused to give his last name, told the Associated Press that he and other activists had been camping out overnight outside the local parliament in Crimea’s regional capital, Simferopol, when heavily armed men wearing flak jackets, and holding rocket-propelled grenade launchers and sniper rifles took over the building.
(16) So [Sterling's comments] didn't shock me as much as it would have had I not experienced that personally, had I not seen those things.” He added: “It showed me that America still had some progress to make … it just seems like a lot of people gave [Sterling] a lot of flak, well deserved, but you know – I feel like a lot more people were surprised than they should have been."
(17) I’m not confessing … I don’t think that a flak jacket is a weapon and I definitely didn’t know it was illegal here,” he said.
(18) Maude is also right that elected ministers should not devolve controversial decisions out of squeamishness – although I note the Independent Reconfiguration Panel , set up so health ministers wouldn't have to take flak about merging hospitals in their own or colleagues' constituencies, stays.
(19) You get accused of being egotistical and thinking of the brand of 'The Great LeBron' as an individual - but you took a lot of flak for saying you wanted to be part of a team with other great players I know exactly what you mean.
(20) Since then, our community has served as a lightning conductor for anti-anti-fracking flak put out by shale gas cheerleaders in government and the onshore oil and gas exploration industry.
Flan
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
(2) We speculate that the flbG and flaN promoters and the ftr element interact in some way to mediate the negative control of these divergent transcription units.
(3) The flbG (hook operon), flaN, and flagellin gene operons, which are at the lowest levels of the hierarchy and expressed late in the cell cycle, contain Ntr-like promoters.
(4) As shown here, this cluster is organized into four multicistronic transcription units flaN, flbG, flaO, and flbF that contain fla genes plus a fifth transcription unit II.1 of unknown function.
(5) Press the dough evenly into the base and sides of two loose-bottomed flan tins or ovenproof dishes (this amount makes enough for one 25cm diameter tin and one 20cm diameter tin).
(6) 2 Once chilled, roll the pastry out on a piece of baking parchment so that it is large enough to line the base and sides of a 20cm-diameter cake or flan tin (I used a round loose-bottomed cake tin).
(7) Three flagellar genes of Salmonella typhimurium (flaAII.2, flaQ, and flaN) were found to be multifunctional, each being associated with four distinct mutant phenotypes: nonflagellate (Fla-), paralyzed (Mot-), nonchemotactic (Che-) with clockwise motor bias, and nonchemotactic (Che-) with counterclockwise motor bias.
(8) The flaN, flbG, and flaO operons are all transcribed periodically, and flaO, which is near the top of the hierarchy and required in trans for the activation of flaN and flbG operons, is expressed earlier in the cell cycle than the other two transcription units.
(9) The deletions were then used in an analysis of (i) the relative position on the genome of previously described mutant loci in the flagellar genes, (ii) the relative position of a newly defined cistron, flaN, and (iii) the orientation and direction of transcription of genes previously assigned to multicistronic transcriptional units.
(10) By contrast, most of these flbG promoter mutations resulted in greatly elevated levels of transcription from the opposing flaN operon.
(11) Mice were inoculated with St. Louis encephalitis (SLE), Flanders (FLAN), California (CE), or Tensaw (TEN) viruses.
(12) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
(13) Infective virus appeared 64, 48, 48, and 40 hr before signs of illness and 90, 86, 64, and 56 hr before death in mice inoculated with SLE, FLAN, CE, and TEN viruses, respectively.
(14) Deletion of all or part of the ftr element or point mutations in the sequence drastically reduced the level of flbG transcript and resulted in increased levels of the flaN transcript.
(15) Similar experiments were used to confirm the location of the flaN promoter to a -12, -24 Nif and Ntr sequence motif.
(16) The flaAII.2, flaQ, and flaN genes of Salmonella typhimurium are important for assembly, rotation, and counterclockwise-clockwise switching of the flagellar motor.
(17) There's a bowling green, giant games of chess and dominoes, plus a tea room dishing up summery flans, chutneys, jam and cakes made from ingredients grown in the kitchen garden.
(18) Cath cooked a lovely risotto, which was followed by a goat's cheese flan and a salad made by Jo.
(19) We eat steak and lamb with ratatouille, finished off with dolce de leche flan, chosen from a hand-written menu and washed down with large gobletfuls of Uruguayan merlot.
(20) The flbG (hook operon or transcription unit II) and flaN (transcription unit I) operons of Caulobacter crescentus have a -12, -24 nucleotide sequence motif that is very similar to those of the Nif and Ntr promoters of enteric bacteria and Rhizobium spp.