(1) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(2) In comparison with the controls, the isoproterenol-treated (Group A), the Ca-treated (Group B), and the diltiazem-posttreated (Groups E and F) showed severe myocardial cell damage, such as sarcolemmal disruption, mitochondrial swelling, intramitochondrial electron-dense granules, membranous structures along mitochondrial cristae, thickening or close packing of the Z-lines, separation of cell junctions, frayed myofibrils, clumping of chromatin, and intracellular fluid accumulation.
(3) Carefully pull the frayed seam over the original seam line and pin in place.
(4) Miliband steps back into the fray as ex-Labour MP Chris Mullin said the party should bring back "grown ups" such as ex-chancellor Alistair Darling, while Tony Blair's former spin chief Alastair Campbell said Labour had made a mistake by failing to defend Gordon Brown's economic record.
(5) De Blasio and Bratton have promised to mend the frayed relations between police officers and the city's minority communities.
(6) Failing to get her voice heard above the fray is the biggest danger.
(7) On the frayed, far south-western outskirts of Bogotá, the largest, poorest and most violent barrio in the Colombian capital stretches into the haze up the mountainside as far as the eye can see.
(8) But when I check in a week later, at the height of the expenses storm, the optimism is sounding a tad frayed.
(9) These included torn or frayed menisci and those which were displaced, usually in a mesial direction.
(10) The shops on Main Street were mostly empty, paint fraying on the window panes.
(11) The fraying may be a consequence of proteolytic processing of the precursor of the inhibitor protein during entry into the mitochondrion.
(12) Relations between the bank and the Cambodian government have frayed over plans by a property developer to fill in a lake in the middle of Phnom Penh to build luxury flats and high-end shops.
(13) The Al Ahly ultras say they will rejoin the fray when the time is right.
(14) If you only have an 20cm tin you can use that instead, but don't use all the batter – about 80% will suffice – otherwise you'll end up with a volcanic overspill, cake soldered to the floor of the oven and a frayed temper.
(15) Laszlo Andor, the EU's employment commissioner, warned that record unemployment and fraying welfare systems in southern Europe risk creating a new divide in the continent.
(16) But we may be permitted to hope there is now a chance that something of the old Canada, committed to moderation and multiculturalism at home and to multilateralism and cooperation abroad, will re-emerge from the fray.
(17) Type II alveolar cells increased in number and showed vacuolization, fraying and membrane disruption of their lamellar inclusions.
(18) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(19) Now that Obama has thrown the dice and joined the fray in Syria, Britain will feel increasing pressure to do more to help.
(20) Both dyed and undyed sutures were consistently better than surgical gut with respect to pliability, strength, ease of passage, ease of tying, fraying, knot security, and overall handling.
Threadbare
Definition:
(a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
(a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, due for renewal next year, was "threadbare" and that the existing nuclear powers would be in a much better position to tell non-nuclear countries not to develop weapons if they pursued deep cuts in their stockpiles.
(2) However, Australia are a threadbare side with absolutely nothing about them.
(3) Substitute Felipe Pardo scores twice as Olympiakos beat Dinamo Zagreb Read more Wenger’s options on the bench looked threadbare; Bayern’s rather less so and Pep Guardiola was able to introduce Robben in the 54th minute.
(4) The 57-year-old, working with a threadbare squad which contained just eight players and no senior goalkeeper when the pre-season friendlies started , has publicly questioned the club’s transfer policy on a number of occasions.
(5) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
(6) It is the point where the already threadbare veil of "meritocracy" falls off to reveal a fiscal system designed to reward already concentrated pots of wealth.
(7) With Tom Huddlestone, Jermaine Jenas, David Bentley and Danny Rose all unfit too, Tottenham's midfield has a threadbare look.
(8) But the reaction leaves BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s assertion that his policy is having its intended effects looking increasingly threadbare.
(9) Most of it is pretty threadbare, especially since photos exist of Boris and Zac with some of the same people.
(10) Pellegrini had criticised Uefa for allowing the match to go ahead on a threadbare pitch that he described as "unbelievable".
(11) 2007: It snapped up Coley Pharmaceutical of the US for a relatively modest $164m in order to boost Pfizer's threadbare pipeline of new drugs.
(12) [A few months ago, I signed a letter with Monbiot and others to British Prime Minister David Cameron, arguing that environmentalists were dressing up their doctrinaire technophobic opposition to all things nuclear behind scaremongering and often threadbare arguments about cost.
(13) The shutdown has closed national parks, museums and monuments, and reduced many government departments and agencies to a threadbare staff.
(14) 5.03pm BST 1 min: The pitch is threadbare but also unnaturally green - a jarring combo.
(15) The threadbare agreement thrashed out last night has not even laid the foundations.
(16) This was not the home debut David Moyes had hoped for when he succeeded Sam Allardyce last month but Sunderland’s new manager deserves praise for making the best of some extremely threadbare resources.
(17) Since I arrived in the Netherlands last December, I did not get any money to buy a single item of clothing,” says Fahmi, still making do with a threadbare jacket and boots given to him by the Red Cross in Hungary.
(18) Some professors hold on to their careers for dear tenure, eking out threadbare research material and desperately placing articles in whichever journal will take them.
(19) Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.
(20) Not bad for an entrepreneur who recalls helping his mum colour in the pattern on the family's threadbare carpets with oil paints when he was a child.