(n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
(n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
(n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
(n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
(n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
(4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
(5) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(6) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
(7) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(8) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
(9) But, as the latest Atlantic fury advances on these islands, it looks too little too late.
(10) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
(11) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
(12) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
(13) Tyson Fury: what next for Britain's new heavyweight boxing champion?
(14) The power of Murdoch himself can best be seen by the speed and fury of Tory MPs ready to criticise the Google tax deal even after George Osborne described it as a “major success”.
(15) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
(16) But what I will say is that if you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so.
(17) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
(18) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(19) The IBF has stripped Tyson Fury of his world heavyweight title on account of his failure to defend the belt against the mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, instead choosing a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko , whom the Briton beat on 28 November.
(20) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
Ire
Definition:
(n.) Anger; wrath.
Example Sentences:
(1) An insulin response element (IRE) has been identified in the prolactin gene using chimeric plasmids in which prolactin promoter DNA directs expression of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene.
(2) The lability of the Fe-S cluster in mitochondrial aconitase has led us to propose that the mechanism by which iron levels are sensed by the IRE-BP involves changes in an Fe-S cluster in the IRE-BP.
(3) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(4) In a prospective, blinded trial, 40 healthy adult subjects using six IRED thermometers with two techniques were examined in random sequence.
(5) On Wednesday, the ire of the marchers was focused on all those Lib Dems who blithely signed the NUS's anti-fees pledge ("I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative" – yesterday, Nick Clegg limply said that he "should have been more careful" than to put his name to it).
(6) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
(7) A deletion and reconstitution study was undertaken to address the possibility that regions of the ferritin gene and mRNA other than the IRE may be necessary for the production of the full range of iron regulation.
(8) Her predecessor, Nick Robinson, attracted similar ire by upsetting Scottish nationalists .
(9) Interestingly, the FRP which remains active at a given hemin concentration binds to the IRE with the same high affinity as untreated FRP.
(10) The results strongly suggest that HCV RNA carries an internal ribosome entry site (IRES).
(11) Among the 17 pancreatic cancer patients with elevated IRE, 10 underwent radical resection of the cancer but in none of the five patients with normal serum IRE could radical resection be carried out.
(12) In addition, a poor sequence context around AUG-11 results in increased initiation at one or more downstream AUG codons, indicative of leaky scanning or jumping by the ribosome from AUG-11 mediated by the EMCV IRES.
(13) Amino acid alignments reveal that the IRE-BP is 30% identical to mitochondrial aconitase.
(14) Regulation in both instances is mediated by binding of a cytosolic protein to the IREs.
(15) Binding of the IRE-BP represses ferritin translation and represses degradation of the TfR mRNA.
(16) Yet in doing so it presents an angled mirror-polished cliff face of glass, which has been reflecting the sun straight across into the Lloyds offices across the road – the seminal "inside-out" machine that Rogers designed 30 years earlier – much to the ire of its tenants.
(17) The nations with the highest recorded levels include Colombia, Uganda, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with the south Asian countries in particular producing unforgettable images of disfigured women who have been assaulted with acid because they have rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals, or aroused jealousy, or in some way or other inconvenienced the patriarchy and aroused its ire.
(18) Artificial mono- and dicistronic mRNAs were prepared and used to identify the region that carried the IRES.
(19) Two melanotic human melanoma cell lines, IRE 1 and IRE 2, and the lymphoma- and leukaemia-derived cell lines Raji and K 562, were exposed to different concentrations (from 5 X 10(-3) M to 10(-5) M) of phenols, both substrates (s) and non-substrates (ns) of tyrosinase, in the presence or absence of the oxygen-radical-scavenger enzymes superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase.
(20) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.