(n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
(v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia's strongman garners tacit support, and even some quiet plaudits, from some of the world's most important emerging powers, starting with China and India.
(2) This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric Garner, and a thousand stories in between.
(3) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
(4) Named after one Nobel laureate and directed by another, it’s garnered support from some of the biggest names in science.
(5) Garner, 43, died on 17 July as he was put in a chokehold – a procedure that has been banned in the force since 1993 – by officer Daniel Pantaleo, and was heard on video footage of the arrest saying, “I can’t breathe”.
(6) Few details are currently known, but this police murder is in the same vein as what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, and Dontre Hamilton in Milwaukee,” the group said in a Facebook post .
(7) Soaring SNP membership, at 103,000, would be equivalent to a UK-wide Labour or Tory party garnering 1.2 million supporters.
(8) She’s handling it very well,” Garner-Snipes replies.
(9) She has already started her rounds of the constituencies to garner support, and has profited from Johnson’s indecision on whether he would or would not return to parliament.
(10) Specific questions garnered information about practices in interviewing children and accused adults, assessment protocols, criteria used to substantiate the allegations, and factors that might distort children's responses.
(11) The show has shrugged off the bonds of mere TV, and garnered a cultural presence rarely seen since the shows of the 1970s – the so-called “golden age” of television.
(12) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.
(13) "This information has been instrumental in garnering the attention of the citizens of the world who expressed solidarity with those suppressed individuals and may even put pressure on their own governments to react.
(14) If Eric Garner’s killer can’t be indicted, what cop possibly could?
(15) An overcome Esaw Garner was escorted from the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, which was packed with hundreds of people.
(16) And this week, at a summit of police and religious leaders convened by De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, he drew a sharp contrast between the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson with the peaceful protests that have marked Garner’s death.
(17) Sure, they have watered-down, sexualized soaps such as Teen Wolf and the TV version of 90s slasher flick Scream, but Scream’s premiere garnered only a million viewers, compared to 10.1 million for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead .
(18) … Like that in any way mitigates what was done to him.” Sharpton said police tried to taint Garner’s image after his death by quickly releasing his arrest record.
(19) She loves the story of A Lion Called Christian - a two-minute film clip relating to the 35-year-old book and documentary that became an international phenomenon last year, garnering 44m hits on YouTube.
(20) In footage of the moments leading up to the chokehold , Garner is heard telling police: “Every time you see me, you wanna harass me, you wanna stop me … I’m minding my business, officer.” Garner repeatedly complained that he could not breathe when Pantaleo had him in a chokehold.
Promote
Definition:
(v. t.) To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
(v. t.) To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.
(v. i.) To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(4) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(5) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
(6) The effects of hormonal promotion of T24-ras oncogene-transfected rat embryo fibroblasts (REF) were compared to cotransformation of these cells with adenovirus E1A and ras.
(7) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(8) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(9) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(10) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(11) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(12) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(13) Tumor promoting phorbol esters (1-1000 nM) could also inhibit PGE2 stimulated cAMP production dose dependently.
(14) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
(15) The 21K peptide had little direct effect on the selection of promoters in vitro as measured by this technique, but it dramatically increased the translatability of the product.
(16) It was found that these Hageman factor fragments promoted rapid proteolysis of one-chain factor VII to a more active two-chain form.
(17) As a result, trnK is under the control of the psbA promoter in this species and has therefore acquired psbA-like expression characteristics.
(18) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(19) One promoter factors is identical to u-EBP-E, an enhancer binding protein.
(20) Endogeneous satellite cells in skeletal muscle regenerating from bupivacaine damage were infected with an injected retrovirus containing the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene under the promoter control of the Moloney murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat.