(1) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(2) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
(3) Why bow your head to people who will simply bank the genuflection, and then turn on the head of a dime.
(4) Much as they are obliged to set aside a certain number of viewing hours for consideration of matters that pass for religious (to which the British are equally indifferent) they must genuflect before the altar of culture.
(5) Congregations genuflect, Black robes brag gilt epaulettes, Freedom's phantom's gone to heaven, Gay Pride's chained and in detention.
(6) How long before News Corp’s famous summer party is revived as a compulsory opportunity for political genuflection?
(7) There is nothing in our constitution that enjoins us to respect the head of state, or to genuflect before him.
(8) That’s why it was still up last week: not because of heritage (because that’s bunk), but because genuflecting to racists is good politics.
(9) There was Tony, on the banks of the river Jordan, satin robes rippling in the breeze, genuflecting to the most powerful media oligarch on the planet.
(10) Why genuinely powerful people genuflect to people who won't respect them for genuflecting?
(11) But private genuflection is hardly appropriate for a job at the BBC , which we feel we own because we're all obliged to pay for it.
(12) Only one sentence genuflected towards the moral good of the rich and able paying a “fair” share towards our “public services and safety nets”: the real enemy of morality was the principle of taxation itself.
(13) It starts out as a religious hymn, then mutates into something Sex Pistols-esque, the women kneeling, genuflecting, crossing themselves, jumping up and down and, after a few seconds, being intercepted by security guards and led away.
(14) Received wisdom still holds that you can’t run for president as a Republican without genuflecting to the evangelical base.
(15) Watching footage of the event, it is clear which way the deference is flowing: while the Beatles are relaxed and joshing, Wilson seems tense and genuflective.
(16) Any hope that Bowie the icon might induce genuflection among the referendum don't-knows was instantly dashed on Twitter.
(17) Since then, capturing the "centre ground" has often meant genuflecting to an incorrigibly reactionary "middle".
(18) He genuflected to the concept of moderation, refrained from naming any country that Iran considered averse to its interests, and the word "enemy" was missing altogether.
(19) Times Square : where jingoists go to cheer the deaths of terrorists, tourists go to genuflect at the might of American advertising and where, last night, an even broader demographic turned out to watch the 66th Tony awards, aka "Broadway's big night" or, as host Neil Patrick Harris termed it, "50 shades of gay" .
(20) So why do so many people still genuflect in its direction?
Prostate
Definition:
(a.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra.
(n.) The prostate gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(2) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(3) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
(4) In a final experiment, prostatic atrophy in castrate rats was not enhanced by either adrenalectomy or flutamide treatment.
(5) Newer modalities, such as TRUS and PSA, can identify patients with nonpalpable prostate cancer, but the use of these tests will also result in many false-positives.
(6) Cytochrome P-450 was partially purified from microsomes of whole brain, hypothalamus, and prostate and 3 beta-diol OHase activity reconstituted.
(7) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(8) Thirty six fresh surgical specimens were collected from patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.
(9) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(10) Conversely, in 18 out of 21 hyperplastic prostates, 5 alpha-reductase activity was higher than 3 alpha (beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity.
(11) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
(12) 5 alpha-Reductase is necessary for the metabolism of testosterone (T) to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and is found in high levels only in certain tissues such as the prostate.
(13) Thus, prostate tissues of mice can be a potential source of horizontally transmitted mammary tumor virus in mice of at least some high mammary cancer strains.
(14) Management in pregnant females or in males with indwelling catheters or before prostatic surgery presents special problems.
(15) SCH 13521 definitely interfered with the localization of the radioactivity of these steroids in the prostate and indicated a competitive situation between SCH 13521 and the steroids.
(16) Estramustine phosphate may be given safely for a prolonged period and has a place in the treatment of advanced prostatic cancer refractory to hormonal therapy.
(17) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.
(18) The aim of the present investigation was to establish whether in advanced prostatic carcinoma in relapse treated with LHRH analogues combined with cyproterone acetate (CPA), substitution of this antiandrogen with another compound such as flutamide (FLU) might lead to further subjective and objective improvement.
(19) Medium from other cultured human cells (prostate fibroblasts, genitourinary tumor and non-tumor cells), as well as control medium, contained less than 1 ng.
(20) A multicenter randomized clinical trial was carried out between May, 1986 and May, 1987 involving 82 patients with stage B-D prostatic carcinoma from 29 centers.