(n.) A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You do not make PSB stronger by weakening the BBC," said Graf.
(2) Ultimately, Graf says, the question of what will happen to the 11 million or so undocumented workers still in the country will resolve itself.
(3) The quote was taken from a 19th-century German field marshal, Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke: “No operation extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main body of the enemy.” In terms of Brexit negotiations, it means that there is no way of knowing in advance how things are going to turn out when article 50 is triggered.
(4) The v-myb oncogene of the acute avian leukemia virus E26 encodes a transcription factor that directly regulates the promyelocyte-specific mim-1 gene (Ness, S.A., Marknell, A. and Graf, T. Cell, 59, 1115-1125).
(5) If she does complete a sweep of all four majors, she joins Graf on 22 slam titles, the most of the modern era, and just two behind Margaret Court’s all-time record.
(6) Sonography was employed to evaluate the accuracy of congenital hip dysplasia in 1014 cases, using Graf's methodology and classification in neonatal and infant age.
(7) Graf said that the idea of partnerships - such as technology sharing and bolstering regional and local news by other broadcasters - raised the question of when "amiable cooperation becomes anti-competitive cartel".
(8) The accuracy of our anterior method of sonography in diagnosing congenital dislocation of the hip compared well with the method of Graf and with radiography.
(9) He performed the examinations and evaluated the sonograms using the method provided by Graf.
(10) Perhaps the most radical of Graf's proposals was his call for open primaries, meaning that Labour's candidate would be selected by the area's population as a whole, rather than just its members.
(11) According to Graf, Miliband was engaged with all of these suggestions, but massive obstacles remain.
(12) All US examinations were performed within the first week of life and the 2842 hips classified according to Graf.
(13) In contrast to conventional hip sonography, the use of a sector transducer is meaningful with this method, since the drawbacks of the sector transducer stated by Graf, do not apply.
(14) Having used the methods of Graf and Harcke, they devised a new scan which always reveals the state of the limbus in neonatal congenital dysplasia.
(15) Democrats believe having Graf as their opponent will make it easier for them to win back the constituency.
(16) Greek debt crisis: Tsipras urges MPs to back bailout plan - live Read more Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, vice-president of the European parliament and a member of Germany’s liberal FDP, said he believed there were notable omissions in the Greek submission.
(17) 1.01pm GMT Speed skating We’re down to the last three pairs, with Olga Graf still leading.
(18) The procedure is outlined and results of screening examinations of 2,000 newborn hips according to the classification of Graf are presented.
(19) Apart from the standard examination in the frontal plane after Graf they examined on principle also the ultrasonographic stability by the dynamic test after Schuler as well as by the application of the probe anteriorly with the simultaneous provocation according to Palmén.
(20) Graf's technique, besides being at present the only reproducible one, represents a method common to all radiologist which allows hip measuring and staging.
Gram
Definition:
(a.) Angry.
(n.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.
(n.) Alt. of Gramme
Example Sentences:
(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(3) Control incubations revealed an inherent difference between the two substrates; gram-positive supernatants consistently contained 5% radioactivity, whereas even at 0 h, those from the gram-negative mutant released 22%.
(4) In gram positive organisms, the concordance was lower only for the differentiation between group D streptococci and enterococci.
(5) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(6) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(7) Since resistance is mainly mediated by R plasmids, we undertook to investigate the characteristics of R plasmid-determined beta-lactamase in 6 Gram-negative rods.
(8) The test organisms included 218 gram-negative fermentative clinical isolates.
(9) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
(10) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
(11) The compounds favored the development of bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas and inhibited the growth of all other gram-negative bacteria.
(12) The antibiotic was effective against Gram-positive bacteria, fungi and yeasts, and prolonged the life span of mice bearing Ehrlich ascites carcinoma.
(13) Nine of the children had at least one positive Limulus assay, and eight of this group had bacteriologic cultures indicative of gram-negative infection.
(14) More Gram-positive infections are now being reported and the sensitivity of the causative organisms varies.
(15) We treated 51 patients diagnosed as having chronic bacterial prostatitis (gram-negative) with 2 ml.
(16) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(17) For further characterization of EC-GRAM the A431 cell line was used.
(18) Cure rates for nosocomial pneumonias from gram-negative bacilli treated with these 2 therapies also were similar (70% versus 60%, respectively).
(19) The experience illustrates the danger of assuming that all pneumococcus peritonitis is the primary variety and the advisability of routine Gram stain of the peritoneal fluid at operation in order to select the appropriate antibiotic.
(20) These results support the idea that P. aeruginosa may be a more permissive host than E. coli for the heterologous expression of genes from gram-negative bacteria.