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Graff


Definition:

  • (n.) A steward; an overseer.
  • (n. & v.) See Graft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simultaneous production of the label pair employs a continuous flow, mixed-gas target irradiated by the University of Wisconsin tandem Van de Graff accelerator.
  • (2) Black and Fenske have presented a topic that fits in very well with the discussions provided by Dr. Graff concerning overall patient evaluation and the understanding that skin diseases may be external expressions of internal disease.
  • (3) The idea is partly inspired by Arnie Graff the Baltimore-based community activist now working for the Labour party.
  • (4) (Debey, P., Hui Bon Hoa, G., Douzou, P., Godefroy-Colburn, T., Graffe, M., AND Grunberg-Manago, M. (1975) Biochemistry 14, 1553).
  • (5) The influence of the insulin secretagogues, carbachol and glucose, on protein kinase C activation in isolated pancreatic islets has been examined by determination of the phosphorylation state of an endogenous 80-kDa protein substrate of protein kinase C. The islet 80-kDa protein was identified as the myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrate previously described (Stumpo D. J., Graff, J. M., Albert, K. A., Greengard, P., and Blackshear, P. J.
  • (6) "Used well, a residence can be a huge help to advancing a country's interests," says Garrett Graff, editor of the Washingtonian Magazine .
  • (7) In late 2013 one Russian customer visited Graff Diamonds , a top end jewellery store in London’s Bond Street.
  • (8) One thing that I think really radicalised women is when they understood that this could lead to incarceration for women who had miscarriages,” says Agnieszka Graff, a commentator, activist, and author of World without Women: Gender in Polish Public Life.
  • (9) Although phorbol dibutyrate (5 microM) abolished the cholinergic stimulation of IPs generation (Graff et al., 1987), it did not affect the fluoride-induced response.
  • (10) But EU ambassador Laurent Graffe said: "The money is on track.
  • (11) Following a recent spate of stories claiming there is in-fighting in the Labour election team, Alexander denied he had sacked the party's community organiser, Arnie Graff.
  • (12) A previously isolated thermosensitive mutant [Springer, M., Graffe, M. & Grunberg-Manago, M. (6977) Mol.
  • (13) With the aid of a modified form of the 'therapy session check sheet' (TSCS) of Graff and Luborsky, a constellation of low manifest and low positive transference together with high resistance was isolated which was linked with low LCON with a high prediction rate.
  • (14) Speaking in London at a promotional event for the film, Harrison Ford , who plays Colonel Graff in the sci-fi epic, rejected any suggestion that Card's views are relevant to the content of Ender's Game.
  • (15) Jason Graff writes: "The answer to who plays football in the MOST correct fashion will soon have an answer."
  • (16) People were astonished,” said Agnieszka Graff, a commentator and activist.
  • (17) But in Brevik, unlike Mongstad, “we can utilise waste heat from cement factory so we don’t have to add additional heat,” said Oscar Graff, the chief technology officer for Aker Solutions Clean Carbon .
  • (18) Dr. Graff has done something that I have always felt was important, that is to create a list of possible cutaneous lesions presenting on the lower extremities which might be associated with skin problems elsewhere or be manifestations of systemic disease.
  • (19) positivearts.co.uk Nationwide Based in Manchester, but working across the country, Graff Workshop offers a wide variety of workshops, from birthday parties to team bonding days.
  • (20) NaF (5-20 mM) also increased IPs generation (Graff et al., 1987); this effect was potentiated by AlCl3 (10 microM) and unaffected by pertussis toxin.

Gruff


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
  • (2) Ricky Gervais: 'It’s always about people, it’s always about ego' Read more Take the film’s opening minute, in which gruff US comedian Jim Norton cameos as an absurdly camp male prostitute eager to offer radio journalist Frank Bonneville (Eric Bana) a “freebie”.
  • (3) I still am.” For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
  • (4) At the booth in between the never-was of Windsor and the has-been of Detroit, the officer I happened to draw had a gruff belly and the mysterious air of intentional inscrutability, like a troll under a bridge in a fairytale.
  • (5) The then manager was Walter Smith, a gruff but dignified Scot who had enjoyed considerable success at Rangers a decade earlier.
  • (6) Ingham, whose gruffness camouflages an intellect of silken agility, was addressing the specific question of his boss’s public image, and asking, by implication, if the Iron Lady could – well – melt, just a little.
  • (7) The film critic, who says Statham's name with an approximation of his low, gruff cockney, likes the chance the actor took with Hummingbird and also admires his 2011 film Blitz , co-starring Paddy Considine.
  • (8) Many had come for the first time to witness the much-vaunted oratorical skills of France’s youngest MP – and to see how she compared to her grandfather, the gruff former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972 and led it to become the most successful far-right party in western Europe.
  • (9) Get the metal pan!” Martin jokes, aping the Hollywood convention of a gruff doctor dropping each slug into a brass surgical tray with a solid “plink”.
  • (10) Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.
  • (11) His manner was often gruff and rude, even to those he liked: Isabella Blow, (pictured right with McQueen) who was broke when she bought his entire first collection and had to pay for it in installments, told me once how he used to march her to the cashpoint every week to get £50 out.
  • (12) Many of them were adapted for television or made into feature films; the Wexford books in particular were an enormous success on TV, with the actor George Baker playing Wexford as a big, gruff, rural policeman, solving crime in the fictional Sussex town of Kingsmarkham.
  • (13) But his less enthusiastic answer about Bannon comes amid reports of infighting in the Trump White House, all of which place the gruff, irascible Bannon at the center.
  • (14) Jenkins is small, but she has a surprisingly gruff voice, rising to a growl when she is annoyed.
  • (15) "I'm extremely well," he says with jovial gruffness.
  • (16) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
  • (17) His voice sounded gruff, his eyes still fixed on my breasts as he continued the fierce stroking and caressing.
  • (18) The White House did not announce the meeting until late on Thursday, prompting a gruff complaint from Beijing, in what has become something of a diplomatic ritual whenever Obama meets the exiled Buddhist monk.
  • (19) Tens of thousands of west of Scotland men derived a gruff pride in working hard for their money and providing food and shelter for their families.
  • (20) The show has made a star of one year 9 boy, 13-year-old Ryan Ward, a gruff-voiced, latte-drinking philosopher who wants to be a firefighter, a police officer or an actor.

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