(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Her mother-in-law said at the time: "Grandpa would never have bought a car, but a field."
(3) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(4) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(5) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(6) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(7) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(8) Michael Douglas is the red carpet grandpa and it is lovely.
(9) Crazy grandpa is Frank (Frank Langella), a sometime jewel thief now losing his memory.
(10) I bought the ox cheeks and veg there, along with some red wine from a grandpa.
(11) The Munsters, a 1960s CBS series in black and white, focused on a family of comical horror movie parodies including Herman, who looked like Frankenstein's monster, and Grandpa, a Dracula lookalike.
(12) One key factor is that trips to the cinema in India are a family experience: if a film can appeal to Mum, Dad, Granny, Grandpa, teens and the little'uns then it's logical to assume the box office takings will benefit.
(13) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
(14) But this is a real muscle-up to grandpa’s way,” said Cheek.
(15) Then her adoptive parents Hans and Rosa ( Geoffrey Rush , all twinkly grandpa, and Emily Watson , super-grouchy but with a heart of gold) take in and hide the Jewish son of the man who saved Hans's life in the Great War.
(16) She was like: 'Why would they not take care of crazy grandpa?
(17) For decades, the sun-soaked south of France was the heartland of “Grandpa” Le Pen, who built up an electoral base here in the early 1990s.
(18) Grandpa Bill isn't wacky, he's just a decent, well-grounded man."
(19) In truth, I don’t really understand it because I don’t feel if people were sitting down to interview Bradley Cooper they’d be like ‘let’s talk about [his flops] Aloha and Burnt’, or if they were sitting down with Robert De Niro, ‘let’s talk about Dirty Grandpa’ – and that feels sort of different with me.
(20) Starting out as a boy apprentice in the Glasgow optical engineering firm Barr and Stroud, Grandpa eventually became managing director.
Pa
Definition:
(n.) A shortened form of Papa.
Example Sentences:
(1) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(2) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(3) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(4) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(5) We have shown that human monocytes can synthesize both urokinase-type PA (u-PA) and tissue-type PA (t-PA).
(6) A variant t-PA (G K1 K2 P), which contained only one of the two fibrin binding sites, i.e.
(7) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(8) Proper function of proteinases such as PA may require focusing of activity on a cellular level.
(9) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(10) A similar concentration of estradiol had no effect on PA activity of the myocytes.
(11) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in plasma, is a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that forms a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with its target proteinase leading to the formation of a stable inactive complex.
(12) In 130 patients, who were considered to be anti-HTLV-I positive or negative by the PA method, we compared the anti-HTLV-I detection rates and the specificity of the following three EIA methods: the Ei-test ATL and two new EIA methods using different recombinant antigens which recognize different sites.
(13) Plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-I) rapidly inactivates tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and urokinase (UK) with nearly identical association rate constants.
(14) Heart block occurred in 214 patients (12%); 113 (6.3%) had heart block on presentation and 101 (5.7%) developed heart block in the 24 h after treatment with rt-PA.
(15) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
(16) In testing the hypothesis that Lp(a) can competitively inhibit plasma clot lysis mediated by plasmin, the present study shows that Lp(a) significantly enhanced plasma clot lysis mediated by streptokinase or t-PA.
(17) The in vivo hepatic lipid peroxide content of rats was increased by aspirin or 4-pentenoic acid (4-PA) administration but was decreased by clofibrate (CPIB) administration.
(18) The predominant u-PA binding protein isolated from whole cell detergent extracts migrated with a molecular mass of approximately 36 Kd using affinity chromatography.
(19) These studies demonstrate that alpha-thrombin is a potent stimulus for human PLD-mediated PA formation and that cyclic adenosine nucleotides modulate agonist-induced cellular PLD activity.
(20) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.