(1) An offer of help from handyman service The_Multiman – "#riotcleanup if you have a shop or home that has been affected my handymen will volunteer in our spare time to help with any repairs!
(2) But there are also smaller changes, which cost the local authority little but can have a big impact in terms of how secure care leavers feel, such as a visit from a handyman when they move into their own home, to help them put up curtain poles and other such tasks – typically the role of a parent.
(3) In May an Israeli employment court awarded compensation to a former handyman in the prime minister’s home, accepting the worker’s claims of abusive terms of employment by Sara Netanyahu.
(4) His gift of writing supple, salty dialogue for working-class characters was similarly displayed in Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt (1976-77), a series developed from his own single play and starring Bill Maynard as the inept handyman with the thumbs-up catchphrase "Magic!"
(5) Sidney Poitier blazed a trail in the 60s for Lilies of the Field , winning best actor for his role as a handyman helping a group of nuns build a chapel in the desert.
(6) He now works as a handyman for the council, and his wife, Omkeltoum, is expecting another child.
(7) Angel Figueroa, 46, a Guatemalan former handyman, boasted of knowing Los Angeles “like the palm of my hand” but feared he would never see it or his children again.
(8) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
(9) Services offered include housekeeping, transportation, yard care, and handyman services.
(10) On leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery.
(11) Casey Affleck won best actor for his portray of a grieving handyman in Manchester by the Sea, seeing off Denzel Washington, who had been tipped for a third Oscar for Fences.
(12) Duque now works as a handyman and his wife assists him.
(13) My plan was to live in a bread delivery van that I’d converted and offer people handyman services in return for payment in kind.
(14) Carlos, a self-employed handyman, reacted to his son's death by setting fire to himself inside a van, suffering severe burns.
(15) Kelly Frank, who worked as a handyman on the ranch, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Licorice
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.
(n.) The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and for medicinal purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The favorable effects of up to 25% toasted soybean meal and 3% licorice root extract on the levels of the four enzymes, without unfavorable changes in clinical parameters, might account in part for the chemopreventive activities of these additives.
(2) Among chemically defined natural polyphenols, condensed tannins (epicatechin gallate oligomers) and monomeric and oligomeric hydrolyzable tannins potently stimulated PMN iodination, whereas polyphenols of lower molecular weight (gallic acid, alkyl gallates, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin, caffeic acid derivatives and licorice flavonoids) had much less activity.
(3) Neither licorice nor glycyrrhizin promoted growth or induced plaque formation.
(4) Exchangeable sodium in our patient with licorice-induced hypertension was increased to a comparable extent as in primary hyperaldosteronism.
(5) As a first step to elucidate the disposition of traditional Chinese formulations which contain licorice, the disposition of plain licorice was investigated in humans.
(6) The contents of three saponins in Chinese Licorice roots derived from four Glycyrrhiza species were determined.
(7) To clarify whether glycyrrhizin, the aqueous extract of licorice root and a drug for treatment of chronic active hepatitis, prevents the development of hepatic injury induced by carbon tetrachloride, allyl formate, and endotoxin, the present study was undertaken in rats.
(8) Testing of the therapeutic efficacy of Remefa S, a pharmaceutical comprising glycyrrhizinic acid, the major active substance of licorice, on the evolution of the disease in late chronic viral hepatitis B.
(9) The formation of glycyrrhizin, the main triterpene glucuronide of the licorice root, was not detected among the biotransformation products.
(10) The major effect of licorice intoxication is hypokalemia, which may explain most of the observed clinical symptoms and morphological changes.
(11) Glycyrrhizinates such as monoammonium and dipotassium glycyrrhizinates which are extracted from licorice, converted to easily water-soluble salts and refined have been formulated in many quasi-drug products as an anti-inflammatory agent.
(12) The anti-allergic activity of bryonolic acid (1) isolated from the cultured cells of Luffa cylindrica L. (Cucurbitaceae) was compared with that of glycyrrhetinic acid (2), the aglycone of glycyrrhizin from licorice.
(13) Isoliquiritigenin, glabridin, licoarylcoumarin and licoricidin were identified as strong inhibitors of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) phosphodiesterase in waste materials which were obtained during the industrial extraction of glycyrrhizin from licorice roots.
(14) The results are summarized as follows: 1) Oral administration of 0.5 g of Ko-ken-huang-lien-huang-chin-tang (pueraria, coptis, scute and licorice combination) to piglets at 1 day old was effective in reducing incidence of infection (P less than 0.1) and increasing the body weight gain (P less than 0.05) during the first 10 days of life.
(15) Volatile components of two foodstuffs with characteristic aromas, apple and licorice, and fecal samples obtained from subjects on high-apple and licorice diets, were analyzed by head-space gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometer.
(16) The mechanism was studied by which isoliquiritigenin, a new aldose reductase inhibitor purified from licorice (Glycyrrhizae radix), inhibits platelet aggregation.
(17) The effects of glycyrrhizin, a component of licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) roots, on the production of interferon-gamma in human peripheral lymphocyte-macrophage cultures by concanavalin A (Con A) was examined.
(18) The importance of licorice-induced hypokalemia for the development of arrhythmias is underestimated from the small number of published cases.
(19) We conclude that patients with a predisposition for arrhythmias should avoid licorice candies.
(20) The effect of glycyrrhizin (GR), a Chinese herbal drug extracted from licorice roots, on the host resistance to tumors was investigated in a murine system.