(n.) A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.49pm BST Nadim Houri, deputy director for the Middle East at Human Rights Watch, tweets an image of the mother of Mohammad Abu Khdair, the victim of the apparent revenge attack.
(2) The UN security council should, with an ICC [international criminal court] referral, send a clear message that cover-ups and government impunity won’t stand in the way of justice for victims.” Nadim Houry, deputy director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa , said: "These are the areas that we were told about by witnesses.
(3) In an attempt to find a reproducible method of total splenopancreatectomy (TSP) with duodenal loop conservation in rats, we used the technique recently described by S. Houry and M. Huguier (Eur.
(4) Mr Houry says he has evidence that tens of thousands of Syrians have been arbitrarily detained over the months.
(5) "It's rampant," says Nadim Houry , the Beirut-based deputy director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa, who has taken testimony on hundreds of cases of torture from Syria, "and, the odds are, if you're detained, you will be ill treated and most likely tortured.
(6) We will continue to press for action on all human rights violations in Syria, and for accountability for those who perpetrate them.” Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch said his organisation had not had the opportunity to authenticate the images.
(7) So far, Russia is refusing to even name the culprit, while the US condemns but otherwise tolerates Assad’s ongoing violation of global norms against chemical warfare.” Houry said HRW is pushing for a mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the chlorine attacks and impose sanctions on the culprits, a step that has been resisted by Russia, which backs Assad.
(8) They come from the book by Mr Planque, M.D., entitled: "Selected Medical Library, from periodical publications, French as well as Foreign", published in Paris in 1748, by D'Houry senior, publisher and bookseller of His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, rue de la Vieille Boucherie.
(9) Nadim Houry (@nadimhoury) Because Palestinian mothers also grieve but rarely get attention.
(10) We’ve been calling CDC for some time to try to make some of these other treatments widely available so we could reduce the need for opioids.” In a statement, Deb Houry, the CDC’s director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, responded that the guidance “does acknowledge cost and access as real barriers to a broader array of therapies” and that the agency is committed to working with federal partners to strengthen coverage of non-pharmacologic treatments.
(11) "Declarations by opposition groups that they want to respect human rights are important, but the real test is how opposition forces behave," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at HRW.
(12) Obama’s history on chlorine is wrong,” said Nadim Houry, Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for the Middle East and north Africa.
(13) And if al-Assad was to attempt to stop all this, could he, I asked Nadim Houry.
Nymph
Definition:
(n.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
(n.) A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.
(n.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
(n.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.
Example Sentences:
(1) A relationship between the level of sterility induced by juvenoids and reductions in nymph-to-adult ratios permitted formulation of a biological action threshold for regulating treatment.
(2) After molting, resulting nymphs (n = 74) were fed on susceptible mice.
(3) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
(4) It was found to remain intact until at least 11, 30 and 10 days after repletion in larvae, nymphs and females, respectively.
(5) The mayfly nymphs, Habrophlebia lauta Eaton and H. fusca (Curtis) were found to serve as experimental intermediate hosts.
(6) Extremely high concentrations of Vg were observed in the hemolymph of female nymphs (fourth instar), particularly engorged nymphs, treated with CyM (10 micrograms).
(7) Nymphs produced by the interrupted larval feeding method feed well on cattle, in regard to timing of detachment and weight, compared with nymphs produced by interrupted feeding on rabbits.
(8) The accumulating process and concentration ratios of ingested blood meals in the larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma testudinarium, Haemaphysalis campanulata, H. concinna, H. formosensis, H. hystricis, H. kitaokai, the bisexual and parthenogenetic strains of H. longicornis, H. megaspinosa, and Ixodes persulcatus on rabbits and Argas japonicus on chickens were comparatively investigated.
(9) Last week we hatched our 13,000th baby nymph – that’s the number that hatched since 2003, when we hatched our first ones.
(10) In addition, fenoxycarb caused mortality in 59% of the nymphs treated on day 6.
(11) The percentage of nymphs infected correlated with the viremic titer on the final day of engorgement (the time of maximum blood uptake).
(12) Rates of infection were 5.4% in adults (n = 467) and 3.4% in nymphs (n = 289); 15.6% of clusters of unengorged larvae harbored B. burgdorferi, suggesting transovarial passage of the spirochete.
(13) Inputs to the model were the temporal patterns of recruitment of nymphs into the active class, mortality and successful acquisition of hosts by the ticks.
(14) The fatty acid synthetase was active from Nymph L stage.
(15) Amblyomma cohaerens nymphs, which had been collected as engorged larvae from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Mara region of Kenya, transmitted a theilerial parasite to a steer.
(16) In order to study schizogony and merozoite formation, D. variabilis nymphs were allowed to feed on domestic cats experimentally infected with C. felis, after which the molted adult ticks were fed on susceptible cats.
(17) Development of the protozoan parasite Nuttallia danii was observed in salivary glands which were extirpated from Hyalomma anatolicum excavatum nymphs, fed as larvae on infected gerbils and held in organ culture.
(18) Variation in temperature (4-40 degrees C) had a significant effect on moulting rate of the ticks and transmission of theilerial parasites from nymphs to resultant adults.
(19) A total of 317 ticks (202 nymphs and 115 adults) from three different sites were examined for the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson et al.
(20) In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, larvae and nymphs of Ablyomma marmoreum Koch occur in habitats in which there is tree cover and herbaceous ground cover.