(a.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The structure of the most abundant invected transcript was defined by obtaining the full-length cDNA sequence and by S1 nuclease sensitivity and primer extension studies; a partial sequence of the invected gene was determined; and the developmental profile of invected expression was characterized by Northern analysis and by in situ localization.
(2) The shared region contains a homeo domain and is within the region of engrailed shared with the Drosophila invected gene and the mouse En-1 and En-2 genes.
(3) Speaking to a class of college students in January 2012, he used hateful invective against Jewish people and called Jewish students derogatory names, according to Buzzfeed, which spoke to the professor who invited Cross to his class to teach students about hate groups.
(4) The emails reveal that the researchers shared tactics, encouraged each other and competed for the rudest invective against McIntyre.
(5) But I will not alter them if I am faced with invective rather than debate; in fact, they will become more entrenched.
(6) The invected gene, like the engrailed gene, is expressed in the embryonic and larval cells of the posterior developmental compartments and in the embryonic hindgut, clypeolabrum, and nervous system.
(7) The collision of protests about cuts to legal aid and foreign dignitaries eager to learn from England’s judicial heritage produced contrasting legal blasts of invective and appreciation in Westminster.
(8) Updated at 8.03am BST 5.06am BST Question Time The invective hour opens with condolences.
(9) Wilshere had been fortunate in the first half to avoid what by modern-day standards could easily have been a red-card offence, taking exception to one of Mike Dean’s decisions, aiming a mouthful of invective at the referee and then responding to Marouane Fellaini’s indignation by jutting his forehead into his opponent’s chin.
(10) His purpose is not to change, but to punish, which makes the invective so deeply gratifying.
(11) Like the engrailed gene, the invected gene can encode a protein of approximately 60 kD that contains a homeo box near its carboxyl terminus; indeed, a sequence of 117 amino acids in the carboxy-terminal region of both proteins is almost identical.
(12) Chinese commentators unleashed a stream of nationalist invective on the internet while travel agencies cancelled package tours to Japan.
(13) Two mouse genes, En-1 and En-2, have sequence homology to the engrailed (en) and invected (inv) genes of Drosophila (Joyner et al.
(14) The vgW allele is also the result of a chromosomal inversion, in this case resulting in a gene fusion between vg and the homeobox-containing invected (inv) gene.
(15) When their anti-nationalist invective outweighs their pro-union adulation, you realise that they are not convinced either.
(16) More effectively, every Nazi utterance is in subtitled, guttural, invective-heavy German, which produces the movie's one truly chilling sequence, a mass choir of pretty little Aryan schoolgirls singing a real Nazi hymn that's all racial chauvinism, down with the Jews and death to the untermenschen , as Kristallnacht unfolds in cross-cuts.
(17) The row over foreign secretary David Miliband's attack on the Conservative party chairman, Eric Pickles, for suggesting that Latvians who had joined the Waffen SS volunteer legion were only "conscripts" – following orders – has drawn inevitable invective from Conservatives .
(18) An eagle-eyed spectator caught her blast of invective on camera and it was soon doing the rounds on Twitter.
(19) Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability.
(20) And contemporaries, infuriated by her single-minded and relentless pursuit of her objectives in government, recalled in the cosy glow of nostalgia her huge appetite both for life and for the fight, a woman who delighted in dancing with the enemy at night before spearing him with her invective the next day.
Invested
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Invest
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(2) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(3) But whatever they invested in me, they got in return 10, 20 times more.
(4) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(5) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(6) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
(7) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(8) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(9) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(10) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(11) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(12) There is no immediate sign that returns on Cuadrilla's investments so far will be quick.
(13) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(14) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(15) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(16) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(17) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
(18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(19) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
(20) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.