(1) The jackdaws were behaviorally active during the light part of the photoperiod.
(2) Littlewood picked up influences like a scholarly jackdaw, insisting that her company prepare properly.
(3) Capote's jackdaw eye gathered precise, jewelled, almost hyper-real detail – from the easterly wind stirring the elm trees on the track leading to the Clutters' farmhouse to the corpses lying in the Phillips' Funeral Home in Garden City, their heads encased in sparkling white cotton, and swollen to twice the size of blown-up balloons – while his ear rapidly tuned in to local speech patterns, alive to every nuance, every rhythm.
(4) Threshold parameters of the microphonic component in jackdaw nestlings differ from those of sea-gull embryos by more evident flatness.
(5) Studies have been made on the development of hearing in the jackdaw Coloeus monedula and sea-gulls Larus canus and L. argenatus, by means of recording microphonic component of the cochlear potential under chronic experimental conditions.
(6) In 1990 we reported that milk bottles pecked by jackdaws and magpies were a probable source of human campylobacter infection.
(7) Polygraphic and behavioral studies of the jackdaws Corvus monedula have revealed a strong influence of the natural day-night cycle on their daily wakefulness-sleep activity.
(8) Yet, even when the terms of engagement are so limited, a one-off, they reveal that while "the personal may be political", attach a Tannoy, and all manner of furies are unleashed and rights abrogated, not least of the children, ex-husbands, siblings and friends, the jackdaw journalist's, often involuntary, supporting cast.
(9) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(10) Late to the mobile game Yet Bezos's hand has almost been forced, suggests Jan Dawson of Utah-based Jackdaw Research, as the era of "e-commerce" on desktop computers gives way to "m-commerce", where people buy via their smartphones and tablets.
(11) Although few people witnessed the attacks, the likely culprits are magpies (Pica pica) and jackdaws (Corvus monedula).
(12) It is certainly true that journalists and writers are jackdaws and that some of us – and I put my hand up here – sometimes see everything in that way, something to be expressed, worked through, written about.
(13) It was estimated that between 500 and 1000 jackdaws (Corvus monedula) were present in the area where milk bottles were pecked and 63 isolates of campylobacter were made from the bill and cloaca.
(14) Ever since he started on the extraordinary sequence of books announced by A Dragon Apparent in 1951, about his travels in French Indochina, the truth about Lewis's discreet personality was something he left others to decide; rarely did his ego make more than fleeting personal appearances in his work - not even in Naples '44 (1978), his hauntingly comic memoir of the second world war, or his two volumes of autobiography, Jackdaw Cake (1985) and The World, The World (1996).
(15) Duck embryos and livers from 24-30 months old chickens, crows, sparrows, rooks or jackdaws contained no gs-antigen.
(16) Osborne and his incredibly powerful Rabbit bring ecstasy to Tory benches Read more It was a redefining budget of scale and ambition that sucked up everything around Osborne, showing that he has the confidence to be a political jackdaw.
(17) Perhaps his kids liked it, in an act of intergenerational rebellion against dad's love of Extreme Noise Terror and Jackdaw With Crowbar .
Kyaw
Definition:
(n.) A daw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observations reported by numerous authors (KOZLOWSKA 1973, KYAW and MELLORS 1972, SACHS and DE DUVE 1962), and in ours studies (KOSTULAK 1975) indicate that the activity of lysosomal enzymes, including arylsulphatases, is modified by steroid hormones.
(2) They told me I was going to work in a pineapple factory,” recalls Kyaw, a broad-shouldered 21-year-old from rural Burma.
(3) U Htin Kyaw, just nominated by the NLD for president, is a stellar choice, well-respected, unimpeachable integrity, and a very nice man,” tweeted Thant Myint-U, a historian and the grandson of the former UN secretary general U Thant.
(4) Now, it’s been four years with people in these conditions and suffering; many young people spending their teenage, adult years with nothing to do,” says Kyaw Hla Aung.
(5) Kyaw Zaw Shwe, 48, said he left Myanmar for Singapore five years ago to find a better salary as a chemical engineer but had come back to vote.
(6) We think we need to be New York, or Tokyo, or Bangkok,” says Kyaw, echoing the sentiments of his nodding classmates beside him.
(7) Myanmar parliament elects Htin Kyaw as first civilian president in 53 years Read more For those of us Burmese who know the military’s institutionalised disdain towards the woman who most of the country call Ahmay , or Mother, we knew that western media was wasting ink on a foregone conclusion.
(8) This is the harsh background to the decision this week to put forward Htin Kyaw as the presidential candidate.
(9) Myint Kyaw, the general secretary of the Myanmar Journalist Network, helped organise the protest march "because we do not want the imprisonment of a journalist to become a precedent".
(10) Win Htoo, who spends time with civil society organisations, said he admired Htin Kyaw’s charitable work.
(11) Htin Kyaw, a loyal friend to Aung San Suu Kyi and close advisor, was elected president last week .
(12) He thinks now we need to catch up with the world,” says Kyaw.
(13) Myanmar parliament elects Htin Kyaw as first civilian president in 53 years Read more On Tuesday this was confirmed by a vote in parliament.
(14) Aung San Suu Kyi is foreign minister and state counsellor, as the law bars her from the presidency , which is held by her close aide Htin Kyaw .
(15) In a statement published on the NLD website early on Thursday, she asked supporters to support the party’s choices “gracefully”, adding: “This is an important step in implementing the desires and expectations of voters who enthusiastically supported the NLD.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Htin Kyaw with Aung San Suu Kyi at her residence on the day of her release from house arrest in Yangon, where she was detained for nearly two decades.
(16) He points out that Kyaw and his friends are too young to have experienced the stagnant years the country spent under the xenophobic “Burmese Way to Socialism” policy.
(17) Asked whether he thinks there is an insurgency, he says: “No, no, but they are suffering and suffering and suffering, so they cannot bear, so it will blow up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest U Kyaw Hla Aung, a Rohingya leader from Sittwe, capital of Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aung San Suu Kyi ally Htin Kyaw backed by MPs - video Once he is in office, replacing the ex-general Thein Sein , who has been president since 2011 and who introduced some genuine reforms, the long period of transition since the November elections will be over.
(19) President elect Htin Kyaw will appoint 18 of the 21 ministers.
(20) We fear the military will unleash an unprecedented wrath on northern Rakhine state, and that won’t bode well for Rohingya rights.” In the displacement camp outside Sittwe, Kyaw Hla Aung says Rohingya leaders were recently called to a meeting with the military.