(n.) The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jonah RNA encodes a 28-kDa translation product or products for which we consider a possible function.
(2) And special education will also get hurt, to the tune of $978mn according to Jonah Edelman, the CEO of Stand for Children.
(3) In the third-instar larva the Jonah genes are abundantly expressed as transcripts of a single size class, located exclusively in the midgut.
(4) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
(5) Last July, it destroyed the tomb of the prophet Jonah in Mosul .
(6) As recently as in August, 39-year-old founder Jonah Peretti sent a memo to staff, ecstatic about a then traffic record of 85 million users .
(7) They have grown up as the sons of Jonah and it’s a daunting task trying to explain to them what I achieved.
(8) Aziz Ansari cuts down comedians Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Nick Kroll, Jeffrey Ross and Andy Samberg at the Comedy Central roast of James Franco.
(9) Islamic State (Isis) militants have blown up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah in Mosul, residents of the city said.
(10) The Jonah genes were initially defined by homology to a reference cDNA clone.
(11) 🎉😂💘🎉😂💘🎉😂@raisingmalawi.org A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Nov 27, 2016 at 9:34am PST Other lots up for auction include a private game of poker with actors Edward Norton and Jonah Hill, a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, a private dinner performance by the magician David Blaine, and artworks by Ai Weiwei, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel , Marilyn Minter and Damien Hirst.
(12) Borrowing from Rousseau's treatise Emile, or On Education – and inspired by the accessibility of Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer – he decided to write up his research as a novel, featuring an imaginary couple called Harold and Erica, who are guided through their lives by an omniscient and somewhat smug narrator.
(13) 3.33pm BST LSE student Jonah Werth sends us his take on Clearing.
(14) "I joined the London Irish academy too late," says Okoye, who as a schoolboy was nicknamed Jonah Lomu.
(15) Comedians I know, like Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin , are some of the best human observers.
(16) Jonah Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Free Range, said that beneath the surface of the decision to leave the conservative group might be a concern over the economics of tackling climate change.
(17) Evidence that different Jonah genes are under different control with respect to both spatial and temporal patterns of expression has been provided.
(18) Elsewhere: Jon Bernthal gets more fun to watch in every new thing he shows up in; this movie might make you want to murder Jonah Hill; and Margot Robbie in the nude, oiled up, golden and shaven, looks scarily like an Oscar statuette.
(19) However, the structural heterogeneity within this gene family is so large that Jonah genes that fail to hybridize to the reference cDNA, yet hybridize to other members of the family that do hybridize to that cDNA have been subsequently identified.
(20) Returning to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fox used opening-weekend screenings to show trailers for The Sitter, in which Jonah Hill, the Superbad star and sidekick to Russell Brand in the truly horrendous Get Him to the Greek , plays a terrible babysitter.
Luck
Definition:
(n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) As luck would have it, the outgoing Bartlet and his successor, Matt Santos, are currently dealing with a foreign crisis, too.
(2) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(3) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(4) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(5) I thought we rode our luck in the first 20 minutes here.
(6) Good luck, rather than good genes, may be the key reason why some people are protected from certain cancers while others develop the disease, according to a new study.
(7) I wish he and Rosemary all the luck in the world...They should know there is much to enjoy in life even if you have been forced out because of circumstances.
(8) He said his longevity in the face of multiple drug abuse over decades was just luck, and advised others not to follow his lead.
(9) His previous strokes of luck include being appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the highest-paid quango boss in the UK, and being knighted for "services to regeneration" despite not being a Time Lord.
(10) Seth Smith makes the final out of the A's season, which is a good luck charm for the Boston Red Sox, as Smith made the final out for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series that Boston won.
(11) Thom Majka, a sales rep who keeps his Indians cap on through every game for good luck, said: “These fans couldn’t care less about the election.
(12) Hugh Pennington, a microbiology expert, said on Saturday that luck will play a role in Cafferkey’s survival chances because experts still do not know enough about the virus.
(13) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(14) So a striker needs also a bit of luck and then the confidence is higher but he’s self-confident so I expect he shall score and maybe against Chelsea .” So far Van Persie has remained injury free, which is a fillip after previously admitting to managing persistent issues for years.
(15) If the Spaniard’s bad luck in hitting a post was expected, the sight of Stambouli, a lumbering figure in the first 45 minutes, confidently sweeping home the rebound certainly prompted a double take.
(16) So tough luck for my friend Jennifer, who wanted to take an HND in plastering and brickwork.
(17) Good luck telling your manager you fancy a day off.
(18) Photograph: Alamy You’ll hear the traditional dance music pulsing out everywhere from dark bars, and seeing it involves decisions or luck.
(19) You'll find this helpful: How to get into media Best of luck!
(20) If that was a stroke of luck Everton were even luckier in the second half, when Joe Allen made his contribution to derby folklore with what may well be the miss of the season.