(n.) Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three ways with cider vinegar • Winter salad dressing Boil two shallots with a few juniper berries and thyme leaves, then reduce 150ml cider vinegar by half and mix with the above.
(2) Tony Juniper, Friends of the Earth director, says that offsetting should be part of a 'hierarchy' of actions, at the top of which are lifestyle changes aimed at reducing domestic emissions (low-energy light bulbs, fewer car journeys, etc) and switching to bio fuels and so on.
(3) Photograph: Alamy Now, among the juniper trees, you can find strip-malls full of crystal shops, aura-reading stations and psychics.
(4) High-profile candidates standing for the Greens include Tony Juniper, the former director of Friends of the Earth, who will fight the Cambridge seat, and Peter Tatchell, who will stand in Oxford East despite being told by his doctor to reduce his workload after suffering mild brain damage during his human rights protests.
(5) Pollen of different species of the Taxodiaceae family (Cryptomeria japonica, Sequoia sempervirens and Metasequoia glyptostroboides) and Japanese juniper (Juniperus rigida) in the Cupressaceae family, which are propagated mainly in the southern region of Okayama Prefecture, were found among the atmospheric pollen.
(6) Tony Juniper, former head of Friends of the Earth and an adviser to the project, said such financing was less controversial than the extension of carbon markets to forests, as is planned as part of a new climate treaty.
(7) Forty (25%) and 30 (18.8%) of the 160 patients reacted positively to an allergen extract from the pollen grains of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese juniper, respectively.
(8) Juniper’s got everything going against it.” That includes the female plants’ tendency to catch not the male pollen intended for them, but pollutants that block off their receptors, preventing pollination.
(9) It’s better with the traditional juniper-heavy gins.” You might also argue that Fever-Tree represents everything that some have come to loathe about the new foodie world: an insistence on branding and artisanal ingredients for a product that serves the same purpose it always has, except at many times the price.
(10) Juniper – which by law must be the dominating flavour for a drink to be classed as gin – has been in decline in England for decades, thanks to milder winters, air pollution and hungry rabbits; the conservation charity Plantlife has warned it could be extinct across much of lowland England by 2060.
(11) Juniper speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability and is the author of several books, including the award winning Parrots of the World, Spix’s Macaw and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet?
(12) My vortex tour with Mark Griffon of Sedona Mystical Tours ($135, three hours) – who starts off the morning with a sage cleansing near a stone-circle “medicine wheel” he’s assembled himself in his backyard – is at times uncomfortably intense, as one of the attendees breaks down into sobs during a meditation against a juniper tree called Fred.
(13) It was flavoured with juniper to improve the taste and add medicinal properties.
(14) Traditionally, gin is subtly flavoured with herbs such as cardamom, coriander and juniper, and fruit such as cucumber, lemon and orange peel.
(15) Citrus peel, coriander and juniper should be infused for a week or so; cardamom added for just a day or two.
(16) The prince is working on the book with co-authors Ian Skelly and ex- Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper .
(17) The results suggest that certain traditional plant treatments for diabetes, namely agrimony, alfalfa, coriander, eucalyptus and juniper, can retard the development of streptozotocin diabetes in mice.
(18) London dry gin, which is made from a fermented grain mash and flavoured with juniper berries, is a staple of the industry and has become a supermarket favourite.
(19) Indeed, it would protect one of the world's most resilient coral reefs and some of the finest coral habitats remaining in the Indian Ocean," said Tony Juniper, green party candidate and campaigner.
(20) Environmentalist Tony Juniper, who was a prominent critic of the merger plan , said: "It is a good day for polar science and very encouraging that argument has won out over dogma."
Tar
Definition:
(n.) A sailor; a seaman.
(n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
(v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(2) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(3) It seems that the addition of liquid tar elevates the reaction threshold to dithranol in hypersensitive patients with psoriasis.
(4) We now present evidence that such a decrease in amounts of P68 could be essential for HIV-1 replication because of the presence of the Tat-responsive sequence (TAR sequence) present in the 5' untranslated region of HIV-1 mRNAs, which activates the P68 kinase.
(5) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(6) Purified tat binds specifically to HIV-1 trans-activation-responsive region (TAR) RNA in gel-retardation, filter-binding, and immunoprecipitation assays.
(7) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
(8) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
(9) In contrast, erythroid and myeloid colony growth from the TAR infant's marrow cells was preserved.
(10) Finally, by 6 min of heavy exercise at 8 mph 20% grade, Tar increased 2 degrees C (P less than 0.05) while Tre increased 0.5 degree C (P less than 0.05).
(11) Hydroxylamine mutagenesis was used to alter the tar gene that encodes the transmembrane Tar protein required for chemotaxis.
(12) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
(13) Again, tat protected TAR RNA from RNase A cleavage at both U23 and U31.
(14) Since its 2013 announcement, a key aim of TTIP has been to destroy regulations that prevent high-polluting tar sand crude oil from entering Europe.
(15) TARS-1 and TART-1 but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice.
(16) Both the occupational and in particular the therapeutic exposure to coal tar resulted in clear increases in urinary levels of PAH metabolites as compared to unexposed subjects.
(17) During the remission period the patients were advised to use a tar preparation or topical corticosteroids in the event of minor exacerbations.
(18) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
(19) Beech tar, in a concentration of 5% induced a 19% increase in orthokeratosis.
(20) For the study reported in the present investigation these data have been augmented by estimates of past workplace exposure to total tar (benzene-soluble matter) and to benzo-a-pyrene (BaP).