(n.) A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) said it was unaware of any women partaking in a strike, but the agency said in a statement to the Guardian that it “fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference, and all detainees, including those in family residential facilities such as Karnes, are permitted to do so”.
(2) Jeh Johnson, the homeland security secretary, last month pledged to improve conditions and reduce the length of stays at Karnes and the country’s two other family detention centres, in Dilley, Texas, and Berks County, Pennsylvania, after a rapid expansion prompted by the influx of migrants in the summer of 2014.
(3) While the administration is understandably under pressure to respond to the current humanitarian crisis at the border, locking babies in prison cells and deporting women and young children to dangerous situations are not the solution.” Earlier this year, federal officials opened family detention centres in Artesia, New Mexico, and Karnes, Texas, in addition to a handful of other facilities which are being used to to detain and expedite the removal of families who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally.
(4) 15:549) and later supported by biochemical studies (Karn et al., Biochem Genet.
(5) But the three detention centers, in Dilley and Karnes City in Texas , and Berks County in Pennsylvania, have since then been inundated with complaints over their treatment of children.
(6) We demonstrate that the previously described gene Androgen binding protein (Abp; Dlouhy and Karn, 1984) codes for the Alpha subunit of ABP and rename the locus Androgen binding protein alpha (Abpa).
(7) Meanwhile, at the new Karnes County Family Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas, opened in August under the management of the GEO Group (the other largest private prison company in the world), numerous female detainees allege they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male prison guards in front of their children.
(8) I don’t believe at all that they were coached into doing this.” Parker added that contacts with knowledge of events had told her that detention centre managers had begun withdrawing access to facilities, including internet and telephone calls for all those detained at Karnes, regardless of their participation in the reported hunger strike.
(9) The genetics of salivary amylase will not be considered here, since it has recently been thoroughly reviewed elsewhere (Merritt and Karn, 1977).
(10) Some researchers have suggested that the two-factor solution (Verbal and Performance) of Karnes and K. E. Brown provides the appropriate model, while others have proposed an alternative model based on exploratory research with gifted and average students.
(11) I know the whole world is surprised, but in our camp we knew we could do it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Karne Hesketh of Japan scores the winning try against South Africa in the Rugby World Cup match at Brighton.
(12) The position of the cross-linked lysine was only three amino acid residues away from the invariant proline residue mapped as the S-1-rod hinge by McLachlan and Karn [McLachlan, A. D., & Karn, J.
(13) In the face of unprecedented levels of illegal migration of adults with children and unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, we have reiterated that our borders are not open to illegal migration; if you come here illegally, and don’t have a legal basis to stay under our laws, we will send you back,” Johnson said of the Karnes facility in July.
(14) Four minutes into injury time they finally achieved it, as replacement wing Karne Hesketh dived into the corner to earn a stunning 34-32 victory.
(15) Pro-197 was suggested to be the NH2-terminal boundary of the alpha-helical coiled-coil rod sequence of gizzard myosin, based on the homology with the nematode sequence reported by MacLachlan and Karn (Proc.
(16) U.S.A. 81, 2626-2630; Karn, J., Brenner, S., and Barnett, L. (1983) Proc.
(17) This supports an hypothesis originally proposed by Friedman and Karn in 1977 (Am.
(18) As a result of the development of a rapid and sensitive electrophoresis system, with markedly higher resolution than previously reported, we concluded that a previously proposed model (Karn et al., Biochem.
(19) Until the closing seconds it seemed they might fall agonisingly short, only for their New Zealand-born replacement wing Karne Hesketh to dive over in the corner in the final move of the game to clinch a supposedly impossible triumph.
(20) The first occurred in 1972 in a 74-year-old woman who had residences in Dilworth and Gahzales, Gonzales County, and the other was in a 56-year-old man from Kenedy, Karnes County, in 1974.
Tarn
Definition:
(n.) A mountain lake or pool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, increases in HK activity were seen in sADN-tARN rats in all the above structures except MS, Nc, and DMH, where no changes were observed, and dArc, where an increase in HK activity was noted.
(2) This unexpected result was followed by the more surprising finding that the incidence of resistance was even higher in the bacterial populations of two remote upland tarns.
(3) Sticking to low levels, you meander along tracks, paths and across pretty bridges while admiring the peaks and scattering of mountain lakes, known as tarns.
(4) It is hoped the animals will recolonise the tarn and its surrounding streams, and play an important part in the ecosystem, grazing and burrowing into areas of the riverbank and allowing rare plants to grow, including mosses and liverworts that need patches of open habitat.
(5) This study was based on the examination of 26,374 salaried adult patients during a 12 months period in the Tarn-et-Garonne Regional Industrial Medecine Service.
(6) Little Molas Lake Campground, San Juan national forest People flock to Little Molas ostensibly for its proximity to Andrews Lake, a high-altitude tarn stocked with rainbow and brook trout.
(7) +33 4 6743 8734, lesdemoisellesdupuy.fr brightsue Les Chalets du Tarn, Réquista Before you've pitched your tent at this campsite, the friendly owner invites you to dine.
(8) Britain’s endangered water voles will reach new heights when they are returned to Yorkshire’s Malham tarn for the first time in 50 years.
(9) As a child, my parents would often take me on treks among the ethereal alpine forests of Tasmania’s central highlands; where ragged pencil pines sit beside bogs and tarns.
(10) Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger at Malham tarn, said: “In the rest of Europe, water voles are common.
(11) Protesters opposed to the Sivens dam project in the Tarn region say it will destroy a reservoir of biodiversity and will benefit only a small number of farmers.
(12) According to the property website seloger.com, Albi in the south-west Tarn region takes the prize for France's biggest price drop – a massive 18%.
(13) The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis was observed to have a significant decrease in hexokinase activity in the tARN groups, as were the caudal and medial aspects of the nucleus of the solitary tract.
(14) In contrast, the increased HK activity after either tADN or tARN alone was returned to levels not different from sADN-sARN rats in all structures in the tADN-tARN rats, except MnPO, mpPVH, and dArc, where the level of HK activity was only attenuated, and MS, POA, and vArc, where it remained elevated.
(15) The incidence of antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria isolated from Windermere was, however, lower than in those isolated from two remote upland tarns.
(16) The upland tarns were not totally isolated from man and other animals but did not receive any sewage or other effluents and therefore the results were surprising.
(17) Here is a section from his exploration of the streams and lakes of the Rhinogs, a remote mountain group in North Wales: Searching the map, I had seen some promising upland streams, a waterfall, and a tarn, so I hiked off uphill through the bracken.
(18) Scales Fell was the popular Boxing Day choice, the splendid ridge that soars to the 2,848ft summit above its tarn, deep in the bosom of Blencathra.
(19) In the 3-day tARN group only, a significant decrease in hexokinase activity was observed in the region of the brainstem containing the A5 cell group, compared with sARN animals.
(20) The design of the Millau Viaduct, the superb new motorway bridge across the Tarn Gorge in the south of France, is credited to Norman Foster.