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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.

Yaw


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
  • (v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
  • (n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
  • (2) Primary care services had been hampered in controlling yaws by difficulties with transport, isolation, community resistance and the lack of skilled personel to diagnose yaws and arrange prophylactic treatment.
  • (3) Active and latent evidence of yaws was found only in the black race.
  • (4) Renewed programs for yaws control are under consideration.
  • (5) VOR was fairly well predicted by a current model, but our experiments revealed perceived change in attitude (roll, pitch, yaw tilt position in space) and perceived angular velocity in space that was not reflected by parallel changes in the plane or magnitude of the VOR.
  • (6) A full field (360 degrees) flight simulator projection system was used to investigate the sensations resulting from pitch, roll, and yaw stimuli at various head orientations.
  • (7) Since 1980, the annual reported incidence of yaws has declined.
  • (8) Positive treponemal serology, from yaws infection in childhood, was found in the serum in 92%, and in 19% also in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
  • (9) From 1950 to 1957, major programs for the eradication of yaws were implemented throughout the region, and yaws rapidly ceased to be a threat.
  • (10) Analysis of blood groups of the 81 patients reactive to the Treponema pallidum immobilisation (TPI) test, who were considered to have latent or inactive yaws, compared with a control group of 552 healthy Balinese, showed that the ratio of MM to MN and NN phenotypes was 2.25 times higher in the patients than in the controls (chi 2(1) = 10.2, p less than 0.005).
  • (11) Yaw eye in head (Eh) and head on body velocities (Hb) were measured in two monkeys that ran around the perimeter of a circular platform in darkness.
  • (12) The campaign staff compiled detailed information on the epidemiology of yaws in Ghana.
  • (13) Single units that responded to yaw rotation were recorded extracellularly in the caudal inferior olive (IO) of barbiturate-anesthetized cats.
  • (14) It was performed concurrently with a survey and selective mass treatment campaign for yaws which has reappeared in the area for the first time in 20 years.
  • (15) However, the curtailment of yaws control activity allowed the reservoir of untreated yaws to grow unchecked, and the number of reported cases of active yaws has increased in certain parts of Africa, especially in West Africa.
  • (16) The conflict sickness symptom score in the pitch plane was significantly higher than that in the yaw plane for the initial exposure session (p less than 0.01).
  • (17) Yaws and pinta are continuing to decline to very low levels in the Americas.
  • (18) This proportion indicates that clinical screening alone is not sufficient to evaluate the endemic yaws level in a population.
  • (19) The thesis of this paper is that yaws programs have been deficient in failing to aggressively seek and contain yaws cases and contacts after mass treatment campaigns reduced yaws prevalence to low levels.
  • (20) Yaws was a significant health problem in Papua New Guinea until the nationwide total mass treatment campaign, which took place from 1953 to 1958.

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