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Lagan


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Ligan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Southern blot analysis indicated that both lagans appeared twice within the cow haploid genome, with the second copies lying outside the cow beta-globin locus.
  • (2) The Lagan Valley MP said: “We really do not want to see the institutions placed under threat, but I think that if Sinn Féin block the welfare reform bill that has massive consequences for the politics of Northern Ireland.
  • (3) One lagan was found 3' to the fetal globin gene, while the second lay between the adult globin gene and a globin pseudogene.
  • (4) The DUP MP for Lagan Valley, Jeffrey Donaldson, said on Thursday his party was preparing a motion to suspend Sinn Féin in government over claims republicans had broken promises that the PIRA had disbanded as a paramilitary force.
  • (5) Stage one: Belfast, 21.7km team time trial The place that launched one of the world's biggest ships is the starting point for the world's second biggest bike race next Friday at 5.45pm, with a team time trial starting in the Titanic Quarter before heading out along the Newtownards Road, climbing the one-mile hill to Stormont, before coming back along the Stranmillis Embankment by the River Lagan and ending at City Hall in Donegall Place.
  • (6) But the DUP negotiator and Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said he hoped a deal could be secured by Monday night.
  • (7) The lagan 3' to the cow fetal globin gene contains the recognition site for a sequence specific DNA binding factor.
  • (8) Coire Lagan Photograph: Alamy Distance 5 ½ miles Start Glenbrittle, grid ref: NG408206 Further information and maps Coire Lagan is the perfect introduction to the Cuillin – Skye's alpine-like mountain range of jagged peaks.
  • (9) On the serum of 3790 patients (2131 women and 1659 male), aged from 3 days to 84 years, the RAC has been performed at the same time with the Mc Lagan's Kunkel's and Takata's reactions.
  • (10) It is a far cry from even a decade ago, when the eastern bank of the Lagan was an industrial graveyard with rusting cranes, empty warehouses and acres of desolate open spaces.
  • (11) The Lagan Valley MP said: "We have made it clear all along that these letters were unacceptable and called on the secretary of state to rescind them.
  • (12) The DUP MP for Lagan Valley, Jeffrey Donaldson, confirmed on Sunday that Bell has been suspended from the party over his allegations.
  • (13) One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia.” The largest gay rights group in the region, the Rainbow Project, confirmed on Wednesday that they will be demonstrating outside the awards ceremony, which this year is being staged at Belfast’s SSE Arena on the banks of the river Lagan.
  • (14) The MP for Lagan Valley told parliament that if extra money was only directed to legacy inquests into killings carried out by the security forces during the Troubles, and none was allocated to the police’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET), then the DUP would oppose it.
  • (15) Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism.
  • (16) Questions were raised over the policing of Saturday's march, particularly regarding the decision to route the loyalists back into east Belfast via the Albert bridge over the river Lagan.
  • (17) Kenneth Tynan was not the first person to use the F-word on television : that was either Brendan Behan on Panorama in 1956 (although no one could understand him because he was drunk) or the man who painted the railings on Stranmillis Embankment alongside the river Lagan in Belfast, who in 1959 told Ulster TV's teatime magazine programme, Roundabout , that his job was "fucking boring".
  • (18) Step by step 1 From the car park, follow the Lagan riverbank path upstream.
  • (19) Across the river Lagan, PSNI riot police backed by up English, Welsh and Scottish colleagues also had to quell rioting in east Belfast after trouble broke out when loyalists there returned from the main Orange demonstration.
  • (20) Each was a composite, consisting of closely linked Alu-type repeats with a short stretch of genomic non-repetitive sequence, called a lagan, sandwiched between.

Pagan


Definition:

  • (n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Professor Ronald Hutton , a leading expert on paganism based at Bristol University, said he believed there were at least 100,000 practising pagans in Britain.
  • (2) First, medicine was despised as a mechanical art or suspected of paganism because of its literary sources.
  • (3) Beltran moved to right field so that Pagan could play in center in New York to protect his knees.
  • (4) Pagan featured in one of the game's key plays, when a line drive hit the third base back and bounced away from Miguel Cabrera for a two-out double that eventually led to a three-run inning.
  • (5) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
  • (6) This is a question which can be answered in entirely pagan ways, but there, too, you come up against something quite like the Christian problem of evil.
  • (7) 1.24am BST Cardinals 0 - Giants 0, Bottom 1st Angel Pagan, or Crazy Horse as he is sometimes known gets the crowd up by leading off the inning with a base hit to his old teammate, Carlos Beltran in right.
  • (8) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
  • (9) A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (10) 2.45am BST Giants 5 - Tigers 0, Bottom 4th Pagan grounds out to end the inning, but the Giants tack on another run at AT&T Park.
  • (11) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
  • (12) Boko Haram has repeatedly stated its opposition not only to western education - its name means western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language – but also to democracy and secular government, which it regards as a form of “paganism”, and its attacks could intensify to discourage voting.
  • (13) As a Christian, she is wrestling with the problem of other people's faiths, including paganism.
  • (14) Starting with standards arising from the relationship between medicine and art in classical antiquity, biblical tradition and teutonic-pagan antiquity, this article roams through german literature from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, from Hildegard of Bingen to Gottfried Benn and Alfred Döblin, guided by the question, how strongly medical knowledge and medical practise are reflected in the poetry of writing physicians.
  • (15) Updated at 1.57am BST 1.51am BST Angel Pagan really is a Crazy Horse.
  • (16) In spite of the hookline ("Smother the fire … "), it retains a seasonally appropriate, huddled under pelts, Game Of Thrones vibe: slightly pagan, but definitely pleasantly warm.
  • (17) The Giants, who this week brutally lost their starting center fielder, Angel Pagan , for the season, to back surgery, have a mathematical chance at overtaking LA, but more likely will be fighting for home-field advantage in the NL wild-card game.
  • (18) 1.49am BST Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Top 2nd There are nervous cheers from the Detroit crowd after Pagan grounds out to Fielder at first to retire the side.
  • (19) One boy was told by his Isis commander: “Even if you see your father, if he is still Yazidi, you must kill him.” Isis has openly referred to the Yazidis as a “pagan minority [whose] existence … Muslims should question”, adding that “their women could be enslaved … as spoils of war”.
  • (20) On Tuesday, they accused liberal bishops of imposing a "neo-pagan worldview" by supporting gay marriage and claiming there should be "a recognition of God's grace at work in same-sex partnerships".

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