(1) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(2) He has basically fallen at the first hurdle … the best secretary of states for culture media and sport have not been lapdogs.” He added: “In the end, Whittingdale and Osborne are ideological Tories who believe that the scale and scope of the BBC has to be cut down to size.
(3) The euphoric McAllister, sometimes referred to as Merkel's lapdog, threw an arm around her shoulder.
(4) Liberal Democrat leader Clegg, who has been variously branded a "jelly", "condom", "lapdog" and "yellow albatross" by Johnson, suggested the mayor should be clearer about his true intentions.
(5) Abandoning the vast single market across the Channel doesn’t just mean reducing Britain to the status of lapdog to the woman-groping Muslim-bashing demagogue across the Atlantic.
(6) The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
(7) Law and Justice accuses the Civic Platform of allowing Poland to become Germany’s political lapdog in the EU.
(8) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
(9) And ailing on her sofa with a lapdog is how many generations of schoolchildren came to know of her; not that many, probably, got much further.
(10) He's a while on the phone though, so the housekeeper makes me a cup of tea and I sit in the conservatory with a pampered little lapdog for company and admire the view out over his lawns and pergola and ornamental pond.
(11) The Treasury, once a stern judge of such projects, has become their uncritical lapdog.
(12) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
(13) The most recent statistics in France underline a doubly increasing preoccupation: the alarming rise in the frequency of bites by dogs (watchdogs or lapdogs), and the great number of pathogenic bacteria isolated from the bite wounds.
(14) People derided Tony Blair as George W Bush’s poodle, and Nigel’s version of lapdogging is just a different take.
(15) There are voices in London with their Scottish lapdogs – and she knows who they are – who would still seek to replace her with someone they consider "more statesmanlike".
(16) Denis Healey, never florid in praise, called him "Harold's lapdog".
(17) He has given an undertaking to PASC that he will not be the prime minister's lapdog.
(18) I'd hardly go so far as to claim that a certain columnist at the Financial Times is a lapdog for the oligarchic elite.
(19) Tillis has tried to ride on the back of the unpopularity of President Obama in this southern state by portraying Hagan as a lapdog of the White House who has no political willpower of her own.
(20) "I am proud to be Merkel's Mac," he said, referring to the slightly derogatory nickname given to him by Germany's popular press, who have often referred to him as the chancellor's lapdog.
Mutator
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
(2) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
(3) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
(4) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
(7) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
(8) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
(9) The plasmid pMucAMucB, constructed from the Haemophilus influenzae vector pDM2, and a similar plasmid, constructed from pBR322, increased the survival after UV irradiation of Escherichia coli AB1157 with the umu-36 mutation and also caused UV-induced mutation in the E. coli strain.
(10) Peptidoglycan synthesis is unaffected by the mutations affecting the core glycosyltransferases.
(11) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
(12) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
(13) Studies on asparagine synthetase indicate that resistance to albizziin may be due to altered regulation of asparagine synthetase, structural mutations of the enzyme, and gene amplification.
(14) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(15) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
(16) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
(17) Appropriate mutations in this pre-early gene allowed a productive infection in ColIb+ cells.
(18) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(19) Mutant alleles of rutabaga act in the germ line cells to partially suppress the developmental defects caused by dunce mutations.
(20) The extensive conversion of anti-BPDE to B[a]PT-10-sulfonate under conditions where sulfite enhances diolepoxide mutagenicity, when coupled with this enhancement of diolepoxide mutagenicity by B[a]PT-10-sulfonate in the reverse mutation assay, supports this novel B[a]P derivative as a mediator of the sulfite-dependent enhancement of B[a]P genotoxicity.